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I want to a dinosaur ABCs where i draw a dinosaur for every letter and I'll start with Acrocanthosaurus taking a drinky

#dinosaur #paleoart #toki draws #acrocanthosaurus

We look at how conservation efforts in India have been pivotal to the survival of these birds.

In the early 2000s, vulture populations in Asia began to crash for no apparent reason. It was eventually discovered that a drug veterinarians used to treat cattle was highly toxic to vultures and poisoning them when they fed on cattle carcasses. The governments of India, Pakistan, and Nepal all worked to ban the toxic drug and support vulture conservation programs.

Twenty years later this is a huge conservation success story. Several Asian vulture populations that had decreased by over 99% before the ban have made huge recoveries thanks to conservation breeding centers, the creation of vulture safe zones, and stricter drug regulations.

allosaurus-fragilis

#this really makes me happy #i love vultures so much

apocryphics

J. Drew Lanham, Sparrow Envy: Field Guide to Birds and Lesser Beasts (2021)

pregnanthudsonwilliams

not naming names but some of you are so creative and talented it's an honor to have you in my phone

byjove

I wish they could invent a medical device that temporarily transfers your symptoms and pain to the doctor treating you and it worked like a shock collar. “I think light exercise would-.” and then bam they’re rolling around the floor clutching their stomach in agony and dry heaving.

great-and-small

We vertebrates really do just love to find a cool stick and get obsessed with it for a bit, don’t we

drone footage

#found him in a parking lot #he was a bit tired but flew away after a little rest #bug

michaelnordeman

Barnacle goose/Branta leucopsis/vitkindad gås. Mariehamn, Åland (25 May 2026).

snototter

An adult male fantastic least gecko (Sphaerodactylus fantasticus) in Guadeloupe

snototter

i'm actually not sure why sphaerodactylus are often called least geckos but i have to assume its just one of the least amounts of gecko you can get

#op wasn't lying #that gecko sure is fantastic

canthaveshitingotham-crucified

i hate it when i cant even write a poem about something because its too obvious. like in the airbnb i was at i guess it used to be a kids room cause you could see the imprint of one little glow in the dark star that had been missed and painted over in landlord white. like that's a poem already what's the point

canthaveshitingotham-crucified

you get it. you get the themes. i dont have time to do it justice. just look at it its on the ceiling

brenna

teaboot

wheresmyphonemp3

fadingponycookiedream

andsorrowsend

werefeathers

redstonedust

the worst part about grief is that it feels like the world should be horrendously earth shatteringly changed, and to an extent it IS but its also the same. to everyone else it's just another tuesday. the world moves on. you have to go grocery shopping.

gael-garcia

Painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Landscape with the Fall of Icarus by William Carlos Williams

fluentisonus

musée des beaux arts, w.h. auden

thagomizersshow

So much of paleontology is "what did this beaked thing eat?" And then your best guess for years turns out to be so so so wrong.

Like Gastornis was thought to be a carnivore for decades and then carbon isotopes were like, "nah this thing was basically a giant goose honk honk".

Art by Ja Chirinos

Oviraptor was thought to be an egg eater, then much ink was spilled about whether it ate mollusks, and now it's thought to be an omnivore, but mostly a fruit/seed eater like a parrot.

Somehow this Adobe Stock image is the only art of an Oviraptor eating plants I can find. How is that?

And even birds with some teeth are getting in on these dietary mysteries.

Longipteryx was first thought to be a kingfisher-like hunter of aquatic prey, but it has since been found with seed contents in its guts, making it another surprise frugivore.