Ancient frog relatives survived the aftermath of the largest ... extinction" published in the journal Royal Society Open Science, their findings suggest the amphibians' success lay in their generalist ...

The Triassic is one of the most important periods in the evolution of life on Earth. After one of the greatest mass extinctions 252 million years ago, not only the dinosaurs but also many other groups ...

WTOP gets a look at how a “fossil preparator” uncovers the past at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in D.C.

The coelacanth, a 400-million-year-old ancient fish, was assumed to be extinct until its rediscovery in 1938, revealing the ...

Ancient amphibians thrived after Earth’s deadliest extinction by feasting on freshwater prey, avoiding the chaos that wiped out 90% of species. Unlike many species that evolved rapidly after the ...

For her, like for Vergara, preserving axolotl is not an end, but a means for saving the place where the amphibian came to be. “This great system (chinampas) is all that’s left from the lake ...

MEXICO CITY, Mexico — Legend has it the axolotl was not always an amphibian. Long before it ... its lunar goddess — but it did appear in ancient Mesoamerican documents. In the Nahua myth ...