Science news articles about 'synapsid fossils'

A team of paleontologists is looking for new synapsid fossils in Permian-age rocks in northeastern Brazil to better understand the causes and effects of a mass extinction.

Paleontologists discover several species of amphibians, sharks and lungfish in the Pedra de Fogo Formation in Brazil, but not the synapsid fossils they set out to find.

Paleontologists were disappointed in a hunt for synapsid fossils in Brazil, but what they did find changed the way they thought about the history of the Parnaíba Basin.