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 ...

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 ...

A new exhibit featuring nearly 300 never-before-seen fossils will open at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science ...

Seymour’s Whiteside Museum of Natural History will soon unveil an almost million-dollar expansion. Those at the Whiteside ...

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 ...

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

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“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 ...

Amos The iconic arthropods of the Cambrian were the trilobites, which left a huge number of fossils. Trilobites had ... the mega-extinction that ended the Permian period 251 million years ago.