Researchers used 120,000-year-old fossils to predict how Gulf of Mexico coral reefs will respond to climate change toward the end of this century. Coral reefs support 25 percent of all marine life ...

Excavations in North Dakota reveal fossils of fish and trees that were ... When this 12km-wide object slammed into what is now the Gulf of Mexico, it would have hurled billions of tonnes of ...

Much of that intensification was fueled by record warm ocean temperatures in the Gulf of Mexico. Global temperatures are rising long term because the burning of fossil fuels adds greenhouse gases ...

The researchers recovered rocks from under the Gulf ... Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula in April/May last year, to better understand the aims of the project; Alice Roberts visited widely separated ...