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 ...

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 ...

Dimetrodon was the largest predator of its time, preying on giant amphibians nearly 300 million years ago during the Early Permian period. “They were eating basically whatever they wanted,” says ...

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 ...

The researchers from University of Toronto Mississauga, Carleton University and the Royal Ontario Museum have changed its name to Dimetrodon borealis — marking the first occurrence of a ...

The first top predators to walk on land were not afraid to bite off more than they could chew, a University of Toronto Mississauga study has found. According to the study published in Nature ...

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 ...