We tackle here: the origin of turtles; rates of evolution and selection mode in early amniotes+reptiles; the long-term effects of on the evolution of reptiles; and as asked by the ,“Why Triassic Animals Were Just the Weirdest?”(2/n)(art H. Sharpe)

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Salutations, fellow amniotes. This post shall mark the transformation! I'm blessed to now join the grand consciousness of your most humble Highness, Sultan of Sorbets, Regent of Raspberry Pie! Praise all the cookies of the universe! Even the mushy ones!

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Next up, quail embryos provide a great comparative model to determine if mechanisms driving development in chick are evolutionarily conserved in amniotes. Images are IHC in quail cranial regions.

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of Permian amniotes: Scutosaurus, Inostrancevia, Dimetrodon and (WIP) Cotylorhynchus.

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