Smithsonian Scientists Unearth Signs of an Ancient Climate Calamity Buried Beneath the Seafloor
The research puts modern oceanic climate change in context
Paleoanthropologists have learned a lot about Lucy, the world’s most famous hominin fossil, since she was discovered in 1974. And her fossils are still yielding new insights
The batch of newly-described fossils includes a species named after Smithsonian botanist Jun Wen
As climate change alters ocean ecosystems, scientists look to marine mammal ecology and morphology to predict how recovering species will fare in an uncertain future