A giant in the time of dinosaurs: Ancient mammal cousin looked like cross between rhino and turtle

ScienceMag.com ^ | Nov 22, 2018 | Gretchen Vogel

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This elephant-size mammalian relative, Lisowicia bojani, walked on Earth in the Late Triassic, just when dinosaurs
were evolving to giant sizes.

[mitch5501]

That thing looks like it could eat a car!

[Grimmy]

A RHINO and a turtle?

Where have I heard that before?

[MIchaelTArchangel]

A cross between a RINO and a Turtle? Are they going to name the monster after Senator McConnell?

[blueunicorn6]

“Our mammal ancestors”

It does look like Joy Behar.....mostly around the beak.

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A RHINO and a turtle? Where have I heard that before?

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[PeterPrinciple]

Researchers have hypothesized that sauropods grew big to avoid getting eaten.

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the absurdity, it burns....................

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A RHINO and a turtle? Where have I heard that before?

The "MitchMcconnellSaurus"...

[Grimmy]

Thanks. :)

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

That was my first thought!

[PGR88]

I just KNEW that was coming...

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“Researchers have hypothesized that sauropods grew big to avoid getting eaten.”

Lamarckism makes its comeback! I’m going to hypothesize that sauropods grew big because they were genetically programmed to do so in their DNA, but I’m an amateur.

The other alternative is that they wished they were bigger because they were getting eaten too much, and so they willed themselves larger after they were eaten? Who are these researchers?

[Postman]

Thank you.

[refreshed]

I always have preferred non-fiction over fiction. Even when I was a young child at the library at which my mom worked.

[Track9]

Wait till they find Fred and Barny. Then it’s really game on.

[smalltownslick]

I thought for sure it was going to be a cross between Ryan and Mc Connell

[Diana in Wisconsin]

…”Bojani…”

Weren’t they one of those 80’s Big Hair Boy Bands? ;)

You always post the most interesting stuff. Thanks! :)

[Maurice Tift]