Mega El Niños may have played a part in the Permian mass extinction
Illustration of the end-Permian extinction event, when extreme temperatures may have killed off forestsRICHARD JONES/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY The Great Dying...
Illustration of the end-Permian extinction event, when extreme temperatures may have killed off forestsRICHARD JONES/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY The Great Dying...
Paul Ryding/Joseph Woodhouse Dinosaurs dominated the land for around 180 million years. Yet we have little idea what life was...
Smaller pterosaurs may have flapped their wings while larger ones soaredTerryl Whitlatch Despite living hundreds of millions of years apart,...
Illustration of an animal in the genus Deinotherium, which went extinct after the evolution of humansHeinrich Harder/Florilegius/Alamy​ Human hunting was...
The legs of a 39,000-year-old woolly mammothLove Dalén/Stockholm University A woolly mammoth that died 52,000 years ago is so well...