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

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 ...

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

The world around us is constantly changing, and with these changes come questions that challenge our understanding of life on Earth. One such question is ... Read more The post Are We Entering the ...

Most people think of crocodilians as living fossils—stubbornly unchanged, prehistoric relics that have ruled the world's swampiest corners for millions of years. But their evolutionary history tells a ...

Our planet now faces a global extinction crisis never witnessed by humankind ... Although often obscured by the noise and rush of modern life, people retain deep emotional connections to the wild ...

Deaths of nearby massive stars may have played a significant role in triggering at least two mass extinction events in ...

"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 ...

Scientists from the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have compared several methods ...

More mammals were living on the ground several million years before the mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs, new research has revealed.