Researchers suggest that ground-based mammals fared better than their arboreal relatives during the end-Cretaceous extinction ...

Learn more about the mammalian transition from arboreal to terrestrial life, which began millions of years before the arrival ...

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

With the exception of Pluto, planets in our solar system are classified as either terrestrial (Earth-like) or Jovian (Jupiter-like) planets. Terrestrial planets include Mercury, Venus, Earth, and ...

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 ...