#gorgonopsians

[aberrantologist]

Doodles from yesterday's flocking paleostream featuring Dinogorgon, Viatkogorgon, Njalila, and Hippidion.

[snailtowne]

Proud of this guy... the product of a few gorgonopsid studies and a sudden resurgence of the Permian obsession

[eartharchives]

Deer-like male combat behaviors in mammal-relatives 270 million years ago

One study explains how 270 million years ago, two different mammal relatives could have exhibited interspecies combat behaviors similar to today’s deer.

This study examines the interesting comparison of today’s animal anatomy and behavior to better understand their distant relatives from hundreds of millions of years ago.

Image by Jonathan Kuo

[immoren]

[ask-palaeoblr]

What are the most accurate skeletal reconstructions available for Gorgonopsids, for paleoart reasons?

[eartharchives]

The rise and fall of the first saber-tooths

With faces pretty enough to turn you to stone, and a pair of saber-teeth to slash at their prey, the gorgonopsians truly lived up to their frightful name. They were the lords of the Late Permian, a time when every single continent was beginning to drift together, forming the supercontinent of Pangaea.

In life they would have seemed like a cross between a tyrannosaur and a saber-toothed cat, a strange yet successful combination.

Image credit: @paleoart