She wants to compare tree pollen from a modern forest killed by acid rain with fossil pollen found in Permian rocks. Like a homicide detective at a crime scene, Looy sealed the cone in a plastic ...

Colombian energy company Ecopetrol said on Monday it has reached an agreement to renew its oil joint venture with Occidental ...

It is just black paint. The fossil is partly a forgery. Piero Leonardi first described the 280-million-year-old Permian fossil in 1959. He believed that the dark outline indicated soft tissue.

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Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Ian writes on fossil energies, climate, and transition to renewables. The Permian remains the premiere U.S. basin. The peak of crude oil ...

Fossils from this time and region are rare ... Dinosaurs evolved from more primitive reptiles in the aftermath of Earth's ...

There definitely were no muppets during the Permian Period ... published in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. The fossil was collected in 1984 near Lake Kemp in Texas and kept ...