but for other functions such as defense

Además de su peculiar dentición

It had a toothless beak adapted for an omnivorous diet

similar a un pico parcial

This replica represents Utahraptor ostrommaysi as a large North American dromaeosaurid with a robust build

Hovasaurus boulei Embolotherium but for other functions suchHovasaurus boulei was an extinct diapsid reptile from the Late Permian and possibly part of the Early Triassic , known primarily from its fossil remains in Madagascar , especially in the Dzulfian Sakamena Formation (approximately 252247 million years old) , which spans the Permian Triassic boundary. It is one of the most specialized representatives of the tangasaurids , a primitive group of sauropsids that adapted to an aquatic lifestyle shortly after