Nature, 252 mya: LYSTROSAURUS SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP
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Some time ago we had the #PaleoZoo challenge on Discord, sponsored by Prehistoric Kingdom.
Goal was the creation of realistic zoo habitats that could hause extinct creatures. As examples I created a bunch of them over the course of a weekend.
Part three. A Shringasaurus temple, Archaeotherium getting brushed, Stegouros burrow, Plateosaurus hatchery, Wakaleo enclosure, Eryops colony, Lystrosaurus lookout, Giganthopithecus canopy walk, Australoraptor waterfalls, Numudotherium pond and the Erlikosaurus canyon.
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A Lystrosaurus and her calf. She's been in a lot of fights to protect her kids.
They're not known to have fur, but I put little tail tuffs anyway, since mammals with similar skin (like elephants) have them.
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Time Travel Question 32: Pre-history. I forget what number....3? 4?
In honor of @kraetac.
Please add new suggestions below if you have them for future consideration. All cultures and time periods welcome.
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Continental drift fossil evidence.
As noted by Snider-Pellegrini and Alfred Wegener, the locations of certain fossil plants and animals on present-day, widely separated continents would form definite patterns (shown by the bands of colors), if the continents are rejoined.
via: United States Geological Survey (USGS)
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Keep on surviving!
Painting of a Lystrosaurus, that are known for making it alive past the biggest mass extinction on Earth. Life will keep resisting no matter how terrible everything may seem.
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Permian plushie designs bc there is a shocking lack of them
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The evolution of mammals from therapsids in the late Permian and early Triassic: a dicynodont (Lystrosaurus), a gorgonopsid (Rubidgea), and a cynodont (Chiniquodon).
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Lystrosaurus was a genus of synapsid that originated in the late Permian period some 250 mya, and was one of the few survivors of the most devastating mass extinction the world has ever seen. After around 95% of life on earth had gone extinct, Lystrosaurus thrived on what little vegetation had survived and made up a large portion of the global population at the time.
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