The Jurassic Period is one of the three prehistoric geological periods of the Mesozoic Era. It spans from 145 million to 201 ...

The idea that extreme heat could one day cause a mass extinction and end the dominance of humans is not as farfetched as it ...

The Mesozoic Era extinctions formed the world as we know it today. Read about what caused them and which animals survived.

The four previous mass extinctions were also thought to have involved ... by heavy volcanic activity is hypothesized by some scientists to have caused the end-Triassic extinction event that ...

A new study reveals that Earth's biomes changed dramatically in the wake of mass volcanic eruptions 252 million years ago.

Petrified Forest National Park is one of the most complete records of the end Triassic in the world. It is a really interesting area to study how species were recovering from a mass extinction ...

The end-Permian mass extinction, which occurred approximately ... was based on the discovery of many "missing" species in ...

After Earth's worst mass extinction, surviving ocean animals spread worldwide. Stanford's model shows why this happened.

Fossils from China’s Turpan-Hami Basin reveal it was a rare land refuge during the end-Permian extinction, with fast ...

The mass extinction that killed 80% of life on ... A 2020 study, for example, found that a smaller extinction event at the end of the Triassic (201 million years ago) was driven by greenhouse ...

The end-Permian mass extinction, which occurred approximately ... was based on the discovery of many "missing" species in Early Triassic strata elsewhere, indicating temporary migration rather ...