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9 Massive Prehistoric Animals That Lived Before Dinosaurs
The Dimetrodon lived during the early Permian Period ... Reptiles evolved as the first land-dwelling animals around the middle of the period, and sharks and bony fishes replaced the jawless ...
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The Permian extinction—when life nearly came to an end
About 250 million years ago, at the end of the Permian period, something killed some 90 percent of the planet's species. Less than 5 percent of the animal species in the seas survived. On land ...
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Fossil discovery of the oldest ancestor of mammals
Beneath the soil of Majorca, a treasure from the Permian ... This land, composed of floodplains, provided a conducive environment for a diverse fauna. Among these, the gorgonopsians, saber-toothed ...
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The Triassic period
Then 252 million years ago came the Permian-Triassic extinction event ... a bit like a miniature T-rex. When these animals lived, Earth’s land was all mushed together into one big C-shaped ...