Behind the dinosaurs was a case with skulls of Permian synapsids. They don't get many visitors. Lystrosaurus, the synapsid that inherited the barren world of the Triassic, stared out empty-eyed.

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.

It forms the transition between the late Palaeozoic Era, which was mainly populated by synapsids, or mammal-like reptiles, and the Mesozoic Era, when the archosaurian reptiles, which includes the ...

The Early Permian dissorophid Cacops displays its fearsome dentition ... and by hiding in sparse water bodies,” Mehmood added in the press release. "But when the ancestors of dinosaurs and of mammals ...

The Ginkgo biloba traces its roots back an astonishing 290 million years to the Permian period, making it one of Earth's most ancient plant species. Surviving cataclysmic events, such as the ...