Permian

Plants thrived in present-day China throughout the End-Permian extinction.

About 252 million years ago, 80 to 90 percent of life on Earth was wiped out. In the Turpan-Hami Basin, life persisted and bounced back faster.

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Learn why the temnospondyls' inability to evolve eventually did them in when mammals and dinosaurs appeared on the scene.

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Diamondback Energy, a major player in the shale oil industry, has announced its acquisition of certain units of Double Eagle Energy.  The deal, valued at approximately $4.08 billion, will be settled through a combination of cash and stock. Double Eagle Energy, backed by EnCap Investments, operates primarily in the Permian Basin, a region renowned for […]

Paleontologists have discovered a new species of early gorgonopsian therapsid that was part of an ancient summer wet biome of equatorial Pangea.

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Beneath the snowy slopes lay a prehistoric surprise: an ecosystem that predates the dinosaurs, revealed by melting snow before being stumbled upon by a hiker in the Italian Alps.

Researchers show the average surface temperature on our planet has shifted between 51.8 to 96.8 degrees Fahrenheit

Somewhere in the Koesberg Mountains of South Africa, located deep in the arid Karoo region north-east of Cape Town, there's an exquisite cave painting of a...

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Tardigrades are a diverse group of microscopic invertebrates widely known for their extreme survival capabilities.

This ancient creature preyed on amphibians and some of the first land herbivores that walked the Earth.

ExxonMobil on Friday posted its second highest results for the second quarter in the past decade, helped by record production in Guyana and the Permian Basin.

The untapped reservoir has the potential to provide reliable renewable power.

The settlement with Ameredev is the largest the state Environment Department has ever reached for a civil oil and gas violation.

Bioluminescence traces back to the Cambrian era — 540 million years ago — and could have been used for communication, courtship and camouflage among the earliest ocean creatures.

Pareiasaurs were an enigmatic and diverse group of plant-eating animals from the Middle and Late Permian.

Diet played a key role in the evolution of the vast beetle family tree.