In its 4.5 billion year history, Earth has undergone five mass extinctions and we are potentially in a sixth era of mass death. Today’s crocodylians are the surviving members of a lineage called ...

Discover how crocodiles survived two mass extinctions thanks to their flexible diets and habitats, according to research.

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

Surprisingly, the ancestors of modern crocodiles survived two mass extinctions throughout their 230-million-year history.

Scientists say the Trump administration’s embrace of de-extinction won’t help endangered species like the Great Lakes gray ...

The Mesozoic Era extinctions formed the world as we know it today. Read about what caused them and which animals survived.

Colossal Biosciences, an American biotechnology company, announced the "de-extinction" of the dire wolf, a prehistoric wolf ...

However, extinction is not a modern phenomenon ... have occurred and these are often called ‘extinction events’ or ‘mass extinctions’. Some of these took place during the Mesozoic Era.

"We are now able to study big biogeographic changes of mass extinctions in a new way and ... reeling from cataclysmic volcanic activity in modern-day Siberia, which ushered in intense global ...

New discoveries shed light on an ancient human species and its evolutionary links to modern humans. Stephen Chester, ...