Do *you* think roaches are cute? A recent indie video game 'Look Outside' allows to keep roaches as roommates if you decide to not squash them upon seeing them. Recently, there have been a slow emergence of internet memes seeing roaches in an endearing way, like how you would any other cute-adjacent animals and insects, like squirrels, or birds.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxkmXnRQblEAt first, it slowly started with spiders, then it moved to rats (keeping them as pets). Honestly, this kind of whole new perspective is a little shocking. Yet, I don't feel particularly strongly against it, or anything. It's just a bit... surprising how far humans are willing to humanize certain creatures, even to go as far as humanizing pests.
>>5142931I love most bugs people find "icky" like 99% of spiders and house centipedes but not roaches, except for the wild kinds. They are the disgusting crackheads of the insect world and only thrive where the people are equally disgusting
>>5147119>the same way they are by dangerous things like snakes or piles of shit.Probably because they usually crawl through piles of shit and other unhygienic places, and then crawl through your home and kitchen to spread the bacteria from that filth.
I remember this cartoon from my country of a 3D polar bear that was airing back when I was a kid. There was this episode where he went into a basement and he kept getting attacked by cockroaches who were constantly crawling all over him. There was also a part where he had a giant dog sized roach fly into his face. I think this cartoon has genuinely fucked with my brain, and now I can't even look at a cockroach without cringing. Here is that episode if anyone's interested. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKRzJNAh41oSeriously, fuck whoever made this.
>>5147170>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKRzJNAh41o [Embed]that was straight up horror, jesus
>>5147119>>5147124Yeah roaches are just disgusting, nasty and aggressive. I had a bad infestation here in this hell hole apartment I got shoved into during COVID... It's the smaller kind too. I have a phobia for all of them, but for years my place got worse and worse...These small ones were everywhere. I got grossed out to the point of feeling sorry for them and trying to save them and put them outside sometimes... spare them instead of killing one literally every 2-3 minutes I was living here. But over time that didn't matter, they don't respect you... they just encroach and take ground until you can't put food down for one second before coming back and finding your dinner covered in the them...I think the hive seduces people into giving up and letting them just reign. Luckily my shithole apartment finally started spraying (they were making us borrow spray they got from home depot years before.. roaches didn't care). A professional cleaned them out and I'm glad...They made me waste so much. So much food thrown out, kitchen utensils ruinded.... just a shit species.
Staypuft edition
>>5146819We live inside a skeem...but who is the skeemer?
>>5145162>by white trashThese are 99.5% bred by niggers
>>5146819what a disgusting looking breed, should be put down
It never even began for polarcels...
>>5145700didnt this bear proceed to eat one of their babies alive
>>5145700Bears truly get mogged by every other animal
>>5145700deceptive perspective
>>5146151What you posted is the definition of deceptive perspective. That poor polar bear died trying.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6iDtvGbIOU
>>5147114>female walrus gets attacked by polar bear>polar bear's bunny is stuck in place and extremely vulnerable>all the other walruses are just staring at herI know they all survived but damn. Are they doing nothing on purpose to select for thicker skinned walruses?
Why do feathers make people seethe?It’s not like it takes away from them having been an apex predator
>>5143933>China has all these feather fossils becauseTheyre rare and therefore less likely to be found out as manufactured frauds
>>5143953I'm not here to reinforce your delusions, by giving them credence by debating them, paleoschizo.
>>5142943>there is no evidence for it, but more importantly there is no evidence against itAnd then paleofags pretend they aren't a walking joke
>>5143933>China is the only place on Earth with a depositional environment for fine detail in fossils>Oh also we know that the chinese lie about literally everything on every single topic and there is specifically a history of fraud in the dragon bone trade but ignore all thatYour IQ is 55.
Bump
What makes lake Baikal so "alien"?Studying it, i get the feeling the place is a mix of an ocean and a lake, but also completely unique.The Baikal sponge, for example, biggest fresh water sponge, also bigger than most salt water one, grows like moss on stones, has a symbiotic relationship with algae and can survive being frozen for long periods of time.
>>5146709Considering how fucking deep it is, there can be a lot of cool shit down there.But freshwater cephalopds have never been found, it seem that in their hundreds of millions of years of existing on this planet, they never made the transition.Kinda like there where no freshwater or land trilobites.
>>5146879My wish is that one of the vast number of prehistoric freshwater sharks has a relict population somewhere. There were literally dozens of species of freshwater orectolobiform sharks in North American rivers in the Cretaceous and I wish they were still alive.
>>5142951>>5142962>>5142975that's a scary looking mf
>>5146879>land trilobitesArent those basically pillbugs?
>>5146981You don't know the half of it.
https://www.tokyoweekender.com/japan-life/news-and-opinion/japan-pays-you-to-catch-beetles-cherry-blossoms/
>>5143504Surely this is an initiative for kids trying to get nintendo game money? Them kids hunting bugs for fun already when they're not playing splatoon with the boys after school
>>5145840Hm.It also parallels the incident which caused the extinction of the American Chestnut tree.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwiVlLlgYV4
>>5145739>>5146229only smart posters ITT
>>5143504>They're releasing beetles in my state to eat the invasive mile-a-minute vines brought in by Helene>Roastie on the news talking about how they're totally safe>"They're cut bacteria can totally only handle this specific vine, it's like sooo safe haha"They never learn. THEY NEVER FUCKING LEARNAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
>>5146887>reeeeee invasive species are bad because they dont have their natural checks and balances!!>nooooooo but like you cant hecking release their natural checks and balances because uhhhh cane toads or some shit 100 years agoYou guys are so fucking retarded
I'M NOT A BIG FAN OF SILVERFISH
>>5138116It's so weird how these are like final fantasy creatures. One of them enjoys moisture and is silver colored and the other one is orange and loves fire? If you actually told someone this they would think you were lying.
>>5138137People always claim this but I've never seen a silverfish anywhere near a book. People must be keeping their books in damp areas full of dirty carpet.
>>5138137>booksOK nerd
>>5142847Picture something like a phenotype progression of beetle larvae -> butterfly larvae -> maggots. Metamorphisis just comes from having different selective pressure on earlier and later stages of life and having them evolve in different directions.
>>5147014The real question is how the hell insect wings evolved.
Why was this cat buried with this ancient human?
>>5146635The cat was buried with its manservant to open cans in the afterlife.
>>5146866Cats are easy to train if you’re not retarded. Unlike dogs they listen because they should, not because they want to. No “thought”. No wanting something else. No negotiation. No refusal or rebellion. Just the logical assumption that if performing action a upon stimulus b nets a reward, a properly functioning brain must do what it has been properly conditioned to do and obey its master. The cat is the perfect pet. Totally subjugated. Dogs offer the experience of taking care of a retard. Cats offer the experience of being the god of a lesser being.
>>5146866Case in point.
>>5146635Both died from eating the same fish
>>5146635The owner died of toxo then the stink rat beast had a devious idea so it decided to kill itself and bury itself into the ground so that toxo would poison the ground water and spread to the entire village.
I hate the fact that orcas are the apex marine predators of today. Such a boring and lame creature, they are oversized dolphins with panda patches and hunts in pods like pussies. Why? I thought everything in nature was perfect but killer whales as the top ocean predator does not feels right. Not so long ago there were giant mega-toothed sharks and macroraptorial sperm whales with ugly, monstruous heads in our oceans. We were supposed to still have this, but we're stuck with panda dolphins that perform circus tricks instead (literal CLOWNS).
>>5144880>I did not make up anythingYou literally did though. Again all the evidence says the opposite of what you’re claiming. There is a reduction in neither fish numbers nor diversity in the southern part of North America during the last glacial maximum>Then why were you claiming that alligators being broad snouted means slender snouts don't matter for piscivorous diets?Because a broad vs thin snout doesn’t decide whether or not they’re piscivorous. To say otherwise is demonstrably false>Those are also true, you just continue to refuse themThis isn’t true though. I’m not sure why you think I can’t just check. Yutyrannus’ hands/claws are larger and the humerus is the same length but thicker. Picrel. You seem to just see what you want to see>hence why I need to add on to my original argument Hence why you need to shift the goalposts*. ftfy. Again you use vague wording like “more adapted for prey capture” because it’s too easy to disprove otherwise. You’re dogshit at gaslighting>None of which reached the extreme sizes of carcharodontosaurids, tyrannosaurs and abelisaursThe largest megaraptorans are larger than the largest abelisaurs. Even if we include the undescribed giant Kenyan abelisaur they are just as large if not larger. Try again>Still waitingIt’s so funny that you’re still sticking with this when there are literally papers about it
>>5125184nah mate, armor is gay AF.
>>5126232He's right
Cenozoicfags seething ITT
>>5122217I don't know if this is the right thread to ask this question, but the other day I learned that supposedly Spanish orcas attack ships, or their rudders or something, but never humans. Even though orcas should be generally dindu nuffins who never hurt a fly.I asked a purported expert whether the orcas would just destroy someone's boat and then leave the ningen drowning behind. Apparently so. I then asked whether they would attack the dolphins that would come to rescue the drowning ningen. Not only was I told that the orcs wouldn't attack the noble elven dolphins, the noble elven dolphins are apparently just a myth.At best, the dolphins would come to look at the spectacle. Because dolphins are indifferent to human suffering, watching them drown is entertainment. A drowning ningen looks like a funny sea creature doing a funny dance.And if the coast guard was attacked on their way to rescue me by the happen-to-be-passing-by Spanish orcas, supposedly the dolphins would leave me so they can look at the crushed coast guard ship instead, because it's flashier. And if the orcas kept encountering more and more coast guard ships on the way and crushing them, the dolphins would just treat this as an endless conga line of entertainment.Who's in the wrong in this situation? The orcas who just smash the boat? Or the dolphins who just come to laugh at you? Or did I get misinfo'd?
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?
>>5146490There’s nothing to defend, you’re crying about something non existent
>>5146397There were late-surviving carcharodontosaurs in Appalachia? Any examples?
>>5130496Get woke, go broke. When shitlibs fly the rainbow flag the rest of us just go elsewhere and move on with our lives. Normal people can keep truckin' on no matter how much you sperg out and try to cancel em. Stay mad forever. You'll never win.
>>5132372No, read literally anything by Bakker instead. At this point I'm convinced he just has esoteric knowledge from beyond the fold because he keeps being right even when he's seemingly just guessing.
>>5139421What part of that other than the wings looks skinny and shrunken
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>>5145851>>5146409The way to make this interesting is when you run up into the limitations of the animal's bodyplan, Serina did a good job of this before it jumped the shark with metamorph birds just being able to do anything.
>>5146703I honestly think that Serina didn't jump the shark up until he chickened out and didn't freeze the world solidat least before that even the metamorphs still had some constraints preventing them from becoming literally dinosaurs again, and the archangels were honestly kinda neat once you remember that Serina has lower gravityBut yeh, post that, the return of the sauropods was just too muchAnd it's a real shame because some of the other more recent creatures are interesting (I genuinely love the concept of cement-trees), but it's also clear he is trying to milk the series for all it's worth, would have been interesting to see how the ocean age originally would have been resolved, and if he'd still have done the deus ex machina or actually allowed his sophont society to collapse
>>5146703>>5146719I remember a few years back I asked Sheather why he doesn't do some deep sea animals and he replied "ummm well the ocean isnt deep enough for them" and then a few months later he did a few lol
>>5139623I just don't know how Barlowe does it. I try to think "Well maybe he was inspired by (this) or (that)", and I know he has a deep knowledge of zoology. I want to design fantasy monsters that are as informed as his.
>>5146795He basically doesn't care about biological accuracy, just that it looks cool
Post pictures and your experiences or other writings of these much maligned and misunderstood Birds.Anhingas welcome also.Promoting Cormorant awareness and appreciation, one post at a time.
please do not get your kids one of the more "conscious" pets like a cat or a dog. The damage they'll get from losing it will be much greater than the benefit. If your kids and pet grow up together as well, the pet is deemed to die or get health complications during your child's most critical years (high-school, moving out for college, relationships etc) 9 months ago i was chosen by the cat delivery system, a cute tuxedo kitty ran to my feet as i was walking. In an hour, it will be the 8th day he's been missing. He just went out one day and never came back. Hes almost a year old.I've been searching since then, I even wanted to get a drone operator to scan the neighborhood with thermals but my dad said "im not paying for a drone for a fucking cat" and "don't fucking dare spend money with your debit on this" I've been crying a lot alone but even that's not enough, I want to explode. I'm barely holding it in front of people. On one of these searches, the day after garbage day I rode past a neighbors driveway that smelled so much like roadkill that I had to stop. I got confused because it smelled so much but there was no visible body anywhere, I even thought the wind was carrying the smell from the fence across the street but no, it was actually a particular spot on the pavement that looked clean but REEKED like roadkill. I thought, if they ran over my cat I'd like to know so I can have closure but they weren't opening the door so I just left a poster under their mat and left. So yeah, this is killing me right now. I don't think the brain can actually separate them from human babies, maybe they trigger the same parts in the brain so it is like you're losing an actual child. I don't think its worth it. I was more or less forced to by my empathy to get this one but its not worth to actively seek pet ownership.
>>5147134he's male and neutered and vaxxed. Proper pet. He even has a passport.
>>5146102Sorry to hear that anon.When I was a kid we had loads of cats and they kept multiplying. Males kept leaving because of increased competition. Our neighbour somehow managed to kill about 15 of our cats with his car. I got used to loss of cat eventually.
>>5147224you had 0 cats
If the antibiotics don't work I'm going to have to put her down and it will wreck me. She's only 12.Do I get another one?
>>5146102I think this comes down to how you handle the scenario. My mum used to get pets on impulse, get sick of them within a couple of months and then let them outside or put them in a cage and move them out behind the house to die of starvation/neglect. Over and over. I completely cut off my family when I was 29 over the way she was treating her senior dog (who we'd gotten when I was 13) and spent 29-31 having recurring vivid dreams about protecting small animals through apocalypse scenarios. That was a fuckin' wild one to unpack. They stopped when I adopted my new puppy.I hope your cat comes back, OP, but don't let cats outdoors. Every cat I've ever had that was allowed outdoors died or disappeared in under 2 years.
Red River Hogs
>>5146595Never. This is another one of those AI generated animals that jeets make to farm views on youtube shorts.
>>5146745Already, a photo not taken on a film camera is worthless by default. Sheesh. Don’t sell your zenza bronicas and nikons, kids.
>>5146745No, they're very real.
>>5146745Is this actually what the AI comes up with or did you prompt it to say this. If it’s the former then that’s fucking hilarious
>>5146745They do that, but red river hogs (Potamochoerus porcus) are real. Check Wikipedia and IUCN if you're not just making shit up for fun and genuinely thought they're fake.>>5146786I will forever hold AIfags in the utmost contempt for vindicating film hipsters. They ARE retarded but I can't even say that anymore because they ended up being RIGHT. Smug motherfuckers.
pinnipeds pics
Okay last one for now. This time it's Hanako being silly. Here are some videos with sound, if you want to hear what she sounds like.https://youtu.be/I_J_71T2BVM?is=iHvPO8p8YK_s9vWrhttps://youtube.com/shorts/4sl9mIaB-m8?is=qPLBZngTHh-nKNA1https://youtube.com/shorts/k5q_wi3ubkg?is=qrznuXa2MNtK1C34
>>5146675this is clearly a rival male, I must destroy him.mp4
Aaand I hit the image limit. Well at least it isn't the poop seal this time around.
>>5146670hee hee thank you very much. It will take me a while to watch all these wonderful videos; plus, I have the attention span of a gnat.>>5145720That sea lion makes me think he is 'teacher's pet' lolAnyways, hope you are well. I will leave this tab open so I can watch the vids in between task but I will try to legitimately check in from time to time. I am sorry I don't have anything new to contribute. Idk where you got all these great vids since I can never find good ones, but thank you. I get most of my vids from twitter. Twitter is strange because when you search for animal vids, its always ones you've already seen dozens of times. But then later it will recommend the better ones when there are any. The ones I see never seem like they would make good webms.Take care and thank you. I will keep looking to see if there is something there I can webm.<3
New seal because image limit reached>>5146746>>5146687Thanks, I hope to see you in the next thread. (^-^)/
