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mindful-air

“I MISSED THE FISH SHIITTTTTT”

I fricken lost it 😂

just-shower-thoughts

If giraffes were predators they would look both hilarious and terrifying while sneaking up on their prey

i-draws-dinosaurs

I’m afraid you’ve missed the predatory giraffes by about 66 million years mate.

These guys are Azhdarchid pterosaurs, and they were some of the strangest reptiles to ever exist. They were perfectly capable of flight, but their physiology suggests that they may have spent a significant portion of their lives hunting on the ground.

The largest of them could reach over 5 metres tall while standing, and had a 10-metre wingspan. They varied greatly in body type, from the tall, spindly forms of Quetzalcoatlus and Arambourgiania (images 4 and 1-2 respectively) to the heavy brute strength of Hatzegopteryz, a species that may have used its head to bludgeon its prey (images 2 and 3).

There has never been another flying animal before or since to have reached such incredible sizes, nor any predator so intimidatingly tall. Well, not any that we know of yet.

All of these illustrations are by Mark Witton, a palaeontologist and artist who specialises in pterosaurs. This is his blog about palaeontology and the science of reconstructing extinct species. You can find out more about each of these images here, here and here.

(Oh, and by the way … these are NOT dinosaurs)

crystallineknight

What the hell these are so intimidating, why aren’t these in any dinosaur movies

i-draws-dinosaurs

Just imagine it …

The protagonists and a few disposable minor characters are walking carefully through a forest at night, covered by a thick fog. They know there are dinosaurs everywhere, but they can’t see more than three metres in front of their own faces.

Eventually they stop near a small cluster of trees to rest. As they sit there, exhausted, one of the trees begins to move. Everyone freezes, terrified. They have no idea what this thing is.

Then a massive beak slams down, longer than a person is tall, and plucks one of the minor characters off his feet and into the air.

The small group erupts into movement, frantically running away from whatever those things are. There’s two of them now, and as the fog begins to clear the group are able to make out more of their shape. They are huge, with long, spindly necks topped with a massive, daggerlike head. The long legs that they once mistook for trees have an almost mechanical movement as the giant creatures stalk towards them. And then comes the next terrible surprise.

These things can run.

s-leary

It’s a short film.

warpedellipsis

How could those things possibly fly? Could they take off from the ground or did they need a cliff like bats do?

i-draws-dinosaurs

Okay this is really bizarre and awesome but like these guys probably used their giant long wings to pole-vault themselves into the air, from a standing start no less. No run-up or cliffside needed, just some massively powerful arms to launch them skywards like the world’s most terrifying slingshot.

(The pterosaur in the video I linked isn’t an azhdarchid, but it gets the general picture across)

warpedellipsis

because it wasn’t terrifying enough already….

How does something that big have hollow bones though? Wouldn’t they break under the pressure of pole vaulting themselves?

i-draws-dinosaurs

Basically, azhdarchid bones aren’t just “hollow”. They’re actually full of an incredibly complex network of spongy strands of bone that functions almost like scaffolding to support the bones and make them a lot stronger than they would initially appear. A lot of dinosaurs, including very large ones, had this same sort of bone structure as well.

It’s a delicate balance between being light enough to fly and strong enough to take off and staying in the air, but they certainly weren’t skinny, lightweight pushovers like they’re often portrayed.

thatdragonzeek

You want to know my favourite thing about quetzalcoatlus?

It’s scientific name is

Mexican Feathered God

If you think I’m joking, I’m not. I’m dead serious.

Look it up if you think the pic is edited, idrc, but it’s the funniest thing I know about dinosaurs.

Also I love dinosaurs a lot, I’ve been obsessed with em since I was like seven, and I had the best day last week when I opened a kinder egg and I got a little t-rex. I don’t care if I’m eighteen, dinosaurs have, and always will, make me squeal like a four-year-old ÚwÙ

doodle-dog-diary

IT KEEPS GETTING BETTER

(Or worse, depends on how you look at it)

quizzicalcontent

Brands Keep Tweeting NSFW Comments At Netflix And It’s Shocking But Hilarious

See All The Rest HERE

highestnut

It warms my heart that Robert Irwin is the same goofball his father was

justcatposts

game time (via: @brittanynlau)

lifeinlowkey

You coward, you ended the video early because you didn’t want to admit defeat.

theitalianscrub

A crushing victory

kitty

nicodoll

whenever people are like “SKETCHING CIRCLES IN SAI IS SO HARD” im like

extradan

pffft I work with 6000X4000 and the size of the brush can be only not above 2000px

i dont use that trick

nicodoll

sheikofthesheikah

this is the sassiest and most helpful tutorial ever.

chikendog-deactivated20211002

дякую

oh my god

obsessed

[description: jack black, wearing a red shirt, red pants, cowboy boots, a cowboy hat, and a suede fringe jacket, walks in a very exaggerated manner down some stairs. he kicks his feet out and flaps his arms up and down, so the fringe on his jacket makes a loud noise when he moves. he turns around and goes back up the stairs in the same manner, before lifting his hat and saying “yeehaw!”]

all-comes-crashing

me and my friends dancing to “mr. brightside”

callunacthulhu

I can’t get over how well this fits

catgirl-coven

I feel like people have forgotten about this

shinesprites-moved-deactivated2

Stage-Toph: “I see everything that you see, except I don’t ‘see’ like you do. I release a sonic wave from my mouth.” *elongated scream* “There! I got a pretty good look at you.”

lemonsharks

but the LOOK on Toph’s FACE it is the best thing E V E R R R

emthroney

#there is no way in hell I could ever forget about this who do you take me for

thebestoftumbling

HELLO SMALL COW

orangevegan

*SNIFF SNIFF*

transmasculine-spock

What gets me is that after the dog realized they were kinda scared, he/she lied down so the cows could be in control and feel safer. Such love. Animals are amazing.

realitytvshow

OG… and i was like Olive Garden?

spacerhapsody

i made a what untranslatable german word are you quiz because some things just can’t be translated (pop culture references in online personality quizzes, for instance)

didthedevilturnup

thepolyglotgirl

buzzlightyearhugecock

sometimes i can’t shit. i can only cum.

buzzlightyearhugecock

wonderdave

The whole Pepsi commercial thing reminded me that people always mis-remember the famous flower in the gun barrel photo as being a young woman. It wasn’t. The photo, taken by Bernie Boston, is of George Edgerly Harris III better known by his stage name Hibiscus. He was a member of the San Francisco based radical gay liberation theater troupe the Cockettes. He died of AIDS in 1982 at the time AIDS was still referred to by the name GRID which stood for Gay Related Immuno-Deficiency. The photo was taken at a protest at the Pentagon.

thecringeandwincefactory-deacti

I had no idea who he was, thank you.

jimmythejiver

This is one example of the Mandela Effect phenomena, where an iconic moment is reenacted with a hippy woman so many times that people think that’s the story and thus another gay man is written out of history. Thanks for the photo.

kristina-meister-deactivated202

I had no idea. Wow.

catsandwitchcraft

This photo was taken by Bernie Boston, a black/native man who willingly stood up to a chapter of the KKK and earned their respect among other things

I get the subject is important, but please dont erase Bernie. I knew him personally and he deserves to be remembered and by only remembering the subject, a white man, you erase a black man.

catsandwitchcraft