The Jurassic Period is one of the three prehistoric geological periods of the Mesozoic Era. It spans from 145 million to 201 ...

Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing ...

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

The idea that extreme heat could one day cause a mass extinction and end the dominance of humans is not as farfetched as it ...

Paleontologists are uncovering a bonebed containing more than 19 giant amphibian skeletons from the Popo Agie Formation near ...

The four previous mass extinctions were also thought to have involved ... heavy volcanic activity is hypothesized by some scientists to have caused the end-Triassic extinction event that obliterated ...

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

4 - Triassic-Jurassic (201.3 million years ago ... earliest two of these five to possible supernovae events - the late Devonian and late Ordovician mass extinction events after current hypothesis ...

About 252 million years ago, upward of 80% of all marine species vanished during the end-Permian mass extinction—the ... known as the earliest Triassic geological period. To convey the surreal ...

During the first period of the Mesozoic Era (Triassic Period), many new types of animals evolved to fill the available ecological niches created by a mass extinction event that took place at the ...

Few other metoposaurid sites have received this level of detailed examination highlighting the importance of mapping and systematic data collection during excavation and preparation of mass ...