The Perm period

Late Permian of the Luangwa Basin, Zambia An artist's impression of a scene from about 252 million years ago, during the Late Permian period, in the Luangwa Basin of Zambia. The scene includes a number of gorgonopsians (saber-toothed predators) and beaked dicynodonts. Credit: Gabriel Ugueto

The Forgotten Creatures Who Ruled Before the “Great Death”

Researchers have uncovered in "Southern Pangaea" (now the southern part of Africa) fossils of creatures that lived shortly before the event known as the "Great Dying," which wiped out about 70% of terrestrial species and an even larger proportion of species
A fossil of a trilobite - a common animal in the Permian period. Photo: shutterstock

Microscopic mass murderer / Cary Arnold