The ocean around Borneo is a hotspot of biodiversity, and the collected rocks contain evidence of strange life forms, revealing past environments but also clues to the future of the underwater world.

Little William had found fossil coral on the site of the old Windsor Colliery in Abertridwr, which closed in 1986. It was from a time when Wales was underwater, covered by a tropical sea.

Tropical corals once dotted the coast of southern England. Some of the earliest evidence of the staghorn coral, Acropora, was found on a beach on the Isle of Wight. Today, this is one of the most ...

Ancient coral fossils from the remote Seychelles islands have unveiled a dramatic warning for our future—sea levels can rise in sudden, sharp bursts even when global temperatures stay steady.

Imagine being able to measure the extent of sea-level change over the past half million years, or find out why our climate changes through time. Clues to those mysteries and others may be sunk deep in ...

Fossil fuel projects are putting the Pacific Coral Triangle’s unique marine ecosystem at risk, according to a new report presented Oct. 31 at the U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity summit ...

Brindabellaspis had eyes on the top of the head, facing upwards, and a skull stretched into a long and broad snout. Although around 400 million years old, it was clearly a specialised fish.