About 445 million years ago, Earth’s oceans turned into a danger zone. Glaciers spread across the supercontinent Gondwana, ...

Our outreach program celebrates the incredible diversity of marine life, with a special focus on fishes, the largest and most diverse group of vertebrates on Earth! Through guided tours of the Scripps ...

Just a few million years after the end-Permian mass extinction event (EPME), aquatic reptiles and other vertebrates had recovered to form thriving and diverse oceanic ecosystems, according to a study ...

One of Earth’s earliest mass extinctions wiped out most ocean life during a sudden global ice age. From the ruins, jawed vertebrates survived, diversified, and transformed the course of evolution.

The Marine Vertebrate Collection at Scripps Institution of Oceanography houses one of the most comprehensive assemblages of marine fishes in the world. With over two million specimens representing ...

A rapid climate collapse during the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction devastated ocean life and reshuffled Earth’s ecosystems.

A massive ice age wiped out ocean life 445 million years ago, reshaping ecosystems and setting the stage for jawed fish evolution.

It took a decade of painstaking study, the cooperation of hundreds of researchers and a database of more than 200,000 fossil records, but John Alroy thinks he’s disproved much of the conventional ...