Symbion pandora

Very unruffled Great Egret on Coronado Island, San Diego

a meeting of creatures…

Do you like necks? Because I have a great one for you!

Sichuan Takin and Lesser Kudu

Newly arrived Nile Lechwe! Beautiful animal.

it works so well HOW. the markings, the hoof on the wing, the short tail, the pink eye

Obsessed with this actually

From Smith et al. 2022, which describes a bone bed of juvenile Lystrosaurus from the earliest Triassic (Lystrosaurus declivis Assemblage Zone, ~252 Ma) of the Karoo Basin, South Africa. A drought drove a large number of them to congregate in one spot, where they then starved to death.

My favourite part of this question is that we actually have coprolites, fossilised dung, from the Late Permian which seem to contain hair. So basically, something had hair at this point, but we don’t know what!! Lystrosaurus, however, has now been shown to have bare, bumpy skin, which is a good indicator that hair may not have evolved until higher up in the stem-mammal tree!

*makes another silly little poster*

Have a Kulindad