Another way Lystrosaurus survived was simply by walking.A lot. Based on enormous number of fossils found by paleontologists over the past 150 years or so, it seems that Lystrosaurus was also a ...

The Lystrosaurus is a mammal-like animal from the early Triassic period that roamed modern day regions such as India, South Africa and Antarctica over 250 million years ago.

A team of paleontologists has discovered that a 250-million-year-old species of animal called Lystrosaurus likely relied on hibernation to survive back when Antarctica was still part of the ...

Simulations revealed that by breeding much earlier, the Lystrosaurus could have upped its survival chances by 40 percent, especially in the erratic environments that existed 252 million years ago.

Lystrosaurus - a heavily built pig-sized herbivorous animal with tusks and a beak - lived on many continents and was one of few species which survived the extinction event which killed the dinosaurs.

This exciting discovery is described in a paper published in Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. The two Lystrosaurus fossils are among 170 fossils from the Karoo Basin in South ...

These strange layers of fossils suggest that recurring drought was a big problem for the animals, which were members of the genus Lystrosaurus, meaning "shovel lizard" in ancient Greek.Lystrosaurs ...

But Lystrosaurus was one of the creatures that managed to survive in the aftermath. In an ironic twist, some Lystrosaurus that lived about a million years after this disaster perished in a harsh ...

The incredibly well preserved Lystrosaurus mummies were discovered in the southern Karoo Basin of South Africa and are thought to hail from the early Triassic, around 251 million years ago, when ...