THE WAY THEYRE FUCKING CARRYING HER IS KILLING ME THIS REMINDS ME OF THOSE GIRLS AT THE MALL WHO MAKE THEIR BOYTOYS CARRYING ALL OF THEIR STUFF
But genuinely wtf are they holding??? Are those bags?? Im guessing they're bags. Aphrodite's just looking at herself in the mirror and admiring what she sees while her adopted sons are struggling to balance her on their arms and suffering while doing so, or maybe they're willingly carrying her joyously idk, either way this is queen behavior and I love it
A pretty casual look for her (simple hair and no jewelry) but that’s bc this is more of a “study” to see if I can render her with pearlescent skin bc rendering skin is my least favorite think to do lol it’s better than the attempts I’ve made years ago.
Although ceratopsian dinosaurs were widespread around the northern continents during the Cretaceous, for a long time they appeared to have been completely absent from Europe. A few possible fragments were found – but their identification as ceratopsians was highly disputed, with some paleontologists instead identifying the remains as belonging to ornithopods.
But this year some new fossils have given more support to the ceratopsian interpretation, suggesting that a whole diverse European branch of these dinosaurs was there the whole time. They'd just been misidentified as rhabdodontids due to the convergent anatomy of their teeth, jaws, and limbs.
One of these newly-recognized ceratopsians was Ferenceratops shqiperorum (previously known as Zalmoxes shqiperorum), which lived during the late Cretaceous (~72-66 million years ago) on the subtropical Hațeg Island, in the region of what is now Romania.
It was a small species, about 2m long (6'6"), and seems to have lacked the elaborate frills and horns seen in many other ceratopsians, despite being closely related to both protoceratopsids and stem-ceratopsids.
Its new genus name references Ferenc, the birth name of Baron Franz Nopcsa, the gay Transylvanian paleobiologist-adventurer-spy who originally found some of its fossil remains.
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References:
Ashworth, James. "Europe’s missing ceratopsian dinosaurs have finally been found." Natural History Museum, 07 January 2026. https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2026/january/europes-missing-ceratopsian-dinosaurs-have-finally-been-found.html
Csiki-Sava, Zoltan, et al. "Island life in the Cretaceous-faunal composition, biogeography, evolution, and extinction of land-living vertebrates on the Late Cretaceous European archipelago." ZooKeys 469 (2015): 1. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.469.8439
Maidment, Susannah CR, et al. "A hidden diversity of ceratopsian dinosaurs in Late Cretaceous Europe." Nature (2026): 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09897-w
Wikipedia contributors. “Ajkaceratops” Wikipedia, 25 May 2026, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajkaceratops
Wikipedia contributors. “Ferenceratops” Wikipedia, 17 May 2026, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferenceratops
Always will admire Dionysus story, to be that of a "hero's journey"
He lived in hiding, a life to understand his godly powers, survived kings, a vengeful queen, went to wars, had to prove himself spread his cult , yet constantly getting underestimated, looked down upon, but still persisting.
After finally achieving godhood the last obstacle being a seat among the gods looking unreachable,only for the grace from one goddess to finally seal his journey complete
As human-led soil erosion creates more barren landscapes, invasive species like the Trapdoor Plant (Nepenthes decipula) are on the rise.
These carnivorous plants take hold in depleted topsoil, growing into large underground chambers filled with digestive fluid. As unsuspecting animals walk on them, a camouflaged leaf quickly moves out of the way to let them fall inside. Its slick interior, barbed edge, and the fast-acting acid make escape highly unlikely.
While most are smaller, some have been known to grow large enough to capture full-grown humans.
i can very vividly imagine hermionie screaming either whenever she sees her dad with no beard or whenever she sees him with a beard. i haven’t decided which way round cause i don’t have a fully fledged menelaus design
