https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aea6285Truly a big guy.
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>>5130523https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yasuhiro-Iba/publication/404144951_Earliest_octopuses_were_giant_top_predators_in_Cretaceous_oceans/links/69eb36c332a2ba2b2d5537da/Earliest-octopuses-were-giant-top-predators-in-Cretaceous-oceans.pdf?origin=publication_detail&_tp=eyJjb250ZXh0Ijp7ImZpcnN0UGFnZSI6Il9kaXJlY3QiLCJwYWdlIjoicHVibGljYXRpb25Eb3dubG9hZCIsInByZXZpb3VzUGFnZSI6InB1YmxpY2F0aW9uIn19
>>5118955THEY SHRUNK THE DUNK!
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>>5118738Wait, so that thing preyed even on full size mosasaurs? That's insane and cool!>>5118741Octopuses' bodies are very hard to get a grip on and they're extremely durable even if you bite parts of them off. A Megalodon wouldn't be able to do much before the rock hard ocotopus's beak wrecks its cranium. Giant Squids sometimes beat and kill sperm whales that are many times their size
New fish just dropped>Scientist David Harasti never had any doubt what he would name the tiny orange creature he first spotted on a diving expedition in Papua New Guinea in 2003.>But it would take another two decades for Harasti and his colleague Graham Short to find the elusive fish again, study it, and officially designate it a new species. >Meet Solenostomus snuffleupagus, named after the beloved Sesame Street character, Mr. Snuffleupagus. >Short and Harasti have now written a new paper, published in the journal Fish Biology, describing S. snuffleupagus as a new species of ghost pipefish that makes its home along coral reefs, and disguises itself as red algae.https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jfb.70497
>>5127290If I were to discover this id name it The Yarn Fish because it looks like yarn hence the name.
>>5133789>resulting in a game-over scenarioapart from the obvious satirical nature of the LLM response, these millennialisms are just disgusting.
>>5133810>>5134036good names. I like them.
>>5127342>we should let cannibal rapists alonehttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=J5pVkzWj-jA&ra=m
>>5133532no i am just autistic :\
>near 100% hunting success rate>Survived multiple mass extinctions, including the Great Dying; predated and outlived the dinosaurs>is still one of the most majestic animals, a perfect marriage of form and function>is one of the only insects that is not only not hated, but widely liked by humanityThis is the ultimate lifeform, perfection as an organism. A masterpiece of evolution.
>>5133208this is so wistful..
their mandibles are awesome, if you look close there's a second smaller set below these main ones. The monkey face looking shell actually unfolds into a scoop, like an umbrella, with these chompers in the middle.
>>5114868l...lewd...
>>5122858it saved your life, ingrate
Massive fucking heatwave about to hit Urop.Stay hydrated my AC-less frens
>heavy thunderstorm>...>it stays just as hot as before>maybe just more humid nowwhat's the fucking point of thunderstorms at that point
>As of the present writing, it is known that the pheromone released in the vagina of an ovulating woman replicates the pheromone from the ovulating rhesus monkey’s vagina, so that the wipings from a human vagina smeared on a virgin female monkey are a “turn-on” for a male monkey, under laboratory conditions.
>>5131010That's cool as hell and seeing this stuff makes me want this idea I've had for a while even more now.I've been thinking of a fantasy game that, instead of the typical fantasy races, is populated by human subspecies at technological levels they never reached. Tech levels around maybe early bronze age. These bipedal baboons(they're more closely related to baboons than macaques) would be an excellent wildman tribal danger in the wilderness for Cro-Magnons and Neanderthals.
>>5130375Yeah there's nothing that gets me going like fishy vagina smell
doggo
It is this time of the year to ask once againWhy is it still the best dino documentary for the last 27 years? What causes it to be so unique?
>>5132456if you want an example of what I mean.https://youtu.be/xwWQu8rSqjQ?si=QXUEiPZkfY52WsX4&t=414https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rA4nIRKZ1m8
>>5132431>Dinosaurs may have had penises that exended and wrapped around into their mouths so when they pissed the piss went into their mouths and they drank piss and they did it because dinosaurs loved drinking piss!!!Time to put speculatory pissing-drinking dinos into a documentary.
>>5128024>If you looked at frigate bird skeleton, would you have any idea it had a giant balloon on its chest?What the fuck kind of argument is this supposed to be? And if you did this with every other bird you would be reconstructing them incorrectly. Congratulations you just disproved your own stupid ass argument.
>>5126821Why do you closet homosex crave this shit? What is it doing for you exactly? You do realize this isn't normal behavior, right?
>>5128024Why not?
Do emu's make good pets?
>>5135552That is a solid Yes.-Doesn't eat that much food and doesn't need a ton of space (a large backyard is good enough)-Females lay lots of HUGE eggs equivalent to about a dozen chicken eggs each during the winter-Generally friendly and virtually harmless even if they tried to attack someone (there has never been a recorded death from an emu attack)-Big bird. Big enough that you don't have to worry about predators that much, and it will probably survive even if your neighbor's idiot dog breaks into the yard.-They're quieter than chickens/roosters and just make deep "thump" vocalizations.Downsides:-Their poop is gross. You probably want to rake it moderately often.
>>5135552Some do.Some are cuddly and just want to be your companion others are aloof and evasive. The extra friendly ones are about 1 in 4 or 5 from my estimation.
>>5135552No, theyre shady as fuckhttps://youtu.be/sI3RhwSF8mo?si=mbOhBIGxNlvzoyGk
>>5135552I fucking love emus. There were two of them at a holiday farm my grandad used to run that I'd always go up to and put my arm around and talk to them (one them anyway, the other was always a bit timid). I was little at the time so the emu was bigger than me, but I never felt scared of them. I'd love to get one as a pet, but the yard just isn't big enough.
How come people still cling to the idea hominines evolved in Africa when there is literally no evidence for it, the majority of phylogenies reject it, and every single major development in the hominine bauplan occurs first in Europe? What possible burden of proof needs to be achieved before it's finally unanimous that hominines developed in Europe?
>>5135682Homo sapiens sapiens was genetically engineered in the near east, however. There is zero evidence homo sapiens sapiens evolved naturally and is endemic to africa. It would be as improbable as velociraptor evolving into a penguin in 2 million years. The only humans endemic to africa also have large amounts of admixture from a mystery hominid no one else does. Everyone else has smaller amounts of denisovan/neanderthal DNA. Meaning those two would be the natural humans that came out of africa.
>>5135777>bipedalism in europeYou'd have to find something very unique to show that. Orrorin, Sahelanthropus, and Ardipithecus make a very convincing argument for its endemic development in Africa. Unless your argument is that apes that were both quadrupedal and bipedal migrated into Africa together?
>>5135781see >>5135681 these two papers. Danuvius has a morphology consistent with arboreal bipedality and graecopithecus has a morphology consistent with terrestrial bipedality, both older than the oldest African hominins. Also sahelanthropus is hardly convincing, even the analysis in the most recent Williams paper in support of it shows the femur is consistent with a knuckle walker. That tubercle is also total bs.
Does it even matter? It's framed like it's a win for Africans, but if it happened 300000 years ago when there was an equal lack of civilization around the globe, before any creature had the capacity to speak, let alone thought to utter the modern name, can modern day Africa, or any other location, claim responsibility?
>>5135428Out of Africa just refers to the migration of homo sapiens that ended up sticking. There were loads of other little monkey fellas knocking about around the world and other migration events that didn't stick.All it says is "all humans outside of Africa share a common ancestor with a group that left Africa ~100k years ago" (or whatever the date is). The existence of other hominins elsewhere prior isn't relevant.
how can evolution yield entirely new features out of nothing? mutation, i get that, but that requires something to exist in the first place.how did the earliest known ancestor of all life who ate and shat through the same hole get a sophisticated nutrition processing system with all the parts of the intestines, liver, kidney and so on.
>>5133881>the mutation doesn't "spread" to other individuals>he doesn't know
>>5135023That's convergent evolution. The scorpions stinger has evolved 3 times independently. But each mutation still derives from a single individual even if the mutation happens more than once. It simply spreads from 2 individuals but otherwise you would have to say each individuals genetic lineage evolved in exact synchronization every generation for 100s of billions of years. It only happens once, or twice, and then spreads from there
>>5133776When a more distant mutant breeds back into the original stock, and its offspring stay in the original population, it creates a massive wave of genetic instability that many individuals with new traits can arise from. I think sudden and more dramatic speciation events depend on this mechanic of fucked up mutts to disperse genes into a larger group and do so in a way that their genes themselves get fucked up.It’s also how every race of humans evolved>sapiens+neanderthal (whites and jews)>sapiens+denisova (asians and native americans)>sapiens+”we just dont know” (or maybe we do and its insulting)
>>5134316came here just to see how long it took to get to this exact post, fuggg :DDD
>>5133776Idk bro, literally the entire field of evolutionary biology exists to answer this question. You're not going to get a nice succinct answer that is satisfying. This is why they have you dissect multiple animals in biology class. Worms, bugs, star-fish, frogs, baby pigs, etc. You can see stage by stage how things develop across the tree of life from invertebrates to vertebrates so you can see for yourself. I mean you can think of life as a hungry mouth attached to a shitter with a pair of sex organs attached. Anything that makes either process easier or more efficient gets selected for. For organs they all come from different places. Your kidneys are part of your circulatory system that integrates with the excretory system. Originally it was as simple as the blood passing things through a semi permeable membrane, but as the systems get bigger and more complex then you start to have places where more and more vessels connect at a single point, once you have that vertex then the blood vessels there can develop and small mutations pile up and you get blood vessels that have clumped and twisted to the point it makes a natural filter where waste and toxins can be dumped while keeping the blood and serum you need inside. The liver was just gut lining that produced certain enzymes, as the system gets more complicated certain types of cells along the gut start to clump together into distinct areas to do distinct things like dumping enzymes, or absorbing water and sugars, etc. Fats and cholesterol build up around those parts of the gut, and the cells start drifting into that cloud of goo and it becomes a liver or pancreas or a gall bladder. The part that sucks up water and sugars is towards the end of the digestive tract and becomes your colon and lower small intestine. When you look at vertical slices through a tree of life it becomes self evident.
>It's a shame no animals are as big as the dinosaurs today :(>The blue whale is bigger than the largest dinosaurs, though.>Yeah but they're boring because... because they just are, okay?!>It's a shame there are no marine reptiles alive today :(>Yellow bellied sea snakes can spend their whole lives at sea, though.>Yeah but they're boring because... because they just are, okay?!
The problem with blue whales is theyre huge and insanely impressive but they live in the open ocean so no one ever sees them and its basically like they dont exist.They're hard to even film and even when filmed never have anything near them as size reference so its really really hard to even tell how big they are. In most footage a blue whale and regular whale swimming around functionally look like the same size or whatever.
Sperm whale vs Colossal Squid is cooler than T-rex vs Trike
>>5128501Tbf swimming next to whales is the greatest shit ever and without the vast open sea surrounding them im sure it wouldnt be quite as majestic
>>5133785>tfw we were so close to having fun-sized ankylosaur tortoises in our modern day.
I only wish dinosaurs were alive so I could get some fred flintstone tier bronto-ribs. Or a turkey-leg from a galomimus or something like that. Imagine thanksgiving dinner with a fully dressed roast-raptor dinner.Shit would be fucking cash.
post leeeemuuuurs
how'd monkeys turn into a racoon anywayhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hb6lDXkz1Wk
>>5134521always sad when a non-domesticated animal looks ultra cuddly
>>5134542"Domestication" is just humans making animals mutated and deformed. Almost all nondomesticated animals are cuddly when raised by humans, including lemurs (ruffeds in particular are really sweet).
>>5135644New jack
Crows before ho's
That's a raven.
>>5135574inb4 that's a raven
>fugly ass white patch corvids
Will the cat be ok if i transport her in an empty car trunk outside a cage for two hours until i reach my vacation destination? I dont want her to free roam in the car interior because she will most likely scratch everything and distract me into crashing.
>>5135320Use a pet carrier tard.
>>5135320Why do you want to take your cat with you on vacation? Are you going to be gone for months?Anyways the biggest risk is that when you open your trunk, she escapes past you and you have trouble catching her.Get a feeder with a timer and an automatic waterer.
>>5135333fpbp
No please don't put your cat in the trunk OP, there are little to no air holes in there and the cat will spaz out. A large cardboard box with plenty of air holes inside the car cabin is an option. You can likely get a large box from local stores for free as they recycle literal tons of them per week. Tell the store people it's for your cat and many will work to find you a proper box, remember plenty of air holes and a soft towel or blanket inside. Make sure to take a break and see if the cat needs water along the way. My local Walmart sells large plastic storage tubs that when filled with many air holes would make a great DIY cat carrier and they cost $9.99 and you can keep it as a cat carrier for future needs. I bet you have such a plastic tub you can use at your house now. Remember to add air holes! A LOT!
am i going to die, /an/? that looks like a violin but idk if it's THE violin...
>>5133760oh hey a southern house spider, nice. i remember finding one of these in my old place, they're pretty cool.
>>5133760I think OP dieded :(
>>5134724the spooder got him :(((
>>5134724>>5135255Probably.
>>5135271fuck you anon
All the ducks are swimming in the waterFal-de-ral-de-ral-doFal-de-ral-de-ral-doAll the ducks are swimming in the waterFal-de-ral-de-ral-do-de-ray
Beautiful; just beautiful!
>>5135339Based thread
go back to your datacenter
The nature of beauty
