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

Buried in Australia's so-called dead heart, a trove of exceptional fossils, including those of trapdoor spiders, giant ...

A mass extinction created the ecological conditions that set the stage for a dramatic shift in marine life.

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

A pair of Sacabambaspis fish, around 35 cm in length, which had distinct, forward-facing eyes and an armored head. No fossils ...

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

About 445 million years ago, Earth nearly wiped out life in the oceans. Glaciers spread across the supercontinent Gondwana, ...

The Beneski Museum of Natural History has dramatic displays of fossil skeletons, from fish to dinosaurs to Ice Age ...

Crocodiles and alligators are usually the apex predators in whatever environment they live in. Their massive jaws and armored ...

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

During a geological blink of an eye, glaciers formed over the supercontinent Gondwana, drying out many of the vast, shallow ...

Despite multiple mass extinctions, the frilled shark has managed to thrive for 100 million years. Today, it remains one of ...