In its 4.5 billion year history, Earth has undergone five mass extinctions and we are potentially in a sixth era of mass death. Today’s crocodylians are the surviving members of a lineage called ...

Some species seem to live fast and die young. Others, though, “appear not to age,” says João Pedro de Magalhães, a molecular ...

Animals and humans have always coexisted. Before cities, nomadic hunter-gatherers depended on animals for food, transport, ...

The dinosaurs were not in decline before the asteroid hit, a new study finds. Instead, poor fossilization conditions and ...

The number of dinosaurs may have been stable before the asteroid impact, despite evidence that species were getting less diverse ...

The idea that dinosaurs were already in decline before an asteroid wiped most of them out 66 million years ago may be explained by a worsening fossil record from that time rather than a genuine ...

Long before the asteroid hit Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs, many mammals had already started living on the ground, ...

She kept the animal confined in her house for three weeks before police turned up and found it malnourished in her room. The court heard the animal weighed almost half what it should have and ...

Visitors to Gardens by the Bay will soon be able to 'travel back in time' to the pre-historic age of the dinosaurs with the attraction's newest Jurassic World-themed immersive exhibition.

The findings offer new insights into how prehistoric mammals adapted to changing environments well before the asteroid impact reshaped life on Earth.

Before the asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs, mammals were already adapting to life on ... These bones carry structural clues about how animals moved, allowing researchers to compare them statistically ...

The hottest of hot potatoes (except, perhaps for overseas adoption) was grasped by Channel 4 over the weekend in The Rise And Rise Of Animal Rights. The first part, on Saturday night, charted the ...