Tropical riparian ecosystems—those found along rivers and wetlands—recovered much faster than expected following the ...

The Permian-Triassic extinction event If you thought the mass extinction caused by the Chicxulub asteroid impact 65 million ...

"Welcome to the Black Triangle," said paleobiologist Cindy Looy as our van slowed to a stop in the gentle hills of the northern Czech Republic, a few miles from the German and Polish borders.

The current mass extinction differs from all others in being driven by ... and maintain large herds of domestic cattle. The third and largest wave began in 1800 with the harnessing of fossil fuels.

Global warming is producing a rapid loss of plant species—according to estimates, roughly 600 plant species have died out ...

Dinosaurs long dominated Earth's land ecosystems with a multitude of forms including plant-eating giants like Argentinosaurus, meat-eating brutes like Tyrannosaurus and weirdos like Therizinosaurus, ...

“One of the largest effects of warming on the ocean ... Kentaro Ohno CC BY 2.0 As with all mass extinctions, of course, paleontologists have long been puzzled by why some groups of living ...

A new and nearly complete skull of Vegavis iaai discovered in Antarctica suggests that modern birds originated before the end ...

Such a ring could have also played a role in one of Earth’s coldest periods and biggest mass extinction events.

megalodon is one of the biggest sharks ever to have lived ... Since the End-Cretaceous mass extinction, sharks have come to dominate the oceans once again, returning to the role of apex predator along ...