A cataclysm engulfed the planet some 252 million years ago, wiping out more than 90% of all life. Known as the Great Dying, the mass extinction that ended the Permian geological period was the worst ...

Therapsids, the ancient relatives of mammals, once roamed Earth in great numbers during the middle to late Permian period. These land-dwelling creatures would later evolve into mammals, but their ...

The sun shines through the clouds as it begins to set behind a pumpjack, March 30, 2022, outside of Goldsmith, Texas. (Odessa American File Photo) Tradition or myth holds that the Permian Basin’s rich ...

A tiny fragment of bumpy fossil found in a cave in Oklahoma is now the oldest known piece of preserved skin, paleontologists reported Thursday in the journal Current Biology. The discovery allows ...

Christian Sidor is a professor in the UW Department of Biology and curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Burke. And for the last 18 years, he’s been traveling back and forth to Zambia and Tanzania ...

MIDLAND, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- New Era Helium, Inc. (NEHC) (“NEHC” or the “Company”), a next-gen exploration and production platform in the Permian Basin, today announced that Texas Critical Data ...