We show that the Protosterol Biota were hiding in plain sight and were in fact abundant in the world’s ancient oceans and lakes all along. Scientists just didn’t know how to look for them ...

Ocean life may have recovered in just a million years after the Permian-Triassic mass extinction, fossils from South China suggest. ... Both under and within the Guiyang biota, ...

Based on molecular fossils, organisms of the Protosterol Biota lived in the oceans about 1.6 to 1.0 billion years ago and are our earliest known ancestors.

The results of ocean acidification research have been successfully disseminated to a wide audience, extending beyond the boundaries of the scientific community 6.For example, in 2008 an Act was ...

Yet we likely wouldn’t know about it at all, scientists say, if not for a quirk in the chemistry of ancient oceans. A Yale-led research team found that the Ediacara Biota, a collection of marine ...

Carbon, a building block of life, is constantly moving through different environmental compartments such as biota, the atmosphere, the ocean, soil and sediment, as part of what is called ‘the global ...

Some of the earliest animals on Earth were soft-bodied ocean-dwellers that ranged from a few inches to several feet and were shaped like circular discs, tubes, or cushion-like bags. While fossil ...

Those who believe Earth’s oceans are on an evaporation course say they have about 4 billion years left. By then, our aging sun will have swelled into a red giant, 100 times its size.

This shows that “high DDT+ body burdens were found in biota… indicating widespread DDT+ contamination in the deep ocean… [and] that deep ocean sediment may be a source of DDT+ to the marine food web.” ...

"Billions of people depend on the ocean for food, and we can see that reserves and management policies need to take into account the larger ecological structure of the biota, rather than just the ...