The Permian Period, which lasted from about 299 to 252 million years ago, was one of the most fascinating and dangerous times ...

Permian animals are our distant relatives, who are closer to us than dinosaurs. Dinosaurs are distant relatives of birds," the scientist explained.

ODESSA — The dunes sagebrush lizard burrows its coarse, spiny body to cool down and sometimes conserve heat way deep beneath the sand dunes in the Mescalero-Monahans ecosystem 30 miles west of ...