How many users here realize that calling Lissamphibia (modern amphibians) Temnospondyli is the equivalent of calling birds dinosaurs? The consensus is nearly absolute, with the exception of David Marjanovic and Michel Laurin, who theorize that Lepospondyli gave rise to Lissamphibia, but their views are as marginal as Feduccia’s are in the world of ornithology regarding bird evolution.
It is truly fascinating to think that temnospondyls are still alive today.
There is even the hypothesis proposed by Pardo (2017) stating that Lissamphibia is not a monophyletic group, but that all three lineages are temnospondyls, and caecilians would be stereospondyls. The fossil in question is Chinlestegophis jenkinsi.
Do some cats have laser eyes?
>>5161569magic
>>5161569I heard some have taser paws.
>>5161569Yes.
Does it SUCK to be a herbivore especially mammalian herbivores?>you can't digest cellulose on your own, you need a specific microbiome>you need to spend hours fermenting and digesting plant matter>often times the plant matter isn't nutritious enough and you have opportunistically eat meat>if you're a hindgut fermenter, your young literally have to eat the shit of their mothers to gain the right gut microbiome>if you're a hindgut fermenter, the large size of your body/belly isn't fat but intestines (like manatees/dugong/many monkeys)>if you're a foregut fermenter, you have to spend most of your waking hours chewing cud then belching >you get more nutrients from plant matter compared to hindgut fermenters but you still have to constantly regurgitate then chew and repeatBoy am I glad that we're omnivores
Bump
>BumpBut an ad you carnivver
>>5164125Typical herbivore All that grass left you with no nutrients to develop your brain
>>5159567>you need a specific microbiomeAnon just about every animal with a gut requires a bacterial biome to help digest.
>>5159569>>5159618I was thinking about it just the other day, but there isn't a lot that actually eats fallen vegetable matter. It's pretty much just fungi, snails, and worms.Throw a salad on the ground, and it'll just rot.
show them
>>5149577Wild Turkeys will literally snatch lit cigs, I haven't seen them properly smoke yet but I bet they could be trained or even learn how on their own
>>5163989Bears always have this look on their face like they just told a risky joke and offended someone and feels really bad about it
>>5162285>me sowing vs me reaping
>>5163277That one is a snake. You can see the typical scale pattern. A king cobra I think. The tortoise shell isn't a real one either.
>>5149942fascinating! i like how theyre splitting from each other and disappearing again in real time! almost looks like completely made up ai dogshit
>wood pecker>wood>peckerAre we just not gonna talk about this?
>>5164337Let's have a shag.
>>5164233I've been seeing a lot of woodpeckers on the ground lately, looking for bugs like the other birds. Are they just fucking lazy?
>>5164414Were the red feathers on top of their head curly with the sides trimmed?
>>5164235Excuse me?
For me it's these
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>>5164465
Im light on my feet and wait for adversaries to waltz into my traps
>>5163962Tricky creature :3
>>5162793Depending on how you'd define it, either some scallops re-evolved eyes or both them and some echinoderms re-evolved eyes. The ancestor to bivalves is believed to have had at least simple eyes which were then lost, likewise the ancestor to deuterostomes was believed to have very primitive eyes and the echinoderms lost and then re-evolved eye-like arrangements with their tube feet(at least in some species, not all).
>>5165081That's freaky
>>5165085Yeah, but also really cool. The kinds of eyes that starfish have evolved are far more alien-looking too. Pic related is from this article( https://phys.org/news/2014-01-starfish-eyes-home.html ) and it shows how they can even close their eyes too.
>>5161231I'm surprised no one posted hooded tick-spiders yet. They're a group of arachnids without eyes but they also have a hood covering. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RicinuleiPic related shows the hood lifted up, revealing its chelicerae(claw mouth parts).
A great philosopher once said, if you haven't got eyes, you shouldn't have wings.
post the most abominable dysgenic creatures that have been "created" by mankind
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>>5164714poor bastard.race mixing is so unbelievably evil
>>5138879>>5138948
>>5152762What is this from?
>>5164714Dysgenic results right in front of us.
I suffer from a mild form of lepidopterophobia yet I think moths and butterflies are fascinating, gorgeous creaturesI try to work on it but every time a moth gets in my vicinity I start sweating and shaking. I hate itPlease post anything moth relatedButterflies welcome
RAAAAAAAAAAH!
>>5164362
Remember when people thought Moths and Lamps were the funniest shit ever? What was up with that.
>>5164705I loved those memes desu
you love moths
post your pet like:Cat, Dog, Goldfish, Guinea pig etc and describe about your pet!im posting my catHe is so Sleppy and Cute!He like and love to play and run
>>5164849That's not your pet dumbass.
Your home appears to be a 3rd world shack
Why did nature make these rabies-magnet pests so adorable?
>>5164103>when you find out the raccoons at the park are free and you can just take one home
>>5163787Cats are mutted from human interference.
>>5164274
Happy International Raccoon Appreciation Day! Take some time to appreciate how cute and funny these little guys are.
It's now spring, hungry hedgehogs are coming out of hibernation.
>>5162900How do you clean sticky shit out of their belly fur?
>>5161557Did you at least give it ivermectin?
>>5162944Grab them and dunk them in warm soapy water repeatedly.
>>5158459Based hedgehog bro.Earlier this year I found a hedgehog in my street during the day, running away from a cat. It was dragging its rear leg behind so I thought it might be broken. Scooped it up, popped it in a box, and took it to a vet (I called ahead and they said they'd do what they could, no charge).I kept the box closed on my way to keep it calm. Opened it on arrival and it smelled awful. Like rotting fish. There was a mass of maggots near the top of its head. Bastards were eating it alive. Vet put it down which was sad, but hopefully it was spared a few days of misery and pain.That image of pulsating maggots and the smell of death stayed with me though.
Try spraying boric acid on their backs. This shit cracks chitin and make bugs dessicate, killing them.
How the fuck are Borzois even real?
>>5162259>>5154211>>5156434why do they keep deflating so fast
>>5155061same, they're amazing>>5156434oh no, he's melting! take him to shade immediately
>>5161112demons in furry guise
>>5146723>we wuz wolvez n shiee
>the only marsupial that thrived outside of Australia is a bottom feeder trash scavengerWhy?
>>5164478>forgetting literally every other marsupial in the americas that isn't the default virginia possum
>>5164478sounds pretty moral to meand any creature that gets near to humansis probably pretty smarthumans will be capable of more at some pointthe lion will eat hay next to the oxwe are stewards and gardenersand philosophers.to know is to understand peacethe blight of evil is self corruptionas per retardationto get exploited and consumed in saturns hierarchyclearly that isnt the intent of life
>>5164478They're immune to venom from Rattlesnakes and Pit Vipers which allows them to use these snakes as a food source inaccessible to other animals.Being completely unspecialized scavengers also makes it easier to expand into new environments than if they had a more specialized diet.
Saved a possum from a trap the other night. Wasn’t sure if he was dead or just doin his thing, so my gf dropped a slice of roast beef in there next to him, see if he’d take it. Came back a few hours later and he was up and around. He glared at me mouth open, snout straight down. Kept half-ass lunging at my hand very shakily, dude wasn’t selling it. Used a stick and a gardening glove to pry the trap open, and left it ajar for him to escape. Came back and smoked a joint a couple hours later, staring at the empty cage under the foggy full moon. Shoosh, I shore hope he makes the finals. Good luck out there, lil feller.
Because it was the ecological niche that it filled perfectly.
>has venom potent enough to kill a herd of elephants>uses it to hunt micewhy do they do this
>>5163573*conspecificNeed a biology spellchecker
>>5161204They can swallow mice whole. Genociding elephants would be pointless especially since elephants are scared of mice anyway.
>>5163573>I expect they bite each other at least that oftenThey literally never bite each othert. cohabbed rattlesnakes for 3 years
>>5161204It's a snake, it won't last long against a predator. When it's attacked, it needs to kill the predator quickly.If an animal in its environment develops resistance to its venom, then it will get into an evolutionary arms race developing more and more potent venom.
>>5161204>has venom potent enough to kill a herd of elephants>still gets mogged by a fuzzy tube cathttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_z3IIvSJ-ug
