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just put my joint out on the open mind of a child searing it and instantly destroying his ability to dream or imagine. sad but i don't care
oh my god
i love when you’re talking to someone who’s not from florida and you just casually mention a thing that only happens in Florida and it ruins their whole day
one time i was talking to some guy and he was like “haha how do yall get alligators in your backyard? do you not have fences?” and i had to inform him that gators can absolutely climb fences
omw to go sit in your pool
this is why kennedy space center had to install fancy outward-curving fences around the launchpad, bc gators climbing over regular fences and getting on the launchpad could be very dangerous
I’d like to think that the “STOP 🛑” sign is also for the gators.
The gators don’t abide by our petty laws. They are…instigators.
turns out they climb trees too. Like regularly. they tend to do it a lot less once they reach certain sizes, but like several crocodilian species turn out to have a whole development period where they spend a lot of time in trees, and we just never knew that until like 2014 because, understandably, nobody who was studying them thought “i wonder if I should look for a bunch of crocodiles up in the trees”
new phobia just dropped
haters will see multi-talented queens and develop a phobia
A good magic system is indistinguishable from physics ig
I submit to you that the most iconic feature of any animal is either unlikely or impossible to fossilize.
If all we had of wolves were their bones we would never guess that they howl.
If all we had of elephants were fossils with no living related species, we might infer some kind of proboscis but we'd never come up with those ears.
If all we had of chickens were bones, we wouldn't know about their combs and wattles, or that roosters crow.
We wouldn't know that lions have manes, or that zebras have stripes, or that peacocks have trains, that howler monkeys yell, that cats purr, that deer shed the velvet from their antlers, that caterpillars become butterflies, that spiders make webs, that chickadees say their name, that Canada geese are assholes, that orangutans are ginger, that dolphins echolocate, or that squid even existed.
My point here is that we don't know anything about dinosaurs. If we saw one we would not recognize it. As my evidence I submit the above, along with the fact that it took us two centuries to realize they'd been all around us the whole time.
So that people don’t need to go through the notes:
- We have fossils of spider webs
- Paleontologists have reconstructed the larynx (voice box) of extinct animals and we have a pretty good idea what vocalizations they were capable of
- Fossilized pigments have been found in a variety of taxa
- Soft tissues fossilize more often than you think; we have skin impressions for like 90% of Tyrannosaurus rex’s full body (shoulder blades and neck are the only bits missing)
If pop culture is your only window into extinct animals, then you do not remotely understand how much we know.
We know the entire lifecycle of a tyrannosaurus. We know from the sheer amount of remains we have, from every stage.
We know roughly how they sounded (as the person above me said).
We know they had remarkable vision.
We know they had the second. strongest sense of smell in history.
We know from their bones that they grew to a certain size and stayed there until about 14 or so, then absolutely ballooned up to their adult size in about three or four years.
We know they likely lived in family groups, because we have bones with certainly fatal injuries for a solitary animal (broken legs and such) that are completely healed.
We know exactly how other dinosaurs look, down to colors and patterns, because bones are not the only information that is preserved.
The Sinosauropteryx is one such dinosaur. Because pigmentation molecules were preserved in the feather impressions, we know it's colors, and it's tail rings (which one would argue would be it's "iconic feature."
(Art credit Julio Lacerda)
Microraptor is another! We know from feather impressions that it had four wings. We know from pigmentation that it was an iredecent black, like a raven.
(Art credit Vitor Silva)
This is not limited to dinosaurs, or feathers. We've found pigmentation in scales and skin. We've completely reconstructed two extinct penguins, colors and all. We've figured out the colors of some non-avian and non-feathered dinosaurs. We can identify evidence of feathers existing on animals without feather impressions.
We have feathered dinosaurs preserved in amber.
We can defer likely behavioral patterns through adaptations we see in bones, and from the environments they were found in. We can see how certain movements evolved through musculature attachments (yes, how muscles attached is often preserved). We know avian flight likely evolved by "accident" by the way early raptorforms moved their arms to strike at their prey.
We also understand behavior in extant animals and can easily speculate likely behaviors in extinct animals. (A predator running for it's life is not going to exhibit hunting behaviors)
We learn and understand way more from "rocks" than paleontologists are given credit for. And if you watch a movie like Jurassic World, which has no interest in portraying anything with any sort of accuracy, and your take away is "We can't possibly know anything about these animals," then you don't understand science.
As for shrinkwrapped reconstructions, we understand how muscles attach, and how fat works. Artists who lean into shrinkwrapping are are not generally concerned with scientific accuracy, or biology. They're only concerned with Awesombro.
If true paleoartists tried to reconstruct a hippo, while they naturally would not get every bit correct, it would certainly look like a real animal, and not that alien monster that tumblr is so fond of using as "proof" that paleontologists don't know anything (an art piece that itself was extreme and satirical, and a condemnation of the particular subset of paleoartists I mentioned earlier)
Every time paleoblr tries to show you how extinct animals actually looked, all we get is a chorus of "thanks i hate it" and "stop ruining dinosaurs!"
On one hand, it is true that only a tiny, tiny fraction of the past left traces to us.
On the other, we are good, and improving over time, at extracting information from what we do have, and claims of the form "we will never know X" have a history of being disproven.
("No matter how many fossils we find, we will never know the color of dinosaurs" -- every pop book on dinosaurs in the 90s and 2000s
"Lmao" -- Sinosauropteryx)
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Neil Gaiman was on some real shit when he made Desire and Despair twins.
This is a very rare and awesome find. This is a crab claw that has been opalised in a similar way that petrified wood is. Very rare and very beautiful specimen.
Being a Renaissance noble sucks. My dad died, now the alchemist who was scamming him is trying to scam me, my wife is a teenager with cholera, and some heathens are translating the Bible into DUTCH.
Wife died. Got a new one with no cholera. Exiled the alchemist.
Serfs are protestant now.
Alchemist is back.
Mercenaries killed my peasants for being protestant. Pretty sure the alchemist fucked my wife. Exiled the alchemist again.
Wife died. Local archbishop tried to buy my estate. Told him to fuck off. Not like, in a protestant way though. Got a new wife.
Alchemist is back.
wait where the fuck is that knockoff korean lego set of that japanese politician getting assassinated
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Leave Your Front and Back Doors WIDE Open All Night Day
via: Nicholas Conigliaro
i fucjin woke up this morning & the back door was wide open, i must be in a different time zone
POLL TIME BABY
How heavy of a sleeper are you?
Very Light: bags, paper, or curtains flapping wakes me up.
Kinda Light: doors squeaking, normal foot steps, or rain wakes me up.
Average: knocks, phone calls, clock or car alarms wake me up.
Kinda Heavy: I sleep through 2+ alarms, and multiple phone calls.
Very Heavy: I sleep through fire alarms, sirens, and a nuclear attack.
Tell me in the tags if you'd like!
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