Drifting thru Deep Time

photographs by Thinus Van Staden

did you know? deinonychus can have clinical depression

and one day, everyone will know our names. but this moment is ours alone

I watched the first episode of surviving earth and that led me down a rabbit hole on permian therapsids and my new favorite extinct animal. It's a funny dog. I didn't know much about therocephalians and they're a lot more diverse than I thought! The bosses on Choerosaurus' skull is thought to be for display as they're too fragile for headbutting.

Doing a Pokémon drawing challenge on my socials! Feel free to suggest Pokémon to draw

I’m begging you to look at this.

Three Synapsid Moon

A new study published just a few days ago (https://peerj.com/articles/20794/) has completely changed our understanding of the facial anatomy and biology of one of Australia’s most famous dinosaurs. It shows that Muttaburrasaurus langdoni, which rivaled Iguanodon or even T.rex in size, didn’t possess a resonating chamber in its nose but a much narrower snout than traditional media depictions, a strong sense of smell, wide-ranging vision, low-frequency hearing similar to that of elephants, as well as a specialized teeth and beak for consuming tough vegetation.