In the first and only reconstruction of ocean pH ever carried out, new research from the University of St Andrews and the ...

Many species have slipped under the radar. Researchers make troubling discovery while assessing marine life: 'The extinction risk is significantly higher' first appeared on The Cool Down.

According to the study, this scenario would put about 90% of marine life in the upper 100 meters of the ocean at high or critical risk of extinction.

The effects of human activity from climate change to pollution are "devastating" marine life, with nearly a tenth of underwater plants and animals assessed so far threatened with extinction, the ...

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Marine Life Perished From the Late Devonian Mass Extinction Terrestrial plants may have caused the End-Devonian Extinction, but its origin is still shrouded in mystery.

One of the most affected types of marine life are abalone shellfish species, or marine snails, of which 44% included on the list are threatened by extinction, the IUCN said.

The Permian extinction—when life nearly came to an end This mass extinction almost ended life on Earth as we know it.

The effects of human activity from climate change to pollution are "devastating" marine life, with nearly a tenth of underwater plants and animals assessed so far threatened with extinction.

The mass extinction event resulted from the impact of a giant space rock that smashed into the Earth around 66 million years ago.

This graph plots extinction rates of marine animal families over the last 600 million years. The shaded band indicates the normal range of extinction rates, known as "background extinction." The ...