originally posted in:Sociopaths United
The thing was an 11.5 foot monster that looks like the lovechild of a T.Rex and a lioness. Nothing on this planet, before or since, has ever been quite so badass.
It was also Russian, so were it alive today it would drink their nasty potato-booze and drive around with a dashboard cam and an AK.
On a related note, this animal was a Therapsid, more closely related to mammals like us than, say, lizards or crocodiles or dinosaurs.
The more you know.
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That is what predation looks like when the niceties of not being a killing and eating machine are done away with (also land-based, cause sharks are already a thing). Metal Indeed.
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Edited by Cild Molestee: 6/15/2013 5:53:18 AMObjection! Mammal-like reptiles were not all reptiles but grouped under the paraphyletic clade Synapsida. The more primitive ones, such a pelycosaurs are considered true reptiles, while the more complex ones like this particular Gorgonopsid presented in this image has no official class it's placed in, and therefore erroneously put in the class "Reptilia".
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It looks like it's missing it's skin... Did they not get to that part of the process yet?
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Bad link dood