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Lystrosaurs
Image: Artist's depiction of two lystrosaurs
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An artist's depiction shows lystrosaurs foraging near a stream. Flat-faced with a beak and two teeth that resembled tusks, lystrosaurs were synapsids, animals that arose in the Permian and eventually gave rise to mammals.
Artwork by John Sibbick

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