An analysis of North America’s fossil record for the 18 million years before dinosaurs disappeared suggests the prehistoric ...

A little over 5 million years ago, water from the Atlantic Ocean found a way through the present-day Strait of Gibraltar.

Microbes - alive and thriving -- have been found sealed within a fracture of 2-billion-year-old rock beneath Earth's surface.

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

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

A new study challenges the idea that dinosaurs were declining before the asteroid impact. Researchers at UCL Earth Sciences ...

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

The Mesozoic Era extinctions formed the world as we know it today. Read about what caused them and which animals survived.

About 66 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into the planet, wiping out all non-avian dinosaurs and about 70% of all marine species. But the crater it left behind in the Gulf of Mexico was a ...

This week, solve the mystery of an ancient human ancestor’s fossil, meet a new generation of dire wolves, spy April’s full ...

The team of researchers from the University College London found that on the face value, it appears that the number of ...

A groundbreaking new study has pushed the timeline of life’s origin further back than previously thought. Researchers have ...