A hiker escaping summer heat in the Italian Alps in 2023 spotted unusual markings on a rock—fossilized footprints from ...

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 ...