The origin of mammals is shrouded in mystery, but every fossil clue helps rewrite the story. A new discovery on a ...

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

The discovery of a newly identified species — the oldest saber-toothed animal found and an ancient cousin to mammals — fills ...

Before dinosaurs walked ... long been missing from the fossil record. But the discovery of a newly identified gorgonopsian — the oldest saber-toothed animal ever found — is filling a ...

Scientists have discovered the oldest known animal with saber teeth: a predator that lived 270 million years ago. This animal ...

Now, a team of scientists have found a new fossil that is the oldest of its kind and might even be the oldest therapsid ever ...

The research team explained that Mallorca, at the time of the gorgonopsians, was part of the "supercontinent" of Pangea.

Paleontologists unearthed fossils of a dog-sized, saber-toothed gorgonopsian in Mallorca, Spain, believed to be the earliest ...

Vaguely dog-like” animal is one of the oldest-known close cousins of modern mammals. Researchers have discovered the oldest ...

They explained that the first true mammals evolved roughly 200 million years ago, during the early days of the dinosaurs ... the oldest therapsid ever discovered. They say the new fossil, which ...