Scientists don't call it the "Great Dying" for nothing. About 252 million years ago, upward of 80% of all marine species ...

Shelly Boyd traced her finger over a raised-relief map made by her students of the Sn̓ʕay̓čkstx traditional territory. She spoke of the great expanse, touching the now-drowned Kettle Falls on the ...

Prototaxites, an extinct organism from the Devonian period, has been thought to be a fungus since its first fossil was ...

Science is taking a major step forward by exploring the possibility of bringing extinct species back to life. Iconic animals like the woolly mammoth, the dodo, and the Tasmanian tiger could ...

Manufactured objects will form distinctive, if sometimes hard to interpret, clues to human existence, paleontologist authors ...