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Prehistoric 'wonderfully weird beast' Whatcheeria grew big quickly

WASHINGTON: It looked like a cross between a crocodile and a salamander and definitely was not an animal to be messed with. Long before the dinosaur.

'Croco-salamander' bones offer clues to how early animals emerged from water – Harvard Gazette

A study overturns the long-held belief that ancient species grew at slow, steady pace, and offers insights into human maturation.

Prehistoric 'wonderfully weird beast' Whatcheeria grew big quickly

After a close examination of its fossilized bones, scientists were surprised to find that Whatcheeria did not follow a slow-and-steady growth pattern during its life akin to many modern reptiles and amphibians but rather grew quickly while young, like birds and mammals. Whatcheeria was an early tetrapod, as the first land vertebrates - animals with backbones - were known.

T. Rexes in the News: A Pregnant One, A Horned One and a Wannabe One

The Tyrannosaurus rex is having a moment … 66 million years after it last roamed the Earth. The news this week has

Iowa's Ancient Apex Predator Was the 'T. rex' of Its Day