Everyone knows that dinosaurs are extinct, and most people have some idea about how it might have occurred. But the exact ...

A newly published review of 252-million-year-old fossils from southwest Germany is offering a deeper understanding of life’s ...

A bitter struggle for control of a professional association is proving that diversity, equity and inclusion remains a ...

For decades, the prevailing theory behind the mass extinction that ended the reign of the dinosaurs has pointed to a ...

After the end-Permian mass extinction, certain species thrived in warmer, oxygen-depleted waters, spreading globally. This ...

Fossils from China’s Turpan-Hami Basin reveal it was a rare land refuge during the end-Permian extinction, with fast ...

Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing ...

Stanford scientists found that dramatic climate changes after the Great Dying enabled a few marine species to spread globally ...

After Earth's worst mass extinction, surviving ocean animals spread worldwide. Stanford's model shows why this happened.

Fossils before and after the end-Permian extinction "go from richly diverse communities ... changes in ecosystem composition that surpass even those seen in the earliest Triassic, which has been the ...

Science is taking a major step forward by exploring the possibility of bringing extinct species back to life. Iconic animals like the woolly mammoth, the dodo, and the Tasmanian tiger could soon ...