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I think yours looks closest to my interpretation after reading the paper. I think a lot of people are making the spikes too large and too dense.

We've only got a trailer to go off but is the new monster from the Monarch show the best original kaiju Legendary has done?
I do like the MUTOs and I though the ones from the first season of monarch weren't bad either.

Well I guess it'll save me 21 dollars a month or whatever it is now if I have to switch to Krita or Affinity or whatever

The fact that "edtwt" is not a bunch of people supporting each other in their eating disorder recovery journeys, but instead a frighteningly large community of very mentally ill girls in social competition with each other over who can eat the fewest calories is a genuine horror story to me.

Yeah people use it, it just sucks ass cause it turns out "a twitter for people who mostly use instagram" as a deeply evil concept

Passage from The Lost World by Michael Crichton describing Lewis Dodgson as an unscrupulous hack whose only talent is stealing ideas from other people and presenting them as his own.

I just read this passage in The Lost World (the Crichton one) describing the main villain, and it's hysterical how perfectly this describes Elon Musk.

So tiktoks now have little button thay just says "AI" on them 🙄
I'm scared to even find out what it does

Dead internet but also dead real life theory.

I know it's like pretentious or w/e to imply other people have no inner lives but the concept of two people texting each other both using ChatGPT generated messages (which we all know is definitely happening) fills me with a deep feeling of contempt.

This is part of my argument haha
Not only are they not aliens or alike to the other Pandoran animals (yes even with the prolemuris) but they are very clearly hominids closely related to Homo or even potentially evolved from Homo.

Also though, to be fair to Cameron and crew, this is true of the vast vast majority of alien planets in film and not at all unique to Pandora.

I kind of want to rant about how (though I like it) Pandora doesn't work at all as an Alien planet and only makes any sense as a planet that was terraformed from earth some time in the distant past. Though gauging from what I've seen on Twitter the spec-evo people might get mad at me.

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Ammonite survival across the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary confirmed by new data from Denmark - Scientific Reports We provide a reassessment of the hypothesis of ammonite survival across the Cretaceous–Paleogene (Maastrichtian–Danian) boundary, based on new data from the lower Danian Cerithium Limestone Member at ...

Earliest Cenozoic ammonoids:

Machalski, M., Olszewska-Nejbert, D., Landman, N.H. et al. Ammonite survival across the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary confirmed by new data from Denmark. Sci Rep 15, 45802 (2025). doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Top 2 are obviously respectable. The main thing I remember about Godzilla 2000 is he spends like half the movie fighting a giant flying turd.

Bucklandia indica, a thick, scaled, cycad-like stem with a Ptilophyllum-type leaf attached.

The specimens of the new speices, Ohania is much smaller than this. The authors suggest it was probably shrub-sized. However, there are other large, thick trunks with Ptilophyllum leaves attached/associated so something like Brougham depicts is definitely on the table.

Why did they even make Minya so busted? Like they didn't have to do that. Godzilla Junior isn't busted

Check out this piece by Jason Broughham from 2013 btw, he was cooking. He even describes it as having Ptilophyllum leaves.

Frankenstein or Frankenstein's monster or the creature, whichever pleases you, standing taller than trees as he fights Baragon, a Godzilla sized monster with big ears and a large horn on its snout and ridges running down its back in the 1965 movie Frankenstein Conquers the World

Guillermo del Toro: "I've taken some liberties in adapting the Mary Shelly novel, I hope everyone understands."

Ishiro Honda: "Frankenstein the deathless will fight a burrowing dinosaur with a glowing horn and radiation breath, signifying mankind will never understand the monsters we create."

Sketch studies of the new whole-plant bennettitale described last week, Ohaniella.

Sketch studies of the new whole-plant bennettitale described last week, Ohaniella.

YouTube video by WDR Studios Terrible Lizards - Official Announcement Teaser Trailer

Yoooo the teaser for a game I did creature designs for came out. Stay to the end to see my beautiful baby boy youtu.be/iUY6bFjivWU

Donate to Help Rebuild After a Devastating Fire, organized by Matthew Wright-Conti On what should have been a normal day, an abandoned church near Madison, Za… Matthew Wright-Conti needs your support for Help Rebuild After a Devastating Fire

A dear friend of mine has had an awful event happen right before the holidays - their home caught fire and they've lost so much. They and their pets are safe, but it's really been a massive blow to them. Anything helps - even just spreading the word. gofund.me/c7f1ff97f

Look, the last time they looked like this, I'll take what I can get

It looks like its (another) remake of the first game so seems unlikely, but I'd welcome it!

Not that I don't agree with some of the criticisms or think they could have been better.

Ngl I was expecting the new Tomb Raider dinosaurs to look worse considering the discourse on twitter. They are fine. Easily an improvement over previous entries in the series.

Corporations don't give you free stuff for naming your child after them anymore. Netflix would be a beautiful name for a baby girl but they don't respond to my emails.

I've been listening to The Hobbit audiobook and there is a line that directly implies that football exists in Middle Earth.

#Paleobotany #Devonian #Fern
Last week, I attended the EMBO workshop in Vienna on early land plants and terrestrialisation.
There, I presented my research on rhacophytalean evolution, focusing on a reappraisal of the genus Cephalopteris from the latest Famennian of Bjørnøya. 🌿🌿

Sketch reconstruction of a large Edmontosaurus annectens about 9 metres long (Laura Dern silhouette for scale), shown in side view with a frill-like soft-tissue ridge running from its neck to its hips. To the right is a smaller, fully coloured version of the same dinosaur, featuring patterning inspired by The Lost World: Jurassic Park arcade game.

I haven't had much time or energy to do illustrations for myself lately, but yesterday I finally got the drive and managed to do two. This is Edmontosaurus annectens, incorporating the new soft-tissue data, as well as some inspiration from the re-described Red Willow Edmontosaurin.