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“Two Earthlings,” by John Brosio

@Mr_Bauxite The arms in general appear to have been shrinking in favor of the larger heads and the fingers seem to have gone with them

@TM9380 I wonder what the evolutionary pressure was to lose a finger. I wonder if it was just a sexual selection preference or if there was a benefit to retaining the energy/nutrients required to maintain that third finger, or something else.

While they evolved from three fingered ancestors, tyrannosaurs are best known for generally having only two functional fingers…

Xenoceratops was an 80 million year old centrosaurine ceratopsian from Alberta. Its name roughly translates to “alien horned face.”

@dove_of_babylon Just saw a lungfish on Saturday…

@zebtoes As a wildlife biology enthusiast, I appreciate this sentiment

i HATE how they keep saying "poisonous" "poison" "poisoned" IF ITS THRU BLOOD ITS VENOM. POISON IS ABSORBED NOT INJECTED !!!!!!!!!! THIS GUY IS VENOMOUS NOT POISONOUS !!!!

@wildlifewire For sure! Rewatching, sometimes the show gets a little over the top in, like, editing styles and what not but his narration and presentation is always intercutting it with rationality. Very good stuff

@TM9380 There’s really something to be said about Jeremy Wade as a presenter. With a show title like River Monsters, it would be easy for it devolve into overhyped nonsense, but he really keeps a calm and collected focus on education and appreciation. Truly one of the greats!

Everyone knows sharks, barracuda, gar, muskie, etc when it comes to large, impressive predatory fish. But man did River Monsters really give me an appreciation for catfish. Really underrated in many ways in terms of potentially large, impressive predators…

@AzzopardiDilyn @ausar_the Scales to about 10 meters I believe, so it works for a Pete III level specimen

@ausar_the Just in case you're looking for a 1:35 scale, this figure is really big for that and probably closer to 1:25-1:31. But if you're not bothered by the size, it a nice figure and I guess you could use it as a particularly large specimen at 1:35 if you want.

Haolonggood's Daspletosaurus is on sale, and I'm wondering if I should get it.

@DavidMa48153711 @capitandinorexy It needs proper analysis but initial thoughts don’t seem to suggest that. I’m wary around private collectors but some do attempt to operate in good grace

@TM9380 @capitandinorexy could it be a fossil chimera then? Especially since it's owned by a private party, whom I'm assuming doesn't allow detailed research very often.

“Juliasaurus” is the unofficial name given to a mysterious theropod from the Morrison formation. Owned by a private party, it’s unclear what this 6 meter theropod was exactly…

Hey, @Sornaman2001! This your cousin or something?

@HonkIfUrHoary Fran said, “me, but with Michelle Pfieffer.”

There needs to be a content warning on “Margo’s Got Money Troubles” for Nick Offerman in the daddiest of daddy roles. As someone with daddy issues, I feel unsafe.

@moordrydpaynn Yeah, the low end of its size estimates is around 71cm and 10kg

@TM9380 So pacu sized then? interesting

Megapiranha, a Miocene relative of modern piranhas. It’s incredibly fragmentary but suggests a giant compared to the infamous red bellied piranhas…

@moordrydpaynn Even at the low end it’s probably as large if not larger than the biggest black piranha

@TM9380 how does it compare to the black piranha

@RebornArena86 @capitandinorexy Generally it lands somewhere around there

@TM9380 @capitandinorexy And by the way... What's the current view on Marshosaurus? Last i checked it was listed as a megalosaurid of some sort...

@Strayzerrr Initial observations note similarities with both Marshosaurus and Allosaurus, but neither are a match. But unless it’s published on and properly analyzed, it’s mostly speculation and here-say

@TM9380 A few ppl are saying it could be Marshosaurus If it was then it would be an extremely large individual, and compared to the skull material we have from Marshosaurus it looks quite different Imo it looks a lot like some sort of basal allosauroid

@drzruler Pterosaur is the group broadly as a whole. Pterosaur is more like dinosaur in terms of definition(maybe not 1:1 but similar). Pterodactyl technically refers to the genus I posted but, in my experience, people picture Pteranodon when they think “pterodactyl.”

@TM9380 So I've always been confused is pterosaur a species and a genus? Or do people just generalize pterosaur as a pterodactyl, Google has made this confusing haha

Pterodactylus is, at least in name, the most famous pterosaur. Often shortened to just “pterodactyl,” this was a roughly crow sized flying reptile from Europe…

Not dinosaurs but I just got back from The Mandalorian and Grogu. No spoilers here. It was exactly what I expected it to be. I had fun, laughed a few times. Next to no substance but it was simple fun and hijinks. 6/10, I generally agree with the critics but still a positive score

@ARAMINTA1659 @Maya_Moo13 We have young Allosaurus, I don’t see why we wouldn’t be able to draw comparisons if that’s what this was

@TM9380 @Maya_Moo13 This might be a stretch but from the head shape and body proportions, could this be and adolescent or sub-adult allosaurus?

@Thomas_cw_dino Is known Marshosaurus material exclusively young animals? I’m not familiar with that side of things

@TM9380 I'm gonna go out on a limb and say an adult Marshosaurus or a jurassic carcharodontosaur