When we talk about mass extinction events, the first case that usually comes to mind is when an asteroid struck Earth about 66 million years ago and triggered the extinction of the dinosaurs.

The bull gator lay in the sand under the oak trees. A few days earlier he had been hauled out of a murky lake in central Florida. Researchers instantly named him Mr. Big. He was sofa-size, with ...

Did dinosaurs lose their dominance suddenly or gradually? Some scientists think the answer lies locked within the remnants of long-dormant volcanoes. Massive beds of ancient lava found around the ...

The only known example of Paracyclotosaurus davidi, an amphibian that lived in Australia around 235 million years ago. The collection contains 400 specimens and 46 type specimens, mostly of ...

This amphibian spends most of its life underground ... one of Australia's most iconic evolutionary relics. Long before dinosaurs existed, horseshoe crabs scuttled along ancient shorelines and ...

The story of the disappearance of dinosaurs is a famous one. Less familiar is the tale of the dinosaurs that were left behind. What is it about birds that allowed them to survive when all other ...

Originally voiced by Henson himself, “the world’s most famous amphibian” in May will be voiced and performed by Matt Vogel, the puppeteer who took over for Steve Whitmire in 2017 ...

In just a few years, according to this hypothesis, these frigid and sweltering climatic extremes caused the extinction of not just the dinosaurs, but of up to 70 percent of all plants and animals ...