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Greater Sooty Owl (Tyto tenebricosa), family Tytonidae, order Strigiformes, Australia

Photographs by Ben Williams

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you only love me for my brainwashing spores that make everyone love me. hmph

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[damazcuz]

friend: please drink tonight you're so weird when you're sober

me: i promise i'll be regular

friend: okay as long as you promise

me: (zero beers in) (unprompted) the humble mole can dig up to 100x its body weight in soils each day. The humble mole can survive on a single worm for 80 nights. The humble mole can meditate for 1001 moons uninterrupted. The humble mole can forgive.

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05.28 - Nebula

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Northern Saw-Whet Owl

links / print

[herpsandbirds]

Nanaimoteuthis: Earliest octopuses were giant top predators in Cretaceous oceans

Shin Ikegami, Jörg Mutterlose, Kanta Sugiura, et al.

Abstract

Top predators drive changes in ecosystem structure. For the last ~370 million years, large-sized vertebrates have dominated the apex of the marine food chain, while invertebrates have served as smaller prey. Here we describe invertebrate top predators from this “age of vertebrates,” the earliest finned octopuses (Cirrata) from Late Cretaceous sediments (~100 to 72 million years ago), as identified based on huge, exceptionally well-preserved fossil jaws and their wear. his extensive wear suggests dynamic crushing of hard skeletons. Asymmetric wear patterns further indicate lateralized behavior, suggesting advanced intelligence. With a calculated total length of ~7 to 19 meters, these octopuses may represent the largest invertebrates thus described, rivaling contemporaneous giant marine reptiles. Our findings show that powerful jaws, and the loss of superficial skeletons, convergently transformed cephalopods and marine vertebrates into huge, intelligent predators.

Read the paper here:

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aea6285

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art by Curtis Lanaghan

[a-book-of-creatures]

Say hello to Nagatitan chaiyaphumensis, named for the mythical serpents and the largest dinosaur found in Thailand.

(Known bones in yellow)

More here:

The first sauropod dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Khok Kruat Formation of Thailand enriches the diversity of somphospondylan titanosauri

Sauropod dinosaur remains comprise the majority of the Mesozoic vertebrate fossil record in Thailand. However, they are rare and fragmentary

[devinellekurtz]

My very first tiger drawing and my latest

[formaldehydedoesstuff]

Your skill level is unquestionable but listen.

I love him.

[chamomile-dove]

some friendship dynamics i doodled that i love a lot because im a certified FRIENDSHIP LOVER from the board of FRIENDIRECTORS on planet PLATONIC

[varanusniloticus]

Pet dragon 🐲 [by Ryoko Kui]

[kosmogrl]

this is so cool!!

[kosmogrl]

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[sabertoothwalrus]

happy phoenix wright gets arrested for murder eve

[sabertoothwalrus]

it’s so wonderful that it’s the year this game takes place cause you knowww it was like

phoenix: hey truce I have work tonight at 6 or…

trucy: 👀

phoenix: ….7

trucy: 67 🤹

phoenix: 67🤹

and then at 3am she gets the call that he’s in the detention center and the reason she’s still up is cause she’s busy playing tomodachi life

[transistoradio]

Dragons by Paul Bonner.

[thisisdogs]

my Dog Spores are spreading far and wide

[pastelispunx]

My emotions about space travel, and the history of, are strong today.

[shinraalpha]

i am losing my mind over discovering that there's a species of jumping spider (Pellenes nigrociliatus) that builds nests in empty snail shells and makes little silk webbing curtains to close off the entrance

look at her!! she is so cute!!! i want to cry!!!!

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@syncarida