We’re at the precipice of a mass extinction, of all plants across the East Coast,” said Prof. Bethany Bradley of UMass. “If we do nothing, we do more harm.” ...

Cretaceous climate crisis with extreme heat and ocean anoxia led to the extinction of powerful marine predators.

In an East Village gallery, K Allado-McDowell has created an audiovisual tribute to species we have lost as a rehearsal for a ...

The ancestors of today’s crocodylians survived two mass extinction events. A new study has revealed a key factor behind their ...

So many extinction-level events happened in ancient times, it is a wonder anything survived. These the ones that killed the ...

The Indonesian coelacanth, a fish once thought to be extinct for 70 million years, was discovered alive in greater numbers ...

Understandably, this has generated a lot of “Jurassic Park”-like excitement, and the press coverage has been intense. One ...

Alligators first appeared over 200 million years ago—long before the rise of dinosaurs—and have survived mass extinctions, environmental shifts, and predators, making them some of Earth’s most ...

Paleontologists uncover fossils of a massive sebecid crocodile, revealing its existence in the Caribbean long after it was ...

Knife-toothed reptiles called sebecids went extinct on the mainland 10 million years ago. New fossil evidence puts them on an island 4 million years ago.

Imagine a crocodile built like a greyhound — that's a sebecid. Standing tall, with some species reaching 20 feet in length, they dominated South ...

Ancient volcanic winters, not just carbon dioxide warming, likely triggered the end-Triassic extinction when dinosaurs rose ...