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 ...

Like pterosaurs, ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs, Dimetrodon, while commonly mistaken for a dinosaur, isn’t actually a dinosaur. In fact, unlike pterosaurs, ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs, Dimetrodon isn’t ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...