Lukas VFN 🇪🇺<p>Ancient superpredator that lived 328 million years ago was 'the T. rex of its time' <br><a href="https://www.livescience.com/tetrapod-predator-growth" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">livescience.com/tetrapod-preda</span><span class="invisible">tor-growth</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Fossil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fossil</span></a> bone <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/histology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>histology</span></a> reveals ancient origins for rapid juvenile growth in tetrapods <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-022-04079-0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nature.com/articles/s42003-022</span><span class="invisible">-04079-0</span></a> </p><p>Early <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/tetrapods" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tetrapods</span></a> like <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/whatcheeriads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>whatcheeriads</span></a> were related to modern <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/reptiles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>reptiles</span></a>, <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/amphibians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>amphibians</span></a> and <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/mammals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mammals</span></a> but were in a different evolutionary lineage than the ancestor of those three groups. To find rapid growth in as old an animal as&nbsp;<a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Whatcheeria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Whatcheeria</span></a> was really unexpected.</p>