An analysis of North America’s fossil record for the 18 million years before dinosaurs disappeared suggests the prehistoric ...

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

A Texas-based startup has revived the long-extinct dire wolf, but should we take their efforts with a pinch of salt?

Colossal Biosciences of Dallas has announced a new breakthrough in its mission to resurrect extinct animals. The company said ...

A bitter struggle for control of a professional association is proving that diversity, equity and inclusion remains a ...

On land, large herbivores like Moschops also disappeared. This extinction cleared the way for dinosaurs but wiped out most large amphibians and early archosaurs—creatures that would’ve ...

At the time the strata was laid down, a "devastating" glaciation had wiped out about 85% of Earth’s species -- one of the "big five" mass extinctions in Earth's history, the researchers said.

Extinction is not exclusive to dinosaurs. Our planet has gone through at least five periods of mass extinction, with the planet likely in a sixth wave of mass extinction–this one, driven by humans.

However, clams took over the oceans in the aftermath of the end-Permian extinction, along with oysters, snails, and slugs. Earth’s largest mass extinction eliminated a lot of marine species. But it ...

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“We are now able to study big biogeographic changes of mass extinctions in a new way and get a better sense of why some animal groups made it through while others perished.” In addition to the fossil ...