Everyone knows that dinosaurs are extinct, and most people have some idea about how it might have occurred. But the exact ...

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

Dinosaurs are the extinct relatives of birds that roamed the lands and seas of ancient Earth. They first appeared around 240 ...

A hotspot from underneath Earth’s crust may have created a low point that glaciers finished carving out and filling with ...

Pioneers in the science of "de-extinction," an American company has announced the births of three pups whose genes resemble ...

A new review of Triassic fossils from Germany reveals rich tetrapod diversity and links to modern biodiversity and climate ...

The idea that dinosaurs were already in decline before an asteroid wiped most of them out 66 million years ago may be ...

One of the most studied space rocks of all time has given scientists another big surprise, with the "mudball meteorite" Aguas ...

A 444-million-year-old fossil named "Sue" preserves internal organs of Keurbos susanae, raising questions about arthropod ...

In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, thousands of miles from any continent, Easter Island rises out of the sea. Its surface ...

One thing geology teaches us about is the existence of another monumental event in the history of Earth, 2.4 billion years ...