PROBAINOGNATHUS: FROM BITE TO SOUND

Among the towering dinosaurs, enormous marine reptiles and other spectacular fossils at the Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi is a much smaller creature that tells one of evolution’s most extraordinary stories.It is a fossil of Probainognathus, a small, predatory cynodont from the Triassic Period of Argentina. At first glance, it is not especially imposing. It lacks the theatrical horns of