Beneath the soil of Majorca, a treasure from the Permian era has emerged ... Among these, the gorgonopsians, saber-toothed ...

the team populated their model with the modern relatives of the creatures of the end-Permian era. Complete with mollusks like clams, oysters, snails, and slugs, the model showed how various ...

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 ...

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 ...