| abstract | - Therocephalian were venomous, carnivorous mammal-like reptiles from the Permian and Triassic period.
- Therocephalians were ancient synapsids that lived during the Permian and the Triassic epochs and which were related both to gorgonopsids and cynodonts. They were featured in the last episode of Walking with Monsters where they hunted lystrosaurs. It later evolved into a Cynodont in the Mid-Triassic. Their attacks were swift and at first appeared unsuccessful, but these predators had a secret weapon: a venomous bite, as shown when one kills a lystrosaurus Still, only one species of therocephalian has been deduced to be venomous, i.e. Euchambersia, which would probably mean that the one appearing in Walking with Monsters was one. Euchamersia was 1 meter long.
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