Not Being Immune To The Propaganda Is Not The Moral Failing Some Of Y'all Make It Out To Be. The Moral

reblog and put in the tags 3 extinct creatures you would bring back if you could

Prehistoric Pride Vel-ace-raptor

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Wait. WAIT.

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Fig. 1 - "Compy" fans and people with OCs who are "compsognathid" fans.

But hey! on the bright side, even if Sinosauropteryx was a juvenile, we know that there were baby dinosaurs that looked like red pandas. :) And such is the way of science.

NEW PAPER FROM CAU HUGE IF TRUE

Cau A. (2024). A Unified Framework for Predatory Dinosaur Macroevolution. Bulletin of the Italian Paleontological Society , 63(1): 1-19. doi:10.4435/BSPI.2024.08

EEEE It's an adorable little birb! This is awesome!

One of the few dinosaurs we actually know the approximate colors of, Anchiornis huxleyi. By studying the melanosomes, color-determining pigments within fosilized feathers or skin, scientists can infer that Anchiornis had black, grey and white featheres across it's body with a reddish crest on it's head.

I, of course, stylized the colors, but I think it turned out pretty good. I tried to make it look like a chill little bird with the poses being mostly neutral and not so dynamic.

Cool!

Fossil Novembirb: Day 11

Dawn in Messel

1. Eocoracias brachyptera

2. Masillastega rectirostris

3. Juncitarsus merkeli

deinonychus group running around in the forest, inspired by a dream i had last night

I love talking with neurotypical people about my executive dysfunction because I'm like "yeah there's this invisible wall in my head that I'm incapable of getting past no matter what I do and it stops me from doing things" and they're like what the actual fuck

Meanwhile other neurodivergents are like

A silly little meme I made for the tenth anniversary Kulinday, hosted by @a-dinosaur-a-day.

This IndiHome Paket meme was made on Scratch 3.0 (don't judge me, I don't have proper video editing software).

Meme template adapted for Scratch by @-PhantomAnimations- on Scratch, aka https://scratch.mit.edu/users/-PhantomAnimations-/ .

Happy Kulinday, fellow palaeonerds!

y'all ever think about how insane the sauropods were