A new fossil discovery suggests that reptiles lived together 20 million years earlier than previously thought.

On the planet from before dinosaurs, tardigrades can survive extreme heat, cold and even mass extinctions. Advanced sunscreens, stronger space medicine to crops, they hold the key ...

What happened to these creatures during the extinction event and how they rebounded tells an important story, both about the ...

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

About 66 million years ago - perhaps on a downright unlucky day in May - an asteroid smashed into our planet.Author Stewart Edie Research ...

Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla will conduct the Voyager Tardigrades mission on the ISS, studying how these resilient ...

For millions of years, large herbivores like mastodons and giant deer shaped the Earth's ecosystems, which astonishingly ...

A chilling new assessment suggests our planet is hurtling towards an unprecedented loss of life, with human activity squarely ...

From the vanishing of 10 billion snow crabs in Alaska's Bering Sea to the first mammal officially declared extinct due to ...

The "Big Five" mass extinctions of the Phanerozoic Eon have long attracted significant attention from the geoscience ...

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