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A 259-million-year-old fossil skull of Yinshanosaurus angustus has been found, filling a key evolutionary gap in ...
During the Permian period, approximately 250 million years ago, stick insects like Cretophasmomima reached truly impressive proportions. With body lengths exceeding 16 inches (40 cm) and substantial ...
Long before T. rex, the Earth was dominated by super-carnivores stranger and more terrifying than anything dreamed up by ...
The specimen belongs to Eryops megacephalus, a large-headed semi-aquatic predator that lived over 280 million years ago during the Permian period.
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 ...
Broadly, the researchers revealed that the Permian period was cold, the Induan was unclear (more research is needed), and the Olenekian and Anisian were much hotter.
A new study reveals that a region in China’s Turpan-Hami Basin served as a refugium, or “Life oasis” for terrestrial plants during the end-Permian mass extinction, the most ...
Tropical riparian ecosystems—those found along rivers and wetlands—recovered much faster than expected following the end-Permian mass extinction around 252 million years ago, according to new ...
Mega El Niños could have intensified the world’s most devastating mass extinction, which ended the Permian Period 252 million years ago, a new study found.
A Permian-era Diaphanopterodea insect fossil, dating back about 300 million years, has been found for the first time in Yangquan, North China's Shanxi Province, according to a report by local ...
Dinosaurs were giant, toothy reptilian creatures that wandered the Earth for millions of years, constantly searching for food and defending their territories. They roamed the world during the Mesozoic ...