The Absolute Unit Garzapelta Is Friend-Shaped. Shame It’s Dead
After death, we all run the risk of being forgotten. Such was the case of Garzapelta muelleri, an ancient reptile that lived over 200 million years ago and even went unidentified for 30 years after its bony remains were found.Do We Have to Send Humans to Mars for Exploration?Garzapelta is an aetosaur, a group of archosaurs more closely related to the ancestors of crocs and alligators than birds. But in paleoart reconstructions (see above), the animal looks like if a crocodile were much more polite. Aetosaurs’ upturned…