The museum hopes that after learning about the planet’s prehistoric past, people will do more to preserve Earth’s future.

Rare evidence about the lives of an ancient group of arthropods has been uncovered in the U.S. The findings of the study are ...

Scientists don't call it the "Great Dying" for nothing. About 252 million years ago, upward of 80% of all marine species ...

A research team linked nearby stellar explosions to at least one, possibly two, mass die-offs after calculating the supernova ...

The fetus, measuring around 50 centimeters, was positioned in a way that indicates it was in the final stages of prenatal ...

These key records span the last million years of the Cretaceous and are synchronized ... author Thomas Westerhold from MARUM -- Center for Marine Environmental Sciences at the University of ...

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

Rare evidence about cyclidan crustaceans has been uncovered in the USA, revealing more about how they behaved.

However, the Cretaceous–Paleogene ... became completely devoid of animal life. The eventual tropical dead zone impacted the distributions of both marine and terrestrial organisms throughout ...

Deep-sea fish thrive in extreme pressure, darkness, and pollution, revealing new survival mechanisms and threats.

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy visited Gloucester County to help celebrate this new attraction for kids and adults with an ...

“It was the enrichment of iridium in Cretaceous ... marine species. A cataclysmic shift at the end of the Ordovician led to the disappearance of about 85% of species at a time when life was ...