When the identification of a fossil animal is completely based on a single bone, the design of the bone is important. Another Permian animal with no complete body akin only to the low jaws has a ...

Learn how Permian-era fossils from Brazil led researchers to a tetrapod with a twisted jaw from a lineage once thought ...

Scientists discovered a bizarre 275-million-year-old aquatic animal with sideways teeth and a twisted jaw in Brazil, revealing a rare “living fossil” lineage from the Permian period.

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 ...

The fossil vomit was found at the Bromacker site in central Germany, one of the few sites that preserves a fully terrestrial ...

Over 15 years of fossil excavations in Tanzania and Zambia have revealed a vivid portrait of life before Earth s most devastating mass extinction 252 million years ago. Led by the University of ...

Fossil evidence from North China suggests that some ecosystems may have recovered within just two million years of the end-Permian mass extinction, much sooner than previously thought. Tropical ...

Paleontologists surveying a dry riverbed in northeastern Brazil repeatedly encountered the same type of fossil: a lower jaw about six inches long, curved and thick, and twisted in an unexpected way. A ...