Some of the most beautiful creatures to grace the ancient seas, the ammonites, disappeared in the end-Cretaceous mass ...

This tiny frog carried a deadly fungal pathogen that silently spread across forests and rivers worldwide, infecting amphibians on multiple continents and helping trigger one of the largest wildlife ...

Remarkably preserved fossils found in southern China offer a fascinating window into what life looked like at the end of the ...

Earth's food webs suffer when giant animals go extinct, even 10,000 years later.

Exciting news on the extinction front emerged last week from Indonesia: An orangutan used a rope bridge strung high between ...

Over 200,000 years, a single species spread from a small corner of Africa to dominate every ecosystem on Earth, driving countless others to extinction along the way. This is the story of how Homo ...

A forgotten dinosaur skull sat in storage for decades—until scientists rediscovered it and uncovered a new species that could change evolution.

New technology has helped a team of scientists uncover more than 20 microscopic fossils, including a species previously unknown to science. The discovery may provide us with fresh insights into the ...

Learn how egg size may help explain why ammonites didn’t survive the end-Cretaceous extinction 66 million years ago, while ...