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Perpetually confused | icon from yutyrannuss

[todays-xkcd]

Gen-Z got a chunk of the Carboniferous, and now all their memes are about how pathetic and small today's dragonflies are.

Nostalgia Content [Explained]

Transcript Under the Cut

[Cueball is standing, with his arms out, in front of a Prototaxite towering over a mossy landscape. To his right, a Tamagotchi (bottom-left) and milk-caps (referred to in this comic as "pogs", top-left) appear. The 3 milk-caps that can be seen show a skull with a snake through its eyeball, a figure 8 & a star (3 more milk-caps are also shown, but have obscured pictures).] Cueball: Who else remembers pogs? Tamagotchis? Vast forests of Prototaxites towering over the mossy landscape as armored fish stir in the deep?

[Caption below the panel:] Due to a database error, millennial nostalgia now includes a portion of the early Devonian.

[scienceskink]

Dimetrodon, everyone's favourite not-a-dinosaur

[tetrahelios]

Torvosaurus sketches, plus the uncoloured version because I liked the lines

[palaeowhy]

Look upon her gaze...

[fairycosmos]

hey is anyone else sick of having to adapt to horrible conditions over and over again

[fairycosmos]

the humble woolly mammoth

[tribble-ations]

Ever since I found out you can make pins and magnets for free at my city’s library I’ve become so powerful

[fulda-gap-express]

If I'm elected as your president in 2028 I promise to bring back the Western Interior Seaway.

[fulda-gap-express]

North America peaked with this design and every change since has been worse.

[luidilovins]

[grrrrrrrbarkbarkbark-deactivate]

NONONONO NO. NO. DO YOU WANT ANY OF THIS FUCKING SHIT BACK?

[prof-grace-aspen]

Pretty babies come swim in w ater with big fish water is fine with big fish in come taste interior seaway with big fish

[argentsunshine]

still thinking about the time my bf asked about favourite dinosaurs and my brother said quetzalcoatlus (pterosaur (not a dinosaur)) and my bf said dimetrodon ((synapsid (stem mammal) (went extinct 50 million years before dinosaurs evolved)) and i said crows (bird (dinosaur)) and yet i was judged to be the incorrect one in this scenario

[philosophyinateacup]

Gotta get the rocks

[amnhnyc]

Happy Birthday to Mary Anning, the “Mother of Paleontology!” Born on this day in 1799, she hailed from Lyme Regis on the coast of Dorset, England, and grew up collecting fossils. At age 13, she unearthed a skeleton of a giant marine reptile, one of the first ichthyosaurs. In her late twenties, she discovered Dimorphodon, the first pterosaur found outside continental Europe, on the beach cliffs at Lyme Regis. At the time, headlines celebrated Anning and her “flying dragon.” Her discovery proved that these flying reptiles were varied and had a wide range.

Image: Library of Congress

[themeeplord]

I can't remember drawing a dinosaur like this before. It was fun to figure out the anatomy, I hope I did alright :p

2026 dinosaur prompt list

[bitchvinaigrette]

who is she

[palaeowhy]

Not entirely happy how this turned out but uuh. It's better than my first try.. which for anyone who's interested is under the read more

[memorycycle]

deinosuchus wouldve loved a lamb souvlaki

[terrorgatt]

ANYONE!! QUICK GIMME A REASON YOU LIKE BEING ALIVE :3

[mariolanzas]

[vickysaurus-art]

Antarctica, 108 million years ago. A group of Leaelynnasaura is fascinated by the bright spot that appeared on the Moon's night side as a large meteorite struck it, forming the Tycho crater.

This piece was inspired by the Artemis II mission. I wanted to paint something about the Moon, and while doing some research was delighted to discover the prominent Tycho crater on the Moon's surface was formed right in the middle of the Cretaceous period!