Direct descendent:
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.
Submitted 1 year ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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fulcrummed@lemmy.world 1 year ago
LaserTurboShark69@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Okay so is this photoshopped or what’s going on here
zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 1 year ago
If turtle shells were on the inside.
USSMojave@startrek.website 1 year ago
Turtle shells are already on the inside. The entire surface of their shells is skin!
zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 1 year ago
So they’re more naked than I thought…
SadSadSatellite@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
I feel like this is one of those models we’re completely wrong about.
Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Yeah this looks like a stupid degree of shrink wrapping of the neck.
muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 1 year 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?
umbraroze@lemmy.world 1 year 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.
muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Huh the more u know
propter_hog@hexbear.net 1 year ago
It’s like a turtle without the turtle part
normal_user@hexbear.net 1 year 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
algorithmae@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
This comment deals 10 points psychic damage
Kowowow@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Is he voiced by danny devito?
BananaPeal@sh.itjust.works 1 year 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.
Colour_me_triggered@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Looks like Elon musk as
a reptilemore of a reptile.Coolkidbozzy@hexbear.net 1 year ago
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
it’s
Yes it is.
usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
I don’t understand how they used it correctly and then didn’t
TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 1 year ago
It’s shaped like a cheeseburger. I’ll call it Americanis.
EstraDoll@hexbear.net 1 year ago
BIG CHUNGUS
qarbone@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It looks like it was made in Spore