Earth's history is marked by devastating mass extinctions, each one reshaping life as we know it. Now, experts warn that ...

Scientists estimate that the first generation of reptiles evolved between 320 and 310 million years ago, this group was later dominated by dinosaurs which paleontologists say they evolved on Earth ...

Check out these ten amazing facts about the US National Mammal, the American bison. Know about its ecological significance, ...

They brought an animal ... women who have trouble carrying babies to term. But for many scientists, de-extinction is a distraction from the pressing work required to stave off mass extinctions.

Abundant fossil bones, teeth, trackways, and other hard evidence have revealed that Earth was ... which led the Alvarezs to conclude that the mass extinction was caused by an extraterrestrial ...

Over a million species of animals and plants are now hanging by a thread, more than ever before in human history, says the ...

The transcriptome (or sum total of the messenger RNA) of the white shark showed greater similarity to the human transcriptome ...

Crocodilians have survived mass extinctions without breaking a sweat.

Sharks are one of the oldest species of animals still alive today. While they may not be the massive megalodons that lived ...

Not everything dies in a mass extinction. Sea life recovered in different and surprising ways after the asteroid strike 66 ...

A new study challenges long-held assumptions about survival following a global catastrophe. If you're an animal trying to ...

Scientists have discovered new markers that enable the identification of species from fossilized bone fragments, offering new ...