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Iwa or Hajime | he/him | fictive | @irl-oikawa

[elvyn]

Happy bois

[fairydoesarts]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY IWA to the prettiest angel of a man in the world

Likes/reblogs are always appreciated. By FAIRYDOESARTS/IWAASFAIRY on Tumblr only! No reposting, thank you.

[sapphitedreams]

HAIKYUU WEEK 2020 ── Day 3, Patterns & Habits : Service Aces, Jealousy and Chocolate Milk.

I didn’t do this. *points at Nishinoya and Tanaka* They did. Truly I like to call this: “If you can’t Defeat him, Deface him.”

Credits for Artwork - Nishinoya Yuu and Tanaka Ryuunosuke; Ideas & Inspiration - Tsukishima Kei; Milk - Kageyama Tobio; Mental Support - the rest of the team.

Now, now this is just all for fun. We love Oikawa to death on this blog!! Click here to see how Seijoh expressed their love for their cover boy!

See my other graphics here!!

[rubikor]

dream a little dream of me

[dimpledthings]

you’re always welcome in my life — you make it so much better

[jimporcs]

Oikawa Tooru on his first monster serve for Argentina vs Japan!

[thatonedaiyosama]

this hooked me up for real

[meristem]

zzzzzzzzzz

[ginsichimaru]

                    HAPPY BIRTHDAY IWAIZUMI HAJIME!  

[takkyb1]

they come in pairs U_U

[ilkaillust]

and on iwaizumi day we give hugs !! ◝(⁰▿⁰)◜

[medusaceratops-deactivated20210]

ALL I GOTTA GET THROUGH IS TOMORROW

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AND THE DAY AFTER THAT

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AND THE DAY AFTER THAT

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AND THE DAY AFTER THAT

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bad news about getting through things

[foodchewer]

I live for compliments

[foodchewer]

im so alive 

[thebootydiaries]

wow not gonna name any names but SOMEBODY (me) needs 2 calm down!!!!

[iguanamouth]

oh my gdO CAN YOU DRAW GODZILLA MOMMA CARRYING LIKE A HUNDRED LIZARD BABIES ON HER BACK FOR TAKE YOUR CHILD (lizard) TO WORK DAY

oh SHOOT well i cant swing 100 but how bout

[daybreakboys-deactivated2024031]

If I don’t always reblog this assume I am dead

[blu3-skyy]

SHES SO PROUD OF HER BBY

[ladykenway1992-deactivated20210]

Dawwww!!!! Momma’s Little City Destroyed!! * sniffles * They grow up so fast…

[skiaskai]

Pay attention to me—

[i-draws-dinosaurs]

I would LOVE to hear you talk about the bone wars and the damage thereof pls 👀

Well, I’ll spare y’all a massive tumblr essay about it but basically:

The Bone Wars was a period in the late 19th century during which two palaeontologists, Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh (who were both horrible people who hated each other) had a violent feud trying to see who could find and name more fossils than the other. This would win success, fame and fortune for the winner and eternal academic shame for the loser apparently.

And these guys dug up a LOT of fossils. It was a boom in palaeontology like nothing the world had seen before and saw the naming of almost all of the dinosaurs that remain famous today, bUT

Turns out when you hate your palaeontology nemesis’s guts and want to see him fail spectacularly more than anything else, any dedication to actual scientific discovery or integrity kinda goes out the window.

These guys were known for, among other things:

Giving multiple names to animals that they definitely knew were the same species

Giving multiple names to fossils that they could’ve figured out were the same species if they bothered to check

Each separately discovering the same species and giving it a different name

Treating the people who worked for them horribly and making them do most of the academic work

Invading indigenous lands to dig up fossils

Cope once got into a fistfight at the Philadelphia American Philosophical Society

Sending double agents to go and spy on the other’s dig sites and steal their fossils

Hiring the double agents the other one sent to spy on them to go and spy on the other one instead

Driving the leading expert in palaeontology at the time, Joseph Leidy, to completely quit the study because he couldn’t deal with these two

Throwing priceless fossils into unprotected crates and sending them on cross-continent train rides back to their universities (we may have lost the bones of possibly the largest dinosaur to ever exist because of this, by the time the trains arrived fossils were often shaken to dust)

Sending saboteurs to go smash their rival’s fossils

Planting fake fossils in their rival’s dig sites

Blowing up their own sites with dynamite after they were finished with it so the other guy couldn’t collect anything they’d left behind

Generally slamming each other in their papers to the point where one academic journal refused to publish any more of their rebuttals against each other

They were notorious in scientific circles at the time as being angry, impulsive and generally offputting, and they literally dragged down the academic perception of palaeontology as a science due to their insane rivalry. It took a long time for the scientific and public image of palaeontology to recover. They were careless and didn’t care at all about actual science, and we’re still dealing with those repercussions now. These days we’re left with taxonomic messes of invalid species names, fossils that have been lost forever, and dig sites permanently destroyed.

Also that whole thing about finding success and fame and fortune? Yeah, they both died destitute and alone after exhausting every resource on their mad scramble to academically and sometimes physically destroy the other.

[i-draws-dinosaurs]

So I’ve amended the original post to clarify that we don’t specifically know that it was the train that destroyed it, but the train idea is one of the more plausible hypotheses about what happened to the Amphicoelias vertebra (now renamed Maraapunisaurus).

The majority of my knowledge of the Bone Wars (supplemented by additional research of course) comes from a very interesting book called The Gilded Dinosaur by Mark Jaffe, a biography that digs deep into what happened between Marsh and Cope and its effect on their lives and the wider scientific community. In it, Jaffe discusses the careless treatment of fossils and how many fossils were rendered useless by the train rides back to the university.

The Maraapunisaurus case is essentially an unsolved mystery where all we know is that Cope found a giant bone, drew it in the field and made notes, and then it was never found again in any of his university collections. Given that timeline, it either crumbled to pieces in the field, in transit, or in the fossil collections. 

Since Cope doesn’t note it being destroyed in the field, and no records of it in the university collections exist, I’d consider the most likely interpretation is that it was destroyed on the way back from the field site. But that’s just one interpretation, and there are other ways it could’ve gotten lost.

[sinkinginthepee]

Idk maybe I’m just a dumbass but could it be possible that Cope just made it up?

“Hey I found the bones of this super giant dinosaur but the bones disappeared somehow and all o have are drawings of it.”

[i-draws-dinosaurs]

See here’s the fun thing about that. All we have of Maraapunisaurus is a drawing, yes, but that drawing contains some distinctive features that at the time wouldn’t have meant much to Cope. But, in 2018, Kenneth Carpenter re-examined the drawing and it turn out that those features of the bone match well with basal rebbachisaurids.

The thing about rebbachisaurids, a group of short-necked diplodocoids, is that the group did not exist in the late 1800s, and therefore Cope could not have known about them. So the two options are either that Cope happened to make up a dinosaur bone and accidentally give it distinctive features of a dinosaur group that wasn’t a thing yet, or that it was a genuine bone from a giant rebbachisaurid! The second option is the most widely accepted explanation currently.