New Permian species, Yinshanosaurus angustus, found in China.

Surprising new fossil evidence undermines the idea that there was ever a mass extinction on land – and may force us to ...

First study to explore how ancient reptiles spread across the Earth after the end-Permian mass extinction. New research ...

Long before T. rex, the Earth was dominated by super-carnivores stranger and more terrifying than anything dreamed up by ...

Shell-rich rocks trace a mostly upward climb in ocean life, with each mass extinction slashing both diversity and biomass ...

Earth's history is marked by devastating mass extinctions, each one reshaping life as we know it. Now, experts warn that ...

In a first-of-its-kind study, Stanford researchers have measured how the abundance of ocean life has changed over the past ...

Stanford study shows ocean biomass has risen over 540 million years, linking biodiversity to long-term ecosystem health.

New findings may have solved the debate around why scientists have never found the missing link between dinosaurs and ...

A new fossil discovery suggests that reptiles lived together 20 million years earlier than previously thought.

Ever since the first fragments of pterosaur bone surfaced nearly 250 years ago , palaeontologists have puzzled over one ...