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End-Permian Extinction Triggered Switch to Warm-Bloodedness
https://t.co/edeEqTifIk

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2020-10-21

Another post of today. Here I would like to talk about a member of the only extinct lineage of marine mammals (Desmostylia). Meet Neoparadoxia from the Miocene of North America, like most of its relatives it might have been fully aquatic.
https://t.co/DCokTld5MD

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2020-10-21

Quetzalcoatlus northropi. Gigantesco pterosaurio azdárquido del Cretácico superior con una envergadura de unos 11 metros y más de 200 kilos de peso. Se llamó así en honor al dios azteca Quetzalcóatl.

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2020-10-19

Small Pterosaur from Mid-Cretaceous Period Had Adaptations for Sediment Probing
https://t.co/bmnG46nMLB

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2020-10-19

Here's my own little take on designing a Victorian-styled Therizinosaurus, based off of the spiny-tailed iguana.

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2020-10-18

There once existed a Palaeomerycid (extinct family of ruminants closely related to Giraffids) named after one of the most iconic Star Wars characters, Padme Amidala. Meet Xenokeryx amidalae, known from the Mid-Miocene of Spain.

Art credit (Nix illustrations)

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2020-10-17

Interested in the Triassic stem-archosaurs from South America? Check our recently published revision of the group. New information about rhynchosaurs, proterosuchids, proterochampsids, and other Triassic archosaur precursors!

https://t.co/CXtvb0bHng

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2020-10-17

R. cancellatum is easily the coolest Hallucigeniid, no contest. The spines are all that is known from it, but it lived far and wide around the same time interval as the Chengjiang biota.

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2020-10-15

This week is the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology's annual meeting. This year it's virtual.

For Thinking Thursday, Penny will walk you through the research that she's presenting to the professional community.

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2020-10-15

Felt the urge to show appreciation to yet another group of Afrotherians, the Sirenians (dugongs and manatees) . This time I present to you the earliest member of Sirenia, meet Prorastomus from the Early Eocene of Jamaica. Sirenian evolution is quite interesting

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2020-10-15

Since Hyraxes are very awesome. I present to you yet another extinct Pliohyracid. Meet Antilohyrax, a hyrax from the Late Eocene of Fayum, Egypt. A hyrax that resembled a gazelle, had tusks and a low metabolism for an animal its size. It was a cursorial browser.

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2020-10-15

Iranotherium morgani, an extinct genus of Rhino from the late Miocene, and a relative of Elasmotherium. The only known rhinoceros with rugosity on each zygomatic arch of the male individual. As evident in this individual from the Late miocene of Linxia basin.

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2020-10-14

🦖 Welcome the new from the Early of Brazil. What a beautiful specimen! Congrats to the authors Hussam Zaher, , , , and Alberto Carvalho! 👇https://t.co/HZ6KkFaIVC

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2020-10-13

Well... this basically sums up my feelings about yesterday's game. Never thought I'd get my paleontology mixed with my sports.

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2020-10-13