'Dog-Like' Fossil Discovery May Be Oldest Known Saber-Toothed Animal
The prehistoric creature is thought to have lived around 280-270 million years ago and was likely a "top predator" in its day ...
National Geographic news1 年
The Permian extinction—when life nearly came to an end
About 250 million years ago, at the end of the Permian period ... in time, heading for the Permian's conclusion. If we had driven here before the extinction, we would have seen animals as abundant ...
New Scientist3 年
The Triassic period
The period of time before the Triassic was called the Permian. This was a time when a wide variety of animals lived, including a group of animals called the synapsids, which would later evolve ...
Ever-Growing USA on MSN3 天
Oldest Mammal Ancestor Found: Saber-Toothed Predator Unearthed in Mallorca
A saber-toothed predator from over 270 million years ago has been unearthed on Mallorca. The fossil represents the ...
National Geographic news6 个月
Cambrian Period
Learn more about a time period marked ... of all prehistoric animals. More than 17,000 species are known to have survived until the mega-extinction that ended the Permian period 251 million ...
scmp.com1 年
Explore the Triassic world: how dinosaurs rose up after mass extinction period and thrived ...
This also marked the first time the earliest dinosaurs appeared. The Permian period’s mass extinction ... but they eventually outgrew other animals such as the Lystrosaurus, a dog-sized animal ...