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2020 edition. Thirteen prehistoric beasts named after monsters, horror, folklore, or something else spooky. How many can you guess? Results will be posted tomorrow!

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2020-10-31

I present to you a Giraffoid, Specifically a Climacoceratid Artiodactyl (even toed ungulate) from the Early Miocene of North Africa and Pakistan. Meet Prolibytherium (as i like to call it, Butterfly Giraffoid). A Ruminant displaying dramatic sexual dimorphism.

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2020-10-29

Today i present you yet another member of the Hasnot village, Pakistan. Meet Merycopotamus dissimilis. Merycopotamus was an Anthracothere. Anthracotheres were Whippomorphs, meaning they were closely related to Hippos and whales, perhaps more close to the former.

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2020-10-25

215-Million-Year-Old Fossil from Greenland Sheds Light on Origin of Mammals
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2020-10-24

They made big chungus into a real thing, meet nuralagus rex

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2020-10-24

Shoulda been done way sooner but I've got other things I'm working on as well I promise, here's Oksoko, the recently described didactyl oviraptorid.

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2020-10-22

Around 30 million years ago, grasslands started to spread across the globe. These plants grew hardier, forcing mammals from tiny rodents to big grazers like horses to adapt and diversify.

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2020-10-22

End-Permian Extinction Triggered Switch to Warm-Bloodedness
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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.
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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
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2020-10-19

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.

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2020-10-17