Now, evidence suggests that some of these spiral-shaped species did manage to persist after all. Recent analysis of ammonite ...

“One of the great mysteries has been the survival and flourishing of a major group of amphibians called the temnospondyls,” Aamir Mehmood, a study co-author and evolutionary biologist at the ...

Everyone knows that dinosaurs are extinct, and most people have some idea about how it might have occurred. But the exact periods in history when it happened are less well known. Was it a single ...

When most people think of massive snakes, the first one that comes to mind is the anaconda. Anacondas might be the largest ...

The Cretaceous–Paleogene (K-Pg) extinction, which wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago, marked one of Earth’s most dramatic mass die-offs. Before this event, the planet thrived with dinosaurs, ...

"Specifically, the impact of their extinction may not just be observable by the disappearance of their fossils in the rock record, but also by changes in the sediments themselves." Dr. Weaver says the ...

The Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) mass extinction event, marking the boundary between the Cretaceous and Paleogene periods approximately 66 million years ago, stands as one of the most profound ...

Earth has a long and dramatic history, and one recurring theme is extinction. Did you know that over the last 500 million years, our planet experienced five major mass extinction events? These events ...

Previous studies have posited that the mass extinction that wiped the dinosaurs off the face of the Earth was caused by the release of large volumes of sulfur from rocks within the Chicxulub impact ...

Nick Saban has often been called “the goat,” but researchers at the University of Alabama recently honored the legendary coach with a something a little more nautical in nature. A UA study of ...