Yale University ecologists reveal a lizard lineage that rode out the dinosaur-killing asteroid event with unexpected ...

Surprising new fossil evidence undermines the idea that there was ever a mass extinction on land – and may force us to ...

Small and elusive night lizards probably persisted because they have slow metabolisms and like to hide out in rock crevices, ...

It's safe to say that most of us are familiar with the concept of mass extinction. But this is by no means a recent ...

Perhaps the most well-known extinction is the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) extinction event, which took place 66 million years ago. We all know about it because it was the event that wiped out the ...

Shell-rich rocks trace a mostly upward climb in ocean life, with each mass extinction slashing both diversity and biomass ...

First study to explore how ancient reptiles spread across the Earth after the end-Permian mass extinction. New research ...

The night lizards may have been the only terrestrial vertebrates that survived in the region of the asteroid impact 66 ...

The K-Pg extinction is the most recent of five events in Earth’s history that scientists consider mass extinctions, defined by paleontologists as events where more than 75 percent of species vanish ...

Mantle plumes are important geologic processes—they interact with plate tectonics, create rich mineral deposits, and even ...

This is normally called the Triassic-Jurassic extinction event as it took place at the boundary between the two periods, which was 201.4 million years ago. Apart from this, ...

Neanderthals have long been the subject of intense scientific debate. This is largely because we still lack clear answers to ...