Varanops (SciiFii)

Varanops magnificens is a species of varanopid synapsids that originally lived during the Early Permian in what is now Texas and Oklahoma of the United States as an extinct species, Varanops brevirostris, and the genus itself was once extinct, but has since been brought back from extinction by SciiFii and now lives in its own enclosure in Paleozoic Park in Downey, California. Varanops magnificens is a medium-sized pelycosaur, around the size of the large monitor lizards. It is usually on average about 1.2 meters (3.9 feet) long, and has large limbs and sharp, backward-curving teeth. It is one of many agile, voracious predators among pelycosaurs. Even though it was originally large for its time when the genus first existed, Varanops magnificens is very small compared to the latter apex predators, including (many) carnivorous non-avian theropod dinosaurs, that came much later. Like monitor lizards, Varanops magnificens is known to dig burrows and lay clutches of around 10-25 eggs at a time in them in just 2.5 months after mating. Like mammals, the close relatives of pelycosaurs, however, once the eggs hatch after 2 months of incubation, the mothers care for their young and they produce milk glands to feed their young until they're juveniles about 3 months later, when they become fully independent from their mothers.
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