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Look: Chunky, prehistoric "hippo" lived before the dinosaurs
Meet Lalieudorhynchus, a distant relative of today’s mammals.
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Before the dinosaurs, Earth was home to strange, reptile-looking creatures called synapsids that roamed the land on four legs.
Though some look reminiscent of crocodiles and turtles, they’re actually the early ancestors of today’s mammals.
And a newly discovered synapsid species unearthed in France may have lived like a mammal we see today.
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