Qreiya 3 is a remarkable fossil site which is providing scientists with an unprecedented glimpse into marine life. There is ...

Paleontologists in Egypt have stumbled upon an extraordinary fossil haul: nearly 500 fish frozen in time. The site, called ...

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

About 66 million years ago, dinosaurs ruled the Earth in a very different environment than we see today, with some creatures ...

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

Sixty-six million years ago, a colossal asteroid, about 10km in diameter, struck Earth in the area of what is now the Caribbean, triggering instantaneous and catastrophic changes that led to the ...

An unexpected haul of nearly 500 fossilized fish in Egypt provides an unprecedented picture of how sea life rebounded from ...

Flowering plants survived Earth’s worst disasters, including the asteroid strike that ended the dinosaurs, while many others ...

Around 66 million years ago, the reign of the dinosaurs came to a fiery end. An asteroid about 7 miles (12 kilometers) wide, flying at 27,000 mph (43,000 km/h), slammed directly into Earth. The impact ...

In all, 75% of Earth's species went extinct, including the nonavian dinosaurs. So how did some animals ‪—‬ including species ...

Birds and dinosaurs lived together for millions of years, but only toothless birds survived the asteroid impact that upended ...

Learn more about Qreiya 3 Lagerstätte, a fossil-rich site that could help fill key gaps in marine evolution.