Most foraminiferan species reside on the seafloor, but paleontologists are particularly interested in planktonic species, ...

Then, a six-mile-wide asteroid struck Mexico’s Yucatán at 43,200 mph, releasing energy beyond all human-made explosives combined and reshaping life on Earth. Unlike many species that survived the ...

Yale University ecologists reveal a lizard lineage that rode out the dinosaur-killing asteroid event with unexpected ...

Yucatan's Chicxulub crater marks one of our universe's most momentous historical events: when an asteroid strike killed 75% ...

In a first-of-its-kind study, Stanford researchers have measured how the abundance of ocean life has changed over the past half-billion years of ...

Researchers found that night lizards survived the dinosaur-killing asteroid strike at the end of the Cretaceous, despite ...

Researchers found that night lizards survived the dinosaur-killing asteroid strike at the end of the Cretaceous, despite ...

The fossils, found at Big Bend National Park in Texas, belong to a group of ancient near-marsupials from the Paleocene period ...

Discover the largest ever prehistoric possum fossil found in Texas.

They say everything's bigger in Texas. And that appears to be true, at least in the case of a group of ancient ...

A team led by University of Kansas paleontologists discovers a giant prehistoric predator in Texas’ Big Bend National Park.

The Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) extinction event, which occurred approximately 66 million years ago, was one of the most devastating mass extinctions in Earth’s history. While this cataclysmic event ...