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I guess I'm old in spirit.
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I guess I'm old in spirit.
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Welcome![Dimetrodon] wrote: ↑Sat Nov 19, 2022 11:46 am Hi Everyone.
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He's got the answers to ease my curiosity, He dreamed a god up and called it Christianity"
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There's some good old souls here, welcome!
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Nice sail, sir or madame. Welcome.
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[Dimetrodon] is a member of the fambly Sphenacodontidae.
Just so we know who we're dealin' with here.
Just so we know who we're dealin' with here.
The more I learn about this planet, the more improbable it all seems.
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https://www.thoughtco.com/things-to-kno ... on-1093785
10 Facts About Dimetrodon, the Non-Dinosaur Dinosaur
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Not Technically a Dinosaur
Although it looks superficially like a dinosaur, dimetrodon was actually a type of prehistoric reptile known as a pelycosaur, and it lived during the Permian period, 50 million years or so before the first dinosaurs had even evolved. Pelycosaurs themselves were more closely related to therapsids, or "mammal-like reptiles," than to the archosaurs that spawned the dinosaurs—which means, technically speaking, that dimetrodon was closer to being a mammal than to being a dinosaur.
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Named After Its Two Kinds of Teeth
Given its prominent sail, it's an odd fact that dimetrodon was named (by the famous American paleontologist Edward Drinker Cope) after one of its more obscure features, the two different kinds of teeth embedded in its jaws. The dental arsenal of dimetrodon included sharp canines in the front of its snout, ideal for digging into quivering, freshly killed prey, and shearing teeth in the back for grinding up tough muscle and bits of bone; even still, this reptile's dental arsenal would have been no match for that of the predatory dinosaurs that lived tens of millions of years later.
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Used its Sail as a Temperature-Regulation Device
As stated above, the most distinctive feature of dimetrodon was this pelycosaur's giant sail, the like of which wasn't seen again until the hood ornament of the middle cretaceous spinosaurus. Since this slow-moving reptile almost certainly possessed a cold-blooded metabolism, it probably evolved its sail as a temperature-regulation device, using it to soak up valuable sunlight during the daytime and dissipate excess heat at night. Secondarily, too, this sail may have been a sexually selected characteristic; see below.
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Males Were Larger than Females
Thanks to the fact that so many dimetrodon fossils have been discovered, paleontologists theorize that there was an essential difference between the sexes: full-grown males were slightly larger (about 15 feet long and 500 pounds), with thicker bones and more prominent sails. This lends support to the theory that dimetrodon's sail was at least partly a sexually selected characteristic; males with bigger sails were more attractive to females during mating season, and thus helped to propagate this trait to succeeding bloodlines.
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I wondered about those brackets......
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Hay nao, s/he's new, s/he doesn't know what that means. We've been here 14 years almost, no fair putting insider jokes in a welcome thread!
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The more I learn about this planet, the more improbable it all seems.