A reptile fossil is the first of its kind with skin and partially webbed feet, possibly showing how later species like plesiosaurs adapted to water.

Earth has a long and dramatic history, and one recurring theme is extinction. Did you know that over the last 500 million years, our planet experienced five major mass extinction events? These events ...

Earth's history is marked by violent mass extinctions that have shaped life on the planet. Here's how many of these events have occurred and their impact.

Tyrannosaurus rex holotype specimen at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh. Credit: ScottRobertAnselmo / CC BY-SA 3.0 Scientists have successfully reconstructed the prehistoric air that ...

The find of Mirasaura grauvogeli is ground-breaking in its implications for our understanding of reptile evolution. This species, a member of the drepanosauromorph group, lived during the early Middle ...

As we stand on the Earth’s ground, we claim we know about its genesis and what happened before we came into existence, but do we really? Let’s retrace our footsteps (or fossils) and travel back in ...

Imagine diving into ancient oceans 250 million years ago, where sleek, torpedo-shaped creatures sliced through the water with dolphin-like grace. These weren’t mammals, though—they were reptiles that ...

Tooth of a Tyrannosaurus rex that was excavated in Alberta, Canada. Credit: Thomas Tütken. Millions of years ago, long-necked sauropods and snarling Tyrannosaurs roamed a world thick with heat, ...

The most devastating was the Permian-Triassic extinction (252 million years ago), often called “The Great Dying,” which eliminated roughly 96% of marine species and 70% of terrestrial vertebrates. The ...

Roughly 252 million years ago, Earth experienced its deadliest known extinction. Known as the Permian–Triassic Mass Extinction, or “The Great Dying,” this cataclysm wiped out over 80% of marine ...

Around 252 million years ago, Earth went through its most devastating extinction event, the Permian–Triassic Mass Extinction (PTME). During this time, about 90% of marine species and nearly 90% of ...

Some 252 million years ago, almost all life on Earth disappeared. Known as the Permian–Triassic mass extinction – or the Great Dying – this was the most catastrophic of the five mass extinction events ...