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  1. Whatcheeria: Human-related crocodile-shaped predator that lived 340 million years ago dubbed ‘T Rex of its day’ | The Independent
    #Whatcheeria
    #HumanRelatedPredator
    #CrocodileShapedPredator
    #OriginalTRex
    #TRexOfItsDay
    #Tetrapod

    Named Whatcheeria, it had huge razor sharp teeth and bone crushing jaws that snapped animals in half

    independent.co.uk/news/science

  2. Whatcheeria: Human-related crocodile-shaped predator that lived 340 million years ago dubbed ‘T Rex of its day’ | The Independent
    #Whatcheeria
    #HumanRelatedPredator
    #CrocodileShapedPredator
    #OriginalTRex
    #TRexOfItsDay
    #Tetrapod

    Named Whatcheeria, it had huge razor sharp teeth and bone crushing jaws that snapped animals in half

    independent.co.uk/news/science

  3. Apex predator of its environment, the Whatcheeria grew extraordinarily rapidly
    Long before the dinosaurs or even the advent of the earliest true amphibians and reptiles, Whatcheeria was a genuine apex predator.

    abc.net.au/news/2022-12-06/pre

    #Whatcheeria
    #Carboniferous
    #Fossils
    #Palaeontology

  4. Apex predator of its environment, the Whatcheeria grew extraordinarily rapidly
    Long before the dinosaurs or even the advent of the earliest true amphibians and reptiles, Whatcheeria was a genuine apex predator.

    abc.net.au/news/2022-12-06/pre

    #Whatcheeria
    #Carboniferous
    #Fossils
    #Palaeontology

  5. Apex predator of its environment, the Whatcheeria grew extraordinarily rapidly
    Long before the dinosaurs or even the advent of the earliest true amphibians and reptiles, Whatcheeria was a genuine apex predator.

    abc.net.au/news/2022-12-06/pre

    #Whatcheeria
    #Carboniferous
    #Fossils
    #Palaeontology

  6. Apex predator of its environment, the Whatcheeria grew extraordinarily rapidly
    Long before the dinosaurs or even the advent of the earliest true amphibians and reptiles, Whatcheeria was a genuine apex predator.

    abc.net.au/news/2022-12-06/pre

    #Whatcheeria
    #Carboniferous
    #Fossils
    #Palaeontology

  7. Apex predator of its environment, the Whatcheeria grew extraordinarily rapidly
    Long before the dinosaurs or even the advent of the earliest true amphibians and reptiles, Whatcheeria was a genuine apex predator.

    abc.net.au/news/2022-12-06/pre

    #Whatcheeria
    #Carboniferous
    #Fossils
    #Palaeontology

  8. Ancient superpredator that lived 328 million years ago was 'the T. rex of its time'
    livescience.com/tetrapod-preda

    #Fossil bone #histology reveals ancient origins for rapid juvenile growth in tetrapods nature.com/articles/s42003-022

    Early #tetrapods like #whatcheeriads were related to modern #reptiles, #amphibians and #mammals but were in a different evolutionary lineage than the ancestor of those three groups. To find rapid growth in as old an animal as #Whatcheeria was really unexpected.

  9. Ancient superpredator that lived 328 million years ago was 'the T. rex of its time'
    livescience.com/tetrapod-preda

    #Fossil bone #histology reveals ancient origins for rapid juvenile growth in tetrapods nature.com/articles/s42003-022

    Early #tetrapods like #whatcheeriads were related to modern #reptiles, #amphibians and #mammals but were in a different evolutionary lineage than the ancestor of those three groups. To find rapid growth in as old an animal as #Whatcheeria was really unexpected.

  10. Ancient superpredator that lived 328 million years ago was 'the T. rex of its time'
    livescience.com/tetrapod-preda

    #Fossil bone #histology reveals ancient origins for rapid juvenile growth in tetrapods nature.com/articles/s42003-022

    Early #tetrapods like #whatcheeriads were related to modern #reptiles, #amphibians and #mammals but were in a different evolutionary lineage than the ancestor of those three groups. To find rapid growth in as old an animal as #Whatcheeria was really unexpected.

  11. Ancient superpredator that lived 328 million years ago was 'the T. rex of its time'
    livescience.com/tetrapod-preda

    #Fossil bone #histology reveals ancient origins for rapid juvenile growth in tetrapods nature.com/articles/s42003-022

    Early #tetrapods like #whatcheeriads were related to modern #reptiles, #amphibians and #mammals but were in a different evolutionary lineage than the ancestor of those three groups. To find rapid growth in as old an animal as #Whatcheeria was really unexpected.

  12. #Whatcheeria was a six-foot-long lake-dwelling #creature with a #salamander-like body and a long, narrow head; its #fossils were discovered in a limestone quarry near the town of What Cheer, Iowa.
    #Paleontology #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2022/11/pal11282201

  13. #Whatcheeria was a six-foot-long lake-dwelling #creature with a #salamander-like body and a long, narrow head; its #fossils were discovered in a limestone quarry near the town of What Cheer, Iowa.
    #Paleontology #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2022/11/pal11282201

  14. #Whatcheeria was a six-foot-long lake-dwelling #creature with a #salamander-like body and a long, narrow head; its #fossils were discovered in a limestone quarry near the town of What Cheer, Iowa.
    #Paleontology #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2022/11/pal11282201

  15. #Whatcheeria was a six-foot-long lake-dwelling #creature with a #salamander-like body and a long, narrow head; its #fossils were discovered in a limestone quarry near the town of What Cheer, Iowa.
    #Paleontology #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2022/11/pal11282201

  16. #Whatcheeria was a six-foot-long lake-dwelling #creature with a #salamander-like body and a long, narrow head; its #fossils were discovered in a limestone quarry near the town of What Cheer, Iowa.
    #Paleontology #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2022/11/pal11282201

  17. Cracking open a fossil bone reveals rapid juvenile growth in early tetrapods
    phys.org/news/2022-11-fossil-b

    It was long thought that these early animals (ancestors of #amphibians, #reptiles, #birds, and #mammals) grew very slowly throughout their lifetime, gradually getting bigger and bigger, similar to a modern #salamander... #Whatcheeria's elevated growth rates as a juvenile shows us that maybe slow and steady growth is not actually the ancestral condition for all #tetrapods.

  18. Cracking open a fossil bone reveals rapid juvenile growth in early tetrapods
    phys.org/news/2022-11-fossil-b

    It was long thought that these early animals (ancestors of #amphibians, #reptiles, #birds, and #mammals) grew very slowly throughout their lifetime, gradually getting bigger and bigger, similar to a modern #salamander... #Whatcheeria's elevated growth rates as a juvenile shows us that maybe slow and steady growth is not actually the ancestral condition for all #tetrapods.

  19. Cracking open a fossil bone reveals rapid juvenile growth in early tetrapods
    phys.org/news/2022-11-fossil-b

    It was long thought that these early animals (ancestors of #amphibians, #reptiles, #birds, and #mammals) grew very slowly throughout their lifetime, gradually getting bigger and bigger, similar to a modern #salamander... #Whatcheeria's elevated growth rates as a juvenile shows us that maybe slow and steady growth is not actually the ancestral condition for all #tetrapods.

  20. Cracking open a fossil bone reveals rapid juvenile growth in early tetrapods
    phys.org/news/2022-11-fossil-b

    It was long thought that these early animals (ancestors of #amphibians, #reptiles, #birds, and #mammals) grew very slowly throughout their lifetime, gradually getting bigger and bigger, similar to a modern #salamander... #Whatcheeria's elevated growth rates as a juvenile shows us that maybe slow and steady growth is not actually the ancestral condition for all #tetrapods.