Newest is the giant swamp beast, giganteus. Basically what you get when you mix a newt with a crocodile and give it tusks. 🐸+🐊+🐗

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I REALLY love how the "evil dino trio" in s2 were given nicknames as references to species names.
Armatus is named after the dubious species Stegosaurus "armatus"
Gigas is named after its synonym Manospondylus gigas
Maximus is named after the dubious species Triceratops "maximus"

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We know amphibians are still successful today - there are >8,200 species of them! But we need to combat climate change & habitat loss to keep them going. Climate change wasn't kind to temnospondyls, and it isn't kind to the froggy friends we still have today [end]

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From what I heard, Spongebob is gonna take a break by not having any episodes today on Nickelodeon after 13 years. This Friday is gonna be all Loud House. So happy

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Uniquely, amphibamid temnospondyls from Mazon Creek preserve a variety of soft tissue features including details such as toe pads, tails, gut traces and other body outlines.

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Results from the
Kaprosuchus, Supersaurus, Spectrovenator and Melosaurus.

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Since I missed yesterday, for the 17th, I have a double dose of being an estuarine temnospondyl hiding in cold and salty delta mud and preying on an ornithischian and a suction feeding plesiosaur with a large gular pouch for that purpose.

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Eryops was a Temnospondyl amphibian that seemed rather cumbersome! It probably spent a lot of time on land, though they lived near bodies of water.

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My blog is resuming weekly activity! For August, I'll discuss amphibamiforms, the smol dissorophoids related to living amphibians!

This week's overview: https://t.co/qYcNQ1mnZq

📷: Schoch/Rubidge 2005, Sigurdsen/Bolt 2010, Gee/Reisz 2020, Maddin et al. 2013

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just want to have a temnospondyl pop out of a creek next to me and go "GRRRRRRAAAARRRRRRRRK"

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Gimme that title or whatever they're giving out these days!

Ph.D. ✔

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Results from the
Arsinoitherium, Globidens, Herrerasaurus and Mastodonsaurus.

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"The weirdest things people have thought about by Timur Sivgin in Manospondylus blog

▶️ https://t.co/BB38azkr1i

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Dimetrodon teutonis, a stem-mammal, and Rotaryus gothae, a temnospondyl, both part of the fauna local to the of Germany.

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Didn't know it was coming out today, but here's a new paper for redescription (first full description) of the amphibamiform Nanobamus in Journal of Paleontology!

Paper: https://t.co/5wCW4vGN7j

Blog: https://t.co/NCmDKi5KC6

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