Two hundred and fifty one million years ago, the worst mass extinction event Planet Earth has ever seen ruined the life of ...

Scientists have unearthed a 240-million-year-old fossil of a Dinocephalosaurus, a long-necked marine reptile that closely ...

The creatures cruised the world’s oceans with features we often associate with marine mammals, such as coats of blubber and ...

This period was preceded by the Triassic Period and followed by the Cretaceous Period. It was a time of significant changes ...

Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing over a period of roughly 30 million years, but that would come to a halt ...

It was discovered alongside the remains of a variety of marine life, so Marmoretta was assumed to have been ... "It's a ...

The oldest is the Paleozoic Era, which means ‘ancient life’ and occurred between 541 ... can be subdivided into three periods, namely the Triassic, the Jurassic, and the Cretaceous.

Scientists have predicted that Earth will undergo a mass extinction in 250 million years, with extreme heat and rising CO2 ...

With an incredible history and mysterious extinction, these fascinating creatures continue to puzzle scientists to this day.

These changes alone can’t explain why surviving species suddenly spread across every ocean. That mystery belongs to the Triassic period, when marine life grew boringly similar everywhere. “If someone ...