I beleive in a feathered T-Rex

Just a general blog. May include my art, some photos, stories, and reblogged posts.

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annie sure uses guns am i right

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Boom Boom Boom

Dancing Through The Skies~

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Baby gator feeding frenzy.

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handler: whose next?

these babies: :V :V :V  :V :V :V :V :V :V :V :V :V :V :V :V :V :V :V :V :V :V :V :V :V :V :V :V :V :V :V :V :V :V :V :V :V :V :V :V :V :V :V :V :V :V :V :V :V :V :V :V :V :V :V :V :V :V :V :V :V :V :V :V :V :V :V :V :V :V :V :V :V :V :V :V :V :V :V :V :V :V :V :V :V :V :V :V :V :V :V :V :V :V :V :V :V :V :V :V :V :V :V

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@a-dinosaur-a-day hungry psuedosuchians

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I love them

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In light of the chemical attack and now the missile strike, here is a list of links to several charities that benefit Syrian citizens, listed with their accountability / financial scores. 

Save The Children Syrian Children’s Relief Fund Rating: 88.14 / 100 Percent of Donation Directly Applied to Services: 87% UNICEF - Syrian Crisis Rating: 85.64/100 Percent of Donation Directly Applied to Services: 90.3% Doctors Without Borders Rating: 97.23/100 Percent of Donation Directly Applied to Services: 88.3% Hand in Hand for Syria Rating: 87.89/100 Percent of Donation Directly Applied to Services: 86.3%

This is just a small handful, please feel more than free to add to this list with more charities / updated information. Stay strong and safe, Syria.

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Utahraptor Awareness Week Artists

For those just joining in to the fray, a number of artists in the paleotumblr community are getting together to celebrate @a-dinosaur-a-day‘s Utahraptor Awareness week.  We’ll be holding an art drive, where raptor fans can pay $10 and get a personal piece of dinosaur art all their own.  All the proceeds from this will be donated at the end of the week to the Utahraptor Project to help fund more Utahraptor discovery!

Alrighty!  So far we have the following artists who have volunteered their time.  For those who responded by message in the previous post I will be sending you a link to a form you can fill out if you are still interested.  For those artists still thinking about it, here is a form you can fill out with all the information I’ll need once the UAW starts.

So what does that mean for all of you who would like art?  When UAW fires up I will make a form available for you to fill out, and a link to either Paypal or Square for you donate for art.  That form will go to an artist at random that will create and post raptor art.  The cost will be $10 per raptor-doodle-art, and you can choose one of the following options:

Traditional (handmade raptor doodles mailed directly to you and posted online, all proceeds to be donated minus the cost of shipping)

Digital - raptor doodles posted online and all proceeds donated

Digital Artists

@ridiculouslyphotogenicsinosaurus

@viergacht

@thepoisonjackal

@canis-infernalis

@canaryart

@bookrat

Traditional Artists

@thedigitalfeather

@bookrat

@spirellity

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There’s still time to get in on the fun!  All interested artists head on over to the Google form and let’s get this going!  

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Hey MegaMan Battle Network/Rockman.EXE fans can you do me a favor?

Reblog this and tag your favorite NetNavi, im curious.

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Top: Saurolophus Middle: Therizinosaurus Bottom: Ouranosaurus 

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Here are two strange incarnations of tamed cockatrice-like animals, each partially equine.  The first appears in a child’s nightmare (Punch, 1865).  The second is ridden by a knife-wielding adult in broad daylight (Punch, 1858).

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Τοπίο στην ομίχλη landscape in the mist (1988), theo angelopoulos

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#where is it going

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The bumpy sections of sidewalks are designed to help people who are visually impaired. ‘Tactile paving’ uses varying bump or dot patterns to warn pedestrians with limited or no vision that they are approaching specific hazards, like stairs, stoplights, crosswalks, or the edge of a subway platform. Source

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Teratophoneus curriei live for up to twenty-two years, on average. Around seven of those years are spent with a single mate. After breeding, a mating couple will stay together for life, even after their young have left the next.

Males, like this one, are usually considerably larger, with darker fur. The skin is typically darker in males too, but this particular one has been paled by the waning stages of a severe illness. He does not have much time left.

For now, however, the couple shares a tender moment by one of the local peat swamps, nuzzling below the mid-February night sky.

That little story was gonna be a hell of a lot darker before I remembered it was supposed to be an early Valentine’s Day drawing xD

Yeah, I thought I’d make some VD art early, seeing as I’ll probably be too busy moping and/or drinking on the 14th xD

Happy Valentine’s Day, you guys. I hope you all find the love you deserve.

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TAKE ACTION: Stop the Loss of National Parks, Forests and Wildlife Refuges

Congress took a major step to start disposing of wild public lands that wildlife depend on and is pushing to rollback protections put in place by President Obama for millions of acres of pristine lands and ocean landscapes. Please take action.

Our public lands—including national parks, forests, monuments and wildlife refuges—provide food and shelter for fish and wildlife, clean air and clean water.

These are the abundant, open landscapes, and pristine waterways where animals, fish and birds are following routes that wildlife have traveled for centuries.

But just last month, members of Congress took a step forward to start “disposing” of the wild public lands that wildlife depend on, selling them to private interests and opening them up widely for harmful oil and gas development.

And, a push is on to rollback protections put in place by both Republican and Democratic presidents for millions of acres of unspoiled lands and ocean landscapes along with the very law that created them! 

Please take action! 

Tell Congress to back off, change course and stand up for America’s public lands and wildlife.

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A Dicraeosaurus and a Kentrosaurus make a bet over who’s going to win in a fight, the Dicraeosaurus loses, and gives the Kentrosaurus its neck, making them into Miragaia and Brachytrachelopan.

How did I think of this? Who knows.

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If strange posts and reblogs appear on my blog (i.e., nsfw, hate messages, things I normally would not say or reblog), please let me know. I had lost my HP tablet, which is unencrypted and has my passwords for my Tumblr and my email account saved on it.

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do you have any recommendations for palaeo-blogs that don't focus on dinosaurs? don't get me wrong, i love the floofy ancestors-of-birds, but the animals before and after the dinosaurs are way more interesting to me. i also have just pledged to your patreon; i know $2 is not much, but i hope it helps at least a little :D

It does!!!! It really really does!

And there’s @synapsid-taxonomy , @synapsidgirl, @synapsid-daily which all focus on the ancestors-of-mammals that I know of (as well as mammals themselves) 

As for other things - Well, followers, respond here if you have a job that focuses on various aspects of prehistoric life!

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Outside of Tumblr, paleo blogs focused on non-dinosaurs include Chasing Sabertooths (mammals, especially carnivorans), The Coastal Paleontologist (fossil marine mammals), Mary Anning’s Revenge (mostly about experiences in studying paleontology, but the authors don’t work on dinosaurs), and Synapsida (extant and fossil mammals). There are also blogs that sometimes cover dinosaurs but discuss lots of other critters as well, such as Musings of a Clumsy Palaeontologist, Laelaps, Mark Witton’s blog, A (Palaeo)biologist Postdoc’s Views, PLOS Paleo Community, and Tetrapod Zoology.

Unfortunately, I am not aware of any active blogs dedicated to Paleozoic life, but the now-dormant Life Before the Dinosaurs is a charming one written by a (at the time) seven-year-old who is evidently passionate about the subject!

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Seeds of hope after disease wipes Out 90 percent of rare turtle species

Taronga Zoo in Australia has started captive breeding of the Bellinger River snapping turtle