The dinosaur extinction is widely known, but the end-Permian mass extinction was an even more devastating event in Earth's history. This extinction event occurred 252 million years ago and was most ...

Newly discovered evidence of Australia’s earliest species of tree frog challenges what we know about when Australian and South American frogs parted ways on the evolutionary tree. Previously, ...

New research finds extinction rates have been declining for a century, challenging assumptions of an ongoing mass extinction.

There was a moment in 2008 when Michael Mahony realised the ambitious project he'd signed up for years earlier might actually work. Looking under a microscope, a few tiny brown cells had begun to ...

Ancient frog relatives survived the aftermath of the largest mass extinction of species by feeding on freshwater prey that evaded terrestrial predators, academics have found. Ancient frog relatives ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

The Jurassic Period is one of the three prehistoric geological periods of the Mesozoic Era. It spans from 145 million to 201 million years ago. This period was preceded by the Triassic Period and ...

Nearly 600 California red-legged frog tadpoles that were raised at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach were released into streams in the Santa Monica Mountains, marking a hopeful step in ...