Despite Earth's most devastating mass extinction wiping out over 80% of marine life and half of land species, a group of ...

Dinosaurs were the most numerous animals during the Cretaceous period. Among them ... killing 75% of ocean creatures Permian-Triassic extinction 253 million years ago: Volcanism killed 96% ...

Surprising new fossil evidence undermines the idea that there was ever a mass extinction on land – and may force us to ...

This article explores ten extinct plant species, from the ancient Araucarioxylon arizonicum to the more recent Sophora ...

If the cave art painting really captures a dicynodont, it predates formal paleontology. They've been extinct for about 250 ...

The first archosauromorphs, some resembling modern reptiles and many times smaller than familiar dinosaurs, were previously believed to only survive in certain parts of the globe due to extreme heat ...

A fossilized colony of small burrowing reptiles that lived some 250 million years ago was recently found in South Africa.

The paleontologists who made the discovery also identified a previously unknown Lepidoptera species and have named it ...

First evidence of communal burrowing in Procolophon trigonicepsFossils show adults and juveniles lived and died together in ...

New finding dating back 236 million years are pushing the known existence of butterflies and moths further into the past. A team of archaeologists and paleontologists from several Argentine institutes ...