The Jurassic Period is one of the three prehistoric geological periods of the Mesozoic Era. It spans from 145 million to 201 ...

Why would prehistoric humans carry their youngest children deep into the winding, pitch-black recesses of ancient caves?

For months I'd been on the trail of the greatest natural disaster in Earth's history ... ocean lacked oxygen in the late Permian. But most life is concentrated in shallow water, in places like ...

Precambrian time covers the vast bulk of the Earth's history, starting with the planet's creation about 4.5 billion years ago and ending with the emergence of complex, multicelled life-forms ...

More prehistoric studies ... will give scientists a better timeframe of when it became possible for life to form on Earth. Gamaleldien adds that finding this evidence could raise more questions ...

Fossils are physical evidence of prehistoric animals and plants. They tell us about the history of our ... Despite the incomplete nature of the fossil record, fossils provide us with evidence of ...