The permian is interesting as hell but it is so
so deeply cursed
Capitalizing the first letter while capslocks is on
That just HAS to be the incorrect head.
Nope! Here’s a fossil in situ:
The whole Caseidae family was fucky-looking…. everything in the Permian period was fucky-looking.
Cotylorhynchus, along with the more famous dimetrodon (the one with the sail-fin back), was a synapsid - meaning that they branched off the phylogenetic tree along with mammals, and are thus more closely related to us than they are any other modern animals. Personally, I love our ugly cousins.
I like to imagine what kind of noises he might make. Would it be a clumsy deep-voiced lizard croak? Would it be a squeaky toad sound? What wonders would have come out of his tiny little head
groundbreaking science reveals they sounded exactly like this
