#paleo meme

[theantiazdarcho]

The Lancetfish is a species that looks like it comes straight out of a realistic fantasy world building project.

[emychu-art]

Raptors would have been really silly, this is my scientific opinion

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Bluesky

[heat0nic]

walking with monsters, dinosaurs, and beasts

[peregrinethegryphon]

Speaking of PCOS getting renamed, let’s take a moment to celebrate that medical scientists are actually allowed to change the names of their discoveries, because paleontologists can’t fucking relate.

Sorry, why did you name this whale “King Lizard”? They thought it was a reptile when they first discovered it? Ok well can’t you change it? No?

Hey why is this clade called “False Crocodiles” when it contains all crocodiles? Oh, it used to be classified differently and only included an offshoot of crocodile-like animals, but now it includes the entire crocodile branch of the archosaur family tree? So, now all crocodiles are false crocodiles? Uh huh. ok. great.

[moochingvanze]

I thought "What if the smaller theropods acted similar and bit like tyrannosaurid tails"

[mariolanzas]

[cellulosaurus]

WE DON’T ACTUALLY KNOW IF AJKACERATOPS FERENCERATOPS AND ZALMOXES HAD A FRILL OR NOT WE DON’T ACTUALLY KNOW IF AJKACERATOPS FERENCERATOPS AND ZALMOXES HAD A FRILL OR NOT WE DON’T ACTUALLY KNOW IF AJKACERATOPS FERENCERATOPS AND ZALMOXES HAD A FRILL OR NOT

that whole “frilless european ceratopsians” is the definition of a paleomeme wake up people we don’t have the back of the skull of any of these weirdoes

Don’t blame ya though the press art is frilless and all the press released gobbled that up as facts

[allstarshengans]

Yixian formation rivalry

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