Dozens of amphibians perished together on an ancient floodplain around 230 million years ago, according to a new study.

Read about the Jurassic extinction event that wiped out many species at the beginning of this Period and led to the rise of the dinosaurs.

A serendipitous find in the National Museum of Natural History’s collections yielded just the second known specimen of a ...

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

About 66 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into the planet, wiping out all non-avian dinosaurs and about 70% of all marine species. But the crater it left behind in the Gulf of Mexico was a ...

A new review of Triassic fossils from Germany reveals rich tetrapod diversity and links to modern biodiversity and climate ...

Marine chemistry is the study of the chemical composition and chemical processes of the world’s oceans. Some of the key processes studied are the cycling of: inorganic and organic carbon ...

Back in 2009, paleontologist Judith Pardo-Pérez unearthed the fossilized remains of an ichthyosaur — a dolphin-like marine ...

"Twins! She has another baby," Judith Pardo-Pérez, a paleontologist at the University of Magallanes in Chile who first ...

Two Paleontology and Evolution students from the University of Bristol have undertaken the first ever study which describes ...

A selection of tiny shark's teeth, measuring from 1 to 5 mm wide, and representing several characteristic speciesImage by ...