Tag Archive for 'Gorgonopsia'

An artistic rendering of an evening approximately 252 million years ago during the Late Permian epoch in the Luangwa Basin of Zambia. The scene includes several saber-toothed gorgonopsians and beaked dicynodonts. Image credit: Gabriel Ugueto.

New Fossils from Tanzania and Zambia Shed Light on End-Permian Mass Extinction

Aug 11, 2025 by News Staff

Paleontologists have identified the myriad of animals — saber-toothed predators, burrowing foragers and a large, salamander-like creature —...

Life reconstruction of the gorgonopsian from Mallorca in a floodplain setting. Image credit: Henry Sutherland Sharpe.

Therapsids Originated in Tropical Rather than Temperate Regions, New Fossil Find Suggests

Dec 17, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have discovered a new species of early gorgonopsian therapsid that was part of an ancient summer wet biome of equatorial Pangea. Life reconstruction...

Inostrancevia with its dicynodont prey, scaring off the much smaller African species Cyonosaurus. Image credit: Matt Celeskey.

Saber-Toothed Predator Connects Permian Northern and Southern Hemisphere Faunas

May 22, 2023 by News Staff

Inostrancevia was a tiger-sized, saber-toothed gorgonopsian that lived on the supercontinent Pangea during the Permian period, approximately 252 million...