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

The Permian extinction, on the other hand, unfolded over hundreds of thousands of years, he explains. More like this: • The 120-year search for the purpose of T. rex's puny arms ...

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.

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 ...

Long before dinosaurs ever walked the Earth, a terrifying predator ruled the land – and it was unlike anything alive today. In this video, we journey back to the Permian period to meet Dimetrodon, a ...

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Dinosaurs were not the first giant predators on Earth. Another creature with five-foot long teeth terrified other animals and ...

In a first-of-its-kind study, Stanford researchers have measured how the abundance of ocean life has changed over the past ...

New findings may have solved the debate around why scientists have never found the missing link between dinosaurs and ...

The forerunners of dinosaurs and crocodiles in the Triassic period were able to migrate across areas of the ancient world deemed completely ...

Discover the migration routes of ancient reptiles and how they thrived in a nearly lifeless environment after the mass extinction.