Forgotten fossils from the Kimberley show how marine amphibians rebounded and spread across the globe after the end-Permian mass extinction.
Around 250 million years ago, what is today scorching desert in remote northwestern Australia was the shore of a shallow bay ...
A hiker escaping summer heat in the Italian Alps in 2023 spotted unusual markings on a rock—fossilized footprints from creatures that lived 280 million years ago, long before dinosaurs appeared.
IDAHO FALLS — From looking into the future with artificial intelligence to learning about mummies of the past, the Museum of Idaho ventures further back in time, before dinosaurs existed. Life Before ...
The Permian is a geologic period of the Paleozoic Era spanning approximately 299–252 million years ago, characterized by the assembly and dominance of the supercontinent Pangaea and associated ...
Large, lizard-like beasts with saber teeth, dragonflies the size of hawks, and scaly, beaked animals the size of a pig. Visitors can experience all of these and more at the Museum of Idaho’s latest ...
The findings offer rare insights into how ancient continental environments responded to periodic marine incursions during the Permian period.