After years of searching worldwide, paleontologist Kenneth Lacovara found the extinction layer—and thousands of fossils—just ...

Behind a Lowe’s in New Jersey, scientists uncovered 100,000+ fossils at Edelman Fossil Park—including a mosasaur, a giant ...

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 ...

Rock layers deposited before and after the major dinosaur extinction event 65 million years ago are surprisingly different.

concept image of a mass extinction event destroyed city with rubble and smoky air - Dezzzy/Shutterstock A mass extinction event is a term used to describe a large-scale event that wipes out species.

Using uranium-lead dating, researchers calculated the age of the eggs, rather than the sediments around them, at the ...

Dinosaurs' extinction "re-engineered" Earth's surface, according to new research. The reptiles had such an "immense" impact ...

Dinosaurs had such an immense impact on Earth that their sudden extinction led to wide-scale changes in landscapes—including ...

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.

The new dinosaur, named Joaquinraptor casali, was about 23 feet (7 meters) long and weighed over 2,200 pounds.

Large aquatic lizards once populated the Earth’s oceans—and you can find their fossils in suburban New Jersey.

Scientists date dinosaur eggs that had laid buried in rock for millions of years for the first time, using new, ‘atomic clock ...