Sharks with circular saws for a jaw, four-inch-tall bug slayers with razor-sharp teeth, bulbous-nosed beasts that look like creatures out of Pokémon — Permian Monsters are a breed of their own. 290 ...

Almost 300 million years ago, the world was ruled by monsters — Permian Monsters, that is. Permian Monsters include mammalian ancestors that predate dinosaurs, but were almost completely wiped out due ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The dinosaur extinction is widely known, but the end-Permian mass extinction was an even more devastating event in Earth's history ...

Researchers studying ancient sea bed burrows and trails have discovered that bottom burrowing animals were among the first to bounce back after the end-Permian mass extinction. Researchers studying ...

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 ...