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🦖 Dino Kia 🦖 🏳️‍🌈 Chaotic Whovian of Arrakis @yutytyrant.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Discokeryx xiezhi From Early Miocene Halamagai Formation, China, "round plated horn" is what happens when a giraffe and a pachycephalosaur love each other very much, lol. Its domed head provides the best head butting adaptation of any mammal known so far

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🦖 Dino Kia 🦖 🏳️‍🌈 Chaotic Whovian of Arrakis @yutytyrant.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Pakasuchus kapilimai From Late Cretaceous Galula Formation, Tanzania, the 50cm "cat crocodile" is a notosuchian with a dog-like nose and unusual, mammal-like dentition potentially making it capable of chewing. It had long, sharp teeth at the front and molar esque ones at the back

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🦖 Dino Kia 🦖 🏳️‍🌈 Chaotic Whovian of Arrakis @yutytyrant.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Ursus arctos priscus From Late Pleistocene to Holocene Eurasia, the steppe brown bear is an extinct subspecies weighing up to a ton with a more carnivorous diet. Its validity is beary controversial, with some suggesting it being indistinguishable from modern brown bears

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🦖 Dino Kia 🦖 🏳️‍🌈 Chaotic Whovian of Arrakis @yutytyrant.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Bootherium bombifrons From Late Pleistocene North America, the 400kg "ox beast" was a relative of the modern muskox adapted to warmer climates (huh, usually it's the other way around, lol). It had a thicker skull with a longer snout and fused horns high on its skull

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🦖 Dino Kia 🦖 🏳️‍🌈 Chaotic Whovian of Arrakis @yutytyrant.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Crocodylus thorbjarnarsoni From Late Pliocene to Early Pleistocene Kenya, "Thorbjarnarson's crocodile" was the largest ever "true" crocodile at up to 7 meters long. With a broad snout, it was capable of eating early hominins whole Art by Sobek1926

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🦖 Dino Kia 🦖 🏳️‍🌈 Chaotic Whovian of Arrakis @yutytyrant.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Lycosuchus vanderrieti From Middle to Late Permian Karoo Formation, South Africa, "wolf crocodile" is a genus of middle sized therocephalian known from complete skulls and a few postcranial remains. It shows double canines,likely the result of being fossilized mid tooth replacement

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🦖 Dino Kia 🦖 🏳️‍🌈 Chaotic Whovian of Arrakis @yutytyrant.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Lesmesodon spp. From Early to Middle Miocene Germany and France, "tooth from Messel" was a genus of weasel sized proviverrin hyaenadont. It includes 3 species; L. behnkeae, L. edingeri, and L. gunnelli. They were hypercarnivorous, feeding on early horses

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🦖 Dino Kia 🦖 🏳️‍🌈 Chaotic Whovian of Arrakis @yutytyrant.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Lokotunjailurus emageritus From Late Miocene to Early Pliocene northern, southern, central, and eastern Africa, "clawed Turkana cat" is a homotherin sabre-toothed cat about as tall as a lioness but more cursorially adapted and with a large grappling dewclaw Art by Mauricio Anton

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🦖 Dino Kia 🦖 🏳️‍🌈 Chaotic Whovian of Arrakis @yutytyrant.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Caviramus schesaplanensis From Late Triassic Kössen Formation, Switzerland, "hollow branch" is a small pterosaur with teeth strangely suited for mastication; fanged ones at the front of the jaw and cusped ones at the back. It was likely a generalist omnivore Artist unknown

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🦖 Dino Kia 🦖 🏳️‍🌈 Chaotic Whovian of Arrakis @yutytyrant.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Tapinocephalus atherstonei From Middle Permian South Africa, "low, depressed head" is a species of 2 ton dinocephalian therapsid with a barred-shaped body, short snout, and dome shaped, pachyostotic skull used in headbutting for mates or territory Art by Farabin

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🦖 Dino Kia 🦖 🏳️‍🌈 Chaotic Whovian of Arrakis @yutytyrant.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Pelagornis spp. From Late Oligocene to Early Pleistocene Europe, North, and South America, "pelagic bird" is a pseudotoothed bird related to pelicans that filled an albatross niche. One species, P. sandersi, has the longest wingspan of any bird at 6.4 meters Art by Liz Bradford

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🦖 Dino Kia 🦖 🏳️‍🌈 Chaotic Whovian of Arrakis @yutytyrant.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Gnathomortis stadtmani From Late Cretaceous Mancos Shale, Colorado, "jaws of death 💀" (hell yeah!) is a genus of 10 meter long mosasaur originally considered a species of Prognathodon. Its teeth were likely hidden by gum tissue when not attacking Art by DehautNathan

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🦖 Dino Kia 🦖 🏳️‍🌈 Chaotic Whovian of Arrakis @yutytyrant.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Manipulonyx reshetovi From Late Cretaceous Nemegt Formation, Mongolia, "manipulating claw" is a new alvarezsaur with "hands down" some of the weirdest dino hands; two tiny fingers, dermal ossicles, and spiky osteoderms in addition to the giant clawed finger Art by @rlatkdwls on X

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🦖 Dino Kia 🦖 🏳️‍🌈 Chaotic Whovian of Arrakis @yutytyrant.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

🦌 🎅; Daily Paleo 🦌 🎅; Sinomegaceros spp. Oh deer, Rudolf really let himself go... From Late Pliocene to Late Pleistocene Central and east Asia, "Chinese great horn" is a genus of prehistoric deer of up to 500kg with flat and broad branches and robust, pachyostotic mandibles Art by Rudolf Hima

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🦖 Dino Kia 🦖 🏳️‍🌈 Chaotic Whovian of Arrakis @yutytyrant.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays everyone! 🎄 🎅 Have a great festive time, and beware the Krampus that lurks in the dark... ❄️

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🦖 Dino Kia 🦖 🏳️‍🌈 Chaotic Whovian of Arrakis @yutytyrant.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Peltephilus spp. From Oligocene to Mid Miocene Argentina, the horned armadillo is a genus of xenarthran known for its head scutes that developed into horns. The upper teeth on the anterior side of the upper jaw were sharp and passed beyond the lower jaw teeth

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🦖 Dino Kia 🦖 🏳️‍🌈 Chaotic Whovian of Arrakis @yutytyrant.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Sahonachelys mailakavava From Late Cretaceous Maevarano Formation, Madagascar, "quick mouthed frog turtle" was a small turtle with a flat head and gracile jaws. Its enlarged hyoids and lack of teeth suggest a unique suction feeding lifestyle

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🦖 Dino Kia 🦖 🏳️‍🌈 Chaotic Whovian of Arrakis @yutytyrant.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Mixosaurus spp. From Middle Triassic Italy, Switzerland, and China, "mixed lizard" is a genus of icthyosaur up to 2 meters so named because it's thought to be a transitional form between earlier eel shaped icthyosaurs and later dolphin shaped ones Art by @mariolanzas.bsky.social

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🦖 Dino Kia 🦖 🏳️‍🌈 Chaotic Whovian of Arrakis @yutytyrant.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Henodus chelyops That's... flat, lol. From Late Triassic Germany and Portugal, "one tooth" is a meter long turtle-like placoderm and the first of its kind not to be found in marine deposits. It had a single tooth in each side of the mouth, the rest replaced by baleen-like barbs

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🦖 Dino Kia 🦖 🏳️‍🌈 Chaotic Whovian of Arrakis @yutytyrant.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Kaatedocus siberi From Late Jurassic Morrison Formation, Wyoming, "small beam" is a relatively small diplodocid at an itty bitty 14 meters long. Its well preserved neck has been used to argue that diplodocids had dorsal spines and held their necks upright

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🦖 Dino Kia 🦖 🏳️‍🌈 Chaotic Whovian of Arrakis @yutytyrant.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Europejara olcadesorum From Early Cretaceous Spain, "European tapejara" is a species of small tapejarid with a 2 meter wingspan known from a crushed skull. It shows the longest dentary crest in proportion to lower jaw of any pterosaur Art by @mariolanzas.bsky.social

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🦖 Dino Kia 🦖 🏳️‍🌈 Chaotic Whovian of Arrakis @yutytyrant.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Cretalamna spp. From "Middle" Cretaceous to Eocene Africa, North and Central America, and the Near East, "Cretaceous shark" is a genus of otodontid shark known from jaw and tooth fragments. Up to 4 meters, It's considered the ancestor of the famous Megalodon

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🦖 Dino Kia 🦖 🏳️‍🌈 Chaotic Whovian of Arrakis @yutytyrant.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Mixotoxodon larensis From Middle to Late Pleistocene South and North America, "mixed brow tooth" is one of the last and largest toxodonts, and the only one to migrate into North America. It was a rhino sized animal with the highest estimates being up to 4 tons Art by Roman Uchytel

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🦖 Dino Kia 🦖 🏳️‍🌈 Chaotic Whovian of Arrakis @yutytyrant.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Smilodon populator From Late Pleistocene South America, "devastator knife tooth" is the third and type species of Smilodon. One of the largest known felids at up to 430kg, its sabre teeth, bear-like build, and massive forearms made it a large game specialist

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🦖 Dino Kia 🦖 🏳️‍🌈 Chaotic Whovian of Arrakis @yutytyrant.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Smilodon fatalis From Late Pleistocene North America, "deadly knife tooth" is the second Smilodon species. With similar dimensions to a lion but sporting a more powerful build, it fed on bison, camels, and occasionally even glyptodonts by bypassing their shell

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🦖 Dino Kia 🦖 🏳️‍🌈 Chaotic Whovian of Arrakis @yutytyrant.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Smilodon gracilis From Early Pleistocene North America, "gracile knife tooth" was the smallest Smilodon species, ranging from leopard to jaguar size. Despite this, it was exactly gracile since it had already evolved a robust build with powerful forelimbs Artist unknown

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🦖 Dino Kia 🦖 🏳️‍🌈 Chaotic Whovian of Arrakis @yutytyrant.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Unenlagia spp. From Late Cretaceous Portezuelo Formation, Argentina, "half bird" gives name to the clade Unenlagiinae, which are traditionally considered dromaeosaurs. It contains two species, comahuensis and paynemili, and has been estimated at up to 3 meters

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🦖 Dino Kia 🦖 🏳️‍🌈 Chaotic Whovian of Arrakis @yutytyrant.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Toyotamaphimeia spp. From Middle Pleistocene Japan and Taiwan, "Toyotama Hime" is a triangular headed gavialid crocodilian of up to 7 meters named after a Japanese godess. Its range represents the northernmost thermal limit that crocodilians can tolerate Art by Sobek1926

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🦖 Dino Kia 🦖 🏳️‍🌈 Chaotic Whovian of Arrakis @yutytyrant.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Gorgodon minutus From Early Permian southwestern United States, "dreadful tooth" is potentially a pelycosaur synapsid known from fragmentary remains. It had a large temporal fenestrae and large, conical caniform teeth on the front of its jaw Art by @mariolanzas.bsky.social

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🦖 Dino Kia 🦖 🏳️‍🌈 Chaotic Whovian of Arrakis @yutytyrant.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Hanyusuchus sinensis From Holocene South China, "Han Yu's crocodile" was a false gahrial like crocodilian that could grow up to 6 meters long. It survived the climate shift that killed most other Asian megafauna, but was wiped out by expanding farmlands and hunting

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🦖 Dino Kia 🦖 🏳️‍🌈 Chaotic Whovian of Arrakis @yutytyrant.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Athenar bermani From Late Jurassic Morrison Formation, USA, this dicraeosaur sauropod is named after the metal artist whose music played while the holotype, a braincase previously assigned to Diplodocus, was being worked on. It's known from a subadult specimen Art by cisiopurple

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🦖 Dino Kia 🦖 🏳️‍🌈 Chaotic Whovian of Arrakis @yutytyrant.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Diluvicursor pickeringi From Early Cretaceous Eumeralla Formation, Australia, "flood runner" is a small ornithischian named after the high energy river deposits it was found in. It would have lived in a flood plain, feeding on flowers, seeds, and fruit Art by cisiopurple

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🦖 Dino Kia 🦖 🏳️‍🌈 Chaotic Whovian of Arrakis @yutytyrant.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Pterodaustro guinazui From Early Cretaceous Lagarcito Formation, Argentina, "wing of the south" is a ctenochasmid pterosaur with a uniquely (for its family) long tail, robust limbs, an elongated face, and a thousand bristle like teeth for filter feeding

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🦖 Dino Kia 🦖 🏳️‍🌈 Chaotic Whovian of Arrakis @yutytyrant.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Austroraptor cabazai From Late Cretaceous Allen Formation, Argentina, "southern seizer" is one of the largest dromaeosaurs at up to 6 meters long. A piscavore, it had an unusually long and thin snout, conical teeth, short arms, and disproportionate toes

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🦖 Dino Kia 🦖 🏳️‍🌈 Chaotic Whovian of Arrakis @yutytyrant.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Irritator challengeri From Early Cretaceous Romualdo Formation, Brazil, "Challenger's irritation" is a 7 meter spinosaurid known a skull damaged and altered by collectors before being smuggled to Germany. Its lower jaws could rotate laterally to allow large prey to be swallowed

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🦖 Dino Kia 🦖 🏳️‍🌈 Chaotic Whovian of Arrakis @yutytyrant.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Propleopus spp. From Late Pleistocene Australia, "before greater foot" is a genus of kangaroo up to 47kg in weight. Unlike other kangaroos and similar to their modern relative the musky rat-kangaroo, they were omnivorous and quadrupedal

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🦖 Dino Kia 🦖 🏳️‍🌈 Chaotic Whovian of Arrakis @yutytyrant.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Protocyon troglodytes From Late Pleistocene South America and Mexico, "before dog" was a 25kg canid that filled a similar niche to the African wild dog or Asian dholes while being related to maned wolfs and other South American canids

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🦖 Dino Kia 🦖 🏳️‍🌈 Chaotic Whovian of Arrakis @yutytyrant.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Megalonyx jeffersonii From Late Pleistocene North America, "Jefferson's great claw" is a species of 1300kg giant ground sloth. Remains of adults have been found in direct association with juveniles of different ages, suggesting generational parental care

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🦖 Dino Kia 🦖 🏳️‍🌈 Chaotic Whovian of Arrakis @yutytyrant.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

"Pick it up!" 💀 🦖 Ben's brush with Death, in a form personal to him and reminiscent of a part memory. Inspired by Camp Cretaceous, Chaos Theory, and Puss in Boots: the Last Wish 💫 Engagement is appreciated 😃

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🦖 Dino Kia 🦖 🏳️‍🌈 Chaotic Whovian of Arrakis @yutytyrant.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

🦃 Daily Paleo 🦃; Meleagris californica From Late Pleistocene to Holocene California, the Californian turkey is an extinct relative of the modern wild turkey with a similar but stockier build and shorter, wider beak. A common La Brea fossil, it went extinct as a result of drought and overhunting

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🦖 Dino Kia 🦖 🏳️‍🌈 Chaotic Whovian of Arrakis @yutytyrant.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Paraceratherium spp. From Early Oligocene to Early Miocene Eurasia, "near hornless beast" was a genus of hornless rhinoceros and one of the largest terrestrial mammals at up to 20 tons. Its 1.3 meter long skull had huge tusk like incisors, and likely a preventive lip

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🦖 Dino Kia 🦖 🏳️‍🌈 Chaotic Whovian of Arrakis @yutytyrant.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Mammuthus subplanifrons From Late Miocene to Early Pleistocene South and East Africa, the east African mammoth is known mostly from dental material and represents the oldest known mammoth species. It already shows telltale features such as the spiralling tusks

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🦖 Dino Kia 🦖 🏳️‍🌈 Chaotic Whovian of Arrakis @yutytyrant.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Glyptodon spp. From Pliocene to Early Holocene South America, "carved tooth" is the best known of the glyptodonts, a clade of giant, armored armadillo relatives. At 400kg, it had a carapace made out of interconnected osteoderms, and short limbs

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🦖 Dino Kia 🦖 🏳️‍🌈 Chaotic Whovian of Arrakis @yutytyrant.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Giganotosaurus carolinii From "Middle" Cretaceous Candaleros Formation, Argentina, "giant southern lizard" is one of the largest terrestrial predators at up to 13m. Its rugose snout could be used to ram, and its huge jaws could rip off massive chunks of flesh

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🦖 Dino Kia 🦖 🏳️‍🌈 Chaotic Whovian of Arrakis @yutytyrant.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Aerotitan sudamericanus From Late Cretaceous Argentina, the "south american air titan" is perhaps not titanic enough with an "only" 5 meter wingspan. It's the first azhdarchid found in its continent and is known from an upper jaw fragment

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🦖 Dino Kia 🦖 🏳️‍🌈 Chaotic Whovian of Arrakis @yutytyrant.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Ocnotherium giganteum From Late Pleistocene Brazil, "giant slow sloth-like beast" is a species of mylodontid giant ground sloth with built-in osteoderm armor. Some specimens show pathologies such as osteoarthritis and calcium pyrophosphate deposition disease Art by Paleo-Lee

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🦖 Dino Kia 🦖 🏳️‍🌈 Chaotic Whovian of Arrakis @yutytyrant.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

"Dino Slash! Let's blow'em up, Bumpy!" To mark the culmination of one of my favorite animated shows, a crossover fanart with another of my favorite animated shows! 🦖

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🦖 Dino Kia 🦖 🏳️‍🌈 Chaotic Whovian of Arrakis @yutytyrant.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

🦖 Daily Paleo 🦖; Paludirex spp. From Pliocene to Pleistocene Australia, "swamp king" is a genus of mekosuchine crocodile of up to 5 meters. It was an apex predator who ruled prior to the arrival of saltwater crocodiles, with deep and robust jaws for killing megafauna

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