Permian Dawn

The sun rises over a lone Dimetrodon as we follow it through the landscape of the middle Permian. Included are Diplocaulus, Titanoptera, a speculative proto-archosauromorph, a Xenacanthid shark, and Prionosuchus. The music ’Morning, when time had no end’ was kindly composed for this animation by the immensely talented artist Villi - Find them here: The ’flashing light’ threat display for the Titanoptera is based off a fascinating suggestion from this article in Nature: Other sounds recorded by me or sourced from iNaturalist and