An international research team from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin and from Buenos Aires and Washington D.C. has identified ...

In a groundbreaking study, new fossil evidence has shed light on the mysterious 5-million-year heatwave that followed Earth’s ...

Since the first sharks emerged in the world’s oceans nearly half a billion years ago, the world has gone through five major mass extinction events. Each one took a considerable fraction of all the ...

An international research team from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin and from Buenos Aires and Washington D.C. has identified ...

A collection of dinosaur teeth hailing back to the Cretaceous and Jurassic periods has given scientists a new window into the ...

During the Triassic period nearly 250 million years ago, a small reptile scurried after insects in the canopy of a lush ...

The Permian period was one of the most extreme and unforgiving chapters in Earth’s history. In this video, we dive into the harsh realities of life during the Permian – from brutal climate ...

Enormous numbers of marine and land-based plants and animals died, ecosystems collapsed and oceans acidified. What has been less clear, however, is why it got so hot and why “super greenhouse” ...

A strange crest found on ancient reptile fossils suggests birds and dinosaurs may not have the exclusive lock on feather-like ...

Body coverings such as hair and feathers have played a central role in evolution. They enabled warm-bloodedness by insulating ...

A prehistoric carbon spike turned oceans deadly and wiped out marine life. Scientists say today’s CO₂ rise could cause the same outcome.

Body coverings such as hair and feathers have played a central role in evolution. They enabled warm-bloodedness by insulating ...