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

More mammals were living on the ground several million years before the mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs, new research has revealed.

New fossil analysis shows mammals transitioned to terrestrial lifestyles millions of years before the mass extinction—driven ...

Performed by the Prehistoric Body Theater ensemble, Indonesian dancers channel prehistoric dinosaurs as they explore themes ...

The museum hopes that after learning about the planet’s prehistoric past, people will do more to preserve Earth’s future.

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 ...

The world around us is constantly changing, and with these changes come questions that challenge our understanding of life on ...

A research team linked nearby stellar explosions to at least one, possibly two, mass die-offs after calculating the supernova ...

resulting in a chain of events that could cause a mass extinction.During the Devonian geological era, life thrived on land for the first time, but early land plants and animals making the ...