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

Paleontologists in England discovered the existence of a new marine species that roamed the Earth before the dinosaurs and ...

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

The museum hopes that after learning about the planet’s prehistoric past, people will do more to preserve Earth’s ... to see what the dinosaur world looked like just before the asteroid ...

"Especially as recently my mum said to me, 'Sarah, if you are going to name this fossil after me, you'd better get on and do it before I am ... life and evolution on Earth." ...

Researchers examined small fossilized limb bone fragments from marsupial and placental mammals in Western North America.

The legend of the dinosaur-like animal ... The Congo Basin is Earth’s second-largest rainforest. It has lost a major forest cover in the past few years, opening up the gates to an animal world that ...

Around 252 million years ago, more than 80% of all marine species disappeared during the end-Permian mass extinction—the most extreme event of its kind in Earth’s history ... California.” Fossils ...

Paleontologists are marveling over a unique fossil of a specimen that pre-dated the dinosaurs, according to new research.

Paleontologists are marveling over the unique fossil of a marine species that predated the dinosaurs ... glaciation had wiped out about 85% of Earth’s species -- one of the "big five" mass ...