This is the story of how our planet rescued itself from extreme conditions in the Cretaceous Period, at the cost of essentially suffocating the oceans for half-a-million years.

What on earth is a xenophyophore? It's a single-celled organism that unlike what you might think is NOT microscopically small. In fact, these ocean dwellers are a little heftier than that! Learn all about them in this new episode of...

Fossils can provide clues to the conditions that ancient species lived in, like what their environments felt like, how deep in the water some species lived, or even how long the Sun was out!

Fossils can provide clues to the conditions that ancient species lived in, like what their environments felt like, how deep in the water some species lived, or even how long the Sun was out!

Humans can’t go too far above or below sea level unaided, but there are some complex forms of life that CAN survive at super high elevations or in the deepest parts of the ocean.

When you picture a single cell, you probably imagine something super tiny that you had to look at through a microscope. But, there are some huge exceptions to this rule. And we really do mean huge.

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James, our master of microscopes, seems like a tough person to get a gift for. What do you get the person who has the entirety of the microcosmos available to him with just a glimpse through a lens?<br/>

One day, James—our master of microscopes—was cleaning the marine tanks that some of his organisms live in when he noticed this creature. It was hard to miss given that it was visible to the naked eye, thanks to both its bright red color...

ECU Microscopic Globigerinella Plankton Animal and Copepods, Bermuda

ECU Microscopic Globigerinella Plankton Animal, Bermuda

ECU Microscopic Globigerinella Plankton Animal, Bermuda

CU microscopic view of tilt down to Copepods caught in Globiriginella spikes

CU microscopic view of Globiriginella and Copepods, black background