Not everything dies in a mass extinction. Sea life recovered in different and surprising ways after the asteroid strike 66 ...

NEW MEXICO CONSORTIUM NEWS RELEASE Dr. Spencer Lucas, Curator of Paleontology at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and ...

Other federal science organizations haven't been spared, either — places like the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

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

Research data suggests humans may have nearly gone extinct almost 1 million years ago, but scientists aren't sure why.

A team of paleontologists affiliated with several institutions in Argentina, working with a colleague from the U.K., has ...

Throughout Earth’s history, there have been several global extinction events, wiping out large portions of life across the ...

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

Scientists are using fossils to help uncover how ancient life survived mass extinction, offering insights for modern ...

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

Putting an end to a mass extinction sounds like an impossible task, but some researchers argue that doing so would be setting ...