A quarter of a billion years ago, long before dinosaurs or mammals evolved, the predator Dinogorgon, whose skull is shown here, hunted floodplains in the heart of today's South Africa. In less than a ...
Though the End-Permian mass extinction event is predicted to have killed off 80% of all life on Earth, new research is revealing survivors. In what is now China, it seems that plants were able to ...
The West Texas desert has a surprising feature: a prehistoric ocean reef. There is a surprising natural wonder in the middle of the vast West Texas desert: a prehistoric ocean reef built from the ...
The Late Paleozoic Ice Age, major volcanic events and fusuline diversity changes from early Visean to end-Permian showing correspondence (Zhang et al., 2025) Credit must be given to the creator.
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 Permian is a geologic period of the Paleozoic Era spanning approximately 299–252 million years ago, characterized by the assembly and dominance of the supercontinent Pangaea and associated ...