Wherever you find dinosaurs, chances are that Dimetrodon is close by. The sail-backed creature is a staple of museum displays, boxes of sugar-saurus cookies, and sets of plastic dinosaurs, and I have ...

Researchers long considered a fossilized jawbone housed at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University to contain a specimen of a unique reptilian from the Permian Age. But a new discovery ...

Dimetrodon had a mouth full of novelty. Most conspicuous were several different tooth types in the sail-backed protomammal’s jaws – incisor-like teeth for gripping, stabbing canines, recurved rear ...

Take a close look and you might see a little bit of yourself. With its lizard-like appearance and that distinctive sail on it back, Dimetrodon is practically the mascot of the Palaeozoic Era, a time ...

DALLAS — Dimetrodon chowed down on sharks and amphibians like a prehistoric Pac-Man. Rather than dining on plant eaters, the reptilian carnivore ate mainly aquatic animals, chomping big bites out of ...

At first it had no name. The beast was a mammal relative with a heavy skull, a mouth full of fangs, and a tall dorsal sail made of skin stretched over long struts of bone. Sinuous as a crocodile, ...

Dimetrodon, one of the most recognisable of the pre-dinosaur predators, is due a makeover. For more than a century, it has been depicted as a sluggish, belly-dragging beast with sprawling legs – but ...

Early Permian (295–270 Ma) sphenacodontid synapsids are of importance as they are the first large-bodied (up to 300 kg) apex predators in the evolutionary history of terrestrial amniotes 1. For 25 ...

Where's my Dimetrodon hive? It's our damn day. Though Jurassic World: Dominion may have...been what it is, there's one thing the film absolutely nailed. Almost 30 years since Steven Spielberg's ...