In the 90-odd years since it was discovered, we've never found anything like an ancient, early Permian fossil discovered in the Italian Alps. It's called Tridentinosaurus antiquus, excavated in ...

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.

Chhattisgarh's Gondwana Marine Fossil Park in the MCB district, established in March 2022, showcases fossils from over 280 ...

The fossils were thought to be nummulites, but afterwards they were shown to be crinoid ossicles of uncertain age. Fifty years later, E. J. Garwood found that the high range bordering Sikkim to ...

“But paleontologists have long suspected there were therapsids before the middle Permian — we just didn’t find their fossils yet. This fossil is the most promising candidate for an early ...

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

Fossils from this time and region are rare ... mass-extinction event caused by extreme volcanism at the end of the Permian Period about 252 million years ago. "Dinosaurs are unique because ...

New EPA methane fees may disproportionately impact small oil operators in the Permian Basin, with costs rising to $1,500 per ton by 2025.