First study to explore how ancient reptiles spread across the Earth after the end-Permian mass extinction. New research ...

Iridium is relatively rare in Earth's crust but is more abundant in stony meteorites, which led the Alvarezs to conclude that the mass extinction was caused by an extraterrestrial object.

The Earth is rapidly warming, and similar climate upheavals over 300 million years ago once triggered massive fluctuations in ...

When “Jaws” debuted in U.S. theaters 50 years ago today, it helped launch a new era in American movies. Steven Spielberg’s ...

Humans have driven sharks and their cousins to the brink of extinction. The health of the entire ocean is at stake.

New funding in Norman could help scientists understand how to preserve biodiversity in a world that has alarming similarities to one mass extinction in particular. David Wright, a paleontologist ...

Dinosaurs are not the only predators that have walked the Earth. Nearly 252 million years ago, when Earth witnessed the "Great Dying" mass extinction, a beast continued to survive and thrive during ...

One of these predators was Inostrancevia, a terrifying saber-toothed creature described as a proto-mammal that's older than the dinosaurs. For years, paleontologists believed it l ...

New finding dating back 236 million years are pushing the known existence of butterflies and moths further into the past. A team of archaeologists and paleontologists from several Argentine institutes ...

The paleontologists who made the discovery also identified a previously unknown Lepidoptera species and have named it Ampatiri eloisae.