Even more interestingly, some fully-grown adults lack horns, while some juveniles have very small horns. While all the 3 taxa were herbivores, their differing morphologies indicate a good degree of niche partitioning: the short, lizard-like rhynchosaurs would've fed primarily upon roots, tubers & other tough, low-lying vegetation the dicynodonts would've been low-browsers feeding on ferns and club mosses, while the long-necked Shringasaurus was likely a proficient high-browser, much like the later sauropods, feeding on higher vegetation.įossils of Shringasaurus show the horns developed with age, with adults having larger horns than juveniles. The environment in which it lived is thought to have been a semi-arid, seasonal floodplain, not too dissimilar to the region today. It would've shared its ecosystem (what would become the Denwa Formation), with several other herbivores, including medium-large dicynodonts as well as a large rhynchosaur, another archosauromorph reptile. At 4m in length, Shringasaurus is the largest known azendohsaurid, and as of yet the only known species that possessed a pair of short cranial horns. Within this clade, Shringasaurus belonged to the Azendohsauridae, a family of medium to large herbivorous reptiles that appeared to have been on the same evolutionary trajectory as the sauropod dinosaurs (which had yet to appear). They weren't particularly closely related to the Archosauria (crocodylians, dinosaurs, pterosaurs & allies), but were still more closely related to them than to any other reptilian lineage. Shringasaurus (meaning horned lizard) was, despite the name, not a lizard but an allokotosaur, a clade of archosauromorph reptiles that lived in the Middle and Late Triassic and included a number of rather odd-looking taxa. A large male in breeding colours meanwhile struts around hoping to catch their attention.

We hope the following 15 entries will work as an eye-opener for those guys who think that bragging about their manhood or about how much their Italian leather shoes cost will get them laid for sure.Cutting it a bit close but last entry for #triassicweekĪ pair of female Shringasaurus indicus browse on conifer leaves while a third basks on a rock. Modern girls just don’t have time for BS! Yes, some find braggadacious suitors fun, but most women would rather go for the come-as-you-are type of guys. Truth is women ARE attracted to money and abs, but even a bigger truth is that they are just NOT attracted to men who brag about them. Showing off your abs or recklessly spending money on designer clothing and fancy restaurants are, of course, effective moves, but not all girls fall for this.

Some behaviors which aim at gaining a woman’s interest are, in fact, a subconscious device to boost men’s egos. Most guys believe that bragging is the magnetic force through which they can attract the girls. Nowadays, the most widespread approach “chasing” women is showing off. The days when a man picks up a woman and woos her by offering her material gifts and promises to love her till death do they part are gone. Traditional courtship is no longer on the agenda. So here we are today – in our westernized society, where well-groomed and cock-sure single males have to work less and less to “win” their women’s hearts. We, humans, have come a long way since the bat-her-on-the-head-and-drag-her-by-the-hair caveman courtship rituals.

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