It is just black paint. The fossil is partly a forgery. Piero Leonardi first described the 280-million-year-old Permian fossil in 1959. He believed that the dark outline indicated soft tissue.

During the Permian, gorgonopsians shared their habitat with herbivorous reptiles such as captorhinids. The latter, often smaller, represented ideal prey for these fast and well-equipped apex predators ...

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 ...

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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 ...

The lineage of Ginkgo biloba dates back more than 290 million years to the Permian period ... No changes in Ginkgo biloba Fossils discovered from the Jurassic period have showcased Ginkgos ...

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.

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