A newly described dinosaur that appears to have persisted beyond a catastrophic die-off is forcing scientists to rethink how ...

Newly analyzed Arctic fossils show that marine ecosystems recovered astonishingly fast after the “great dying.” More than 30,000 teeth, bones, and other fossil fragments from a 249-million-year-old ...

An ancient predatory dinosaur that lived 220 million years ago, Maleriraptor kuttyi, redefines carnivorous dinosaurs' origin ...

Museum researchers reconstructed the evolutionary history of stony corals over the past 460 million years, providing insights ...

"Cartilaginous fish, including present-day sharks and rays, have been on our planet for over 400 million years. They have ...

A new study uncovers hidden chemical clues showing that fire played a bigger role in the Early Triassic than scientists once ...

The book says humanity first became aware of extinction when people realized that many organisms—plants, animals and ...

Earth's largest mass extinction occurred about 252 million years ago, wiping out the majority of marine and terrestrial life, ...

The Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) mass extinction event, marking the boundary between the Cretaceous and Paleogene periods approximately 66 million years ago, stands as one of the most profound ...