Dire wolves became extinct over 10,000 years ago. Scientists believe this was the result of climate change and the loss of ...

Scudder’s book, Mother, Creature, Kin: What We Learn From Nature’s Mothers in a Time of Unraveling. My day-to-day parenting ...

Read about the Jurassic extinction event that wiped out many species at the beginning of this Period and led to the rise of ...

The Mesozoic Era extinctions formed the world as we know it today. Read about what caused them and which animals survived.

But the exact periods in history when it happened are less well known. Was it a single extinction event or a series of catastrophic changes? Exactly which animals were affected? Here, we will look ...