The Mesozoic Era extinctions formed the world as we know it today. Read about what caused them and which animals survived.

Exactly which animals were affected ... be changed again in the future. The names Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic all describe the types of fossils that have been found relating to those ...

Fossil hunting is quite the fun hobby, and if you want to indulge that interest, there are some specific places that you ...

Tucked away just four miles south of Boone, this 1,200-acre natural playground isn’t Iowa’s largest state park, but what it lacks in size, it makes up for with jaw-dropping scenery that will have your ...

Imagine a squid as long as a bus or a crab the size of a big plate! This is called deep-sea gigantism, where animals grow much bigger than their cousins in shallow waters. These creatures ...

An entire world lives deep under the ocean’s surface, far from human notice and as bustling as any city. Animals such as tubeworms and clams live crowded around plumes of methane that bubble up ...

Dinosaurs' Apparent Decline Prior to Asteroid May Be Due to Poor Fossil Record Apr. 8, 2025 — The idea that dinosaurs were already in decline before an asteroid wiped most of them out 66 million ...

Fishers dredged up Penghu 1, along with other animal fossils, from the seabed of Taiwan’s Penghu Channel—an area that was part of the Asian mainland during the lower sea levels of the ...