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Software engineer with occasional illustration and evolutionary biology work. I make prehistoric comics (https://www.keesey-comics.com) and a website with free silhouettes (https://www.phylopic.org/). He/him
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Except Lex Luthor is a genius.
Feel free, I yoinked it myself!
They believe in Social Darwinism but not Actual Darwinism. Those who even bother to think about it probably justify it as believing in “microevolution” but not “macroevolution”, which is basically like believing in inches but not miles.
No accident.
If the Predator franchise is in the same universe as the Alien franchise, and the Alien franchise is in the same universe as the Bladerunner franchise, then by the transitive property…
I guess there was a period where Arctotherium was the biggest, but apart from that I can’t think of anything.
An under-appreciated aspect of South American paleontology is that a.) it's absolutely full of straight-limbed, galloping Mesozoic crocodile lineages that b.) regularly evolved large, "hypercarnivorous" forms and that c.) the latest surviving examples hung around into the Pliocene
Even worse, the largest Cenozoic predators in South America have been snakes, even to this day.
Plus his mother was an immigrant and his paternal grandparents.
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Image I created a while back attempting to show the complexities of human evolution. #sciart #Paleoart #Evolution #paleoanthropology
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Only brain tired?
Best feedback: “I didn’t understand why…” Worst feedback: “What if you…”
Oof, yes. Also: >I tell myself I’ll bring it up in a real-life conversation some day. >I never do because it turns out the opinion was not very interesting.
“The effect of these losses, the researcher’s contend, was to halt the development of the pygmy sea horse’s head at an early stage. The result was a knob-like snout instead of a horse-like one.” So, they kind of look like embryos because they kind of are?
I’ve never been and am not likely to go, but my understanding from people I know who go is that the old festival is still there alongside the newer contingent.
YOU GO, MY LAD! HO HO! MY LAD!
Among the many great things I picked up at #DinoConUK were the large and small Night Stalker models made by #EXEtinct. Check out the TetZooTowers_collection TikTok here... www.tiktok.com/@tetzootower...
Yes. I think Mars Attacks! is another good example.
As for rewatching the original, how many shows *do* people rewatch frequently? Curious about the stats. Speaking for myself I probably mostly rewatch sitcoms (Simpsons, Seinfeld, Home Movies). I have watched a couple long-form fantasies through multiple times, including GoT and A:TLA.
Yes, it’s a long series of individually exciting scenes with no coherence, which is dreadfully boring.
Whoops, you are correct.
Top-notch critical ratings, though. Although not much in the way of awards (which is ridiculous). But, again, what’s happening in the alternate timeline where the sequel trilogy has a great ending? Is it that different?
Yeah, that finale had a definite effect on their projects! FWIW, there is another series coming next year (A Knight of Seven Kingdoms), and a few others still in development I think.
I’ll concede that there might be another spinoff or two, but I’m not so sure about cons and merch. Too redundant with Ren Faires (where you can still find people dressed as GoT characters), and, unlike Star Wars, there is no opportunity to market to children.
(Rise of the Skywalker is the worst, not Revenge of the Sith. Forgot there were two with the same acronym.)
I guess what I’m asking is, what’s different about the alternate universe where GoT did stick to the landing? Do people just keep watching it over and over on and endless loop? Or is it basically the same?
Fair on the sequel trilogy. I do wonder if it’ll get “reappraised” by kids who grew up on it, like is happening now for the even-worse* prequel trilogy. Maybe not, given that it lived alongside a lot of other SW stuff more directed at children. * On average—RotS is still the worst SW film ever.
How many times are people supposed to rewatch the original series? I’ve watched it through twice, am I supposed to rewatch it every year or something?
I don’t disagree that they flubbed those particular landings (especially Star Wars, whoof) but these franchises are both still going on pretty strong. I’ve seen discourse about how they’ve been forgotten (especially GoT), and I don’t get it.
But not the Great one.
At first by “lives on” I thought you meant it ate them. I didn’t realize you were being literal!
I recall seeing an interview with Buscemi where he talked about reading the screenplay for FARGO and being excited about wearing prosthetics to play this “funny-lookin’” character. He didn’t realize there was no plan for him to wear prosthetics…
Still got the Progressive Era, the Great War, and the Roaring Twenties before that.
This form field.
I agree except when I am on a bicycle.
Gimme some.
I’ll go first—I have a comic series set in the early years of the Danian Age. www.keesey-comics.com/paleocene
I feel like there’s a lot of Mesozoic #paleoart and a fair bit of Pleistocene #paleoart but not a lot in between. Whatcha got?
Ekembo nyanzae or as it was used to be called,Proconsul #Sciart
Although, as I pointed out, that doesn’t prevent other types of oxymoron—biology is just kind of messy. As is nomenclature.
Right, which is why some researchers (such as many of those behind the PhyloCode) feel that taxonomic names from neontology are best restricted to crown groups, to prevent unwarranted inferences about the stem group.
And then there are reversals, like herbivorous Carnivora (e.g., Ailuropoda) and legless tetrapods. So many oxymorons!
Sometimes it’s just a nomenclatural issue, though. Like the fact that the earliest horned dinosaurs (Ceratopsia) didn’t have horns. :/
Although this stem-mysticete lacked baleen, there were others with both teeth *and* baleen, so not really an oxymoron: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aetioce... Adding “stem-“ in these cases really helps. Indricotheres aren’t really rhinos, they’re stem-rhinos.
Multiple exceptionally preserved fossils from the Paleocene Waipara Greensand inform the diversity of the oldest stem group Sphenisciformes and the formation of their diving adaptations url: academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...
Hank Hill’s and Butt-Head’s voices intersect when they speak with reverence.
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If I could I would have long ago willed myself into being into filing taxes, doing the dishes, researching investment opportunities, organizing my files, etc.
Weird dude update
Or the Department of Transportation posting about mule trains.
Very cool!
Welsh is Celtic but not Gaelic. It’s in a related branch called Brittonic.
I understand that some have felt disappointed by some big-budget paleo media this year, BUT - we are living in a GOLDEN AGE of #paleoart, w/ stunning, original, scientifically-informed masterpieces being made daily!!! There is so much to absorb & we are so lucky
Well that was quick!
Added to PhyloPic: www.phylopic.org/images/fbe2c...
Added to PhyloPic: www.phylopic.org/images/fbe2c...
This is an incredible discovery. Longisquama has been a mystery for decades, and now we have a cousin with numerous specimens.
This one sounds like a rude mayor, too.
I seriously had to read that multiple times before I realized it wasn’t about a very rude mayor.
I saw 28 YEARS LATER last night—loved it. But also, someone needs to make a movie where Jodie Comer and Fionnula Flanagan play the same character at different ages, because they are dead ringers.
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Some moles?
Yes, a lot (probably most?) of them don’t mind “Indian” at all, and use it themselves. But personally I still prefer not to use it for them, because there’s this completely different group of people that already had the name.
As a software engineer, I can attest that it is to some extent useful. Whether it’s useful enough to warrant the expense, especially after the current speculation bubble bursts, is another question.
Oh no, is this the new “sharks are older than trees”?
Yeah, like this. I guess it’s okay, feels a little overdone. m.youtube.com/watch?v=-buR...
(I’m probably forgetting some lesser-known themes.)
My take is that all of the Superman themes are great. He’s 3 for 3. Also the Fleischer one goes “SuperMAN! SUPerman! Superman, Superman, Superman!” and the Williams one goes “Duhhh duh duh duh duhhhh… Su-per-man. Duhhh duh duh duh duhhhh… SUPERMAN!” and the Zimmer one doesn’t have words.
Clumsy Hunter In the early Permian, a little less than 300 million years ago, life on land had long been rich and diverse, but most of the animals were still a bit... goofy. Here's Eryops chasing down a Platyhystrix in a lush riverside forest in what is now Texas, some 290 million years ago.
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Sure, body horror, for example. (That does often involve death, but the death is at least partly welcome, and not the source of the horror.)
Yes. I mean, it’s right there in the name.
Spectacular animated short showing different interpretations of the Crystal Palace dinosaurs as interpreted in the 1850s, early 20th Century, 1990s, and today! youtu.be/OH57rtnKCEM?...
Also note that some dinosaurs may have evolved into anteaters first. www.phylopic.org/nodes/96d6f7...
Here they all are! (Sort of—PhyloPic doesn’t current have Geogale or Eremitalpa, so those are relatives.) www.phylopic.org/collections/...
Or, in plain English: echidnas, numbats, anteaters, termite-eating armadillos, aardvarks, sengis, large-eared tenrecs, Grant’s golden moles (“dune sharks”), pangolins, aardwolves, bat-eared foxes, and sloth bears.
And that shows the 12 lineages in the spreadsheet: Tachyglossidae, Myrmecobius, Vermilingua, Tolypeutidae*, Orycteropus, Macroscelididae**, Geogale, Eremitalpa, Manidae, Proteles, Otocyon, and Melursus. * part of Chlamyphoridae in their usage ** the one case with reversals
…the supplementary data is available on Dryad: datadryad.org/dataset/doi:...
Seen this posted a few times. None of the write-ups list all twelve lineages, and the paper is closed-access. But… www.sciencealert.com/mammals-have...
I haven’t done a serious attempt. The Mononykus in Prehistoric Planet is very good:
Possibly one dinosaur group, too. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvarez...
Well, the Kickstarter campaign for Paleocene #5 was not successful. I’m looking for feedback on the future of the comic series. This form should only take a minute or two. forms.gle/rWaVNyQ9TT8g...
And scarabs look armored.
Khepri lifting the morning sun? But how does that connect to paladins?
I guess this is the GOP's version of Swan Lake
I assumed because it was a nymph (named after mythological figures related to Nature), and also Druids are the most likely to cast *plant shape*.
I’m always thinking about a deluxe version of DND bugs with more classes, and after a long time of chaos and intense work among shows I’ve finally got some time to finish it! Which one would you choose? 💚🐛🐞🐝🪲
These are great! Perfect choices … just not sure I understand the dung beetle as paladin.
It would have made a friend of mine a star except they kept misattributing this to System of a Down or Weird Al Yankovic. m.youtube.com/watch?v=Stvc...
“Epic bacon” and PBR and Kanye shades are pretty localized to the ‘00s.
We think of the ‘60s as psychedelic or mod or hippie, but none of those existed in 1960 and they persisted well into the ‘70s.
Your points are good. But decade identities almost never coincide with the exact year. (We might be in an exception now—2020 was a very unusual year.) Ironic hipsters were around in the late ‘90s but became a lot more widespread in the ‘00s and kind of morphed into something else afterward.
Also, the ‘00s was the Era of Flash: micro games, Homestar Runner, experiential websites, etc. Also, relevant to the original poster, peak webcomics!
Yes, and the fall of blogging came soon after, with the death of Google Reader (2013) and the rise of social media, fueled by smartphone adoption.
Soundtrack-wise, in some ways it’s a continuation of the late ‘90s: power pop, post punk, boy bands, auto-tune. There was some new stuff, though: dubstep, trap, etc. EDM came into its own.