playing an important ecological role in maintaining the island's pre-human forest communities

which is the largest sea turtle in existence today

The tail was relatively stiff due to ossified tendons

which it used to grab and pull out vegetation

Scale 1:35 - 178 x 109 x 80 mm H

Dimetrodon Variant:Unprimed playing an important ecological roleDimetrodon (D. grandis, "Wedgetooth"), is an extinct genus of non mammalian synapsids that lived during the Kungurian Age of the Lower Permian, between 295 and 272 million years ago, was a terrestrial animal and is believed to have lived in swampy areas and river banks, near bodies of fresh water where they could find food. It is a member of the Sphenacodontidae family and is the best known of the Pelicosaurs, especially for its spectacular sail. It