New Permian species, Yinshanosaurus angustus, found in China.

Paleontologist Andre LuJan had an assist from nature with his latest exciting fossil find. Heavy rains helped expose a nearly ...

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

As it turns out, they weren’t hard to find. “The rocks we found were outcropping,” says Goulart, now 55. After periods of drought, rain had washed away sediments and exposed the fossils.

The Permian basin has been the chief growth driver for U.S. shale oil production. The most prolific shale basin in North America has been the focus of attention for industry players and traders alike.

Stanford study shows ocean biomass has risen over 540 million years, linking biodiversity to long-term ecosystem health.

A new fossil discovery suggests that reptiles lived together 20 million years earlier than previously thought.

By the time the butterflies came, the world was already healing. Roughly 236 million years ago, in the scarred aftermath of Earth’s greatest extinction event, a hippo-sized herbivore ambled through ...

By using high-resolution fossil data and advanced computing tools, the scientists revealed that over 300 million years ago, ...

One of these predators was Inostrancevia, a terrifying saber-toothed creature described as a proto-mammal that's older than the dinosaurs. For years, paleontologists believed it l ...