Synapsid Taxonomy is the Worst

From the Nashville Zoo’s fb page! Here’s the petition, please please please take a moment to add your name (even if you’re not from Nashville!). If you are from Tennessee, contact your representatives and make it clear that the people do not want this data center. This is an AZA accredited zoo which is home to several species of critically endangered animals, we NEED to protect it. Make your voice heard!

Look at them!!!! Look at them and fight like hell to save them!!!!

There’s so many other great animals at this zoo, and it's done so much in teaching people about animals and conservation.

cave lion from prehistoric planet compared to neolithic cave lion art

Ashbaugh et al. (2026)

Observed by migi30, CC BY-NC

Observed by mrabenberg, CC BY-NC

Fisher! Sometimes called a Fisher cat - not a cat, doesn't fish. They're in the mustelid family with otters and weasels. They hunt hares and rodents, like squirrels and even porcupines. Well known in my native New England woods for their haunting call, which sounds exactly like a human child screaming!

the kowari....

Hunted for its valuable fur, and persecuted by farmers who considered it a threat to their livestock, the Falkland Islands wolf was already rare when Charles Darwin visited the islands in 1833. By 1876 the species was completely extinct, the first known canid species to be wiped out in recent historical times.

The thylacine in Oslo! I like that they display it in its own diorama

LOOK AT THEM THEY'RE SO CUTE 😭😭😭

Dimetrodon, everyone's favourite not-a-dinosaur

by Roger Wasley

watercolor, gouache

watercolor, gouache, mama

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