Before dinosaurs… before T. rex… Earth’s top predator had teeth like daggers and a body built for ambush. ⚔️🦴 Meet Inostrancevia—a saber-toothed hunter that ruled the planet 260 million years ago during the Permian period. It wasn’t a dinosaur, but a mammal-like reptile known as a therapsid—a crucial step on the evolutionary path to mammals, including us. With fangs larger than a wolf’s skull and a muscular body up to 10 feet long, it ambushed prey much like a crocodile does today. Its fossils

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