An asteroid at the end of the Cretaceous Period ended the dinosaurs, but earlier smaller extinctions dramatically set the ...

When we talk about prehistoric life, dinosaurs usually get all the attention. But the truth is, long before they came along, ...

Researchers uncovered the oldest known salmon species, showing that northern fish have ancient Arctic roots dating back 73 ...

New study finds dinosaurs weren’t declining before asteroid impact; a biased fossil record misled decades of paleontology.

Some creatures made it from the prehistoric era to today. Discover 5 species that have survived since the age of dinosaurs.

For decades, scientists have debated what wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. The usual suspects? A massive ...

Roughly 140 million to 100 million years ago, the piece of land that is modern day Australia was located much further south ...

Around 300 million years ago, long before dinosaurs ruled the Earth, the Carboniferous period teemed with strange and giant ...

Bookended by extinctions, this era saw huge shifts in the diversity and dominance of life on Earth, ushering in the appearance of ... which includes the dinosaurs, came to dominate.' The cause of the ...