#kogiopsis

[esseastri]

Things you can do at the library:

•borrow books

•read books

•research

•attend events with authors and other speakers

•get engaged!

[mesozoicmarket]

A fossilized tooth of a sperm whale, possibly Kogiopsis sp. from Saint Marys River, Florida, United States. Fossilized teeth of physeteroid whales can be difficult to diagnose or identify. The closest relatives of sperm whales like Kogiopsis are the odd dwarf or pygmy sperm whales of the genus Kogia.

[exmakina]

I don't wanna be greedy so feel free to disregard this but - Piltover's FInest either attending or getting ready for a formalwear sort of occasion?

[alphynix]

Kogiopsis floridana was a physeteroid whale that lived near the coast of the southeastern United States from the mid-Miocene to the early Pliocene, about 14-4 million years ago.

Known just from fossilized lower jaws and teeth, with some teeth up to nearly 13cm long (~5"), its full life appearance and size are uncertain – but it may have been slightly larger than a modern bottlenose dolphin at around 4.5m long (~14'9"). It's traditionally been considered to be part of the kogiid family, closely related to modern pygmy and dwarf sperm whales, but some studies disagree with that classification and instead place it in the true sperm whale lineage.

It was probably a predator in a similar ecological role to modern orcas, adapted for hunting prey like squid, fish, and smaller marine mammals. But unlike orcas it wouldn't have been the apex predator of its ecosystem, subject to predation pressure by even larger carnivores like macroraptorial sperm whales and everyone's favorite ridiculously huge shark – and as a result it probably had a "live fast and die young" lifestyle similar to modern kogiids and other small-to-medium-sized Miocene physeteroids, rapidly maturing and only living to around 20 years old.

I've reconstructed Kogiopsis here as a kogiid-like animal, with a similar sort of shark-like head shape and "false gill" markings. In the background a second individual is depicted displaying "inking" behavior, releasing a defensive cloud of reddish-brown fluid from a specialized sac in its colon.

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[extinctworld-ua]

Kogiopsis

Kogiopsis — рід середньоміоценових китоподібних із родини Kogiidae. У нього були дуже довгі зуби без коренів, довжиною 3–12,7 см. Ці зуби зустрічаються переважно у Флориді та Південній Кароліні. Крім зубів, когіопсис відомий насамперед по нижньощелепним кісткам. Анатомія зубів і нижньої щелепи схожа на анатомію вимерлого роду кашалотів Orycterocetus.

Повний текст на сайті "Вимерлий світ":

https://extinctworld.in.ua/kogiopsis/

[swamp-spirit]

REVERSE UNPOPULAR OPINIONS: Dragon age; brainsharing; and for a hard one... the literary canon.

1. Dragon Age has so many great character moments. Just lines that really made me laugh or stabbed me in the gut. I also love so many of the character designs. They really hit that line of Dramatic Fantasy while still being really flexible and can be understated. The early games bring back a lot of Baldur’s Gate nostalgia from when I was first learning to use a computer, and the later games bring back a lot of memories of you and Emma. I also like that you can smooch people, but you don’t gotta.

2. I love all forms of weird, fantastical overintimacy.  I also love seeing how a characters actions look for the outside. I’ve always longed for a more objective view of myself. It gives characters that, and a chance to be truly known, at the price of a truly horrific level of intimacy. It’s also such an interesting source of tension. Characters are at their best when pulled in different directions, and that’s built into brainsharing. It forces together incompatible traits and goals in a fascinating way.

3. I think there’s something really beautiful about a book surviving beyond it’s time. Reading them can force us to approach the ideas of another area, but also reminds us that people in history have always been human. And it exposed me to some books that ended up being really important to me that I never would have read otherwise. Also: great memes

[remnantglow]

I just wanna let you know that I ADORE your Murderbot art and it's the primary reason I'm tracking the series tag. if you ever think you are drawing too much Murderbot art and it's too self indulgent: you're not, it's not, and I am LIVING for it.

[renarinkholin]

kogiopsis replied to your chat “Evi: I am your wife Dalinar: ...but you could be fire”

FEATHER UR FIRED

...I mean, so is Evi.