About 252 million years ago, 96 percent of species on Earth were wiped out during the massive die-off event called "The Great Dying" or the Permian mass extinction. It was one of the Big Five events ...

A groundbreaking fossil discovery in northern Victoria, Australia, is shaking up paleontology. Fossilized footprints from the Carboniferous Period, around 359 million years ago, suggest that reptiles ...

More than 200 million years ago, life on Earth was experimenting with new forms. The Triassic period gave rise to animals ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In May 2020, Ruby, who was then 11-years-old and her father Justin Reynolds found the first pieces of the sea reptile’s jaw bone ...

The discovery of a 250-million-year-old skull could answer questions about the discovery of dinosaurs, according to an international team of researchers. The finding was made in Rio Grande do Sul in ...