Paleontologists have uncovered a new species ... all of Australia," John Long, a professor at Flinders University in Adelaide and a co-author of the research, said in a statement. The prehistoric ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. I write about the world of biology. Life on Earth began over four billion years ago, not long after the Earth was formed. It wasn’t until ...

In the final days of the Cretaceous, a 7.5-mile-wide asteroid slammed into Earth and killed off more than three-quarters of all species on the planet. Some scientists hypothesize that the ...

For millions of years, Earth was the planet ... prehistoric species likely looked similar to the horned lizards of today, researchers said. Patrick Mayor via Unsplash “A range of species from ...

something killed some 90 percent of the planet's species. Less than 5 percent of the animal species in the seas survived. On land less than a third of the large animal species made it. Nearly all ...