Roughly 201 million years ago, the Triassic-Jurassic extinction event wiped out about 76% of all marine and land species on Earth. This cleared the stage for dinosaurs to take over for the next 135 ...

The Arctic was not simply a cold edge of the Cretaceous world, but a place where mammals adapted, diversified, migrated and ...

An artist's imagining of a saprotrophic fungus. (Juan Gaertner/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) In the wake of the catastrophic Chicxulub asteroid impact roughly 66 million years ago, ...

An unexpected haul of nearly 500 fossilized fish in Egypt provides an unprecedented picture of how sea life rebounded from ...

The kraken — a gigantic, tentacled sea monster capable of dragging ships and sailors down into the depths — is a creature of Norwegian myth. But millions of years ago, a similar real-life animal ...

A stretch of windswept Patagonia has produced a fossil that offers a rare look at one of the largest crocodile relatives ...

If you’re an animal living through a mass extinction, it’s best to be one that’s found a unique way to make a living. A new analysis of the species that lived or died out in the wake of the asteroid ...

A site in the San Juan Basin of northwestern New Mexico is providing a rare glimpse into the last days of the dinosaurs. Rocks and fossils at the Naashoibito Member site show an ecosystem that was ...

Around 66 million years ago, a gigantic asteroid smashed into Earth and wreaked chaos globally. It's not too surprising that size would be linked to survival, Lacovara said. On land, "it's pretty ...

May 23rd is World Turtle Day. It’s the perfect time to celebrate what makes these creatures so amazing and focus on what you can do to protect them. Turtles Coexisted with Dinosaurs The first turtles ...

Dinosaurs ruled the Earth for over 150 million years. Compared to the mere 4–6 million years that scientists believe humans and their earliest ancestors have been on the planet, it wouldn't be ...