For scientists and conservationists, knowing how species survive planetary crises can lead to more effective protection of vulnerable species.

200 million years ago around Bristol and in South Wales were full of life. These seas lapped on the shores of an archipelago of limestone islands, some of which were populated by dinosaurs ...

sleek dinosaurs eventually evolved into enormous Jurassic beasts. “We really don’t know yet,” says Sues. The transformation seemed to happen around 200 million years ago, just after another ...

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 ...

“In other words, each example shows us exactly what a dinosaur was doing so many million years ago.” Last summer, scientists unearthed some 200 dinosaur footprints in southern England that researchers ...

This discovery highlights a greater diversity of iguanodontians in the Late Jurassic of Portugal than previously recognized.

The 66 fossilized footprints were left by 47 individual dinosaurs during the early Jurassic period, around 200 million years ago in a coal-mining region in Queensland called the Callide Basin.

About 66 million years ago, an asteroid collided with the earth, leading to the extinction of the dinosaurs and much of the earth’s fauna and paving the way for the evolution of mammals and ...

These primitive structures, composed of a single tubular filament, emerged around 200 million years ago in certain dinosaurs. Paleontologists continue to discuss the possibility of their even ...