“How did students write essays before AI?”-ass question
Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · 18h agoGuys like this don’t realize that they are the freak
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Biologist with Master’s degree. Vertebrate zoology and paleontology, but I’ll post about whatever.
Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · 18h agoI’m thinking about getting the Cyberzoic Dryptosaurus. I think that black and white color scheme is starting to grow on me, and if it has improved joints compared to the original (it does, right?), that’s more reason for me to want it.
Every lesson you learned about protecting the endangered species of this world, from your childhood to adulthood, from books to museum displays, was meant to act in opposition to this. But I guess it was all for naught.
Optimus' truck mode with Megatron's fusion cannon arm sort of reminds me of his Cybertronian alt mode from the G1 Marvel comics.
Looks like a seahorse, but it’s not. It evolved the same body plan independently! journaloflostspecies.org/index.php/jl...
The way I would tell my ancient and medieval ancestors this was a giant river dragon that ate other dragons. And turtles. (Skeletal by Randomdinos)
Paleoindians to bison after most of the other Pleistocene megafauna go extinct:
I’m finally done Surviving Earth. I wish they had just made the last episode about the arrival of humans in NA.
Recovering signatures of archaic hominin introgression using ancestral recombination graphs www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Recovering signatures of archaic hominin introgression using ancestral recombination graphs
Admixture between modern humans and extinct hominins has shaped the genomes of present-day individuals, but reconstructing this history has been constrained by the scarcity of archaic samples and unad...
science.org
Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding is that the bow and arrow appeared rather late (for the Holocene) in North America. A recent study found it was rapidly adopted in western North America ~1,400 years ago.
As popular as the image of terror bird vs sabercat is, I actually wonder if phorusrhacids found more competition in canids, particularly canines, as both phorusrhacids and Caninae were/are specialized cursorial predators.
I don’t usually obsess over differences between different dinosaur species in the same genus, but that between A. fragilis vs jimmadseni’s skulls is actually interesting to me. I’m happy to have two figures specifically meant to be each species.
Okay, the color and the costumes aside (I still think those are valid complains)…I enjoyed the film. That’s okay, right?
Ausarchosaur@ausarchosaur.bsky.social · 4d agoGoing to be watching the Odyssey soon
New story idea for the author of Ancient Animal Tales: an Acrocanthosaurus swims across to South America, meets some Giganotosaurus, they can *partially* communicate as fellow carcharodontosaurids, but not perfectly since they’re different species.
Ausarchosaur@ausarchosaur.bsky.social · 5d agoWith a recent paper suggesting older Albian ages for the Candeleros and Huincul Formations, a moot on Twitter said that now is a good time to bash your Giganotosaurus and Acrocanthosaurus action figures together, assuming one swam to the other’s continent.
The dramatic poses of the creatures from Weird ‘n Wild Creatures make a lot more sense when you remember that they also had trading cards and a game.
I think one of my favorite introductory scenes for a T. rex is from Phil Tippett’s Prehistoric Beast.
With a recent paper suggesting older Albian ages for the Candeleros and Huincul Formations, a moot on Twitter said that now is a good time to bash your Giganotosaurus and Acrocanthosaurus action figures together, assuming one swam to the other’s continent.
Sort of reminds me of the ice age episode of Jurassic Fight Club. Like, put aside the lion 1v1ing a bear 3x its size for a moment, even if that happened…it would NOT look like that lol
Jojira@gojisaurus.bsky.social · 5d agotbh the funniest part of the last Surviving Earth episode is they also animated the animals pretty dramatically like the dinosaurs but you can tell it's wrong because that's just a normal ass wolf. Yeah man I'm sure wolves menacingly growl at deer when hunting
The (maybe) good thing about the last SE episode also being a Cenozoic one is that I’m itching to see for myself just how they handle the Pleistocene extinctions.
There’s this commercial I keep hearing on the TV at work. The music sounded like something from the 18th century or an Irish pub. This time I actually looked at the TV and it turned out it was just a plumbing/electric/HVAC commercial.
A partial skull of Rhizosmilodon. This sabertooth lived in Florida around 5 million years ago. It was comparable in weight to modern cougars, leopards, and some jaguars. #FossilFriday
Ausarchosaur@ausarchosaur.bsky.social · 2w agoOops, I forgot it was #FossilFriday! So uh, here’s a tooth I bought at the farmer’s market today, supposedly from a mosasaur. I went out of my way to pick out something I thought was least likely to be faked.
It turns out that Upper Paleolithic woolly mammoth accumulations are dominated by females (70%), in contrast to naturally deposited remains being dominated by males. www.cell.com/current-biol...
Paleogenomic sex inference of mammoth remains sheds light on the anthropogenic nature of bone accumulations
Moots et al. use ancient DNA to compare woolly mammoth sex ratios from anthropogenic bone accumulations and natural depositional contexts. The results show that accumulations are female-biased, which ...
cell.com
They also have these, Dougal Dixon’s night stalker (from After Man) and cutlasstooth (from The New Dinosaurs). The obvious nostrils added to the night stalker make it look a bit more terrifying IMHO.
I found out they sell this Barinasuchus scale model online in 1:33 and 1:8 scale, albeit unpainted. Trying to decide which I should get.
Actually, if I weren’t a stickler for only using photos and art I produced myself for my profile, I would’ve made this my banner.
Ausarchosaur@ausarchosaur.bsky.social · 7d agoArchosaur beef
