Giant kangaroos stayed local, and rapid climate change gradually destroyed their lush rainforest home, leading to extinction.

Scientists revisited tracks made by a shorebird, a lizard, a cat-like predator and some sort of large herbivore at what is ...

This fossil is 13 million years older than any ant fossil found before—and reveals a sophisticated predator that lived ...

An international team of paleontologists, geologists, geoscientists and Earth scientists has found evidence that a type of ...

Titanosaurs were among the largest land animals to ever exist. Now, paleontologists attribute their success to unique adaptations that combined traits of both reptiles and mammals. Let’s discover how ...

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

“He wrote it ten years ago, and by today’s standards it’s still ball-crushing.” The band hasn’t shared a release date for Extinction Level Event yet. However, Hoglan said it will come ...

He wrote it ten years ago, and by today’s standards it’s still ball-crushing.” Now, with the band set to release a brand new album of the same name, “Extinction-Level Event” is being touted by the ...

The idea that extreme heat could one day cause a mass extinction and end the ... ended in severe biodiversity loss. About 443 million years ago, marine habitats shrank during the Ordovician-Silurian ...

Cores extracted from the impact crater revealed evidence of an ancient, life-nurturing hydrothermal system in the wake of the ...

Some of these formations date back as far as 7.44 million years ... After the mid-Pleistocene transition, around 700,000 years ago, rainfall became increasingly scarce and erratic— unable ...

this translates to roughly 35–40 million differences in DNA base pairs. Now consider that the evolutionary split between dire wolves and gray wolves took place more than 300,000 years ago ...