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

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 ...

Stanford study shows ocean biomass has risen over 540 million years, linking biodiversity to long-term ecosystem health.

Shell-rich rocks trace a mostly upward climb in ocean life, with each mass extinction slashing both diversity and biomass ...

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

News about paleontology, important paleontological discoveries and fossil studies ...

I am hiking along the Metacomet Ridge in Greenfield, Massachusetts – a rather steep basaltic structure, modestly less than five hundred feet high and topped by a stately brick tower constructed in ...

The extinction of the dinosaurs has been a research focus for Sloan for the past 30 years. He discounts the view that an asteroid was responsible for the extinction of the dinosaurs. Twenty-two of ...