This is Dimetrodon, the world’s top predator about 270 million years ago. Living before the dawn of the dinosaurs, this striking creature was actual a distant ancestor of mammals like us. Now we’ve ...

Nearly 300 million years ago, Dimetrodon was the largest predator of its time, hunting giant amphibians and other animals during the Early Permian. Despite its reptile-like appearance and familiar ...

The Dimetrodon, an apex predator that roamed the earth over 250 million years ago, long before dinosaurs ever did, has been digitally preserved at the Texas Through Time museum in Hillsboro, Texas ...

From place to place and year to year, it is a fact of paleontology that some of the best discoveries are made at the very end of the field season. This is not so common that it is some kind of natural ...

Before the dinosaurs Before dinosaurs walked the Earth, there was a meat-loving beast called Dimetrodon, which researchers just determined had the first known serrated "steak knife" teeth. Dimetrodon ...

Paleontologists have unearthed a nearly complete fossil of a dimetrodon, a reptile-like predator that roamed the Permian landscape 287 million years ago. This weekend, the team is working to transport ...

Just outside this small Baylor County town, researchers at a new museum are carefully digging away, hoping to unearth a significant discovery. In a place where scientists have been poking around in ...

Growing up to12 feet in length with powerful jaws and specialized teeth for stabbing and tearing apart its prey, the Dimetrodon limbatus was one of the fiercest creatures to roam Texas. A fossilized ...

Just outside this small Baylor County, Texas, town, researchers at a new museum are carefully digging away, hoping to unearth a significant discovery. In a place where scientists have been poking ...

Whiteside Museum of Natural History director Christopher Flis (lying on the ground), and volunteers Stewart Nolan, son Travis, 13, and Leigh Cook work to unearth a Dimetrodon skeleton for the museum ...