Archive for September 19th, 2015

Bunostegos akokanensis: A Pre reptile

A newly published analysis of the bones of Bunostegos akokanensis, a 260-million-year-old pre-reptile, finds that it likely stood upright on all-fours, like a cow or a hippo, making it the earliest known creature to do so. To date all of the known pareiasaurs who roved the supercontinent of Pangea in the Permian era a quarter […]