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🚨NEW STUDY DROP🚨 Paper re-describes many of the specimens applied to the Pinacosaurus genus. New species, Pinacosaurus hilwitnorum, is named from specimens applied to P. grangeri. P. mephistocephalus is too distinct and put in a new genus, Eopinacosaurus. 🎨: @olorotitan.bsky.social

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Another very rarely kept species from Landau Zoo, the northern Luzon giant could rat (Phloeomys pallidus) from the island of Luzon, Philippine Islands. This huge mouse reaches weights of 1,9-2,4 kg and has a striking pattern. Sadly they suffer locally heavily from overhunting.

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Somewhere in Mealhada...A small drawing in honor of the bombshell discovery of a mummified Homotherium latidens cub in Siberia. In Portugal, the only trace of this animal comes from an astragalus, a bone from the foot, which can be seen in the Geological Museum of Lisbon. #paleoart #portugal

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