Two Paleontology and Evolution students from the University of Bristol have undertaken the first ever study which describes ...

Scientists don't call it the "Great Dying" for nothing. About 252 million years ago, upward of 80% of all marine species ...

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

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

Scientists racing the clock to finish excavating top southern Utah dinosaur fossil site before construction on a power ...

A selection of tiny shark's teeth, measuring from 1 to 5 mm wide, and representing several characteristic speciesImage by ...

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

As the famed North American road gears up to celebrate its centenary, head to Arizona; home to the longest remaining stretch ...

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

Milner said the fish were thought to be extinct from an asteroid strike at the end of the Cretaceous until a species surfaced in the Indian Ocean in ... event in the late Triassic period that ...