A newly discovered ancient crocodile cousin from a 210-million-year-old Triassic crocodile fossil reveals a powerful ...

Insights into how ancient plants lived around 252 million years ago at the time of the Permian–Triassic mass extinction, the most severe loss of biodiversity in Earth’s history, are reported in Nature ...

Some of the most beautiful creatures to grace the ancient seas, the ammonites, disappeared in the end-Cretaceous mass ...

About 252 million years ago, life on Earth suffered an unimaginable blow. Oceans emptied of most of their species, and vast numbers of plants and land animals disappeared as well. To put it bluntly, ...

For 350 million years, ammonites were the resilient masterpieces of the ancient seas. They survived the Great Dying of the ...

A forgotten dinosaur skull sat in storage for decades—until scientists rediscovered it and uncovered a new species that could change evolution.

Mass extinctions represent abrupt, global-scale losses of biodiversity that profoundly reshape the composition and structure of ecosystems. These events are driven by a suite of environmental ...

Ancient predator revealed: A digitally reconstructed late Triassic skull analysed by a student led to the identification of a new carnivorous dinosaur species. Older than T. rex: Ptychotherates ...

A distorted dinosaur skull, once dismissed as unusable, became the focus of a detailed digital reconstruction that revealed ...

Fossils of an ancestor to the modern crocodile were recently found in North Carolina. The 231-million-year-old fossils included a skull, spine and forelimbs of what was a nearly 3-metre-long juvenile ...