MacNeil also showed examples of fossilized plants, including walchia, a type of conifer with needle-like leaves, which is ...

Therapsids, the ancient relatives of mammals, once roamed Earth in great numbers during the middle to late Permian period. These land-dwelling creatures would later evolve into mammals ...

Though the End-Permian mass extinction event is predicted to have killed off 80% of all life on Earth, new research is ...

The American West is renowned for dinosaur discoveries. But what about the Grand Canyon? The park was once home to some weird ...

Around 300 million years ago, long before dinosaurs ruled the Earth, the Carboniferous period teemed with strange and giant ...

Chhattisgarh opened Asia's largest marine fossil park on April 26 in Manendragarh, featuring 290-million-year-old fossils, a ...

It’s quite remarkable that a class of animals that turn up their toes at a bit of pollution could survive the asteroid strike ...

Earth was once ruled by giant reptiles. Tyrannosaurus rex, the king of tyrant lizards, crushed bones. Spinosaurus hunted in rivers. Triceratops used h ...

These toughened-up creatures represented a crucial innovation ... the world's oceans until they were wiped out in the Permian extinctions about 250 million years ago. Photograph by James L.

This creature’s appearance is baffling ... Therapsids, a group of synapsid reptiles, paved the evolutionary way to mammals. Living from the Middle Permian to the Jurassic periods, these animals ...