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These Permian Era fossils represent just one small part of our Invertebrate Paleontology Collection. The CU Museum is currently home to approximately 280,000 marine invertebrate fossils—including many ...
Paleontologist Andre LuJan had an assist from nature with his latest exciting fossil find. Heavy rains helped expose a nearly ...
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, but their ...
Long before T. rex, the Earth was dominated by super-carnivores stranger and more terrifying than anything dreamed up by ...
A Glimpse of Everyday Life in the Permian Period Beyond footprints, researchers uncovered fascinating details about the environment. Imprints of raindrops, seed fragments, and plant fossils were ...
Fossils from Permian era exposed in P.E.I. after Fiona storm The fossils uncovered by Fiona are from the Permian period — between 300 million and 250 million years ago — and about 70 million ...
Learn dinosaur facts, history and information about fossils in this collection of dinosaur documentaries. ... This occurred at the end of the Permian period and the start of the Triassic.
Roughly 252 million years ago, Earth experienced its deadliest known extinction. Known as the Permian–Triassic Mass ...
A diverse set of fossils from China shows that a complex marine ecosystem existed 251 ... Sea life recovered from Permian mass extinction faster than we ... at the start of the Triassic Period.
Researchers have rediscovered a fossil site in Brazil that was first found and then lost 70 years ago. ... Around 260 million years ago, towards the end of the Permian period ...
The fossils uncovered by Fiona are from the Permian period – between 300 million and 250 million years ago – and about 70 million years before dinosaurs walked the Earth.