The Triassic–Jurassic transition represents one of Earth’s most profound episodes of biological upheaval, characterised by extensive volcanic activity, rapid climatic shifts and cascading ...

Everyone knows that dinosaurs are extinct, and most people have some idea about how it might have occurred. But the exact periods in history when it happened are less well known. Was it a single ...

The Palisades cliffs west of New York City rear up from the Hudson River like the spine of some ancient beast—and that impression is not far off. Their basalt backbone is a remnant of an immense lava ...

NEW YORK — When the ancient supercontinent Pangea began to break apart 200 million years ago, it unleashed volcanic hell on Earth. New research from the Columbia Climate School reveals that five rapid ...

Most people have heard how the dinosaurs went extinct. Around 66 million years ago, a meteor likely struck the earth, killing off 80% of all species and taking non-avian dinosaurs with it. But what ...

Could you survive the rise of a bunch of weird creatures in the Triassic Period? In the aftermath of the Great Dying, rapid evolutionary radiation resulted in the rise of a bunch of weird creatures in ...

Sharks might be the all time bullet-dodging champions. They’ve been around for about 450 million years, longer than trees, longer than the rings of Saturn, and longer than most of the other life on ...

Ancient frog relatives survived the aftermath of the largest mass extinction of species by feeding on freshwater prey that evaded terrestrial predators, University of Bristol academics have found. In ...

The mass extinction that killed 80% of life on Earth 250 million years ago may not have been quite so disastrous for plants, new fossils hint. Scientists have identified a refuge in China where it ...

A new study reveals that a region in China's Turpan-Hami Basin served as a refugium, or "Life oasis" for terrestrial plants during the end-Permian mass extinction, the most severe biological crisis ...