A new study shows that corals on the northern Great Barrier Reef experienced a catastrophic die-off following the extended marine heatwave of 2016. …read more Source:: Science
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New Eocene fossil data suggest climate models may underestimate future polar warming
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•A new international analysis of marine fossils shows that warming of the polar oceans during the Eocene, a greenhouse period that provides a glimpse of Earth’s potential future climate, was …read more Source:: Science
Life goes on for marine ecosystems after cataclysmic mass extinction
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•One of the largest global mass extinctions did not fundamentally change marine ecosystems, scientists have found. …read more Source:: Science
Deep-sea coral reefs discovery in depths of the North-Pacific
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•Scientists had long believed that the waters of the Central and Northeast Pacific Ocean were inhospitable to certain species of deep-sea corals, but a marine biologist’s discovery of an odd …read more Source:: Science
Lost ecosystem found buried in mud of southern California coastal waters
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•Paleontologists investigating the sea bed off California have discovered a lost ecosystem that for thousands of years had nurtured communities of scallops and shelled marine organisms called brachiopods. They had …read more Source:: Science
Mysterious extinction of prehistoric marine reptiles explained
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•WASHINGTON (Reuters) – One of the enduring mysteries of paleontology, the demise of a highly successful group of dolphin-like marine reptiles called ichthyosaurs that flourished in Earth’s seas for more …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
Trouble looms as warmer oceans push marine life toward the poles
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•WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Rising sea temperatures attributed to global climate change could drive many marine creatures away from the equator, but their move toward the poles promises to put them …read more Source:: UKScienceNews