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BBC Wildlife Magazine

Inostrancevia

Lived 259-251.9 m.y.a

CROSS A POLAR BEAR WITH a sabre-tooth cat, and you’d get something resembling Inostrancevia. It was), but looked very different – less like a reptile and more like a big cat. It also had longer legs than Dimetrodon, which suggests it was a runner – and a fast one at that.

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