Long before T. rex, the Earth was dominated by super-carnivores stranger and more terrifying than anything dreamed up by ...

A rare, nearly complete skull of an ancient amphibian has been unearthed in North Central Texas. The discovery was made by ...

During the Permian Period, around 275 million years ago, El Capitan, the highest natural point in the state, was very different. The landscape was underwater and brimming with marine life.

An international team of researchers used climate models and plant fossils to link the Great Dying with an 18-degree Fahrenheit rise (10 degrees Celsius) in average global temperatures.

Mega El Niños could have intensified the world’s most devastating mass extinction, which ended the Permian Period 252 million years ago, a new study found.

The discovery of oil in the Permian Basin dates back to the early 20th century, though its geological history is millions of years old. A bowl-shaped dip in the earth’s surface formed, and it ...