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New Salamander-Like Species, Saber-Toothed Predator, and Others Uncovered From Permian Period

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 ...
The Washington Post

In a rare discovery, scientists reveal the oldest piece of fossilized skin

A tiny fragment of bumpy fossil found in a cave in Oklahoma is now the oldest known piece of preserved skin, paleontologists report Thursday in the journal Current Biology. The discovery allows ...
WSIL-TV

The Great Dying once wiped out 90% of life on Earth. A new theory may explain why

(CNN) — A cataclysm engulfed the planet some 252 million years ago, wiping out more than 90% of all life. Known as the Great Dying, the mass extinction that ended the Permian geological period was the ...
Reuters

South African fossils reveal ancient beast's epic journey to oblivion

WASHINGTON, May 22 (Reuters) - It was a dire moment for life on Earth. Runaway global warming triggered by calamitous volcanism in Siberia inflicted the worst mass extinction on record - dooming ...
KUOW

The real land before time: unearthing the Permian Period

Christian Sidor is a professor in the UW Department of Biology and curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Burke. And for the last 18 years, he’s been traveling back and forth to Zambia and Tanzania ...
WRAL

Dig deep into history, before the dinosaurs, to find 'monsters' of new Raleigh exhibit

“Life Before Dinosaurs: The Permian Monsters” opens Saturday at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. The new exhibit will take museum guests back in time to meet creatures that dominated ...