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

The shield lizard, or the Scutosaurus, arose towards the end of the Carboniferous period, around 298 million years ago.It was among the largest reptiles during the Permian Era, featuring a 20-inch ...

Read More: The Permian Extinction: Life on Earth Nearly Disappeared During the ‘Great Dying' Success in Warm Waters . Applying evidence from experiments on extant marine animals, the team ...

Beneath the soil of Majorca, a treasure from the Permian era has emerged. The remains of the oldest gorgonopsian ever discovered unveil the secrets of a formidable predator, at the crossroads between ...

Mega El Niños could have intensified the world’s most devastating mass extinction, which ended the Permian Period 252 million years ago, a new study found.

Earth’s largest mass extinction eliminated a lot of marine species. But it didn’t eliminate them all. According to a study in Science Advances, warm, oxygen-depleted waters may have helped select ...