#extiction

[i-was-today-years-old-when]

i learned about Eurypterids, an order of arthropods completely wiped out by the world's biggest mass extinction, were scorpion-like giants that could reach almost ten feet in length (x)

[i-dont-like-it-cos-im-thedoctor]

we are fucking up the earth

alrighty so we already know that we are fucking up earth and if you don't, well now you do. if you don't believe in climate change and global warming and say it isn't real, you're a fucking idiot. anyway for those that do know we are fucking up earth and want to help, here is a bunch of shit you can do.

websites:

https://www.ecosia.org/ 

ecosia is a search engine, search whatever the fuck you want it works like google, but with every ten searches or something, they plant a tree where it is need, so start using this to search up shit

http://freerice.com/#/english-vocabulary/1425 

free rice is a vocabulary website, it gives you a word, you pick one of four answers that it the meaning of the word. You got one right? Fantastic! you just donated 10 grains of rice to help end world hunger!

here's some other website that you should check out, I'm just not very good at explaining things but you should definitely look at them

http://freerice.com/#/english-vocabulary/1425

https://plasticoceans.org/ 

https://plasticoceans.org/ 

https://www.beforetheflood.com/

go, look at them, read them and get a little more educated on problems and how they are helping and how you can help

you can also watch documentaries to get woke, you should watch 

Before the Flood and Plastic Ocean, these are both are on Netflix, so watch them to see how the problems are affecting things and ways you can help.

Zero waste:

one way you can help that makes an everyday difference is to try to have zero waste, or as little waste as possible.

these are websites who sell things that you can buy things from to swap out single use items and/or can be reused, idk, I'm bad at wording things but look at the websites and maybe you’ll understand a bit better.

https://www.lush.com/ 

you’ve heard of lush, if you haven’t, well here it is, they sell makeup, cosmetics and bathroom shit, but zero waste, like bar shampoo and conditioner, even bar deodorant. their makeup containers can be taken back, cleaned and reused. and they are against animal testing and their products are home made

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qkQmzdoFNw Gabbie Hannah did a video where she didn't use any trash for 24 hours and talks about lush products, honestly watch the whole video its fucking great I love it.

https://earthhero.com/

https://www.ecolateralshop.com.au/ 

https://zerowastestore.com.au/ - I think this one is based in Australia but I'm leaving it here anyway, still go look at it cos it could have global shipping

alright bitches here's your shopping list so you can stop using trash,  ( and seriously, stop using plastic straws, bottle and bags, its 2019, you’ve see the video of the turtle with the plastic straw stuck in its nose)

 reusable straw, reusable water bottle, reusable bags, bar shampoo/ conditioners, bar deodorants, bar soaps, reusable coffee mugs, reusable trash bags, biodegradable tooth brushes, food wraps, tooth tabs and cora microfiber laundry ball.

now at those last two, you may have thought “ what the fuck are those” well here's some pics and an explanation 

tooth tabs, you can get ‘em from lush, instead of getting tubes of tooth paste you get these, put one in you mouth, chew it and brush ya teeth. 

mircro fiber laundry ball. basically when you wash ya clothes, mircro plastics come off them and are washed into water ways, this amazing little fucker catches those plastics before they can escape. 

some other shit you can do

compost

pick up trash when you see it

support originations that are helping

educate people

reblog this so other people can be woke and can help cos we only got like 12 years to do something otherwise we’re fucked

feel free to add more shit that we can do to help

[help-earth]

Omg this is literally so scary we have 11.25 years which means a lot of people won’t make it to 30 and those are the only people who are trying to save our planet. Most people over 50 probably don’t care because they’ve already lived they’ve done everything they’ve had to do but many kids and teenagers won’t get to so if you’re one of the people who aren’t trying don’t just focus on you think about your younger nieces and nephews and kids and everyone who won’t get to live because the shitty ass generations before us didn’t care about our planet as much as they cared about they’re money. People this is important. Save the planet please‼️

[thecoffeeisblack]

Final for Carnotaurus sastrei. A farely large predatory dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous (72 - 69.9 million years ago), it is mostly defined by it's short bulldog like skull sporting 2 large horns mounted on it's brow just above the eyes. The bull-like placement of the horns were not lost on the scientist who discovered it, José Bonaparte, deriving it's name from the Latin words meaning "meat-eating bull."

It was a member of the Abelisauridae family, a group of predatory dinosaurs that dominated the southern continents during the Cretaceous, it's thought that the lack of Tyrannosaur competition was one key to their success.

Coincidentally the 1985 Argentinian expedition on which Carnotaurus was discovered was the same expedition that Amargasaurus was discovered on, a bizarre sauropod dinosaur that I have previously rendered. The original specimen found on that expedition was even found with skin impressions, including some on the skull, the skull impressions were however sadly destroyed during excavation. The impressions showed an animal that was covered in scale fairly uniform scales.

Recent research has revealed that the muscles that connected the animal's tail to it's thigh were extremely large and would have pulled the leg back for a very strong running stroke, leading scientists to theorize that Carnotaurus was a very swift runner as it was also relatively lightly build for it's size, weighing in at around 2.2 to 2.3 tons, which is light for an animal of roughly 30 feet in length.

Given it's almost completely useless forelimbs and the power of it's legs, it's appropriate to think of Carnotaurus as a 30 foot horned cheetah, spending it's time sprinting after smaller prey and gobbling it up without a second thought.

[algeroth]

After Earth’s Worst Mass Extinction, Life Rebounded Rapidly, Fossils Suggest

A teenager’s fossil hunt two decades ago may have changed paleontologists’ understanding of how long it took to recover from the “Great Dying” 252 million years ago.

Though Mr. Krumenacker believed the fossil site was important, it took him more than a decade to draw professional paleontologists to Idaho. Since his first find, Mr. Krumenacker, who is now a doctoral student at Montana State University, made frequent trips back to the Paris Canyon site and uncovered shrimp and sponge fossils. These soft-bodied specimens typically don’t fossilize well, but the ones he collected were pristinely preserved. They were just the discoveries he needed to attract the attention of other paleontologists and finally organize a professional dig.

Now, about 20 years after Mr. Krumenacker found the shark teeth, he and a team of researchers have identified more than 750 individual specimens at Paris Canyon, including ancient squids, lobsters, fish and other marine creatures. By dating the rocks at the site, they determined that the location was part of a thriving underwater ecosystem some 250 million years ago, only about 1.3 million years after the Great Dying. Most previous research had suggested that it took between 10 million and 20 million years for ecosystems to recover.

“To build these diverse ecosystems, you’re almost starting from scratch from the mass extinction event,” Dr. Stephen said. “The information that my colleagues and I have gathered tell us that at least in some places the recovery was relatively rapid.”

The marine life at this location may have been as bustling and flourishing as a healthy coral reef today. There would have been seven-foot-long sharks swimming among squidlike creatures with tentacles that had hooks, and armored cephalopods with coiled shells called ammonites sharing the sea with mollusks in shells shaped like ice cream cones. There might have also been dolphinlike marine reptiles called ichthyosaurs and schools of bony fish. The ocean floor would have been covered in scavenging shrimp and lobsters, as well as sponges, clams and ancient starfish relatives that stood on stems and resembled underwater flowers.

“It’s fairly remarkable just because it’s so diverse,” Mr. Krumenacker said. “You’re roughly a million years after the worst extinction in the history of the planet and we have this diverse ecosystem. It’s much earlier than people thought.”

[driftlessarearev]

Gold Rush in the Jungle by Dan Drollette, Jr. @ NYJB

Deep within the jungles of the former North Vietnam there is a deer that barks, a half-goat/half-ox, and a striped rabbit. Dan Drollette, Jr. is a prolific science writer who traveled from Vietnam to Sweden and beyond to bring the story of the Vietnam’s biodiversity hot spots. Gold Rush in the Jungle: The Race to Discover and Defend the Rarest Animals in Vietnam’s “Lost World” tells the dual…

Gold Rush in the Jungle by Dan Drollette, Jr. @ NYJB

[justanherbivore]

"We may have lost 40 per cent of platypus numbers and that is only going to get worse with the impacts of climate change over the next fifty odd years," Dr Kingsford said.

"This animal is one of the most amazing animals that we have on the planet and it would be a very sad day if we were ever in the position of losing them."

[thenerdcantina]

Extracted Trilogy by R. R. Haywood: Book Review

Extracted Trilogy by R. R. Haywood: Book Review

A young genius invents time travel in the year 2061. He goes forward to the year 2111, and everything seems to have progressed as expected. When he does another “test run”, he finds that the world is destroyed. So he travels back in time to extract his father moments before he is about to kill himself, in hopes that he will be able to help figure out what went wrong, and when. Now his father and…

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