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Tango01  | 13 Oct 2022 9:24 p.m. PST |
…tiny head and had a hippo-like lifestyle
"An animal that lived before the dinosaurs looked like a rotund lizard with a very small head and had a hippo-like semiaquatic lifestyle, according to fossils that were recently excavated in France.
The amphibious animal, which represents a previously unknown genus and species of mammal ancestor, measured about 12 feet (4 meters) long, researchers reported in the October issue of the journal Palaeo Vertebrata, published online in July. They dubbed the new species Lalieudorhynchus gandi; it lived about 265 million years ago on the Pangaea supercontinent, just before the era of the dinosaurs…"
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| Stryderg | 14 Oct 2022 5:47 a.m. PST |
It looks like a pre-manatee. |
| Choctaw | 14 Oct 2022 10:53 a.m. PST |
Hippos are extremely dangerous when roaming the river banks at night. I wonder if these guys were. |
| JMcCarroll | 14 Oct 2022 1:55 p.m. PST |
Hippos are extremely dangerous all the time. Number one killer of humans in Africa. |
| Tango01 | 14 Oct 2022 4:33 p.m. PST |
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| Heedless Horseman | 28 Oct 2022 4:13 p.m. PST |
Big market for Hot Tubs in recent years… lol. |
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