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 ...

Indeed, the earliest mammal we are currently aware of is the Brasilodon quadrangularis – a diminutive critter described as ...

A bitter struggle for control of a professional association is proving that diversity, equity and inclusion remains a ...

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 ...

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.

Fossils before and after the end-Permian extinction "go from richly diverse ... composition that surpass even those seen in the earliest Triassic, which has been the greatest homogenization event to ...