An extinct carnivorous group known as gorgonopsians, which lived between 270 and 250 million years ago, laid eggs and had ...

These animals thus had a mode of locomotion intermediate between reptiles and mammals. Although gorgonopsians disappeared long before the appearance of dinosaurs, their evolution played a significant ...

A saber-toothed predator from over 270 million years ago has been unearthed on Mallorca. The fossil represents the ...

Despite not being particularly mammal-looking, the earliest true mammals began to rise about 200 million years ago, when dinosaurs were still roaming Earth. However, the therapsids still had important ...

Scientists have discovered the oldest known saber-toothed predator, a 270-million-year-old gorgonopsian therapsid fossil.

Dating back roughly 270 million years, this discovery fills a significant gap in the fossil record, offering crucial insights into mammalian evolution ... it was in between reptiles and mammals.

It is most likely the oldest gorgonopsian on the planet,” Josep Fortuny, a study co-author and head of the Computational Biomechanics and Evolution of Life History group at the Institut Català ...

Scientists have unearthed a remarkable fossil of a gorgonopsian, a saber-toothed predator they believe to be the oldest ever discovered.

“While mammals and reptiles share a common ancestor that ... leader of the computational biomechanics and evolution of life history research group at the Miquel Crusafont Catalan Institute ...

provides new insights into the evolution of synapsids, a group that gave rise to the first mammals. Gorgonopsians were an extinct group of synapsids that lived during the Permian period, between 270 ...

“While mammals and reptiles share a common ancestor that lived about 320 ... leader of the computational biomechanics and evolution of life history research group at the Miquel Crusafont Catalan ...