Xiphosura

Pokemon, Ponies, Animals. Stuff I draw and stuff I reblog!

[irl-loading-screens]

[seabeck]

Pig toy antics

[achillesinhighheels]

[xiphosurida]

couldn't leave this in the comments

[schleichoftheday]

Aight, so this website is far from done, but feel free to give it a peek

[Link]

[xiphosurida]

Jumpscared by seeing my name lol. Horseshoe crabs are rad!

[knxfesck]

category 9 white woman event

[xiphosurida]

why are people treating this as a moral failing of this teenager rather than the fault of the military industrial complex propaganda machine that brainwashes children. she didn't think the military 'seemed cool' out of nowhere, the army spends a boatload of money on propaganda to get kids to think its cool to be in the military

[xiphosurida]

Trick or treat!

You got a treat!

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

ftr I am forever going to be bitter that the post I wanted to be "let's talk about extinct ecosystems and how cool they are!" got derailed into yet another post just talking about a single taxon like the millions of other posts on palaeoblr

[parttimepunner]

Please tell me more about these extinct ecosystems. Why did they go extinct? Could an ecosystem like that return?

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

When I say "extinct ecosystem", I mean those ecosystems that have existed in the past, with extinct animals and plants etc. inhabiting them

by their very definition, they are gone forever

there are ones that were truly unique, like Polar Tropical Forests and Fern Prairies, that we just could not have today

but there were ones that have equivalents to today, as well, like the first savannahs and steppes of the Miocene - they just have earlier versions of the plants and animals

there were so many because there are so many today, and each one had its own flora and fauna and was glorious

There's the wetlands and forests of Hell Creek in the Latest Cretaceous

the bizarre Volcanic Lake Forests of the Jehol Biota

whatever the hell the Ediacaran Reefs were

the Scale Tree Swamp Forests of the Carboniferous

"Mesozoic 2" aka pre-human Aotearoa

the Western Interior Seaway dominated by Mosasaurs

and so many other things, I couldn't possibly list them all. Every time period had its own biosphere and biomes, and they were all unique.

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

#i wanna see the Aurora Borealis over a tropical forest#BC Canada has a Boreal Rainforest so you can definitely get that

that isn't what I mean by "Polar Tropical Forest"

I mean a tropical forest

at the poles

ie, the ecosystems present during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum

we have fossils of plants that showcase how different tropical plant lifestyles had to be up at the poles because of the light weirdness

the important part is "tropical", not "wet/rainforest". those are two different things

Temperate and Boreal Rainforests are wonderful and some of my favorite living biomes, but they aren't what I was talking about

[xiphosurida]

Wouldn't the aurora borealis still shine over these forests due to being at the poles?

[killjoy-prince]

Take the quiz linked at the bottom of this poll and pick the one you scored the highest in:

Strength

Intelligence

Wisdom

Dexterity

Constitution

Charisma

More than one tied for the highest stat (put in the tags which ones)

Voting ended onOct 12, 2023

This is the quiz!!

Feel free to share your stats in the tags!!

[imitationgod]

my giurlfriend grabs my Thang with one of those dinosaur grabbers so hard it draws blood and i let out a single, violent, angelic note that summons a flock of doves to our windowsill

[imitationgod]

i dont remember why i made this post.

[imitationgod]

my giurlfriend grabs my Thang with one of those dinosaur grabbers so hard it draws blood and i let out a single, violent, angelic note that summons a flock of doves to our windowsill

[imitationgod]

i dont remember why i made this post.

[blood-heritage-posts]

Blood Heritage Post

[thememedaddy]

[embersnail]

@xiphosurida requested that the silly Concorde flop around like a salmon. I havent animated in years

[beastsoulart]

The only ship dynamic that 𝙜𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙨 𝙢𝙚 𝙡𝙞𝙛𝙚. 🖤

Monster X Human

[automatonknight]

you can INCREASE your PLAYTIME by being a BAD GAMER

[orangetruckercap]

Fossilas: crinoid stems and stars including a 6 pointed pentacrites and a pyritised ammonte

[rogersandclarke]

how often do you smoke weed (or hit a cart or take an edible etc)?

never

less than once a month

maybe 1-4 times per year

a couple times a month

1-2 times a week

3-4 times a week

5-6 times a week

7+ times a week

Voting ended onAug 11, 2023

based on the alcohol poll i just saw

[pileofknives]

I feel like Cannabis Georg over here, goddamn

[discodeerdiary]

From the makers of "this meeting could have been an email" we present: this universal moral dictum could have been a personal boundary