According to Xavier Jenkins, a graduate student who studies prehistoric reptiles at Idaho State University, Mesosaur lived ...

Revealed by melting snow in the Alps, the imprints in rock were left by reptiles and amphibians during the Permian period, ...

A hike in the Italian Alps took an unexpected turn. On a rocky ground, a couple of hikers discovered regular shapes in a ...

Beneath the snowy slopes lay a prehistoric surprise: an ecosystem that predates the dinosaurs, revealed by melting snow ...

Now, scientists have confirmed that the footprints belonged to prehistoric reptiles, dating back to the Permian period, about ...

Claudia sent photos to a research team who determined the footprints were those of a prehistoric reptile. The beast who made the tracks would have roamed the planet during the Permian period - the ...

A HIKER stumbled across an unbelievable “lost world” after discovering the fossilised footprints of an ancient reptile older ...

But the Permian detectives are faced with a host ... Often called mammal-like reptiles—they looked like a cross between a dog and a lizard—the synapsids were Earth's first great dynasty ...

or at least show how some of the early reptiles may have passed into mammals. They date back to the Permian and Triassic periods, when mammals and birds must have had their beginning; and many of ...

This is the skeleton of Shihtienfenia, a large pareiasaur from the latest Permian of Shanxi Province ... often described as the 'ugliest fossil reptiles' -- has been published by a University ...

The Permian-Triassic world 250 million years ago, showing all continents fused as the supercontinent Pangaea, the tropical belt (orange and yellow colours), and reptile distributions. Disclaimer ...