Earth’s first sponges may have been ghostly, soft-bodied pioneers—ancient animals that evolved long before their skeletons ever appeared in stone.

A massive ice age wiped out ocean life 445 million years ago, reshaping ecosystems and setting the stage for jawed fish ...

On Dec. 4 the meeting of the Fredonia Shakespeare Club took place at the home of Lucille Richardson with Joan Larson hosting.

A rapid climate collapse during the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction devastated ocean life and reshuffled Earth’s ecosystems.

When scientists finally measured the most powerful bite ever recorded, the winner wasn’t T. rex. It was something far older, ...

Long before whales dominated the oceans, Earth’s seas were home to a fish so massive it continues to challenge our ...

Possible factors in the extinction of many large animals include include hunting and climate stability since the last ice age ...

During these waves of mass extinction, most vertebrate survivors were confined to refugia, or isolated biodiversity hotspots ...

These "total monsters of fishes" are extinct today, though new clues about their lives come from CT scans and their closest ...

A scientist credited with uncovering reasons for mass species extinctions hundreds of millions of years ago has been awarded ...

When most people think of massive snakes, the first one that comes to mind is the anaconda. Anacondas might be the largest ...

Modern elephants are impressive, but their extinct relatives were far stranger. This documentary explores prehistoric proboscideans like Deinotherium, Platybelodon, and massive mastodons that once ...