BERKELEY, CA – A detailed and extensive new analysis of the fossil records of marine animals over the past 542 million years has yielded a stunning surprise. Biodiversity appears to rise and fall in ...
Scientists from the Canadian Museum of Nature have announced the discovery and description of an extinct rhinoceros from the Canadian High Arctic. The nearly complete fossil skeleton of the new ...
Missouri’s official state dinosaur: “Parrosaurus missouriensis.” (Image courtesy: Shutterstock) JOPLIN, Mo. — Like most states in the U.S., Missouri has a complicated geological past. Several times ...
Artistic reconstruction of a late Triassic undersea scene before (left) and after (right) a climate change-related extinction event. (Maija Karala via Courthouse News) (CN) — In order to learn how to ...
(CNN) – Researchers have identified the world’s oldest mammal, and it’s not a human. An illustration of the animal shows a small shrew-like creature that scientists believe walked the earth some 225 ...
How did ancient extinction events contribute to global climate change? This is what a recent study published in Nature Communications hopes to address as a team of scientists investigated a connection ...