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Why don't dogs in Asia have blue eyes?
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>>5141858
Huskies?

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post the most abominable dysgenic creatures that have been "created" by mankind
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>>5138714
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>>5141608
yeah they are pretty fuckin smashed and slammed lol
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>>5139135
Looks like a minecraft texture pack.
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>>5138714
I don't know the name of the breed(s) but those smashed and slammed pigs with smushed in faces that walk around with their bellies two inches from being dragged across the ground
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>>5141965
potbellied pigs? idk many pig breeds

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Is this The most Beautiful Dinosaur short ever made?
https://youtu.be/MSoImbo8Yr8?si=mKNk4HbNcoDZB7lF
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>>5135614
they are... sure as hell they are...
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>>5135545
The animation is simply beautiful, the symbolism of the ending too; that the citipati becomes a phoenix at the end is perfect.
The phoenix is a bird that can reborn from its own ashes, just as the genus of animals from Citipati were reborn as modern birds, as well as the cassowary, and like the phoenix, it is a bird, animals that descend directly from dinosaurs.
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>>5135545
i'll show you my dinosaur shorts *pulls pants down and pitches tent* whoops haha dont look at that baka
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>>5141659
Kys
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>>5141659
Anon, wtf

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I fucking despise armchair paleontologists. I wouldn’t even care about their ramblings if it wasn’t for the fact that every time a new paper drops, they make a shitty idea off of it. And whether it’s by video, blog or Twitter post, if it picks up traction it somehow ends up being seen as fact by the general paleo community. Actual literal headcanons being made up with zero professional research or backing behind them.
>Nanotyrannus being dubious even though we already knew about its tooth count and fore arm difference a decade before the 2025 paper.
>Dakotaraptor being dubious because of some guy pointing out its sickle claw had a vague resemblance to a Nanotyrannus claw. (Yeah no shit they’re both theropods) It’s like they needed a new target to point the dubious finger at after the Nano paper dropped.
>Nanaimoteuthis being a shellfish specialist despite the very paper describing it pointing out wear patterns on its beak that prove the contrary.
>Carnotaurus being the “Cretaceous cheetah” because it ran fast, ignoring literally every other aspect of its anatomy.
>The average Edmontosaurus being a 15 ton monster that regularly raped Rex, because of a paper describing a superadult specimen that represented the smallest top percent of adults lucky enough to live that long.
>Titanoboa being an obligate piscivore because it had adaptations for hunting the most common prey source in its environment.
For years I have watched this endless cycle and it’s god damn exhausting. If you want your thought experiments to be seen as scientific, go get a degree, start researching, and publish an actual paper about it. You can't just make a hypothesis, stop there, and assume you're correct, it doesn't fucking work like that. Why does the science community that prides themselves on "Realistic portrayals" not know how to fully read through a published paper?
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>>5137276
Well that is just wrong. I cak think of a lot of vintage art where the T. rex is doing nothing
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>>5141850
Horrifying
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teeth are pretty gnarly
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>>5142025
If they were the size of a gorilla their eyes would probably be the size of basketballs

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Post about snails, slugs, leeches, worms, sea slugs, and other slimy invertebrates.
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>found a snail in my garden
>placed him in a terrarium
>climbed to the top and hasn't moved all day
Is this normal?
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>>5141844
Yeah, that's normal! They are mostly nocturnal, and tend to stay still most of the time anyways. Make sure you give snailbro soil, a source of calcium, some vegetables, and spray with water twice a day.
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>>5139308
Are those little stalks around the mouth actually tentacles? I know that they are a sensory chemoreceptor organ

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Shoebill thread
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What draws people to shoebills? I always thought they looked uncanny.
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>>5139304
The uncanny is the appeal. They look like they aren't real, which makes it more interesting that they are.
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>>4963638
I like the sounds they make
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>>5139304
I just love them. theyre just so gorgeous, stunning, handsome

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>>5126255
Jee no waba mu ba outmian nudcha Jedi
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>>5135107
>orcas dont have opposable thumbs
>the big ape typed it
WOW. SOMEBODY CALL STEVE MINECRAFT BECAUSE THE IRONY HERE IS ENDLESS.
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Extremely blessed thread. Thank you very much.
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>>5139551
It would have been poetic if the final seal posted here was the Caribbean Monk Seal, like a metaphor of sorts because it is no longer with us? But noooo it had to be the dreaded pool seal instead...
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OP lied

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Hello there
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>>5140367
hi
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>>5140367
It's funny how despite looking like fiends, I'm pretty sure sand tigers have ZERO fatalities attributed to them. They've injured people but no outright deaths.
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>>5140908
I once saw someone describe them as reverse dolphins which i think is pretty accurate
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>>5140908
The sharks with confirmed human fatalities are the great white, tiger shark, bull shark, blue shark, oceanic whitetip, shortfin mako, grey reef shark, bronze whaler, Galapagos shark and dusky shark. I swear I've heard of sand tigers attacking/biting people quite badly though.
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>>5140384
*Blocks YOU'RE path*
Magnapinnas are graceful when they're not T-posing, I can't be afraid of them. This writhing fucker, however, I've had nightmares about meeting it in the dark

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ITT we poorly drawin animals
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hogs
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>>5141748
KEK
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>>5137922
one of the earliest examples of trolling/shitposting was that email chain where the guy sent a picture of a spider with a missing leg and demanded the recipient return the real image with all 8 legs

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why is he so insufferable??
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>>5088214
the real insufferable
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>>5089220
Imagine feeling insecure about Neanderthals getting cucked, like are you one yourself?
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>>5100371
I hate e-zoologist like you wouldn't believe.
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>>5141039
kek
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>>5141039
I am one actually

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I can't believe there isn't a thread for our de(ea)r friends
post cervines and cervine accessories
absolutely no odd toed ungulates allowed
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>>5140691
I mean, if a six-foot biped not even trying to be stealthy can get close enough to pet her then she kind of did.
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>>5141896
she was sleepy it doesnt count
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>>5141982
what...the...fuck...
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>>5141987
There's a "Deer Mike" thread on /co/ about it.

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my dog hates refriend beans even if i put meat in it he would eat the meat by itself but when i put refried beans with it he looks disgusted whats going on with him
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hes a mutt not a pure bred by the way, a terrier mix of a bunch of different kinds of terrier the DNA test said he has pitbull in him but hes pretty chill
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>>5141859
Beans are toxic to dogs aren't they

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I guess it’s true that both conservatives and liberals like dinosaurs (and mastodons I guess)
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>>5139758
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvUOgIgLqOQ
This is based desu
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>>5139804
Reminder it was Rex chads that put an end to feather madness. You’re welcome by the way.
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>>5141531
>>5139811
Trolling or retarded?
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>>5141587
No that's wrong. It was pretty much always known that T. rex had only scales because most dinosaurs only have scales and we already had skin impressions from T. rex. The study you're talking about was simply a review of the evidence that already existed. Theropod trannies are the ones who invented the feathered T. rex concept to begin with. And it was known to be false the moment it was published in national geographic in the same issue that published the archaeoraptor hoax.
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>>5141587
Also you didn't end anything. The feather madness still exists and there are STULL people putting feathers on T. rex to this day.

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Why do we not catch and eat this bird? It reproduces very fast
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>>5139410
In which part? I thought it was ceviche, or guinea big if anything.
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>>5138271
I hate metropolitanism
I hate industrial society
I hate agricultural society
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>>5139513
>guinea big :-DDD
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>>5138043
not everything needs to be turned into food you obese subhuman
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>>5138043
???
People eat pigeons all the time.
https://www.lovefood.com/recipes/60697/open-pigeon-pie


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