zoe bearcat

They hadn't even decided they were going to eat grass yet, they were probably frugivores! And yet, perfectly formed c':

Me at the work trivia night on the weekend, refusing to back down from clarifying that more than two marsupials have backwards-facing pouches while the big bosses of the organisation shout "Zoe stop Zoe stop you got it right!"

Anyway I'm this close to dropping two American K on a palaeolagus specimen which is basically a whole damn skull

A screenshot taken from https://muzeumewolucji.pl/?p=2977&lang=en of a fossil of Palaeolagus haydeni, credited to Wolniewicz, A.S and Fostowicz-Frelik, Ł. 2021. CT-informed skull osteology of Palaeolagus haydeni (Mammalia: Lagomorpha) and its bearing on the reconstruction of the early lagomorph body plan. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 9:634757. The skull is in lateral view facing right, with two sets of upper incisors and one of lower incisors, a long diastema and then distinctive ridged cheek teeth. Along the side of the snout there is a region of bone which appears more weathered, typical of the lacy fenestrated area on lagomorph maxillas. The skull is flattened with relatively shallow orbits but it is still distinctively, painfully, perfectly a rabbit (rabbit here being dramatically used as a synonym for lagomorphs in general)

A screenshot taken from https://muzeumewolucji.pl/?p=2977&lang=en of a fossil of Palaeolagus haydeni, credited to Wolniewicz, A.S and Fostowicz-Frelik, Ł. 2021. CT-informed skull osteology of Palaeolagus haydeni (Mammalia: Lagomorpha) and its bearing on the reconstruction of the early lagomorph body plan. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 9:634757. A CT model scan of the skull from the previous picture, different bones of the head highlighted in different colours. It looks even more rabbit now, the maxillary fenestra which are characteristic of lagomorpha beautifully preserved. I'm having an emotion

Openly weeping

BunnY

This fossil is 30 million years old and I can see the same nasal bones, the same maxillary fenestra, the same molar ridges that I see in my rabbits. God what incredible creatures I'm gonna lose my mind

I've just discovered that you can buy palaeolagus fossils on the internet and now I'm openly weeping about how conservative lagomorph anatomy is again

A list of podcasts listened to over the course of the year, each of them having at least almost two days of listening logged. The podcasts featured are Too Scary; Didn't Watch, Behind the Bastards, Just the Zoo of Us, In Bed With The Right, The Common Descent, Thumb Cramps, A Bit Fruity, Baseless Speculation, bigsofttitty.png, Maintenance Phase's patreon feed and Against The Odds. I stand by all of them except bigsofttitty.png which I think is a war crime to recommend to people, everyone should definitely listen to it

Meanwhile, in the app which knows what I'm about

A list of top five played songs on Spotify, showing numbers 1, 3, 4 and 5 as songs from K-pop Demon Hunters (What it Sounds Like in the top spot). Nestled comfortably in second place is The Slur Song by Bigfoot's Biggest Fan

Once again, spotify has identified my musical taste as 'autistic'

Windows four-pane logo. Upper left red square labeled “sanguine”, upper right green square “melancholic”, lower left blue square “phlegmatic,” lower right yellow square “choleric”

where my nerds at

Intraoral xrays are so pretty though, I wish one of the bosses hadn't taken out away before I got back

Oh my god this is almost word for word the bit of the talk I do when I talk about inflammation and dental infections that's so weird to hear

I then go on to talk about rabbit immune systems being completely different but still weird

Dental tech: let me see if I have my little tools to explain your risk factors

Me, audibly from the corner: /YES/

Me, sitting in the corner while @spacegandalf.bsky.social has her teeth checked over: I hate the triadan system, I can't follow this at all >:c

Going to other people's dental appointments is so weird, I've never been kind of walked through a dental exam myself because my dental appointments are always me shooting the shit with my dad

truth coming out of her cup noodles to shame mankind

@spacegandalf.bsky.social: is a Columbian mammoth one of those things Pablo Escobar bought?

(And then two minutes later, "I would simply not walk into the tar pit")

#PrehistoricPlanet

@spacegandalf.bsky.social is heckling every animal. "If I were a sea cow," she scoffs, "I would simply pay attention to the tides."

Sea cows are her favourite animal in this show

#PrehistoricPlanet

I honestly think enhydriodon is one of the scariest creatures in this show. 10 foot long pack-hunting mustelids? No thank you no thank you no thank you

I'm just so glad our fucked up little guys got their time in the sun. We deserved this. Thank you Prehistoric Planet team ;-;

Was the deserts episode the best thing? Yes. Yes it was

Emma and I yelling every time there's just a guy we still have today on screen

Hello crested pigeons we love you

#PrehistoricPlanet

This moa is a little twink

#PrehistoricPlanet

Screaming, hooting, hollering

It is time for Prehistoric Planet

A photo of two rabbits snuggling, the carpeted room around them strewn with hay, poops and chewed up cat toys. The black rabbit on the left is a solid, velvety loaf, her body curved around the fluffy white rabbit on the right. Her head is on the floor, pressed into his neck to ask for kisses. He is stretched out flat as well, his head raised and facing into the camera with his pink little mouth visible

Gremlin queen and her idiot consort

A pile of #lystrosaurus cuddled up in the underbrush!🧡🌿

#paleoart #TheDinosaurMann

A photo of a chunky black rex rabbit, loafing in the middle of a carpeted room. The floor is dotted with specks of gay and rabbit poops. She looks extremely satisfied with herself, one arm outstretched majestically and the rest of her body a shapeless loaf with no visible neck and a tiny head. One ear is casually focussed towards the camera, but she is not concerned about anything. She does not know that my vacuum cleaner bags came in the mail yesterday and I can finally clean the house

Gremlin queen of her kingdom of filth

It's harder for us, particularly in your situation when you can see the years of good times that should have stretched out into the future for your kids. It still breaks my heart what happened to you all, thank you for always giving your cats the best days they can have <3

As a vet, this is always what I tell people who are managing their pets in end of life situations. They're not waiting for the next season of their favourite show to drop, they're just living each day as it comes, and hopefully it continues to be a string of good ones

Thanks autocorrect. /Precious/ blorbo, obviously

My previous blorbo, my beautiful son