CT Scans Solve Decades-Old Mystery of Triassic Cynodont

Mar 23, 2026 - 18:00
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CT Scans Solve Decades-Old Mystery of Triassic Cynodont
Life reconstruction of Cistecynodon parvus. Image credit: Morgan Hopf.

Known from a single skull discovered in South Africa in 1952, Cistecynodon parvus has been shuffled across the evolutionary tree: described at various times as a close relative of advanced cynodonts, a juvenile of another species and even something outside the group altogether.

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