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Bunostegos - a new version?

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Looks like Bunostegos was even weirder than we thought. A new study found that the animal didn't walked with sprawled arms as its relatives, but with the four limbs in an upright posture. This is unique for a pareiasaur, and Bunostegos was probably the first animal to walk in this way.

Here, I modified my recent illustration of this species, to update the posture. 
Check below the original version:
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More details:
news.brown.edu/articles/2015/0…
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10…
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My question is how slow, cold-blooded pareiasaurs managed to outcompete the warm-blooded dinocephalians?