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I do plan on getting the Haolonggood T. rex eventually no matter what I choose next fwiw

https://oceansofkansas.com/hesperornis.html

I just know that if Hesperornis were alive today, we'd get the occasional case report published about someone getting bitten or pecked, how much they bled/got infected, all antibiotics used over a numerical period, and of course, a picture(s) of the wound.

Apart from a large figure that I ordered last week, I'm debating what the smaller figure(s) I should get next. Options are between retired CollectA figures, new Schleich, current CollectA, and Haolonggood. What do y'all think?

After 45 years, the striger from Dougal Dixon's After Man finally got a new gig

(Primal S3 potential spoiler)

Its ventral surface isn't light in color by contrast, or at least not nearly to the extent seen in an orca or a white shark, which is what I'd like to know if any previous researchers provided an explanation for.

"They used to walk. They used to swim. They used to fly with a toothy grin."

I finally watched the last episode of The Dinosaurs and the newest episode of Primal tonight. A couple things.

1) Yay, they emphasize birds as dinosaurs THOROUGHLY.

2) Finally saw something I've been waiting for since Primal S3's teaser.

I’m intrigued by the Pseudorca’s nearly uniform dark coloration, and if anyone has ever offered an explanation for it.

(Photo by Jim Cotton)

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Servals encountering black-backed jackals. The small prey specialists of the savanna.

Texas Snakes From the legendary, fear-inspiring Western Diamondback rattlesnake to the tiny, harmless Plains blind snake, Texas has a greater diversity of snake species than any other state in the country. Recogni...

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Now I want to try and find a record of an indigo snake taking down a venomous snake larger than itself as this excerpt claims. I don’t doubt it (and kingsnakes can do it with a different killing method), I just want to verify.

Yeah at any rate, I think CollectA’s Dimetrodon looks superior

I wish it had lips, but I otherwise kind of like it

I had a nightmare last night…

I was back in high school.

They made a new Brontosaurus too

So these are 2026 releases by Schleich. I’m considering the mammoth and the Spinosaurus here.

American Snakes The captivating and beautifully illustrated true story of snakes in America.125 million years ago on the floodplains of North America, a burrowing lizard started down the long evolutionary path of she...

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When rodents kill snakes

Sinmiyangyo: The 1871 Conflict Between the United States and Korea In 1871, five ships of the United States Asiatic Fleet headed into Korean waters, intent on establishing relations with Korea, a country that had shunned the outside world for centuries. However, as t...

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Really wish my ancestors adopted matchlock firearm technology BEFORE they got invaded by the Japanese, and later the Jurchens. It was only afterwards that the Joseon dynasty invested in high quality guns.

I would argue even there we’re spared from seeing the absolute worst of the feeding (the ants don’t eat enough of the chick before it cuts away), but yeah, that is definitely one of the more gruesome scenes. There’s also the ichthyosaur being bitten in half in Cruel Sea.

These and perhaps theropods too

Not really. It gets sort of brutal, but not brutal-brutal (e.g. disemboweling/eating/parasitizing animals alive with gaping wounds).

https://abc7.com/post/florida-biologists-prove-invasive-burmese-pythons-are-swallowing-deer-alligators/15484314/

https://latestsightings.com/single-post/will-zebra-escape-crocodiles-death-grip-kruger-national-park?srsltid=AfmBOorATTY_sv3m1nea78wd1DeLNlo4cXz2yLw10nPentX90gAJm89z

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/An-adult-male-Komodo-dragon-killing-a-Rusa-deer-Komodo-National-Park-Indonesia-Photo_fig1_296689048

“Nope, no reason a predator with far less energy requirements than an endothermic mammal would ever hunt relatively large prey. No siree.”

You can tell he genuinely thinks he brought up a good point

Sometimes I think about how, due to constraints with general audiences and (understandable) censorship, no paleontology documentary will ever fully capture how insanely brutal nature can get.

Wonder if any small non-avian theropods ended up in this unfortunate situation when hunting snakes:

Have you guys all seen The Dinosaurs yet? Am I allowed to talk about it with no compunction over spoilers?

Rumiensternus

I’ll start watching The Dinosaurs today for dinner