Large-scale volcanic eruptions have severe impacts. One such event contributed to the extinction of dinosaurs, in addition to the asteroid that struck Earth 66 million years ago. These phenomena ...

I am interviewing my sister Melanie about her publication on the last day of the Mesozoic period, which was published in the ...

A remarkable finding has surfaced in the colorful, fossil-rich badlands of Arizona’s Petrified Forest National Park: North America’s oldest known pterosaur. The newly identified species — a flying ...

Scientists have uncovered the shocking cause behind the mass extinction that wiped out ocean life 200 million years ago.

A 225-million-year-old leg bone from Zambia is helping scientists rethink the size, diversity, and role of early dinosaurs.

A fossilized leg bone found in Africa is reshaping our ideas about the size of the first dinosaurs. The 225-million-year-old bone belonged to a mysterious reptile group called silesaurs, which lived ...

A prehistoric carbon spike turned oceans deadly and wiped out marine life. Scientists say today’s CO₂ rise could cause the ...

Smithsonian researchers have linked discoveries within Arizona’s Petrified Forest National Park with a previously unknown ...