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A Yutyrannus huali (feathered tyrant) in the morning chill. This 1.1 ton theropod is the largest known dinosaur to have feathers. It lived in northeastern China Liaoning Province (Yixian Formation), during the Early Cretaceous (Aptian Age 125-113 MYA). Estimated at 9
Another to my favorite ancestor of whales, Ambulocetus natans (Walking Whale). Think of it as a crocodile-otter from the early Eocene about 50 MYA. It was thought to have lived in brackish estuaries of what is now Pakistan. Illustration by Rebecca Dart. 🤓🐉
A Tylosaurus prioriger catches a Hesperornis regalis in the shallow inland sea of what one day will become Kansas, USA. Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian Age 72.1-65.5 MYA). Illustration by Balint Benke. 🤓🐉
Heterodontosaurus tucki (Different toothed lizard), named in 1962 by A. W. Crompton and A. J. Charig. Around 90 centimetres long and
known from South Africa (Upper Elliot Formation). Possibly also Mexico (la Boca Formation) and Argentina
Croctober is not over 😉. The Northwest of São Paulo (Brazil) during the Late Cretaceous (Turonian to Santonian Age 93.9-83.6 MYA, Adamantina Formation). The Armadillosuchus arrudai (Armadillo crocodile), awakes from estivation and looks around. With the rain, the semiarid
Mammuthus primigenius walking by a herd of Bison priscus, art by Davide Bonadonna. 🤓🦖
Styracosaurus albertensis (Spiked lizard) caught in a tsunami. Named by Lawrence Lambe in 1913. Classified as Ornithischia, Cerapoda, Ceratopsia, Ceratopsidae, Centrosaurinae. Late Cretaceous (Campanian Age 83,6-72,1 MYA), from Alberta, Canada (Dinosaur
Fun Fact: In 2014 researchers found an Edmontosaurus regalis in western Canada that has a cockscomb of mummified flesh, like what you'd see on a rooster. This is a structure nobody knew the dinosaur had. Art by Davide Bonadonna. 🤓🦖
Dakosaurus, Kaprosuchus, Mourasuchus and Simosuchus 🐊. Art by Julio Lacerda for Croctober
Everybodys favourite tiny-headed synapsid, Cotylorhynchus romeri. Yes, heads that small really went on bodies that big. You could get away with this sort of thing in the Early Permian. Art by Mark Witton. 🤓🐲