Long before T. rex, the Earth was dominated by super-carnivores stranger and more terrifying than anything dreamed up by ...

Despite Earth's most devastating mass extinction wiping out over 80% of marine life and half of land species, a group of ...

First study to explore how ancient reptiles spread across the Earth after the end-Permian mass extinction. New research ...

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.

Find the answers to all your dinosaur questions here. Yes, travel back in time with us to the Age of Dinosaurs. Or stay where you are, and watch this collection of documentaries to learn about the ...

Surprising new fossil evidence undermines the idea that there was ever a mass extinction on land – and may force us to ...

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.

No dinosaurs existed yet during the Permian. Dinosaurs only appeared as a group of animals during the following geologic period, the Triassic, with the oldest dinosaur fossils being found in South ...

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 ...

Which dinosaurs had feathers? Were they using them to fly? And once and for all ... (not to be confused with the Permian-Triassic mass extinction that happened some 250 million years ago). ...

The Permian began some 299 to 251 million years ago, ... This set the scene for the largest mass extinction in Earth's history, and the conditions in which the dinosaurs would come to thrive.