Pterosaur and spec evo enthusiast/Polak/Say NO to tankies/ professional Paleoart rtwter /he/him/defender of scavengers and predators/ I do art a lot/✝️
Some amazing footage of a Northern Bottlenose Whale off Greenland! I've never heard of this sort of opportunistic scavenging behaviour documented from any Beaked Whales before, and CERTAINLY never seen footage of it!
A rebbachisaurid-mimicking titanosaur and evidence of a Late Cretaceous faunal disturbance event in South-West Gondwana
Inawentu oslatus gen. et. sp. nov. from the Bajo de la Carpa Formation (Santonian)
2nd Illustration by Gabriel Lío
christians against dinosaurs raises a really good point: how did dinosaurs fuck?
paleontologists, please explain it to me, and please don't leave out the graphic details
"BOY, I SAY BOY, THAT'S A REAL BIG MISTAKE YA DID THERE! WHAT WERE YA THINKIN' PROWLIN' AROUND THE WOODLAND WITH THOSE DRYOSAURS A-HOOTEN'?! NOW YOU'RE ALL WASHED UP WITH YER BROKEN TOE' DYING OF THRIST’ AT YA, BOY! I TELL YA, YOU'RE NO APEX PREDATOR! YOU'RE A VEXIN' PREDATOR!”
Kurupi itaata is just, such a name.
Kurupi comes from a god of sex and fertility from Guraní mythology.
And itaata means “rock hard” in the Tupi language.
At some nebulous point in the future where such a thing is possible, you're a scientist tasked with creating an organism for the express purpose of eliminating Colombia's hippo population. How do you design your creature?
What? There is no such thing as “Malice” or “Cruelty” in the animal kingdom. Predation is one of the most basic fundamentals in ecosystems and is the main driving force for creatures to “evolve” since the Cambrian Period.
Those who are pro-predation love to minimize the experiences of "prey animals." They will say the reason you are anti-predation is simply because nature hurt your feelings. Have they never experienced compassion & empathy for others? We are anti-predation because we care for all.
Deleted other tweet. Rewriting this tweet again, so no one strawmans me for not including every possible nuance to the situation in one Tweet
I *hope* this AI thumbnail from Beaver is purely ironic (game uses AI on its Steam page) and he's not actually doing this from now on.