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.

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

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

A new study of ancient shells reveals that ocean ecosystems maintained balance after the dinosaur extinction 66 million years ...

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

Our new research has revealed that this was a planet-changing mass extinction event that killed off many of the dominant tetrapods and heralded the dawn of the dinosaurs. The best known mass ...