UC College of Arts and Sciences Professor Thomas Algeo has been studying the planet's five major mass extinctions since the ...

Ancient sea organisms survived until a sudden extinction 550 million years ago, revealing what may be the first major mass extinction.

The Huayuan biota fills a gap in the fossil record that has made it difficult to study recovery after the Sinsk event. With ...

New, miniscule fossils of the earliest-known relative of all primates, including humans, Purgatorius, have been unearthed in a more southern region of North America than ever before – and the ...

A sediment-washing “bubbler” helped researchers recover 65.5-million-year-old teeth that illuminate how early primate ...

A lost cache of 250-million-year-old fossils from Australia has rewritten part of the story of life after Earth’s worst mass extinction. Instead of a single marine amphibian species, researchers ...

Lost fossils reveal that some of the first ocean predators went global astonishingly fast after Earth’s worst extinction.

A fossil that would fit on a baby’s fingertip has revealed fresh clues about the evolution of the earliest-known relative of ...

The idea that extreme climate change could one day cause a mass extinction and end the human dominance is not as farfetched ...

Scientists have unearthed in southern China fossils of a multitude of marine creatures dating to more than a half billion years ago, showing a deep-water ecosystem thriving in the aftermath of the ...

Tiny, tooth-sized fossils have just reshaped the story of our deepest ancestry. Paleontologists have discovered the southernmost remains ever found of Purgatorius—the earliest-known relative of all ...

Learn how Triassic marine amphibian fossils from the Kimberley region in Australia reveal rapid global dispersal after the ...