Dozens of amphibians perished together on an ancient floodplain around 230 million years ago, according to a new study.

The Mesozoic Era extinctions formed the world as we know it today. Read about what caused them and which animals survived.

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

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

“And that’s how it all started.” This choice helped spark a decades-long movement to revive a language at the edge of extinction. For the Sámi, language is more than communication—it’s ...

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 ...

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 ...