A newly discovered ancient crocodile cousin from a 210-million-year-old Triassic crocodile fossil reveals a powerful prehistoric crocodile predator built to crush larger prey.

The asteroid that smacked into our planet about 66 million years ago at the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K/Pg) boundary may have been bad news for dinosaurs, but it was good news for fungi. According to new ...

Few Know of the Most Destructive Volcano in Italy Typically, volcanoes spill tons of methane during an eruption. The ...

Although Slovakia is now a landlocked country, its territory was partly covered by the sea about 12-13 millions of years ago.

Biologists in the U.S. have found that air loops through the lungs of alligators in one direction, just as it does in the lungs of birds. Researcher C.G. Farmer of the University of Utah and her ...

The ancient past is remembered mostly for its diversity of dinosaurs, but before dinosaurs, insects ruled the world and they ...

For years, a slab of sandstone sat cemented into a retaining wall in a suburban Sydney garden, unremarkable to anyone walking ...

Learn about the new estimate for the emergence of dinosaurs, which may have occurred 250 million to 240 million years ago.

These animals look all wrong. Not wrong like broken, wrong like they belong to a different Earth version. The frilled shark moves like a sea serpent, unchanged for 80 million years. The goblin shark ...

Mega ocean warming El Nino events were key in driving the largest extinction of life on planet Earth some 252 million years ago, according to new research. The study has shed new light on why the ...

For more than a decade, the Permian Basin has been an engine driving American energy production. It has powered record output, supported thousands of jobs and helped position the U.S. as one of the ...

(Oil & Gas 360) By Greg Barnett, MBA – No oilfield on earth better illustrates the intersection of geology, law, capital markets, technology, and geopolitics than the Permian Basin. Spanning West ...