While the modern world has some big and scary creatures, the truth is that many of those animals are nothing compared to ...

However, even the trilobites' evolution could not help the trilobites escape the Permian Period, where there was a mass ...

and roamed the forests of the Carboniferous period 358-298 million years ago before dying out in the early Permian. But what would happen if there were no constraints on the size of animals ...

About 250 million years ago, at the end of the Permian period, something killed some 90 percent of the planet's species. Less than 5 percent of the animal species in the seas survived. On land ...

is revealing the hidden diversity of the Permian period, while other fossils from the quarry have helped to solve a long running botanical mystery. When it comes to fossils, it's normally the big ...

The Triassic period, from 252–201 million ... reptiles as the world rebuilt itself after the end-Permian mass extinction. "Altogether, animals on land and in the oceans were speeding up, using ...

Studying fossils from the Permian period provides scientists with valuable insights into the ancestral animals that ultimately evolved into the life forms we know today. Although the scientists ...

This occurred at the end of the Permian period and the start of the Triassic ... to uncover millions-old evidence of the largest animals to walk the Earth. In the United States fossils can ...

Therapsids, the ancient relatives of mammals, once roamed Earth in great numbers during the middle to late Permian period ... ranging group of four-legged animals, with only mammals surviving ...

“Dinosaurs had not yet emerged at this time, but the animals responsible for the ... none seemed as “rich” as this one. The Permian period immediately predated the dinosaurs.

Using high-resolution, three-dimensional imaging on a fossil of this Permian Period creature ... was a type of animal called a protomammal - a predecessor of mammals that still retained traits ...