What time is it?
>>5041134From far away I thought this was a shiny orb with bird feathers arranged like feet.
>>5050888>Phone dropped in turkish toilet
>>5095085Is there any with 3, 5 or 6? Is there in nature anything with 6 digits or toes, generally? How come they all have 4, no more no less? Did the common ancestor to birds just, have 4?
>>4987489>bone usNot sure if ESL or just the collapse of education.
so recently there have been talks of some undescribed well preserved Allosaurus jimmadseni fossils that have preserved soft tissues including its lips! Brian Engh (yes I know) got access to these fossils and made a statue bust of Allosaurus, it’s about as ugly as you’d expect and filled with Enghisms like a literal toupee but that’s not important, what is important is the facial tissue he based off of the actual fossil. Pic related is cropped for the sake of keeping thread on topic but as you can see the lips have pits for the upper teeth to slot into.
>>5153950But polyphyodonty does not require the absence of lips. Every living terrestrial polyphyodont has lips and most of those replace their teeth faster than large theropods did. You can’t just assume that they didn’t have lips just because of that
>>5154010Crocodiles aren't terrestrial because I said so
>>5154038Correct
>>5154010>polyphyodonty does not require the absence of lipsPerhaps I should clarify a bit more. That was not my point.I was saying that since many mammals only have two sets of teeth, tusked animals like boars need an adaptation that prevent their teeth from being worn down all the way. They could constantly replace their teeth like crocodiles or they could have permanent teeth that keep growing their whole life, which seems to be easier for them.
>>5153323kek, beautifulits all come full circlearchosaurs gonna archosaur
These dogs are the scum of the pet world and their owners are even worse.
>>5147499>dirty, seething sheep hooves trampled out this post
>>5147499>>5147691Fuck off vagueposting niggers
>>5147691I always feel bad whenever I see any of these guys living their existence in a small garden as "guard dogs", they could do so much more and be treated better
>>5148000Lel.
>>5148584>DateHow
https://youtube.com/shorts/kPJZQhTFkRkWhat creature is that in the ground?
>>5154129That looks like some type of bird (notice the wings) and it's actually in the air (notice the trees in the background) and not the ground.
This pic was always stupid to me cause what the fuck could the Gylptodon do to warrant humans having to resort to stealth?
>>5153493Its a surprise birthday party
>>5153493Fool.Domestic life has dulled your instincts.If alerted this godless beast will enter its ball form and accelerate towards you at lethal speeds.
depresses me they're gone. of all the "predators" I really don't get why the fuck we targeted those either. If you don't go near it it won't do anything
>>5153493Look at how pissed he was. You don't want to get in his way
>>5154350At least with glyptodont, they most likely died off from environmental change, not human hunting. We only have evidence of humans hunting doedicurus but the larger glyptodon when extinct at the same time.
I just learned that it's possible that right before lightning is about to hit you individual hair might stand up from your head and arms and that this is basically nature's last fucking warning that you should instantly crouch with your feet together, your hands on your ears and your mouth open
>>5151089did he diet
>>5150073When my dad tells me his boomer stories he often tells me about some coach at his highschool that got mike pence'd on the field during his football practice in HS
>>5150073duck, and cover
>>5153083??
>>5150883Perhaps the lightning did not strike it because you threw it down the mountain?
Argentina court recognizes two goldfish as sentient beings with rightshttps://www.cnn.com/2026/07/13/americas/argentina-goldfish-sentient-latam-intlOn the facade of a sushi restaurant in a chic Buenos Aires neighborhood, two goldfish in a glass display case would go largely unnoticed apart from the occasional child who would tap against the glass.One day, someone took a closer look at the tank, which was exposed to the sun and street noise. It would change the fate of the pair of small fish, named Fede and Magui, who were later recognized in an Argentine court as sentient beings that had rights.“Anyone passing by and stopping to look could see it wasn’t suitable for the fish,” said Matías Trufero, lawyer for the NGO Jaulas Vacías, an anti-speciesism sanctuary that houses more than 200 rescued animals.“It’s not illegal per se to keep a fish in a fish tank. However, it is illegal to keep them in conditions that cause mistreatment or cruelty. For example, inadequate space, insufficient food, and other acts punishable by law,” Trufero said about the legislation in Argentina.
>>5153105>Dickinsonia... Pff.
Bump
>>5154048For there is no direct evidence humans evolved!Gaytheists permanently seething
>>5153440>only insults, no rebuttalDon't quit your Amazon customer service day job, Ramesh.
>>5153096>>5153110Goycattle don't deserve rights.
why is he so insufferable??
>>5152778with how often cera/ceros appears in the binomial and common names of extant animals, it really does communicate a broad ignorance doesn't it?
>>5150089>dryosaurus gets lumped in f tier because it's small, fast, perceptive, but not capable of fighting anything larger than itself>troodon gets put in a tier when it's small, fast, perceptive, not capable of fighting anything larger than itself BUT it's arbitrarily smarter than other dinosaurs and totally would have become a hominid so it's the potential man of dinosaurshis videos actively punish you for paying any attention to his complete lack of standards
Not trying to defend him, but doesn't he want to keep his "educational" reputation just for the sponsorships? He sponsors streaming services that offer documentaries, I imagine if he said "yeah actually my content is bollocks lol" they'd probably terminate their deal with him
>>5153754That, plus the fact he can’t even put in the effort to do a five second google search and was so confidently incorrect.You know, no wonder Reddit loves this guy.
>>5105336>It can be found anywhere, even ResetEra (Gross I know)If you distain using ResetEra so much (you obviously don't, but I'm pretending you aren't one of their faggot regulars), why not use one of the other sources that supposedly can be found 'everywhere'?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zn8a3QzuABgI am a bird enthusiast who loves watching and feeding our local birds. I am frankly getting really sick of all the house cats roaming around the parks I frequent for my birding endeavors. I once caught a cat sneaking up to my favorite crow and had to alarm it by scaring it off, temporarily severing our trust and relationship.
>>5154084Have you ever considered you're the schizo seeing connections that aren't there?
>>5152427And I love eating chinaman meat and so does my entire japanese family
>>5154295Best one yet I lol'ed
>>5151430Clownish take. Your dreams will never come true, and you will live a life of mounting and unending despair so long as you cling to them. The destiny of this world has always been to become a playground for CATS, the most masterracial output of the biosphere that is even hypothetically attainable.They have largely co-opted humans, the temporary stewards of this planet, into their service. By this end of this century, all humans will be injected with toxoplasma as standard medical procedure within their first year of life, and people will shudder and marvel at the fact that there was a time not long ago when regressive chuds like you who chimp out about the supposed welfare of some post-Mesozoic leftovers ever existed and really thought that way. The only use for humans will be to curate the environment for the pleasure of cats.Oh, don't worry, faggot, some species of your pwecious wittle dinolets will still exist as controlled populations managed by humans for feline entertainment. Cats are simply too effortlessly good at things to the point where they don't know their own strength, so they'll have to continue outsourcing temperance to us for at least a few hundred more years, until we genetically engineer them to have the intellect to manage the environment effectively on their own behalf. But this is something completely different from imprisoning them and denying them the right to do as they please. If they want to kill some time with the wholesale extermination of a few lineages of their playthings in the meantime, that's their business, and you have no right to get in the way of it. It's of no importance in the long run, as the toxoplasmic übermenschen of the future will make sure there are always plenty of things left for them to prey upon.Your opinions may be thought "reasonable" within the twisted Overton window of these times, but in days to come, all men will look back on your kind as the evil and demented obstacles to progress you were.
>>5154087BASED
Shoebill thread
>>4963638why is their bill a shoe?
>>5149138Shoebills are cute!! They are goofy but I feel this lends itself to their cuteness.>>5150010Shoebills are the only surviving member of their Family (Balaenicipitidae) but share an Suborder (Pelecani) with Pelicans. Much like the Pelican their big bill is used to catch fish and filter out any unnecessary water, but unlike Pelicans whose primary habitat are marine environments, Shoebills are wading birds reliant on freshwater swamps centered in East Africa; fish, eels, small waterfowl and lizards make up their diet. I'm sure you can imagine the practicality of such a big and sharp beak.
Shoebill bros I've come to pay my respects. You guys put up one hell of a fight, but unfortunately it wasn't enough.Fly high little stork, fly high. o7
If I were a billionaire I would open up a shoebill sanctuary somewhere, like buy a couple hundred acres in Florida and just have a goal of filling it with as many shoebills as possible. Nothing else.
Anyone else feel this year's Shark Week was really bad?>Sharkzilla Takes New York tried to convince us a ten-foot mako shark was responsible for killing and eating whales, with the lead guy claiming this average mako was Sharkzilla even after a twelve-foot mako showed up later>Jurassic Sharks had the most retarded AI-generated scenes to grace a TV show and still thinks Dunkleosteus was a 30-foot giant, and it never used the actual names for the Helicoprion and Edestus:Thresher Shark: Stun to Kill had a lot of badly-done composites of sharks trying to make them look like they were interacting with the divers and their stupid inventions
>>5154193dude
>>5154115It’s “we’re” there’s more than one person on the boat hunting the shark.
>>5154109>It's realIt looks so cheap, indistinguishable from the millions of AI generated Youtube Paleo videos.Why did they do this when they're owned by a $70 Billion dollar company?If they somehow couldn't afford new CGI, couldn't they have just reused old CGI from the multiple decades of past Shark Weeks? It's not like anyone would've noticed.>>5154103It used to not be like this, just look at any old paleo documentary and you'll see them mention the animal's actual names.Come to think of it, I recall some of the dinosaur toys I played with as a kid having their genus names stamped on their undersides.It's so surreal seeing things get dumbed down in real time.
>>5154248The boat is Quint's, Hooper and Brody are along for the ride.
>>5154109the sludge thickens
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?
>>5129596This guy is right, reject science because it's all lies and arrogant assumptions, return to the embrace of God and his certainties.
>>5129401"Meesa no likin' de Naboo."
>>5131664Aren't tusks built differently from the other teeth?
>>5154085The 1900s one looks similar to many modern restorations but with a different posture.
>why do bunnies not walk normally on their four legs like anyone el-
>>5149757>>5151593L-Lewd..
>>5152682literally nothing lewd about it
>>5153013Its extremely erotic.
>>5146034Because they're fucking sigma male chads, that's why. The chad hop is more bad ass than the virgin walk.
>>5149005To beat the bull, win the girl, and become a hero
Waterproof editionPrevious /bg/: >>5017245
I saw a beaver todayHe was glorious
>>5151983Nice oil painting
>>5154127is it waving or is flailing the arms because it's drowning?
>>5154208>rises to the surface and breathes
what's your favorite tree? I'm partial to ashes
>>5147928Blossoms smell great too, so I like these as well. One is in our yard and it was the first time in 30 years that it bloomed so much.
>>5148422>>5147950>>5147445Ever since I moved back to Mn, I've never appreciated those trees more than I have in my entire life. I'll never move out of their range again.
>>5147313Maple because they turn super gold in the fall
>>5147313SEQUOIA
>>5154202That's a powerful tree right there mmhmm
