A hint of the social behavior of early Homo erectus comes from the earliest known to survive with near total loss of teeth, 1.8 million years ago. Some wild primates also survive years with little functional dentition.

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Tylosaurus proriger could grow to more than 45 ft in length and tipped the scales at over 2,000 lbs. This massive predator hunted everything from seabirds to sharks in the Cretaceous seas.

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It's so I thought you might enjoy these Platybelodons 😃A proboscidean (group that incl. elephants🐘) that lived ~15-5 mya in Eurasia, Africa & N. America. These are in the Beijing Museum of Natural History. by Nikolai Litvinenko.

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Someone said Well howdy, I like drawing animals. Since it's also enjoy these reconstructed dead things.

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While are the only group of sirenians that invaded freshwater habitats, in odontocetes it has happened multiple times. In the Pebas Mega-Wetland System we find platanistoids and iniids. Map from et al (2020) https://t.co/EcTyazFCIC
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Here’s a couple WIP shots of Majungasaurus for

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One of my favorite murderbirds, Titanis wallleri.

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The Scottish Silurian eurypterid Slimonia for

This specimen is a molt and shows the head shield which has been displaced from the appendages underneath. They include the chelicera (marked in green), pedipalp (blue), walking legs (orange) and paddle (red)!

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Reconstruction of the complete skull and mandible of aliocranianus https://t.co/cng7CJKSeo

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For to coincide with say hello to the real (sort of) and the creatures that inspired Godzilla’s design! First here’s Gojirasaurus, an early theropod dinosaur from the Triassic Period. Art by . (1/3)

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Lasuén’s pterodactyl: Early use of pterosaur in plastic arts
Le ptérodactyle de Lasuén : une utilisation précoce d’un ptérosaure en arts plastiques
Fabien Knoll∗, Raquel López-Anton ̃anzas

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Halisaurus is an extinct genus of marine reptile belonging to the family. Happy

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Finally, a new blog post, just in time for is there any real link between dinosaurs and Chinese dragon mythology? We actually know a heck of a lot about Chinese 'dragon bones' and they aren't - dramatic pause - dinosaur flavoured.

https://t.co/weD26CEvGa

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Turiasaurs may be be the dominant sauropods in the Neocomian Yellow Cat Mbr. of Cedar Mt. Fm. Moabosaurus is the dominant dino at Utahraptor State Park.

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Hoy es y 🐸
Sabían que el escuerzo Ceratophrys ameghinorum que vivió en nuestras Pampas entre 3 y >5 millones de años atrás es pariente cercano de Ce. aurita de Brasil según nuestro más reciente estudio en
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https://t.co/DCD8Len7JU

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Oh MAN, I missed Fossil Fridays! 😭
Hopefully I can make more soon!
Alright! I drew one of my favorite prehistoric animals, Dimetrodon! I chose to draw the smallest species and the biggest!

I will say, the small one would make a GREAT pet! 💕✨

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La col·lecció de fòssils d'Alcover-Mont-ral destaca per la diversitat de peixos, però, no hem d'oblidar els rèptils. Aquests representen el moment inicial de l'expansió dels saures i no només ocuparen el medi terrestre, també colinitzaren amb èxit el medi Triàsic🦎

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