It was a time of significant changes for life on Earth ... suffocating marine animals and triggering a mass extinction.

A new study published in PeerJ Life and Environment looks at how this plesiosaur ... is instrumental in helping researchers understand how these creatures diversified during the Early Jurassic Period.

A new study published in PeerJ Life and Environment looks at how this ... how these creatures diversified during the Early Jurassic Period. The fossil, which was uncovered from the Lower Jurassic ...

With an incredible history and mysterious extinction, these fascinating creatures continue to puzzle scientists to this day.

The Middle Jurassic, which lasted from around 174 to 161 million years ago, was a crucial time in the evolution of life on ...

Acanthocephalans, commonly known as thorny-headed or spiny-headed worms, are a group of endoparasitic worms found in both marine and ... during the Jurassic period. Furthermore, this fossil ...

Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing over a period of roughly 30 million years, but that would come to a halt ...

The Jurassic fossil Juracanthocephalus reveals a key evolutionary link between rotifers and parasitic acanthocephalans, ...

A research team from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has identified a ...

New dinosaur fossil tracks on the Isle of Skye reveal that the once-balmy environment was home to both fierce theropods and massive sauropods.