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

Performed by the Prehistoric Body Theater ensemble, Indonesian dancers channel prehistoric dinosaurs as they explore themes ...

The museum hopes that after learning about the planet’s prehistoric past, people will do more to preserve Earth’s future.

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

From climate change to nuclear weapons to lethal disease, the Trump administration seems to have decided that preventing mass ...

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

The world around us is constantly changing, and with these changes come questions that challenge our understanding of life on ...

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.

Astronomers have uncovered a spiral galaxy nearly a billion light-years away that hosts a supermassive black hole launching ...

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

Imagine the planet tens of millions of years from now. Homo sapiens as a species is likely long gone, wiped out by a mass ...