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

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

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 ...

Most people think of crocodilians as living fossils—stubbornly unchanged, prehistoric relics that have ruled the world's ...

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 ...

The contemporary species hails from a 230-million-year lineage that has survived two mass extinction events. “Extinction and survivorship are two sides of the same coin. Through all mass extinctions, ...

Scientists from the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have compared several methods for plant diversity reconstruction using pollen data. By analyzing modern ...