Hi, here you will find an odd collection of reblogs interspersed with rare occasions of blogging about my life. I also run the blog mostly nature partially man where I post my photos of mostly nature and partially things created by humans. About me: I am studying geosciences and geology (and meteorology and oceanography). I love permafrost! and trees. Would like to study trees emerging from the permafrost in the dendro lab to try to fit them into the dendrochronological time scale here in Sweden.
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It's Moon Day, so let's look at a dinosaur from the moon!
…Well, not literally. But Eoraptor lunensis' name means "dawn thief from the moon", in reference to it being discovered in the Valle de la Luna (Valley of the Moon) of Ischigualasto Provincial Park, Argentina.
Living during the Late Triassic, around 231-229 million years ago, Eoraptor was one of the earliest known of all dinosaurs. Originally classified as an early theropod, it's now thought to actually be a very early offshoot of the sauropodomorph lineage, closely related to other South American forms like Buriolestes and Pampadromeus.
It measured around 1.2m long (~4'), with leg proportions that indicate it was a fast runner. Its jaws contained both leaf-shaped and serrated pointed teeth, suggesting it may have been an opportunistic omnivore, feeding mainly on plant matter but occasionally supplementing its diet with smaller prey.
Unlike later dinosaurs it also still had vestigial palatal teeth on the roof of its mouth.
Eoraptor would have lived in a warm humid climate alongside several other early dinosaur species such as Herrerasaurus and Eodromaeus — but this was at a time before the dinosaurs had become the dominant terrestrial vertebrates, so other animals like rhynchosaurs, aetosaurs, rauisuchians, cynodonts and dicynodonts were also very abundant in the Ischigualasto ecosystem.
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References:
Mancuso, Adriana C., et al. "Paleoenvironmental and biotic changes in the Late Triassic of Argentina: testing hypotheses of abiotic forcing at the basin scale." Frontiers in Earth Science 10 (2022): 883788. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2022.883788
Sereno, Paul C., et al. "Primitive dinosaur skeleton from Argentina and the early evolution of Dinosauria." Nature 361.6407 (1993): 64-66. https://doi.org/10.1038/361064a0
Sereno, Paul C., Ricardo N. Martínez, and Oscar A. Alcober. "Osteology of Eoraptor lunensis (Dinosauria, sauropodomorpha)." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 32.sup1 (2012): 83-179. https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2013.820113
Wikipedia contributors. “Eoraptor” Wikipedia, 23 May. 2026, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eoraptor
Wikipedia contributors. “Ischigualasto Formation” Wikipedia, 23 Jun. 2026, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ischigualasto_Formation
happy disability pride month and once again, FUCK lazy subtitles. fuck the [speaks foreign language] instead of actually transcribing the words, fuck shortening sentences and changing whats been said for no reason, fuck censoring swearing in captions but not in audio and fuck anyone who says youre being 'too sensitive' for being upset about a lack of accessibility
I did some research and I definitely see the problem:
"Friend kea!"
Meanwhile, a conservation sign tells tourists the real story:
I particularly love the part that emphasises that if they nick your stuff that's squarely your fault for letting them. Wikipedia (where I found these pictures) draws a clear line between human and kea behaviour:
"Kea parrots have strong cognitive abilities. According to recent studies, kea have a sense of impulse control and forward planning. Kea can wait up to 160 seconds for a more preferred reward. In addition, kea also use trial-and-error tactics and use observational learning to solve difficult problems and when faced with puzzles and locks. These decision-making abilities are similar to primates and other intelligent bird species such as the African grey parrot."
"The Department of Conservation suggested that the time savings resulting from a human-assisted, more calorie-rich diet gives kea more free time to investigate and damage things at campsites and car parks."
Oh yeah, these little weirdos are such a trip. Oh yeah, barnacle? You just gonna grow on whatever the f you want? Well how would you like it if someone did that to you, huh? Get barnacled, barnacle!
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