A new study challenges long-held assumptions about survival following a global catastrophe. If you're an animal trying to survive a mass extinction, your best bet might be to carve out a truly unique ...

Rio Baran's senior thesis research sought to explore what few scientists have attempted. “Rio is an exceptional undergraduate student,” said her adviser, geosciences professor John Higgins.

Great apes began to diverge from other primates about 25 million years ago, according to eastern African fossil records.

Collagen from a fossilized bone fragment can identify the animal it came from. And, some new info about our galaxy’s eventual extinction.

The history of the animals that inhabit the Earth has had many ups and downs, which have led many species to extinction, ...

If the cave art painting really captures a dicynodont, it predates formal paleontology. They've been extinct for about 250 ...

Learn more about archosauromorphs, the early relatives of dinosaurs, that survived inhospitable terrain during the Triassic ...

Throughout Earth’s history, there have been several global extinction events, wiping out large portions of life across the planet. From the mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs to earlier ...