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jonsnowboard

Damn nature you scary

jumpingjacktrash

nighttime adventures of forest friends

lizardlicks

Deer are such ginormous idiots.

iguanamouth

I thought it would delight you to know that ants do have a sort of funeral mound for their dead

yes there is a name for this! necrophoresis is a process with social insects where the bodies are taken to a specific location on the outside of ( or within ) the nest - ants tend to keep them all in the same place, and the way an ant is signaled to be “dead” by its other members is through the release of a chemical called oliec acid

theres even been a few experiments where live ants were coated in the same chemical and other ants treated the live ants….exactly as though they were dead and tried dragging them into the pile

iguanamouth

i do think that unnecessarily bolding and CAPITALIZING and italicizing words is hilarious BUT furthermore i’ve found that with my ADHD it makes it easier to read large blocks of text for whatever reason. it feels like giving my brain something to hold onto, as opposed to those slippery unenhanced blocks of text that i just get lost in.

hollowboobtheory

is this just me? bc it feels like an adhd thing here’s a slippery version for contrast

i do think that unnecessarily bolding and capitalizing and italicizing words is hilarious but furthermore i’ve found that with my adhd it makes it easier to read large blocks of text for whatever reason. it feels like giving my brain something to hold onto, as opposed to those slippery unenhanced blocks of text that i just get lost in.

hurdying-gurdily

first one?

beautiful.

second one?

incomprehensible, uncouth, eloped with my youngest sister Helen in the night,

fuck-philip-banks

You seem to find it easier to read BLOCKS OF TEXT which are EMPHASIZED in KEY LOCATIONS. This habit likely stems from an UNKNOWN ELEMENT of your PAST, of which you have VAGUE MEMORIES.

hollowboobtheory

hi please do not say that thanks

shikalys

Omg

headspace-hotel

I’m still not sure how to explain to non-writers that sometimes characters can just do things without your consent or foreknowledge and there’s not a lot you can do to stop them.

naniiebim

oh, they hecka do that when you make comics too.

james-winston

The Titanoboa, is a 48ft long snake dating from around 60-58million years ago. It had a rib cage 2ft wide, allowing it to eat whole crocodiles, and surrounding the ribcage were muscles so powerful that it could crush a rhino. Titanoboa was so big it couldn’t even spend long amounts of time on land, because the force of gravity acting on it would cause it to suffocate under its own weight.

laurdlannister-kingslayer

I’m so glad they aren’t around

vitressence-deactivated20150307

omg me too. I’m scared enough of 26 ft long anacondas. I’m so happy Megalodons, those giant sharks, aren’t alive either

laurdlannister-kingslayer

Praise natural selection

poppypicklesticks-blog

I remember watching Walking with Beasts or something similar, or some British tv show about evolution

The subject was something like a 12 foot long water scorpion

I was so startled by its sudden appearance and narration that I yelped: “12 fucking feet?!?! I’m fucking glad it’s extinct!”

silvermoon424

Dude, prehistory was home to some fucking TERRIFYING creatures. For some reason, everything back then was enormous and scary. Extinction doesn’t always have to be a bad thing!

And Poppy, what you saw was an arthropod known as Pterygotus (it was actually featured in Walking With Monsters). Not only was it as big (or maybe even bigger) than your average human, it had a stinger the size of a lightbulb. REALLY glad that bugger isn’t around anymore.

Also, Megalodon deserves to be mention again, because just hearing its name makes me want to never be submerged in water ever again.

sashayed

GOD, I HATE THIS POST. HOW DO WE EVEN KNOW THAT SHIT ISN’T STILL AROUND? LURKING? EVOLVING? WE DON’T. WE DON’T KNOW SHIT ABOUT SHIT DOWN THERE. THE OCEAN IS A PRIMEVAL HELLSCAPE NIGHTMARE AND WE ALL JUST DIP OUR STUPID FRAGILE UNPROTECTED FETUS BODIES AROUND THE EDGES OF IT LIKE THAT’S NORMAL. FUCK THE OCEAN.

honey-andrevolution

this is so relevant to my interests

siphersaysstuff

It wasn’t just the predators. North Carolina was once home to giant ground sloths…

THAT IS A GODDAMNED LEAF-EATING SLOTH.

We’ve got a skeleton of one of these fuckers at the museum downtown, and man, just being NEAR it is unsettling.

anneriawings

DON’T FORGET PREHISTORIC WHALES, SOME OF THOSE FUCKERS WERE TERRIFYING

AMBULOCETUS WAS AMPHIBIOUS AND PRETTY BADASS

BASILOSAURUS WAS THIS GIANT REPTILIAN CETACEAN THAT PROBABLY SWAM LIKE A DUMB EEL BECAUSE OF ITS TINY FLUKES BUT THIS FUCKER WAS 60 FEET LONG AND AT THE TOP OF THE MARINE FOOD CHAIN

AND THEN THERE’S MY FAVORITE, ZYGOPHYSETER, WHICH WAS THIS HUGE EARLY SPERM WHALE THAT ATE SHARKS AND OTHER WHALES

IT WAS NOTHING BUT TEETH

gallizfrey

The reason why the animals in the prehistoric times were so big was because there was much more oxygen in the atmosphere if I recall correctly. Because there was so much oxygen and so few carbon gasses, life on earth was able to grow to terrifying lengths and heights, don’t forget how giant the bugs were.

shabbytigers

I have never seen so much prime nope in a single post

ororomunroedontpullout

Also important to note that megalodon is theorized to still be alive,possibly living in the darkest depths of the ocean. They haven’t found signs of its extinction

king-of-the-edge

scientists: “we haven’t seen a megalodon in quite some time now, let’s just hope it’s exstinct”

aninactivebloggfgfgf

This whole post is my JAM not gonna lie I am fascinated by massive prehistoric animals

nevercure

They’re not horrifying

They’re normal size, for their time

They are horrifying compared to today, but that’s subjective

The predators were huge because the prey was huge because the plants were huge and the insects were huge and the fish were huge and everything was huge.

Things are the size they are now because everything else is the size it is now.

kingscrown666

I totally live hearing about megafauna

Keep em coming!

catchymemes

remakingggggggg-deactivated2020

hey i really think y’all should watch this

books-in-order

Original credit to NonRock on R/Funny

azrael556

Cats have the need to spill blood.

justketerthings

Very ironic that this april we are stuck at home with a new popular videogame thats about collecting various grist and crafting in a randomly generated world full of animal consorts......