Huge veggie rival to dinos

AN elephant-size ancestor of mammals lived at the same time as dinosaurs, scientists have found.

Fossils of a nine-ton dicynodont, a plant-eating reptile with mammalian traits, show it lived over 200million years ago.

Lisowicia bojani, found in Poland, dispels the idea dinosaurs were the Triassic period’s only big animals.

The Polish Academy of Sciences’ Dr Tomasz Sulej said: “It raises questions about what makes them and dinosaurs so large.”

MERCY JAMES, 12 STELLE, 6 LOURDES, 22 ROCCO, 18 DAVID BANDA, 13 ESTERE, 6

MADONNA shared a rare photo of all six of her children together as they celebrated Thanksgiving.

The singer, 60, said she is “most thankful” for her brood as they gathered in Malawi for the holiday.

Her oldest child, Lourdes, 22 – from her relationship with dancer Carlos Leon – stood beside Rocco, 18, whose father is film director Guy Ritchie.

Joining them were the four children Madonna adopted from Malawi: David Banda, who is 13, Mercy James, aged 12, and six-year-old twins Stelle and

Estere.

Madonna, left, said: “Fame, fortune and records broken could never equal that which I treasure the most.”