Learn how a 260-million-year-old Permian reptile, once thought to explain turtle evolution, turned out to belong to a different lineage, reshaping the story of turtle origins in the Triassic Period.

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

The dinosaurs ruled Earth for around 165 million years, evolving from tiny Triassic reptiles into some of the most gigantic ...

A crew of coal miners in India were digging in the ground until they unearthed a 50-foot monster that lived during one of the ...

By Eric Washburn When I was a kid growing up in Aurora in the late 1960s and early 1970s, one of my favorite things to do was ...

Biologists in the U.S. have found that air loops through the lungs of alligators in one direction, just as it does in the lungs of birds. Researcher C.G. Farmer of the University of Utah and her ...

In low-latitude North China, riparian ecosystems began to recover 2–3 million years after the end-Permian mass extinction.

Dennis Imhoff from the Beaver Creek Wildlife Center brought some native amphibious friends to the Salem Public Library ...

The asteroid that smacked into our planet about 66 million years ago at the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K/Pg) boundary may have been bad news for dinosaurs, but it was good news for fungi. According to new ...

For more than a decade, the Permian Basin has been an engine driving American energy production. It has powered record output, supported thousands of jobs and helped position the U.S. as one of the ...

In school, we learned about the asteroid that wiped out an estimated 76% of all creatures. Scientists now call this the fifth mass extinction. You’re reading that correctly: throughout Earth’s history ...

Permian Resources (PR) up 1% in Tuesday's trading as KeyBanc initiated coverage with an Overweight rating and $25 price target, saying it sees continued upside for many energy names in a ...