Mammals (known scientifically as Mammalia) are the only living synapsids, having first evolved around 200 million years ago. But there are many extinct groups of so-called non-mammalian synapsids.

“It is pretty certain that the new finding is the oldest known gorgonopsian, and likely the oldest known member of a subgroup of synapsids called Therapsida (therapsids include mammals and a subset of ...

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The research has been published in the journal Nature Communications. Gorgonopsians are an extinct group of synapsids that lived during the Permian, between 270 and 250 million years ago.

The fossil was found in what was an ancient floodplain in central Pangea, where mammalian precursors and other critters would come to drink. Mammals are the only living synapsids, but the recent ...