The coelacanth, a fish thought to have vanished 65 million years ago. Imagine the surprise when ... challenging the very concept of extinction, as per the Forbes report. More coelacanths The ...

The Jurassic Period is one of the three prehistoric geological periods of the Mesozoic Era. It spans from 145 million to 201 ...

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

Researchers link two ancient mass extinctions to nearby supernova explosions, which may have damaged Earth's atmosphere and triggered global biodiversity loss. A new study suggests that at least two o ...

It’s a long-standing debate in paleontology: Were dinosaurs thriving when an asteroid hit Earth one fateful spring day 66 million years ago ... years before the mass extinction at the end ...

Violent supernovas may have caused two of Earth’s largest mass extinctions that ... factor in the Late Devonian extinction event 372 million years ago and one at the end of the Late Ordovician ...

within 65 light-years of Earth. They then compared this with the rate of those famous 'Big Five' mass extinction events in the history of life on Earth, a planet thought to be 4.5 billion years old.

About 252 million years ago, upward of 80% of all marine species vanished during the end-Permian mass extinction—the most extreme event of its kind in Earth's history. What followed was a ...

Sure, we all know about the asteroid impact that is thought to have wiped out the dinosaurs, but did you know that the Earth ...