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

In a stunning scientific development, the prehistoric canines made famous in the hit HBO show have been announced as the ...

A group of scientists and NASA got together and with the help of supercomputers came up with a date for total and complete ...

Contrary to popular belief, the rise of land mammals may not be solely linked to the disappearance of dinosaurs. A study ...

A supercomputer has produced a predictive model detailing the tectonic catastrophe that would end life on Earth as we know it ...

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

A devastating meteorite strike over three billion years ago may have been just what early life needed to thrive. While it’s ...

Fossils from China’s Turpan-Hami Basin reveal it was a rare land refuge during the end-Permian extinction, with fast ...

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

On land, large herbivores like Moschops also disappeared. This extinction cleared the way for dinosaurs but wiped out most large amphibians and early archosaurs—creatures that would’ve ...

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

One leading botanist is scouring remote corners of the earth to find new species that could keep our mugs full ...