Everyone knows that dinosaurs are extinct, and most people have some idea about how it might have occurred. But the exact ...

The Jurassic Period is one of the three prehistoric geological periods of the Mesozoic Era. It spans from 145 million to 201 million years ago. This period was preceded by the Triassic Period and ...

A new study reveals that Earth's biomes changed dramatically in the wake of mass volcanic eruptions 252 million years ago.

Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing ...

A newly published review of 252-million-year-old fossils from southwest Germany is offering a deeper understanding of life’s ...

Scientists racing the clock to finish excavating top southern Utah dinosaur fossil site before construction on a power ...

A 2020 study, for example, found that a smaller extinction event at the end of the Triassic (201 million years ago) was driven by greenhouse gas pulses from volcanoes that were on a similar scale ...

If this increase continues at the same rate, we will reach the level of emissions that caused the Permian-Triassic mass extinction in around 2,700 years—a much faster timescale than the Permian ...

After Earth's worst mass extinction, surviving ocean animals spread worldwide. Stanford's model shows why this happened.

“While fossilized spores and pollen of plants from the Early Triassic do not provide strong evidence for a sudden and catastrophic biodiversity loss, both marine and terrestrial animals experienced ...