Clues to those mysteries and others may be sunk deep in our oceans, documented within fossil coral similar to how tree rings record changes in precipitation on land. Now, scientists will begin to ...

Fossils of ancient coral clusters have been discovered in Hechi City, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. The fossils were spread out in an area of ground roughly 6 square meters in ...

Fossil coral records provide new evidence that frequent winter shamals, or dust storms, and a prolonged cold winter season contributed to the collapse of the ancient Akkadian Empire in Mesopotamia.