Researchers suggest that ground-based mammals fared better than their arboreal relatives during the end-Cretaceous extinction ...

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

More mammals were living on the ground several million years before the mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs, new research has revealed.

An international team of geoscientists, marine geologists, climatologists, and environmental specialists has found that ...

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

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 ...

Learn about the climate changes that followed the end-Permian extinction, allowing select species to take over the planet's ...

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

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