In school, we learned about the asteroid that wiped out an estimated 76% of all creatures. Scientists now call this the fifth ...

The mass extinction at the boundary between the Cretaceous and Paleogene periods was catastrophic, wiping out much of life on ...

From a small population in eastern Africa to a force capable of altering the atmosphere and driving mass extinction, the ...

The scientific wonderers at What If recreate the most devastating biological collapses in our planet's history to see how ...

Scientists have finally cracked a long-standing mystery about squid and cuttlefish evolution by analyzing newly sequenced ...

A razor-snouted marine reptile with dinner-skewer teeth, Xiphodracon goldencapensis, has been added to the ichthyosaur family ...

A previously misidentified Triassic cynodont has been confirmed as a new species, revealing a surviving lineage of early ...

The Ontong Java Plateau (OJP), located in the Pacific Ocean, formed around 110 to 120 million years ago through massive submarine volcanic eruptions. This event is considered the most extensive ...

Recently, scientists discovered a reptile fossil that provides the missing link between the transformation in the modes of ...