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Why were animals so giant in prehistoric times?

animals tend to evolve towards gigantism over long periods of time, so at any given point in earth’s history when tetrapods had shown up and the climate had been stable for a while, you absolutely find giant animals.

and remember, animals were actually still pretty giant until fairly recently on the geologic scale, a mere ten thousand years ago!

the reason there are very few giant animals around now is that we’re actually living in a post-apocolyptic world. 

SOMETHING happened ten thousand years ago to wipe almost all of the ice-age megafauna off the planet, and we’re still not sure what. (and no, it wasn’t us.) but the first animals to fall in a mass extinction events are always the giants, because they require so much food! and it takes them tens of millions of years to show up again after a mass die-off. but give it another twenty million years or so, and giant animals will appear once again!

until then, please take a moment to appreciate whales.

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I want you to tell me anything Again and again

poem excerpt, jericho brown                                        source image

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heavy clouds on the way and the lawn steaming like a horse

poem excerpt, billy collins                                     source

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FIGHT THE NEW DRUG | Peer-reviewed research on how pornography affects the brain, the heart, and the world, an overview.

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  Christina Bothwell (American, born 1960) , While You Were Sleeping , 2007 .

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california wildfires surrounding coronavirus protocols sign. 2020 in an image.

photo by noah berger

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Nina Simone with daughter, Lisa Simone Stroud

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Me

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Lucille: She’ll sell the company, or break it up into little parts or something, all under the guise of “caring” about our family.

Michael: You’ve got to stop quoting when you drink.

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But that IS how life works in a lot of countries…

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A bird explaining to a hedgehog crossing so it doesn’t die.

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i am just rlyy not happy at alll....but im glad i have health insurance....to seek counseling.....

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Imagine if male genitals were treated like female genitals? Like testicles weren’t even referred to as testicles and some men didn’t even know what they were actually called and the general area was just called “penis”.

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I’m literally obsessed with this picture of my cat. It is the definition of renaissance painting imagery. The shading. The pose. The thoughtful twinkle in his eye. Sublime

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Antique Beaded Nightshades.

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