In a first-of-its-kind study, Stanford researchers have measured how the abundance of ocean life has changed over the past ...

Stanford study shows ocean biomass has risen over 540 million years, linking biodiversity to long-term ecosystem health.

Biomass reveals the real impact and energy flow of life in an ecosystem, like knowing not just the cast of a play, but who ...

The "Big Five" mass extinctions of the Phanerozoic Eon have long attracted significant attention from the geoscience community and the public. Among them, the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction (LOME ...

In fact, most of the history of life and evolution is about bacteria. Then, 600 million years ago, the trilobites appeared. For 320 million years, it was only trilobites and plankton.

Trilobites. Clever Cockatoos Have Figured Out How to Drink From Water Fountains. They had also learned how to flip open garbage lids in the suburbs of Sydney, Australia.

TrilobiteS. Ancient Trees, Dwindling in the Wild, Thrive on Sacred Ground. Buddhist temples in China are home to trees from dozens of endangered species, a new study shows.

These were at the end of the Ordovician (445 million years ago), the late Devonian (372 million years ago), the end-Permian (252 million years ago), the end-Triassic (201 million years ago) and ...