Imagine a world where continents are fused into one massive landmass, and life as we know it is on the brink of ...

Until now, Antarctica was the only continent on Earth without any known amber fossils. But sediment cores taken from below the seafloor have revealed a tiny piece of fossilized resin holding fragments ...

It’s the late Jurassic Period in the super continent of Laurasia, some 85 million years into the reign of the dinosaurs. The ...

The End Triassic Extinction, one of Earth’s most significant mass extinctions, reshaped life on the planet 201.6 million ...

A new study suggests that extreme temperatures could lead to a mass extinction event, ending the reign of humans and mammals ...

The fossil record of adult frogs (anurans) goes back to the Early Jurassic period. Similar species existed in the Late Triassic, about 217 to 213 million years ago. Researchers have discovered a ...

Prehistoric Earth was a terrifying place ... with a deadly predator hiding behind every enormous Jurassic fern. Read on for our ranking of the scariest extinct creatures we're relieved we never ...

End-Triassic was one of Earth’s five great extinction ... This event marked the end of the Triassic period and the start of the Jurassic period, which saw dinosaurs rise to prominence.

Both are descendants of theropods, two-legged creatures that wreaked havoc in various periods on Earth. The T-Rex for being a colossal predator during the Jurassic period 145 million years ago ...

But the prehistoric world was not crawling with periodical swarms. The cicadas of the late Jurassic Period — which had bulkier bodies than today’s bugs and wingspans that eclipsed those of ...