Small and elusive night lizards probably persisted because they have slow metabolisms and like to hide out in rock crevices, ...

Isolation allows creatures to thrive as their relatives perish due to the threats present on much larger landmasses ...

Crocodilians have survived mass extinctions without breaking a sweat.

Researchers found that night lizards survived the dinosaur-killing asteroid strike at the end of the Cretaceous, despite ...

A study of fossils from the Permian-Triassic extinction event 252 million years ago shows that forests in many parts of the ...

Sharks don’t exactly have the best reputation. Decades of fear-driven stories and films have made sure of that. But if you ...

Although we have many problems with critically endangered species today, it used to be a lot worse. Before the times of ...

Not everything dies in a mass extinction. Sea life recovered in different and surprising ways after the asteroid strike 66 million years ago. Ancient fossils recorded it all.

Long before T. rex, the Earth was dominated by super-carnivores stranger and more terrifying than anything dreamed up by ...

While they may not be the massive megalodons that lived during the Early Miocene and Early Pliocene eras, as recent as 3.5 million years ago, sharks have managed to maintain their marine apex ...

Minnesota Zoo director of animal care Anne Rivas examines Marat, a Przewalski's horse foal, and his adoptive mother Alice, a ...

MÉRIDA, Venezuela- José Betancourt, 75, climbed to the glacier of Pico Bolívar, Venezuela’s highest peak, 158 times before it ...