The woolly mammoth’s extinction remains one of paleontology’s most contested questions. Most mainland populations vanished between 13,000 and 10,000 years ago. A small population persisted on Wrangel ...

UC College of Arts and Sciences Professor Thomas Algeo has been studying the planet's five major mass extinctions since the ...

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Houchin and his colleagues studied dozens of zircon crystals from the Jack Hills in Western Australia. These are the oldest ...

Hardy bacteria in a lab survived pressures comparable to an asteroid strike on the red planet, suggesting a hypothetical scenario in which our planet was seeded with life.

A sediment-washing “bubbler” helped researchers recover 65.5-million-year-old teeth that illuminate how early primate ...

Tiny, tooth-sized fossils have just reshaped the story of our deepest ancestry. Paleontologists have discovered the southernmost remains ever found of Purgatorius—the earliest-known relative of all ...