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Rest in peace Sam Neill. Thank you for the awe and wonder you brought to us.
We stood in the Roman ruins that, like patchwork, stitch so remarkably through the village of Caer-went, and dutifully read the information boards. The Romans had forcibly built and established Venta Silurum with the intention of Pacifying the Silurians, the local tribe.
“I think I feel weird now, about the Doctor Who aliens being called Silurians,” I said, “it’s sort of uncomfortable having ‘lizard people from the dawn of time’ being named after Celts. Tips into that bad-faith lizard-person space.”
“The BBC would have only been thinking of the Silurian period,” Dr Glass said neutrally. “That’s a fair siting for a ‘dawn of time.’ The Cambrian would’ve been uncomfortable and impractical.”
“Was the geological period of Palaeozoic life named after the tribe?” I said. “Hey, given that the Cambrian period is the Cambrian period! It must’ve been.”
“Haha - wait - look - look at the north!!”
“Damn! The whole-ass Ordovician period?!”
“Over to England for the Devonian,” Dr Glass, who claims Devonshire heritage on one side, said thoughtfully. “Permian, that’s Perm - probably the mountain range.”
Anyway, this proceeded to amuse me for a few days, and will be required to enjoy these jokes
Almost every period, epoch, age or formation is named for where it was first found or where some of its most diagnostic formations are found! Unsurprising really, since geology is all about rocks, where they are, and when they're from. Since the UK was the birthplace of modern geology and palaeontology, it's unsurprising that a lot of geological units are named for areas in the UK!
It's not just the UK though, you can see it all over the geological timescale:
Aptain - named for Apt in France
Albian - named for the River Aube, derived from its Latin name Alba
Furongian - named for Hunan Province, known as "the lotus state", derived from Mandarin 'fúróng' meaning 'lotus'
Guadalupian - named for the Guadalupe Mountains in Texas/New Mexico
Maastrichtian - named for the city Maastricht in Netherlands
Then of course you have famous formations like Oxford Clay, Morrison Formation, Hell Creek Formation, Solnhofen Limestone... Now I really want to look into all the etymologies of these places...
Is it true that kangaroo can only move their legs at the same time, like they can’t move them independently leg humans or dogs do?
yes with an exception: when kangaroos are on land, they use their legs together for hopping, but when they swim, they alternate which leg is kicking just like humans and dogs do!
so they CAN, they just don't unless they think they need to.
This has not always been the case however! Australia used to have another group of kangaroos called the sthenurines, also known as "short-faced kangaroos" (skeleton A below). They were proportioned quite differently, with larger bodies and shorter legs, feet and tails:
They were so differently proportioned, and some species grew so large, than hopping like a modern kangaroo was probably physically impossible for them, so researchers have proposed that they walked bipedally instead!
Members of Sthenurinae – an ancient family of kangaroos that lived until 30,000 years ago - likely preferred walking to hopping.
There are multiple delightfully cursed reconstructions of this behaviour which makes them look more like a person running around pretending to be a dinosaur than anything else
Lambeosaurus amongst a herd of Corythosaurus
Both are large hadrosaurs from Campanian North America! Unlike modern mammals, herbivorous dinosaurs had a tendency towards endemism: That is, they were typically found in singular locations. Both Corythosaurus and Lambeosaurus are only found in Alberta, despite Corythosaurus being widespread within Alberta, implying geographic restriction. Lambeosaurus magnicristatus, meanwhile, seems to be fairly rare. Many hadrosaurs tended to live in vast herds, and used their large crests for noisemaking and social signalling.
I will find you in every life (threat)
I am forever fascinated by the arms race between coelurosaurs and ceratopsians. Among the most famous rivals in palaeomedia growing up was Velociraptor and Protoceratops, Tyrannosaurus and Triceratops, and of course I had to add two of my faves, Gorgosaurus and Styracosaurus!
Long time followers may recognise the bottom two skulls as art I have made previously, fun fact I have been sitting on this idea for a little over two years!
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Marsh guardian 🍃🌱
sort of a redraw of my ‘Spinosaurus marshland’, but again just very inspired by the GSL and I love drawing spinos ❤️❤️
Art trade!
I love this because like 99% of this kind of paleoart is patriarchal Man the Hunter type fantasies but these guys are just like “fuck it we’re outta here”
we have not changed.
The Flight Before The Mammoth. Paul Jamin. 1885
Behind The Scenes Of National Geographic. Teodor Vladimorov, Brandon Smith. 2011. read more
Utahraptor day!! I had a lot of fun with this one <3
2026 dinosaur prompt list
Crinoid stems and stars including a 6 pointed pentacrites and a pyritised ammonte
Admiring Disney's Dinosaur (2000)
Ik not too many are fond of this movie but I am due to how much the graphics were mesmerizing
T minus 30 minutes until extinction :( here are some of my pictures from the last day of dinosaur's operation. So sad to see one of my childhood favorites go, but im looking forward to a capybara meet and greet in the tropical Americas!
