Starting January 31, the Museum of Idaho invites visitors to step far deeper into prehistory with the opening of Life Before Dinosaurs: Meet the Permian Monsters, a fascinating traveling exhibition ...

Pangea may have vanished 200 million years ago, but it left a trail of clues in rocks, fossils, and even magnetic fields that ...

A hiker escaping summer heat in the Italian Alps in 2023 spotted unusual markings on a rock—fossilized footprints from creatures that lived 280 million years ago, long before dinosaurs appeared.

LONDON, Dec 11 (Reuters) - Oil production in the Permian basin is poised to peak in December, a watershed moment for the U.S. shale boom that upended the global energy market over the past 15 years.

To hear the many trials of the Permian basin is to assume that the vaunted US shale play’s best days are behind it. Surging power demand. Prolifically produced wastewater. Troubling seismic activity.

Fire once seemed strangely absent from Earth’s history right after the worst mass extinction the planet had ever seen. This stretch of time, about 250 million years ago in the Early Triassic, looked ...

Almost all life on land and in the ocean was wiped out during "The Great Dying," a mass extinction event at the end of the Permian Era about 250 million years ago. New evidence suggests that the Great ...

Around 250 million years ago, one of Earth’s largest known volcanic events set off The Great Dying: the planet’s worst mass extinction event.... How did these species survive mass extinction events?

Fresh off a victory against rivals Midland Legacy, the Permian football team is now in sole possession of first place in the District 2-6A standings. They’re not out of the woods just yet as they face ...