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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

Links in lieu of propoganda. Kadimakara, a triassic archosauromorph reptile

Kalisuchus, a triassic archosauromorph reptile

Kambara, a cenozoic crocodile

Kimberella, a precambrian bilaterally symmetrical animal

Kolopsis, a cenozoic diprotodontid marsupial

Koolasuchus, a cretaceous temnospondyl amphibian

Kronosaurus, a cretaceous marine reptile

Kunbarrasaurus, a cretaceous armoured dinosaur

Kimberella! The problematica party is here to make you question all facets of phylogeny!

Type: Fire

Evolves into Hemaslime when holding an Iron Ball Upturning the sediment for food with their proboscis, Kiffers scootch slowly across the seafloor. To better protect themselves, they will sometimes heat up and harden the surrounding minerals into more solid plates, which it will pick up and place along its back.

At the start of the Neoproterozoic, the first animals would emerge, and after surviving another series of ice ages, we would see the first complex life, although for now it is still very simple and seemingly alien. It is still a subject of debate how these creatures fit into the tree of life. Are they the earliest ancestors of modern life? Are they simply an entirely separate branch that died off after this period? Scientists still aren't sure. I may do a separate post about the bizarre fauna of the Ediacaran period.