Sharks with circular saws for a jaw, four-inch-tall bug slayers with razor-sharp teeth, bulbous-nosed beasts that look like creatures out of Pokémon — Permian Monsters are a breed of their own. 290 ...

Almost 300 million years ago, the world was ruled by monsters — Permian Monsters, that is. Permian Monsters include mammalian ancestors that predate dinosaurs, but were almost completely wiped out due ...

What was the Permian Period like? What creatures thrived there before the period came to an abrupt end? Thanks to efforts by an international research team, 17 years of fossils collected in Africa may ...

An artistic rendering of an evening approximately 252 million years ago during the late Permian in the Luangwa Basin of Zambia. The scene includes several saber-toothed gorgonopsians and beaked ...

The Permian Period, which lasted from about 299 to 252 million years ago, was one of the most fascinating and dangerous times in Earth’s history. It ended with the largest mass extinction ever ...

Large, lizard-like beasts with saber teeth, dragonflies the size of hawks, and scaly, beaked animals the size of a pig. Visitors can experience all of these and more at the Museum of Idaho’s latest ...

New research conducted by paleontologists from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the CNRS (France) documents the earliest occurrence of a fossilized regurgitation ...

Researchers studying ancient sea bed burrows and trails have discovered that bottom burrowing animals were among the first to bounce back after the end-Permian mass extinction. Researchers studying ...

There’s nothing like a big mass extinction to open up ecological niches and clear out the competition, accelerating evolution for some lucky survivors. Or is there? A new study suggests that the rate ...