The Forgotten Creatures That Ruled Before the Great Dying

Unearthing Africa’s Permian Past For more than 15 years, an international group of paleontologists has been uncovering and analyzing fossils in Africa to better understand the Permian, a geologic period that lasted from 299 to 252 million years ago and ended with the most catastrophic mass extinction in Earth’s history. The effort, led by researchers [...]

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