The University of Birmingham and University of Bristol researchers found that these ancient reptiles were ancestors of ...

Some have proposed that the disappearance of certain predators and competitors allowed some of the surviving creatures to thrive. And others have proposed that the climate changes associated with the ...

These land-dwelling creatures would later evolve into mammals ... the giant supercontinent of the Permian era. "The large number of bone remains is surprising," says Rafel Matamales, curator ...

Known as the Great Dying, the mass extinction that ended the Permian geological period was ... referring to the geological era that followed the extinction event when the ecosystem began to ...