Discuss the field of cryptozoology. No skinwalkers and wendigos allowed
>>5121886>The first documented modern record dates back to 1811, when British explorer David Thompson reported finding strange footprints. However, the term "Bigfoot" originated later, in 1958, when a local California newspaper published a story about giant footprints found by loggers.So everyone is still looking for an ape over 200 years old?
>>5133797its not a single individual
>>5132808Yeah, only technically a cryptid
>>5132808>>5135452cryptid = cryptic animal (defined as unrecognized by science due to lack of sufficient evidence)this is only "technically a cryptid" inasmuch as it is technically an animal
>>5135452There's no technically here. It was an animal not recognized by science meaning it was a cryptid
the batfish
>>5130516I can almost hear that autistic guy who talks at a yell about the weather when I look at this.
>>5132152I enjoy this type of juxtaposition
We still talk about you.
>>5134897If an Audi car factory took all the parts of a Ferrari and assembled it in the factory to spec, is it a Ferrari, or an Audi because of what factory it originated from. Double digit IQ people get this one wrong!
Australian animals are so fucking goated. Literally the greatest animal kingdom on the planet it's so fucked we let the Tasmanian Tiger die out.
>>5135735i respectfully disagree. north america and europe have better animals. all the cool animals here are introduced species
>>5135735>>5135755Africa has the coolest animals because they are the largest. Europe and America did have the coolest ones but those are extinct now
>>5133020I'd kill myself in solidarity if binturongs were to go extinct
What's your take on the existence of the Ivory Billed Woodpecker aka The Lord God Bird?>2nd largest woodpecker to have existed, treasured for it's bill>named The Lord God Bird because people would exclaim "Lord God, what a bird!" when it swooped past them>the logging industry at the turn of the 20th century destroyed it's habitat of old world trees>birders would literally shoot them down to study them>It wasn't until the early 1900s that people realized they weren't being seen anymore>last ones were spotted in Louisiana in the 1930s and 40s before the land was sold for logging>not officially seen since>supposedly seen in Arkansas in 2004 and Florida in 2005 by very credible ornithologists>crappy bigfoot videos, audio recordings exist>nobody can get a good photo>complicated because Pileated Woodpeckers look almost exactly like them to the untrained eyeI believe they're real and still out there. The evidence is crap but it's worth believing in. Somewhere between Texas, Louisiana, Florida, Cuba, Mexico there's a small population in the dozens I believe.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>5131331Don't sweat over it
>>5127338DNA analysis shows that their closest relatives are the Band Tailed Pigeons which only live on the West Coast.Fossils show that Passenger Pigeons were present on the West coast during the ice age, so if they were somehow the "swarming form" of another pigeon species, that species would be the Band Tailed Pigeon.
>>5125439Dead and gone. Way to go humans. Karma is going to be a bitch.
>>5132151Short story is that material from what we have of Passenger Pigeons suggest a Locust like pattern of growing large in population and depleting in population over and over depending on the conditionsThe scientists say to not take it as a 100% though>>5134020So uppity
>>5134597of course we're uppity, putting up paywalls was invented by and exclusively benefits the ROTHSCHILDS. They're the ones that invented it!
The mighty sperm whale starts its deep dive towards the abyssal dark to hunt the colossal squid
>>5116311whales are obviously mammals cuz they breathe air. checkmate, "moby dick", if that is your real name
>>5117223My mind is boggled when I think about how modern sperm whales are comparable to giant beasts from past eras, and it'd be among the greatest of them. It's taken for granted how crazy it is that we still have something like the sperm whale existing today. We marvel at the many prehistoric giant badass counterparts of animals today, but the prehistoric giant badass counterpart of the sperm whale is the same size as the modern version.
>>5115897I've been wondering about the sperm whale that sank the Essex. The whale was reportedly 85 feet (26 meters) long. If true, that would make it exceptionally large. But it's not unlikely for terrified sailors who just had their ship sunk to exaggerate or overestimate the size. So how big would a bull sperm whale have to be to sink the Essex?Another thing I'm wonder about is the motive of the sperm whale. There's one theory that says it was confused by the sounds of the ship and mistook it for a rival male. But I think it knew what it was doing. Mature male sperm whales and pods usually won't be in the same area, but there was a sperm whale pod nearby that the crew of the Essex were hunting. There's also at least one recorded instance of bulls protecting a pod from orcas. I also find it doubtful that the sperm whale wouldn't recognize a whaling ship is. Sperm whales are incredibly smart. It was discovered that they quickly adapted new defense strategies specifically against whaling and quickly communicated across the population so that sperm whales who haven't encountered whaling ships before were employing those defense strategies. It seems far more reasonable to me that the sperm whale knew what was happening and attacked the ship to protect the pod or in retaliation for the whales it killed. How is that not the prevailing theory?
>>5125783>bro insisting he's not going bald
>>5133977I thought that was obvious. So the question is why does the theory that it mistook the ship for a rival bull sperm whale even exist?
Does /an/ like penguins?
>>5097745he was 21 years old and died the same year he started doing thisYou could probably just say Grape was extremely unwell.
>>5134968this is what happens when you get too big
It's pronounced pengwing
>Walks in>rekts your whole tree of lifeHow many more branches of life are there we dont know about?
>>5122328This but unironically.
>>5122328Don't you think there's already enough human development?>>5124560>>5125810Can't tell if cringe or bait
>he trusts “Science”They are just making shit up, dude. Most research is make-work bullshit to keep the grant money flowing and doctoral students busy. If you hypothesize the Earth is banana-shaped and spend millions to find out you are wrong, that is not increasing human knowledge, it’s a waste of money. That is the bulk of government funded academic science at this point in human history. It’s systemic fraud on a massive scale.
>>5132100Major discoveries and techniques in what would eventually be known as modern chemistry were made in the pursuit of turning lead and piss into gold.
>>5133426>he trusts modern chemistry
save da world.my final message.goodb ye
>>5135642He better not. He still has the opportunity to convert to polytheism and put his penis inside me.
>>5135672
>>5135638Thats the good outcome. He could have reincarnated you as an Indian.
>>5135635One day he will realize the only way he can find happiness is to get into the pity business
>>5136099Would be so kino
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>>5133452>>5133628yeah I've somehow never heard of this too, do you have more info?
>>5133628From what I can recall they are the last of their lineage Dermochelyidae and closely related to the cretaceous Protostegidae, another lineage of turtles with skin covered backs and unfused ribs. The earliest turtles we know of in the cryptodira sub-group (turtles that can retract their necks and the group leatherbacks descended from) had a fused ribcage so with that knowledge it does seem at some point in time they re-evolved a separate ribcage and got rid of a true shell in replacement for a new one. You can even see something similar in modern sea turtles species unrelated to leatherbacks were the ribs of their shell seems to be in a weird perpetual middle state of this transition. >>5133634Not much info than what I researched and realized. It seems to be a surprisingly obscure fact about these guys.Picrel has a green sea turtle skeleton and a leatherback without it's shell.
>>5133739God turtles did some disgusting things to their anatomy in order to have a shell
>>5133739Fascinating.
>>5133743they're still here 230 million years later so it seems it was worth it in the end.
Fuck you
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As a pet owner I'd be very concerned about any animals being outside in general.No shot this doesn't backfire and kill some native species.
>>5077123inb4 incoming rodent population explosion and plague 2052. People don't learn and libtards (oooh NZ is full of them that's why it sucks there) are stupid.
>>5134534cats at best nibble around the edges of a rodent population, what they actually wipe out is birds
>>5081294Did they really eat them all though
>>5077172>bunch of schizo /pol/troon niggerbabbleSo this is the power of toxoplasmosis...
>>5136154yes. they literally believe mouse plague myths.>the rodent population exploded in a few days. yep. thats how long it takes for mice to reproduce. if only we had cats to protect us. cats get rid of mice and no they are not hiding. i havent seen any mice except the two a day my cat kills. there is absolutely not a subterranean mouse empire around my home. no it is not weird to me that my cat never runs out of full grown mice to kill. why do you ask? stop questioning my excuse for leaving my cat outside.
Saw there was no bug related thread going on. Post and discuss al thins crawly. Other tiny critters welcome as well.
I just saw a weird bug today, but was unfortunately unable to get a picture. It landed directly on my clothes and flew off before I could take one. Would any anon have any idea what it could've been based on the following description?>yellow jacket-esque color palette (potential mimicry?)>beetle morphology, flight capable, appeared to have elytra>short, forked antennae>wide, rectangular eyes
>>5136215>beetle morphologyLol.Good luck.Beetles are something like 60% of known species with some 350,000 globally and 30,000 just in the U.S.If you were a zoology researcher, you have a greater chance of discovering a new species of beetle than all other organisms combined.
>>5136215a shitty ms paint drawing would already help, also location
>>5136218I think this is more or less the gist of what it looked like. It was looking me straight in the face as it climbed on my coat. The grey bits might've been darker, maybe redder.Location is mid atlantic, close to DC.
>>5136224delta flower scarab
>develop a defense mechanism which repels animals and bugs so they don't eat you>OH SHITI've been thinking about this often. Is it technically an evolutionary victory (for it) if a plant gets farmed for food?
>>5129489Imagine the smell.
>>5134938Surprisingly, yes. You have the infamous 26 story farm built 4 years ago but there is also pic rel which was the tallest facility in the world 6 years ago:>We are on the Yaji mountain, which in Chinese means “sacred”, a few kilometres south of the city of Guigang in southern China. What we are looking at is the tallest pig farm in the world; units up to nine storeys high housing thousands of pigs, with construction of a 12-storey pig unit under way.>“On each floor we can breed 1,270 pigs,” says Yuanfei Gao, vice-president of Yangxiang, the company that built the farm. “But in the future with the design of the new buildings we plan to have 1,300 pigs per floor.”>Yangxiang is one of the Chinese giants of the pork industry, producing about 2 million pigs a year in a dozen farms throughout China. The Yaji mountain site is its largest and most advanced multistorey farming system, and will have the capacity to produce around 840,000 pigs a year when construction is finished.This was done under the Yangxiang group, while the 26 story was made under the Zhongxin Kaiwei company and has a smaller capacity per floor of around a 1000 sows, with a slaughtering capacity of 1.2 million a year. What makes 26 story more noteble though is the fact it was made by a cement company, not an agricultural mega corp like the Yangxiang group. If you can build skyscrapers you can now be involved in the livestock trade, after all, you are already building things to house large mammals like humans.There is the dutch pig city concept from the early 2000s, but that was all it was, a concept. They even included trees in the floor planning.
Inside the 26 story facility.
>>5136145It's more closely related to leeks than garlic but tastes like neither of them either. Apparently it's like a mild but sweet garlic taste. You usually use them for roasting or puree spreads.
>>5129489What's so bad about this? We have piggy Auschwitz in every country, these are just stacked on top of each other.
>do nothing>get labeled as the epitome of evil and deception by some random race of primates
>>5135212Its because primate brains are larger than most other animals, specifically the amygdala which regulates fear
>>5135212Arachnophobia isn’t ancestral to any primate though
>>5136168despite our best efforts there are still birds big enough to snatch human babies and nobody is afraid of them
>>5126764>Only by pagansThis has to be bait
>>5126762When your a noodle with a head, the world is a very scary place.>>5132700The lethality of black widow venom is vastly overblown.
What is /an/'s favourite nature documentary? For me it's Attenborough's "The Life of X" collection. I've rewatched it recently, and the thing I like about it the most is that it puts more emphasis on life's diversity and how various creatures are adapted to their environment, rather then to try to show a story or a pretty picture, which is what most documentaries do.
>>5122557was like the only part of it that i remembered
>>5105231i've watched a documentary about whales on disney+, it was cute
>>5105231I wouldn't say favorite, but Underdogs was actually an entertaining miniseries.
my favorite /an/ documentary of all time. short and to the pointhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6CLumsir34
>>5127325yes they are!
