File under ferocious predators we wouldn't want to meet during a swim on ancient Earth: the newly discovered Gaiasia jennyae was a large-fanged, salamander-like swamp creature with a skull around 60 ...

Apr. 23—Tradition or myth holds that the Permian Basin's rich oil and natural gas formations were made from the bodies of dinosaurs, which is an evocative answer that's more fancy than fact. In fact, ...

From saber-toothed synapsids to global collapse, the forgotten predators of the Permian ruled a world on the brink of ...

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 ...

Around 252 million years ago, Earth experienced its most catastrophic extinction event. Widely known as the Permian extinction and dubbed the “Great Dying,” it wiped out an estimated 90 percent of ...

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 ...