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new account!!!

go follow @aces-sharks!! this one is no longer active!!

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Hi!

I'm abandoning my main account, @aceofstars1. That means this one will be too because if I keep this one up I'll be tempted to keep going back to my main.

new account is @aces-sharks!!!

Thank you all for being so funny, your obsessions always make me laugh.

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Nautilus expedition live streams (+ their commentary) | 2024

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Dude has a death wish

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A blacktip reef shark named Sharyl

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hello shraks-daily i fear you have had a wrong blog moment

woops

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Give your OC a massive shark plushie

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i often think about that deep diving expedition where a toad was caught on camera at the bottom of loch ness

i wonder how he’s doing

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I know I haven't been super active, but I have a few updates and announcements!

I'm now copresident of the marine science club at my school!

And I also requested to take marine science next year so we'll see if it fits my schedule

And for my announcement: I won't be very active for the next 2 or 3 weeks as I study for finals :(

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My body is already an inhospitable environment, there’s no way a friggin baby would be able to survive in it

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I love you speculative biology. I love you worldbuilding projects. I love you creature design. I love you fantasy biology. I love you speculative evolution. I love you science fiction.

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Romaleodelphis pollerspoecki was a dolphin-like toothed whale related to the ancestors of both modern oceanic dolphins and beaked whales, living in coastal waters covering what is now Austria during the early Miocene about 22 million years ago.

Although only known from a single fossil skull, this cetacean was probably around 3m long (~9'10"). It had a long snout lined with over 100 small pointed uniformly-shaped teeth, and the bony walls of its inner ears were well-preserved enough to show that it was able to hear narrow-band high frequency sounds – a specific form of echolocation that has convergently evolved multiple times in various modern and extinct toothed whale lineages.

Based on the presence of ancient river-mouth deposits in the area where Romaleodelphis was found, it may potentially have been capable of traversing between marine, brackish, and freshwater environments similar to the modern franciscana.

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References:

Bavarian State Collections of Natural History. "'Astonishing Results' – Scientists Reveal Secrets of Mysterious 22-Million-Year-Old Dolphin Skull." SciTechDaily, 15 Nov. 2024, https://scitechdaily.com/astonishing-results-scientists-reveal-secrets-of-mysterious-22-million-year-old-dolphin-skull/

Sanchez-Posada, Catalina, et al. "Romaleodelphis pollerspoecki, gen. et sp. nov., an archaic dolphin from the Central Paratethys (Early Miocene, Austria)." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (2024): e2401503. https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2024.2401503

Wikipedia contributors. “Romaleodelphis” Wikipedia, 06 Nov. 2024, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romaleodelphis