Apr. 23—Tradition or myth holds that the Permian Basin's rich oil and natural gas formations were made from the bodies of dinosaurs, which is an evocative answer that's more fancy than fact. In ...

Gorgonopsids were not dinosaurs, but rather a group of ancient predators known as therapsids. They lived during the late Permian period, roughly 260 to 252 million years ago.

Beneath the snowy slopes lay a prehistoric surprise: an ecosystem that predates the dinosaurs, revealed by melting snow before being stumbled upon by a hiker in the Italian Alps. The discovery ...

The Permian did have its predators, and one of the most impressive was Inostrancevia – one of the largest and most fearsome of a group known as the Gorgonopsids.

Dinosaurs evolved from more primitive reptiles in the aftermath of Earth's biggest mass-extinction event caused by extreme volcanism at the end of the Permian Period about 252 million years ago.

290 million years, before the age of dinosaurs, Permian Monsters ruled the world. At the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, research by Dr. Christian Kammerer is helping shed light on ...

As an extinction crisis wiped out species at the end of the Permian Period, a predatory species emerged that dominated Southern Africa’s domain. By Jeanne Timmons Some 252 million years ago, it ...

A massive, fanged creature with a head shaped like a toilet seat lurked in swamps near the edge of the world 280 million years ago, long before the first dinosaurs appeared, new research has found ...

7/3: CBS Morning News 19:56. Scientists have revealed fossils of a giant salamander-like beast with sharp fangs that ruled waters before the first dinosaurs arrived.The animal, researchers say, is ...

"Life Before Dinosaurs: The Permian Monsters" opens Saturday at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. Posted 2022-05-12T14:31:40+00:00 - Updated 2022-05-12T22:19:47+00:00 ...

The Permian period immediately predated the dinosaurs. Ronchi said he was also “surprised by the abundance and preservation” ...

The Permian period immediately predated the dinosaurs. Ronchi said he was also “surprised by the abundance and preservation” of the fossils when he first saw the images.