I used to like always hearing about dinosaurs when I was a kid and would only briefly read about mammals and their relatives. Now I can't get enough information about Synapsids and their descendants. Love videos on the Permian period and the Cenozoic periods and epochs.

5:02 jeebus chris that guy is going to haunt my nightmares. Most terrifying recreation of that beast that I’ve ever seen

The communal latrines made me think about Indian Rhinos and their behaviour. Another excellent, informative and visually appealing video.

If I could travel back in time I would love to go to the post Permian extinction event and see the massive herds of Lystrosaurus grazing on the fern prairies. What a sight!

You're an absolutely amazing source for information about prehistoric life, thank you for making a video on Anomodonts! Perhaps do a video dedicated to another group of more derived Therapsids next, the Therocephalians.

I was wishing only yesterday that you would make a video about these! And... here it is!😮😃 😍😍😍 Ever since I first saw Walking with Dinosaurs, I have been curious about the dicynodonts and their kin. I don't know why I find them so interesting. Maybe it's because their skeletons look coarse and clumsy and yet so powerful. That they were here, where we live now, and that they managed to spread out and stay for an incredibly long time. To think that Lystrosaurus was nearly everywhere in the world! Was there a shortage of predators? Was it the food? Nature seems to have kept its balance even though there were so many of the same kind. I wonder... Thank you for a very interesting and educational video, from a paleonerd. 😍

hearing the music always brings a smile here:D, the most dangerous animal here is a mousquito, the largest a cow, call me happy:D but it would be amazing to be able to see it all for real up close. what an amazing animals there have been. thank you dr polaris, respect for your work!

Another great video from you about this fascinating lifeform. 🥳 One reads and hears a lot about dinosaurs, but little is known about these exciting synapsids. 🤷🏽 I celebrate this part all the more and thank you for the contribution. If I had a time machine, I would actually like to see the Lisowicia in the Triassic. Exciting. 🤓

Lisiowicia alongside Smok are probably the most iconic Polish mesozoic fauna.

5:01 - Good gods, that’s Nightmare Fuel.

Thanks Dr P, so much more surely to learn about the synapsids in this time period, great to see some really great creators with a true passion and appreciation for the history of life beyond the mainstream dinos and creating awareness for all these major times, many thanks for putting this together

A very good, well-made, informative, nice and enjoyable video as usual ! 10/10 👍 But, this time, maybe one of the best of your channel so far ! Not only covering the best, most famous and beloved Dicynodonts themselves, but also their relatives outside them, the members of the super-order in which Dicynodonts belong themselves ! Since they are often shadowed by these latter and not often put in front of the screen. All of the famous and unavoidable genus/taxa are mentionned and presented as they deserved and in all their greatness ! Diictodon, Roberta, Lystrosaurus, Placerias, Kannemeyeria and Lisowicia. All important members and type members showing the overall evolution line that they undergo. From small generalist burrowing species from the Late Permian that survived the famous Great Dying Extinction even to medium sized herbivores fitting the Ungulate niche during the Trias, to the specialized Elephants sized members that held on to the end of this first Mesozoïc era ! Dicynodont see their Golden Age from the very beginning of the Trias, and undergo a quick and high radiation. Being two of the only Synapsid/Therapsid along the Cynodont to survived the Permian Extinction, the worse extinction of all that Earth herself has known. They held on during all the Trias, coexisting with the numerous herbivores archosaurs like the herbivorous crocodiles Aetosaurs (Aetosauria) and the herbivorous members of the Poposauroid, with the Sauropodomorph and Prosauropod dinosaurs like Plateosaurus, and the Silesauridae. Suminia is also mentioned as it deserved, being the oldest know definitive arboreal animal and one of the weirdest and oddest creature of the evolution and the Permian era. It's was a primate long before primate were a thing ! I praise this episode !

Hey man, love your videos as always. I was curious if you'd ever cover the oreodonts at some point? I feel like as common as they are that they get overshadowed. Been seeing some recent stuff on some species possibly having small trunks like tapirs?

Very odd animals that we probably reconstructing wrong. They were very weird creatures that were adapted to the hot deserts of pangea

those suminia are going to haunt my nightmares

I like how these videos emphasize that just because a group of creatures went extinct, that doesn't mean they were failures. All species die out or change into new ones eventually... let's see if our species manages to do better than Lystrosaurus. 😛

Amazing how much time we've missed out on. If not for people like you, we'd not have a clue what happened and when

I was getting some major King from _The Owl House_ vibes from the critters in the thumbnail.

Wish they were still here

Thank you. Very informative and enjoyable. Have you ever considering re-doing some of your very early content?

Really enjoy your videos Doc. Is it just me or do some of these Dicynodonts, especially the smaller herbivores, look like they could potentially be cute, cuddly pets? Especially if they had more hair or fur... I know, I'm weird! LOL 😆 🤣 😂

I would say that Dicynodonts weren't very common in the middle permian and only found major success in the Late Permian in places but they weren't the dominant herbivore, Pareiasaurs were also quite popular being large in the Middle Permian (Bradysaurus) and the Late Permian (Scutosaurus). Even then, the largest of the Late Permian Dicynodonts was Rhachiocephalus, of which I will admit is very big but isn't nearly as big as the Late Triassic Lisowicia which you displayed earlier when discussing Permian Dicynodonts.

Would you consider doing a video on the evolution of garfish or sturgeon?

Ah DeLoy's Ape, Trey the Explainer did a pretty good vid on him. I can't wait to hear your version of this cryptid's wild ride.

Another first rate video, Dr. P. I liked it so much I am watching once more. Just a few years ago I knew virtually nothing about Synapids and the world in which they lived. Keep these videos coming! Kind regards...

The next De Loy's Ape video will be very interesting, being one of the famous cryptids that was recorded and the most well known hoax ever revealed ! Being at the same level than the iconic Loch Ness' Monster or Kasai Rex case !

Thanks doc

Amazing video.

Also successful in the Triassic.

Finally! A new video!!!

the art at 5:00 mins in is nice & spooky.

DeLoy's Aaaaaape!!! Nice!

Fascinating! I had no idea this sort of animal was so diverse!

NICE

Synapsids, Reptiles that design to survive in the Pangaic Wasteland. Diapsids: Advantageous Reptiles that been lose dominance after an space nuke land in Mexico. Mammals:From the Reptile group called as Therapsids, they're are adaptable in all climates.

Assuming you haven’t yet, Are you going to do a video on Tyrannosaurus and it’s relatives?

Dicynodonts have long been my favorite extinct critters. My only complaint is that you didn't mention Bulbasaurus, if for no other reason than it having a top tier name.

this has been a great weekend for me. I've seen Puss in Boots the Last Wish, Michael Kovach liked the tweet I made about him where I called him a legend, and the great Dr. Polaris posted a new video. I've already seen TREY the Explainer's video about the De Loys' Ape years ago and the main thing I remember from is that George Montandon was a big supporter of racism and anti-semitism and had an mess up view of evolution.

I wonder if they got the chance, would they eat a small animal?

I'm thinking more and more that Therapsida (leading to us) and Archosauria (leading to modern birds) are cousin groups who have more similarities than differences next to modern derived reptile sauropsids and extinct basal reptile adjacent synapsids....

whats ur intro song

Good god, Dr Polaris! Not the bloody De Loy's Ape! Please don't try to scare me, lad. You are going too far. Cheerio.

hippo tortoise

Right after the Cryptid called De Loy’s Ape, why don’t you also get to make a suggestion to create the KZfaq Videos Shows about the evolution and the history of the Extinct Prehistoric Marine Or Sea Crocodile Species, such as Thalattosuchia, Metriorhynchidae, Teleosauridae, Geosaurinae, and Machimosauridae in the next couple of weeks to think about that one coming up next?!⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️👍👍👍👍

Volume is far too low.

They were essentially primitive versions of the Capybara, the Wombat or even the Hippo if the hippo and capy were mostly terrestrial.

Question about synapsid: Does dimetrodon,gorgopsid,& cynodont have ear and fur like mammal? And does they giving birth or lay egg?

I’m a bit confused, did I miss the part where these animals are described as mammals, reptiles or something else?

Dicynodonts

Anomodont Doo dooo do do doo

Couldn't get a decent scotch until the Pleistocene in my experience 😕

Love to catch up. So it was a fraud