Roughly 201 million years ago, drastic changes extinguished many forms of life and led to conditions that allowed the ...

Several factors contributed to the survival of crocodiles, turtles, lizards and birds 66 million years ago, say our readers ...

The Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) mass extinction event, which occurred approximately 66 million years ago, is one of the most significant extinction events in Earth's history. It is widely known ...

A “ serrated blade” found sticking from a rock in the United Kingdom has been identified as a “nearly perfect” prehistoric ...

Previous studies have posited that the mass extinction that wiped the dinosaurs off the face of the Earth was caused by the release of large volumes of sulfur from rocks within the Chicxulub impact ...

Their evolutionary history is marked by significant diversification and extinction events, particularly during the Cretaceous period. Recent research has focused on uncovering the diversity of ...

Which dinosaurs had feathers? Were they using them to fly? And once and for all – what are those ancient dinosaurs' ...

Dinosaur dolphins have been found to have survived in Aotearoa’s waters long after they went extinct elsewhere. Ichthyosaurs ...

A groundbreaking study by the Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences (BSIP), an autonomous institute under the Department ...

The species met its demise during the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event (known as the KT extinction) that also wiped out the dinosaurs, experts say. “A meteorite big enough to be called a ...