Read about the Jurassic extinction event that wiped out many species at the beginning of this Period and led to the rise of the dinosaurs.

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

A prehistoric floodplain in Wyoming has revealed a mass grave of giant amphibians, frozen in time for 230 million years.

For decades, paleontologists have believed that the very first dinosaurs evolved in the southern parts of the ancient ...

The French countryside is rich in fossilized eggs, footprints, and bones. A battle is raging over who is allowed to hunt for ...

A new review of Triassic fossils from Germany reveals rich tetrapod diversity and links to modern biodiversity and climate ...

Paleontologists found a group of four-legged Triassic creatures preserved in the same bone bed—but they don’t know what ...

While preparing to build a power substation next to a Utah residential subdivision, a prehistoric field of dinosaur and other ...

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

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 ...

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