#tawa

[thatonegaycactus]

Day 47 of DDD! Tawa! This guy was appearently one of the earliest therapods in gondwana and then reached everywhere in the globe! triassic was wild I tell you

[raungkemarau]

Apa yang kita kira kebetulan, hanyalah riak kecil dari arus takdir yang lebih besar. Semua sudah digariskan, kita hanya sedang belajar percaya bahwa setiap pertemuan, kehilangan, tawa, hingga air mata, punya alasan yang jauh lebih indah dari yang mampu kita pahami hari ini.

[hacchigryphon]

nimi pi akesi ni li "Tawa". ni li musi tawa mi!

[totaldino]

Tawa

A basal theropod, Tawa shares physical characteristics with coelophysoids and herrerasaurids, and its discovery supports the theory that dinosaurs originated in the southern supercontinent of Gondwanna, before diversifying as Pangea split apart. It was a bipedal carnivore, estimated around 2.5 m in length, and weighing about 15 kg.

[salubri-outcast]

Apollo, a Tawa sunstone engineer poses for a fun photograph.

Apollo travels from settlement to settlement with her human life partner, Luna.

[lisamarie-vee]

[saritapaleo]

Archovember 2025 Day 1

Dinosaur Tawa hallae, of Late Triassic, New Mexico, USA!

We begin this year’s Archovember with what is possibly one of the first known theropod dinosaurs, Tawa hallae. While it is definitely a saurischian dinosaur, its position as a definite theropod still remains unknown. Its skull, with a kink in the upper jaw, resembles that of coelophysoids, its hips resemble those of herrerasaurids, and its neck vertebrae supported the cervical air sacs that would have allowed for the evolution of both sauropods and birds. Tawa has helped refine our understanding of the origin of theropods.

Hailing from the Chinle Formation of New Mexico, Tawa was one of the first “large” dinosaurs on the scene in the Late Triassic, its peers being the wolf-sized basal saurischian Chindesaurus and the more famous early theropod Coelophysis. It would have also lived alongside (and may have hunted) the tiny lagerpetid Dromomeron, the silesaurid Eucoelophysis, and could have been preyed on by large phytosaurs and pseudosuchians, which ruled the environment at the time.

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[unusualmuffinart]

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