A remarkable fossil forest reveals dinosaurs may have helped spread fruit-bearing plants tens of millions of years earlier ...

A speculative paper argues that ancient planetary flybys may have helped trigger some of Earth’s mass extinctions.

His superpower has always been speaking his mind – and his majestic new BBC show aims to shatter our ideas about life itself. The presenter talks mass extinction, spiders who dream and why people get ...

A beloved white rhino named Thelma has died "unexpectedly" at a Massachusetts zoo, while her companion Louise remains under ...

A new Stanford-led study offers the clearest picture yet of how some ocean life survived our planet's biggest mass extinction ...

According to the Center for Conservation Innovation, Wisconsin is losing biodiversity — the variety of all living things — at ...

Dinosaurs likely munched on a lot more fruit than previously imagined. Recent research appearing in the journal Science ...

From left, assistant professor of geology Emily Stewart, geology doctoral student Lindsi Allman and assistant professor of ...

Earth’s history has been shaped by five mass extinctions—catastrophic periods when life changed so dramatically that entire ...

A study of fossil teeth from China shows early mammals got bigger before their diets became specialized after the ...

These demonic deep-sea creatures hunt in packs of thousands and are equipped with the perfect weapon to severe their prey’s ...