BrandNeWay
Add me on Instagram Instagram... Hey, so I'm Vince (or better known as Branden Eway on Tumblr) and I'm from Québec, Canada, yep the french bit ;) Feel Free to chat me up. "Love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. Let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic and we'll change the world." - Jack Layton. (RIP 1951 -2011) Bulbasaur(s)
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scientificillustration: “Armadillosuchus is an extinct genus of sphagesaurid crocodylomorph. It was described in February 2009 from the Late Cretaceous Bauru Basin of Brazil. Sphagesaurids share a number of mammal-like features in their teeth and jaws, although they are unrelated to mammals. Armadillosuchus is especially mammal-like in that it had heavy body armor characterized by flexible bands and rigid shields that covered its back, less like the traditional osteoderms that line the backs of most crurotarsans and more like that of a modern armadillo (hence the genus name meaning “armadillo crocodile”). Because of its unique morphology, it is believed to have had a terrestrial and quite possibly fossorial lifestyle.” Marinho, Thiago S.; and Carvalho, Ismar S. (2009). “An armadillo-like sphagesaurid crocodyliform from the Late Cretaceous of Brazil”. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 27 (1): 36–41. doi:10.1016/j.jsames.2008.11.005. Some more images from: ‘Armadillosuchus: One bad crocodyliform’ Armadillosuchus. The head is to the left, followed by the cervical shield and mobile-banded body armor. The partial upper and lower jaws of Armadillosuchus. And a photo from National Geographic News:
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rhamphotheca: Ambulocetus: The Walking Whale by National Geo staff Discovered in Pakistan in 1992, the fossil skeleton of 50-million-year-old Ambulocetus (“walking whale”) suggests it was able to walk on four legs—on land and in the water. Why it matters:  Explaining the leap from land mammals to whales was another evolutionary headache for Darwin, who proposed bears as possible whale ancestors. Recently unearthed fossils trace whales to a doglike predecessor of hoofed plant-eaters, and genetic analysis has identified hippos as whales’ closest living relatives. Fossil expert Donald Prothero of Occidental College says Ambulocetus is the “most complete, best studied, and clearest case of something with a whale’s head, the beginnings oof an aquatic lifestyle with webbed hands and feet, but still fully quadrupedal.” (via: National Geo)      (illustration by Shawn Gould)
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