In its 4.5 billion year history, Earth has undergone five mass extinctions and we are potentially in a sixth era of mass ...

That happened during two mass extinction events. The first was during the end-Triassic, about 201.4 million years ago. The second was at the end-Cretaceous, about 66 million years ago. Other ...

Most people think of crocodilians as living fossils—stubbornly unchanged, prehistoric relics that have ruled the world's ...

Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing over a period of roughly 30 million years, but that would come to a ...

Discover how crocodiles survived two mass extinctions thanks to their flexible diets and habitats, according to research.

"There has been a bewildering array of different ecological roles for crocodylomorphs, from terrestrial herbivores and ...

That happened during two mass extinction events. The first was during the end-Triassic, about 201.4 million years ago. The ...

Crocodiles' ability to eat almost anything helped their ancestors survive two mass extinctions ... thrive through mass extinctions - the first about 201.4 million years ago, and the second ...

Nearby stellar explosions may have influenced two major mass extinctions on Earth ... The Ordovician and Late Devonian extinctions, occurring 445 and 372 million years ago respectively, are the focus ...

Surprisingly, the ancestors of modern crocodiles survived two mass extinctions throughout their 230-million-year history.

That’s not the only mass extinction this animal ... that saw some groups ride out two mass extinctions (the end-Triassic, about 201.4 million years ago (Ma), and the end-Cretaceous, about ...