Author: Miss Cellania / Source: Neatorama
This is Lisowicia bojani, a newly-discovered dicynodont that lived 237 million years ago, in the Triassic period, when dinosaurs first rose to dominance. But it’s not a dinosaur, or even a reptile. It’s an early relative of mammals. The popular notion of mammal ancestors is that they were small and hid themselves from carnivorous dinosaurs, and were therefore able to survive the cataclysms that killed off the dinos.
The latest specimen of Lisowicia bojani, found in Poland, was the size of an elephant: eight and a half feet tall…The post Giant Mammal Relative Roamed Among Dinosaurs appeared first on FeedBox.