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>durrrr most coal came from the carboniferous
>durrrrr nothing could decompose trees yet
Why are these retarded myths so pervasive? Where did they even come from?
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>>5167604
Paleontology is always stupid. Most coal does appear to have come from the Carboniferous, but not because nothing could decay wood yet. That's fucking stupid.
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>be normie child
>go through awmugod damblosnores phase
>consume all paleo media possible
>internalize available information
>age out
>never give a fuck about retarded dinosaur shit again
>retained info locked and never updated
its just that easy.
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>>5168208
T-rex and Velociraptor had feathers.
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>>5168209
and you have no reading comprehension
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>>5167646
Don't forget to tithe 10% to israel.

post about big cats (panthera genus).
>images
>news
>art.
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FIGHT TO LIVE

LIVE TO FIGHT
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Got a carrot for me?
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>>5154192
You can only tell it's an okapi from behind
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I feel like I'm leaving a lot of food inside when pouring it. Give me your tips for using all of these pouches.
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You gotta flip it open and squeeze it gently longwise so it opens up and then vibrate it like you had turbo-parkinsons and all the bits will fall out.
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Buy food in recyclable cans or just cook it yourself
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>>5169410
Open it sideways instead of from the top
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>>5169410
Cat food smells so fucking good when you're hungry. The only one I've ever tried is tuna since I assume all the others are fucked up mystery meat.
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>>5170141
Ok mr. the battle cats

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My dog this beautiful going missing? I can’t believe it. This is so heartbreaking! Please spread the word so she can be found.
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Beutiful, indeed
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spread the word

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"In a rage, Lord Walter Rothschild left the British Ornithologists' Union and teamed up with a sinister one-eyed reverend to found the Jourdain Society, a rogue league of aristocratic egg collectors who operated outside the law. It was theoretically a charitable society, formed to lobby against the evil influence of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSBP), but it was widely accused of being at the center of a wave of egg theft sweeping the country. The Society held formal gatherings, where tuxedo-clad egg collectors admired antique display cabinets full of rare eggs and competed to produce the rarest specimen. The police regularly raided these meetings, held in swanky hotels across the country, and fully half the members had criminal convictions as late as the 1990s. Again, for egg crimes. But stealing wild eggs is pretty draining (several poachers fell to their deaths, while another was so overcome with egg madness he charged into an osprey reserve with a chainsaw and was arrested trying to saw down trees) and the thieves soon realized there was an easier target: museums. Britain's natural history collections were soon hit by an epidemic of theft."
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>>5167739
Halloween is right around the corner…
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>>5163891
Pablo Escobar wasn't a thief
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>>5169980
Prove he wasn’t
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>>5170105
Could have also been but that wasn't his thing. Just like your wife my steal lipstick when she's at the supermarket but you don't title her the thief
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>>5163894
Kill yourself

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Shoebill thread
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>>5159165
>>5104807
love shoobs messy hair tuft
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How do you defend yourself against a wild boar?
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>>5167678
Boar spear
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BOAR WHORE
ON AN OPEN FIELD, NED
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>>5169149
Yeah 9mm wouldn't work unless you were really lucky.
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>>5167697
-Glass breaks twice
-Second boar has sheep horns
-Guy is still wearing a second set of shorts while taking a shit
-Boar is already reflected in the mirror before it's even through the window
-There is no toilet paper on the roll which just floats next to the wall
-Sink clips into the wall
-He has a camera in his toilet

Definitely real.
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>>5168594
what's the idea in alternating slugs and buckshot?

Does /an/ like penguins?
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I would like to snuggle a penguin.
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>>5166716
same
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>>5065141
That's cute. I hope she doesn't end up leaving you for penguin like my last ex did
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>>5096779
>They are designed as our laughing stock.
You laugh at them, never realizing that they and I are laughing at you.

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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.
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>>5168559
>I believe it is more plausible that Platyhystrix did not have a tadpole stage.

Or perhaps they had a tadpole phase. At the very least, after reading the study of Rainer Schoch and Florian Witzmann, I am increasingly convinced that they underwent metamorphosis, perhaps much like salamanders. The are some different temnospondyl larvae.
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>>5165214
Yeah I realized previously.
Dunno what else to say, really. Makes speculating on their appearances in life difficult I supposed; at least with dinosaurs you can cross birds with crocodilians to get a wider range in reconstruction.
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>>5168574
Yes, there is, in fact, a huge gap between amphibians, as tetrapod, and lungfish. Furthermore, amphibians, as anamniotes, are very distinct from amniote reptiles. Unfortunately, there are not many proxies for this gap, save for the extant species within Lissamphibia.
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>>5167829
aren't french people amniotes though?
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>>5167435
I hate how nothing today comes close, save I think a chameleon or small lizard or two, and even then, it isn't impressive.

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>In cognitive tests comparing dogs to hand-raised wolves, when faced with an unsolvable puzzle:
>Wolves keep trying to solve it independently.
>Dogs quickly give up and look at a human to recruit assistance (using the human as an indirect tool).
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>>5169358
>And that's why anon uses AI to think for him
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>>5169484
>basement dweller called out
lmao
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>the big fureless monkey that can make food spawn out of nowhere and who cuddle me, could probably do it for me
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>>5169351
>Dog recognizes the most efficient way to problem solve and ceases wasting valuable energy dealing with an impossible task

Dog W
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>>5169351
...Is this meant to sound like an L for the wolf?

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I move from Siberia to US and find a turtle without shell. Very cool.
Pls excuse English ok
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>>5169170
What a happy little dude
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>>5166686
>>5167578
>European Pond Turtles used to inhabit much of Northern Europe and Scandinavia
>The Caspian Turtle has relict populations in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain and the Sulcata tortoise has a relict population in Yemen
>The gap in Australia used to be inhabited by Meiolaniids
So what used to live in Western South America?
Did turtles ever even make it there?
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>>5169446
A surprising thing I learned about meiolaniids was that they weren't just in Australia and neighboring islands but also in lower south america around argentina and patagonia.
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>>5169380
Dood

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How many animals can you name off the top of your head?
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All of them.
t. Adam
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1. eagle
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>>5169196
baby elephant
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fish
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I name this little guy Bob. Now my time is up so I suppose I can only name one.

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They just released the First Look trailer for Blue Planet 3. Thoughts?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvjlkoWkaWA
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>>5166455
kek
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>>5166436
I think I have CDs of Blue Planet 1 still, somewhere.
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>>5166436
>only a few seconds of Attenborough's voice
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>>5169441
Isn't he dead?
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>cgi

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This is my Chihuahua
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>>5169934
Kill and eat it.
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I think your little dog is cute and deserves a good cuddle. I wish it was with me!
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>>5169934
Her eyes look like juicy grapes
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>>5169934
Reminds me of the "Shh /speee/ my dog is sleeping" guy's dog.
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>>5169934
little shit


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