Pigs were not always the familiar animals seen today, but once held a far more dominant position in nature. Fossil evidence ...

A small predator discovered in China quietly transformed the way scientists understand dinosaurs. Fossil evidence revealed ...

Earth’s first sponges may have been ghostly, soft-bodied pioneers—ancient animals that evolved long before their skeletons ever appeared in stone.

A rapid climate collapse during the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction devastated ocean life and reshuffled Earth’s ecosystems.

A mass extinction created the ecological conditions that set the stage for a dramatic shift in marine life.

The Moroccan fossils now provide tangible evidence from this mysterious transitional period. What makes these fossils particularly significant is the precision with which they can be dated. The ...

During these waves of mass extinction, most vertebrate survivors were confined to refugia, or isolated biodiversity hotspots ...

Some 445 million years ago, life on Earth was forever changed. During the geological blink of an eye, glaciers formed over ...

About 445 million years ago, Earth nearly wiped out life in the oceans. Glaciers spread across the supercontinent Gondwana, ...

New research has uncovered a shocking truth, Europe once hosted a variety of horned dinosaurs, previously unknown.

A new analysis of enigmatic skulls from the Republic of Georgia suggest that Homo erectus wasn't the only human species to ...

These "total monsters of fishes" are extinct today, though new clues about their lives come from CT scans and their closest ...