A quarter of a billion years ago, long before dinosaurs or mammals evolved, the predator Dinogorgon, whose skull is shown here, hunted floodplains in the heart of today's South Africa. In less than a ...
A new study reveals that a major cooling event 34 million years ago caused staggered marine extinctions, not a single global ...
The mass extinction at the boundary between the Cretaceous and Paleogene periods was catastrophic, wiping out much of life on ...
Scientists have finally cracked a long-standing mystery about squid and cuttlefish evolution by analyzing newly sequenced ...
Genome analysis reveals that Neanderthals lived on the brink of extinction for 350,000 years in small populations.