Beneath the soil of Majorca, a treasure from the Permian era has emerged. The remains of the oldest gorgonopsian ever ...

Beneath the soil of Majorca, a treasure from the Permian era has emerged. The remains of the oldest gorgonopsian ... Their legs, positioned beneath their bodies rather than on the sides like reptiles, ...

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Gorgonopsians were an extinct group of synapsids that lived during the Permian period, between 270 and 250 million years ago ... such as the moradisaurid captorhinids, small herbivorous reptiles that ...

The transition in and out of the Late Palaeozoic ice age was one of the biggest climate transitions in Earth’s history, a ...

The study highlights that previously documented smaller mesosaurs likely represented juveniles or subadults, as reported by phys.org. These smaller sizes may reflect mass mortality events rather than ...

Called gorgonopsians, the earliest animals in this lineage have long been missing from the fossil record ... during the early part of the Permian Period (299 million to 252 million years ago ...

ONO, Fukui Prefecture--A mammal fossil unearthed from a geological formation here is 127 million years old and dates from the early Cretaceous Period ... of a mammal-like reptile has been found ...

Ichthyosaurs were reptiles that swam in the seas during the time of the dinosaurs. They evolved separately around 250 million years ago, possibly from a crocodile-like ancestor, to resemble fish ...