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The Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences is pleased to share a new publication co-authored by Professor Sandra J. Carlson in Science Advances. The study explores the evolutionary history of brachiopods, a group of marine animals with a fossil record stretching back to...READ MORE

Scientists report fossil evidence of the first fully marine amphibian in a study from the University of California, Davis; Peking University; and the Geological Museum of Guizhou. The amphibian is an armored, giant salamander-sized, bottom-dwelling ocean creature that the researchers named...READ MORE

UC Davis Distinguished Professor Isabel Montañez recently joined Geology Bites to discuss how Earth's climate history can help scientists understand the effects of rising atmospheric carbon dioxide. The episode focuses on the Late Paleozoic Ice Age, a period spanning approximately...READ MORE