The earliest-known dinosaur fossils date to roughly 230 million years ago, including Eoraptor and Herrerasaurus from ...

Claudia Steffensen made a captivating discovery in the Italian Alps: a tropical ecosystem dating back 280 million years, made ...

By assessing the fossil record and the dinosaur family tree, the researchers’ models suggest that the first dinosaurs evolved ...

On Tuesday, West Texas temperatures will average around 29F. Through Saturday, average temperatures in the oil-rich Permian basin will remain below the 30-year average of 47F for this time of year.

Roughly 201 million years ago, drastic changes extinguished many forms of life and led to conditions that allowed the ...

University of Texas Permian Basin, a public institution, has been offering online bachelor's degree programs since before 2000-2001. All of the online classes are recorded and archived so students ...

Lucas Atwell CC BY-SA 3.0 Everyone knows about the mass extinction that ended the Age ... strange happened between the end of the Triassic Period and the beginning of the Jurassic for the better ...

So, if some of a comet’s mass suddenly disappeared one day, its orbital period should remain unchanged. In the real world, however, mass does not simply disappear — it has to go somewhere.

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The classic definition of serial murder required a period of time to elapse between the murders. Mass murder, by contrast, is the act of murdering multiple people, typically simultaneously or over ...