Tag: synapsids
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SciNews: 305-Million-Year-Old Fossil Shows Parent Caring for Its Offspring
SciNews has a piece about an ancient synapsid with evidence that it cared for its young. The animal, called Dendromaia unamakiensis, lived about 305 million years ago in what is now Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. This find consists of both an adult and an associated juvenile which were found inside a fossilized tree stump. …
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New Cretaceous-Period Mammal Unveiled
Sci-News has a story about a new mammal that lived along side the dinosaurs during the Mesozoic Era. The animal, named Origolestes lii, is part of the famous Jehol Biota, which dates to the Cretaceous Period 133 to 120 million years ago. This biota was a terrestrial and freshwater ecosystem found across the Chinese provinces…
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PBS Eons: When the Synapsids Struck Back
PBS Eons has a great video about the ancestors and evolution of the mammals and the Permian Mass Extincton. Synapsids were the world’s first-ever terrestrial megafauna but the vast majority of these giants were doomed to extinction. However some lived on, keeping a low profile among the dinosaurs. And now our world is the…
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Dr. Ken Angielczyk of the Field Museum will be the May 2017 General Meeting Speaker
The speaker for the May general meeting will be Dr. Ken Angielczyk, Associate Curator at the Field Museum. His program will center on his field work in locations such as Antarctica, Tanzania and South Africa recovering fossils of anomodont therapsids, an extinct clade of non-mammalian synapsids (“mammal-like reptiles”).
