From saber-toothed synapsids to global collapse, the forgotten predators of the Permian ruled a world on the brink of ...

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 ...

An international team of paleontologists has spent more than 15 years excavating and studying fossils from Africa to expand our understanding of the Permian, a period of Earth's history that began 299 ...

The biggest mass extinction in Earth history some 251 million years ago was preceded by elevated extinction rates before the main event and was followed by a delayed recovery that lasted for millions ...

The fossil shouldn’t have been there. The original bones of the black bear-size sabertooth predator, Inostrancevia, were found in northern Russia, encased in rocks more than 253 million years old. Yet ...

The sun shines through the clouds as it begins to set behind a pumpjack, March 30, 2022, outside of Goldsmith, Texas. (Odessa American File Photo) Tradition or myth holds that the Permian Basin’s rich ...