Extinct Animal of the Week

Richard Owen publicly described the type species of Diictodon, D. feliceps, in 1876 in a book titled "Descriptive and illustrated catal...

Not really news so much as articles out of the past. The Proceedings of the Royal Society B are home to some of the best journal entries in...

Well this says a lot about appearance of Diictodon and its behaviors as considered by current science. Walking With Monsters also shows Diic...

  Kids will love this animal regardless of where they see it. One place they can read some info on it would be Wikipedia, as there is not Di...

Diictodon as a genera possesses seven species with D. feliceps being the type species. This leads to a wide variety of interpretations of t...

As promised, the last week before our own little Permian Extinction is going to end on a note that, despite how cute it may not have been i...

First we mentioned the two shows where Gorgonops' genus makes a big entry; Primeval and Walking with Monsters . Then I mentioned that t...

Richard Owen For the first time in a long time we have someone new to talk about. We've probably briefly described the life of Richar...

Blogspot wasn't working well for me yesterday, so here's yesterday's entry: As everyone well knows, I find a lot of articles...

Inostrancevia, a European Gorgonpsid, is a more likely candidate than an actual Gorgonops for this first video here because Gorgonops did no...

Gorgonopsids don't really have family appeal. It also isn't an enormous seller on its image, which we can all agree is a bit scary i...

The numerous species of Gorgonops should look somewhat alike, but probably not entirely alike. However, images on the internet, despite the ...

I wasn't sure what route to go this week. I know how we're going to end the Permian animal month, and it's a secret (a disturbi...

Eryops hasn't really made a move into popular culture. Name one amphibian outside of Kermit the Frog that has and you'll see why I b...

Through much searching and meandering in the online scientific world I finally found the answer for today. Eryops was discovered, described,...

In the pursuit of knowledge of life amphibians such as Eryops , being early amphibians specifically, have quite the story to tell. Eryops an...

The plain fact is that there are no starring roles. There are barely background roles. Poor amphibians, you know? Like the (incorrect) menti...

Eryops is one of those not so family friendly extinct species because it does not appear as often as other animals and dinosaurs in family a...

Having your place in the ecosystem as the go between predator of the day put Eryops in an interesting position ecologically speaking. It was...

Copyright 2011 Alain Beneteau http://dustdevil.deviantart.com/ The focus of this week is Eryops, an Early Permian amphibian. Combining...