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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...