An artist's imagining of a saprotrophic fungus. (Juan Gaertner/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) In the wake of the ...

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Scientists studied ancient fungal spores and discovered Earth may already have been under stress before the asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs.

During their reign of dominance on Earth for more than 160 million years, dinosaurs evolved into many diverse species. Although some species were vegetarian and harmless, others were fierce carnivores ...

Long before humans walked the planet, Earth belonged to creatures that looked straight out of a sci-fi film. Giants resembling dinosaurs, but with absurdly long necks; giant fish that could even walk ...

Scientists discovered three new mammal species that survived in Alaska’s ancient Arctic during the age of dinosaurs.

The dinosaurs ruled Earth for around 165 million years, evolving from tiny Triassic reptiles into some of the most gigantic and specialized creatures ever seen in natural history . Early dinosaur ...

A new study documents that the robustness of skulls in carnivorous dinosaurs began to evolve first, a direct response to the increasing size of the plant-eating dinosaurs they hunted, shortly after di ...

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A massive volcanic eruption in ancient China, akin to Pompeii, preserved entire dinosaur communities in stunning detail. Fossils from the Jehol Biota reveal creatures frozen in their final moments, ...

The brand new installment of the award-winning natural history series Planet Earth comes Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age, which is set to debut exclusively on Apple TV+ Wednesday, Nov. 26. The new ...