Cotylorhynchus, a genus of late Permian synapsids. It's herbivorous and it's huge gut was possibly necessary to digest the nutrient-poor plant life it fed on.

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• qarbone@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It looks like it was made in Spore

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• fulcrummed@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Direct descendent:

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  • LaserTurboShark69@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Okay so is this photoshopped or what’s going on here

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    • myrrh@ttrpg.network ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      hormones

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• zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If turtle shells were on the inside.

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  • USSMojave@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Turtle shells are already on the inside. The entire surface of their shells is skin!

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    • zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      So they’re more naked than I thought…

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• SadSadSatellite@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I feel like this is one of those models we’re completely wrong about.

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  • Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah this looks like a stupid degree of shrink wrapping of the neck.

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• muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Looks like a turtle without its shell. Are the scientists sure it didnt have a shell made of cartilage thats been lost to time?

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  • umbraroze@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don’t know where this particular fella fits in the history, but turtles evolved from similar quadruped reptiles. Basically, their ribs evolved flat and wide so that their chests could support them better while burrowing tunnels. That turned into the turtle plastron.

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    • muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Huh the more u know

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• propter_hog@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s like a turtle without the turtle part

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  • normal_user@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You know what, I feel like the shell part of the turtle is best represented by the “turt” part of the world turtle. It just looks the way “turt” sounds.

    So a turtle without it’s shell I think should start to be called a “le” (pronounced like in the world turtle), which represents very well, as a sound, a “turt”-less turtle

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    • algorithmae@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This comment deals 10 points psychic damage

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• Kowowow@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Is he voiced by danny devito?

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  • BananaPeal@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I can picture it now. An Ice Age movie where Sid, Manny, and Diego are hanging around a bar and this chonky boy shows up out of nowhere and makes an outrageous claim. Queue “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” music.

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• Colour_me_triggered@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Looks like Elon musk as a reptile more of a reptile.

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• Coolkidbozzy@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  we probably just have the bones of the weirdest-looking critter in the species

  uncanny resemblance Image

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• corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  it’s

  Yes it is.

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  • usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don’t understand how they used it correctly and then didn’t

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• TankieTanuki@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s shaped like a cheeseburger. I’ll call it Americanis.

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• EstraDoll@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  BIG CHUNGUS

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