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

    11/24/2018 12:36:30 PM PST · by ETL · 28 replies
    ScienceMag.com ^ | Nov 22, 2018 | Gretchen Vogel
    Imagine if you crossed a rhino with a giant turtle and then supersized the result: You might get something like Lisowicia bojani, a newly discovered Triassic mammal cousin that had a body shaped like a rhinoceros, a beak like a turtle, and weighed as much as an African elephant, about 9 tons. Paleontologists say this startling creature offers a new view of the dawn of the age of the dinosaurs. "Who would have ever thought that there were giant, elephant-sized mammal cousins living alongside some of the very first dinosaurs?" marvels Stephen Brusatte, a vertebrate paleontologist at The University of...