The 2015 conception of the skeletal reconstruction also makes the bearing of the fin a dynamic part of the creature rather than a clumsy adjunct to essential parts.
It's fun to consider that although the synapsids didn't survive the Permian Extinction, we modem humans carry a little of Dimetrodon in our ear bones.. the three bone anvil, stirrup, hammer structure. Thanks, cynodonts!
The 2015 conception of the skeletal reconstruction also makes the bearing of the fin a dynamic part of the creature rather than a clumsy adjunct to essential parts.
It's fun to consider that although the synapsids didn't survive the Permian Extinction, we modem humans carry a little of Dimetrodon in our ear bones.. the three bone anvil, stirrup, hammer structure. Thanks, cynodonts!