The Jurassic Period is one of the three prehistoric geological periods of the Mesozoic Era. It spans from 145 million to 201 million years ago. This period was preceded by the Triassic Period and ...

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

A new study reveals that Earth's biomes changed dramatically in the wake of mass volcanic eruptions 252 million years ago.

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

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

After Earth's worst mass extinction, surviving ocean animals spread worldwide. Stanford's model shows why this happened.

Stanford scientists found that dramatic climate changes after the Great Dying enabled a few marine species to spread globally ...

Fossils from China’s Turpan-Hami Basin reveal it was a rare land refuge during the end-Permian extinction, with fast ...

Scientists racing the clock to finish excavating top southern Utah dinosaur fossil site before construction on a power ...

The mass extinction that killed 80% of life on Earth ... land ecosystems at the end of the Permian and beginning of the Triassic. A new study of one of these spots — located in what is now ...

The end-Permian mass extinction, which occurred approximately ... was based on the discovery of many "missing" species in Early Triassic strata elsewhere, indicating temporary migration rather ...