The first time that synapsids tried evolving tanks: Tapinocephalians. Studies of Struthiocephalus (top) and Moschops (bottom) from Permian Africa 🐡 🎨 🧪 #paleontology - ThreadSky

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serpenillus.bsky.social • 422 days ago

The first time that synapsids tried evolving tanks: Tapinocephalians.

Studies of Struthiocephalus (top) and Moschops (bottom) from Permian Africa

🐡 🎨 🧪 #paleontology

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zman1902.bsky.social•421 days ago

Basal synapsids were WEIRD.

mauri87.bsky.social•421 days ago

Permian and Triassic creatures were out of this world. I love it all ❤️

serpenillus.bsky.social•421 days ago

I mean… synapsids continue being weird to this day! Cetaceans are a great example 🤣

zman1902.bsky.social•421 days ago

Listen you 😆

serpenillus.bsky.social•422 days ago

Approximate size of each taxon next to a ca. 1.8 m tall human

🐡 🎨 🧪 #paleontology

varaniddoc.bsky.social•421 days ago

Not much different from Bjorn & me!

cavalieradastra.bsky.social•421 days ago

The moschops is how my cats look when they go in to head-bump me.

restingdinoface.bsky.social•421 days ago

These are some of my favorite fossil nerds, amazing

serpenillus.bsky.social•421 days ago

Are t they super cool? And so underrated by most people!

gawdz0rz.bsky.social•421 days ago

that is a big dog i would like to pet

naraoia.bsky.social•421 days ago

I wanna know how someone looked at that head and thought of an ostrich of all things 🤔

serpenillus.bsky.social•421 days ago

Is the skul… it does have a VAGUE ostrich-like appearance… it is a bit of a stretch though

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