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The article was about an old reptile named the Dimetrodon. It was based back even 50 million years before the dinosaurs came to be and was the biggest land creature of its time but was only the size of a small crocodile. There is very little that any scientist knows about the Dimetrodon except its size and habitat.Until October 14 when researchers discovered the animals diet.

At a pit in Seymour, Texas Paleontologists, Bakker, and Stephen Hobe found the fossils of many Dimetrodons and small sharks there wasn't much thought about it until scientists realized that the pit was the size of two football fields and had to have been under water. Why is this so important you might ask? Well, as i said earlier the Dimetrodons were land animals

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