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Good Shit!

This is the kind of stuff I wanna put on my blog!

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🦴 THE HORRORS THAT NEVER FOSSILIZED (Now featuring the Doom-tier statistics your timeline forgot to fear.)

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Let’s talk about the gap.

Not the known. Not the fossilized. But the soft-bodied nightmare interval — the long dark between epochs where monsters left no bones but changed the entire shape of survival.

> Over 99.9% of all species that ever lived are extinct. > And according to paleobiologist Jan Zalasiewicz, less than 1 out of every 1 billion organisms becomes a fossil. > Translation? > The fossil record is the biological equivalent of a tweet with no context.

Now factor this:

The earliest known fungus fossil? 2.4 billion years old. It predates plants. It predates animals. And according to science writer Ferris Jabr, fungi may be Earth’s oldest apex predators — killing by chemical warfare, digestion, and neural hijack.

Now imagine a world where the apex predator wasn’t a raptor or a sabertooth — it was a wall of spores waiting to turn you into a sentient fondue pot.

No gun. No cure. Just you melting in a hallucination while the forest applauds.

Let’s go deeper:

> The Devonian Period — > 419 to 359 million years ago. > Commonly called “The Age of Fishes.”

But really? It was Doom on casual mode.

Predatory placoderms like Dunkleosteus — 30 feet long with armored jaws strong enough to bite through bone.

Ocean floor crawling with eurypterids — scorpion-like sea demons over 8 feet long.

And above them? Primitive air, barely breathable. Gravity unforgiving. Radiation levels higher. No trees. Just fungal towers, acid rainfall, and skies that looked like a biblical curse.

Now imagine being dropped into that world. No suit. No weapon. Just vibes.

There’s no Wi-Fi. No med kit. No Star-Lord charm to talk your way out.

Just the realization that Earth was once a place where everything pulsed, twitched, or hissed with a hunger your ancestors learned to fear in their dreams.

And the worst part?

> You’ll never see it coming. Because the most dangerous things never had bones. They never needed them. They digested you before the fossil record could log your obituary.

Modern humans? We’re 300,000 years old. Blink of a cosmic eye.

Before us?

> Life on Earth was shaped by at least 5 mass extinctions, each more terrifying than the last:

The Ordovician-Silurian extinction – 85% of marine species gone.

The Devonian extinction – lasted 20 million years and wiped out reef systems built by microbes.

The Permian extinction — AKA The Great Dying – 96% of marine life – 70% of land species – Even insects got wrecked.

And somehow your lineage made it.

Not just once. But every time.

So the next time someone tells you time travel would be cool?

Ask them:

> “Can your immune system handle airborne prehistory?” > “You ready to breathe spores that predate mitochondria?” > “You sure that patch of moss isn’t thinking about digesting you right now?”

Because Earth didn’t come from Narnia. It came from blood.

Even now, we don’t understand most microbial life. > 1 gram of soil contains up to 1 billion organisms. > 99% of them are unclassified.

So what lived 400 million years ago? What breathed? What waited? What thrived for 100,000 generations and left behind zero bones but one terrifying whisper passed down as “monster,” “spirit,” or “don’t go in there”?

These weren’t hallucinations. They were early trauma responses to surviving an uncatalogued apex predator.

And now? You walk this world like it's tamed. But the fossil record is lying by omission.

Because what got preserved wasn’t always the most important. It was just the most durable.

The scariest creatures? They evaporated. They flowed. They pulsed. They forgot what bone even meant.

So sleep tight. Charge your devices. Sip your latte.

But if you ever hear a growl that doesn’t echo… Or see moss that seems to breathe… Or feel your legs lock up before your brain says run—

> Remember: > You are the child of things that got away. > And the world was never ours. > It was leased through extinction.

🌱 Reblog if you believe some creatures were never meant to be found. 🧠 Reblog if this post made your evolutionary trauma twitch. 📚 Reblog if your gut says: “Our ancestors weren’t making shit up. They were trying to warn us.”

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Dinosaur Fun Facts!

Camarasaurus (/ˌkæmərəˈsɔːrəs/ KAM-ər-ə-SOR-əs) is a genus of sauropod dinosaur that lived in North America during the Late Jurassic period. Its fossil remains have been found in the Morrison Formation, dating to the Kimmeridgian and Tithonian ages of the Jurassic, between 155 and 145 million years ago.

Camarasaurus presented a distinctive cranial profile of a blunt snout and an arched skull that was remarkably square, typical of basal macronarians.

The generic name means "chambered lizard", referring to the hollow chambers, known as pleurocoels, in its cervical vertebrae (Greek καμαρα (kamara) meaning "vaulted chamber", or anything with an arched cover, and σαυρος (sauros) meaning "lizard").

Camarasaurus contains four species that are commonly recognized as valid: Camarasaurus grandis, Camarasaurus lentus, Camarasaurus lewisi, and Camarasaurus supremus. C. supremus, the type species, is the largest and geologically youngest of the four. Camarasaurus is the type genus of Camarasauridae, which also includes its European close relative Lourinhasaurus.

Check out more at Camarasaurus - Wikipedia

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Dinosaur Fun Facts!

Don't get fooled by that "-saur" suffix: Despite occupying the same Mesozoic era as the dinosaurs, ichthyosaurs were no dinos. Instead, alongside other such sea creatures like plesiosaurs and mosasaurs, they belonged to a separate group of archosaurs — marine reptiles.

Despite having a streamlined body, fins, and an elongated head with a pointed nose, reptilian ichthyosaurs aren't closely related to dolphins or fish. Instead, in an example of convergent evolution, diverse and unrelated lineages of swimmers — mammals like dolphins, fish like sharks and sturgeons, and ancient reptiles like the ichthyosaurs — came to resemble one another because of similar evolutionary pressures. "Subjected to the same environmental forces, fish, aquatic reptiles, and aquatic mammals independently evolved similar shapes because a streamlined body is the most efficient way of moving through the dense medium of water," wrote John Blamire, a professor of biology at Brooklyn College in New York.

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Fun fact for @peach-artblog

BTAS was being animated at the same time as Batman Returns. So, the director for BTAS said to go to the Batman Returns set and draw reference art for Danny Devito in full costume and makeup. That's why this animated version of Oswald is the first to have fused fingers!

Also, here's the coprolites I promised!

*slides you a pile of fossilized dino poop, because that's what coprolites are*

Lmoa! I love how you gave Oswald an ass but left out the gut and curved spine! XD Can we get some more BTAS Oswald doodles? He's my favorite version of The Penguin, literally the most deserving of the title, Gentleman of Crime.

I promise I'll give you some cool coprolites if you do!

yeah I need to work on the model i use for reference on poses! XD also here's a doodle of em he is my favorite design from this series too since he looks more like the Danny DeVito from, one of my favorite movies on vhs that i watched as a kid!

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Little Feesh

let me be perfectly clear

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Can you guys tell I like dinosaurs?

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You guys should watch the documentary "Leonardo the Dinosaur Mummy."

It's about a dinosaur so perfectly preserved and mummified due to perfect environmental circumstances.

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If I had a Pokemon team, I would definitely fill it with fossil Pokemon. I'm specifying Fossil Pokemon because Ancient Pokemon were introduced separately in Pokemon Scarlet. Plus, I just prefer the designs of Fossil Pokemon.

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I met a lovely gentleman at the museum today, I talked his ear off about fossils and Theropods. He didn't seem all that interested until I started yapping about penguins and their ancestry.

Did you guys know there's an extinct species of penguins 6'8" (roughly 2 meters) tall? It also weighed around 250 lbs (I don't know what to convert pounds to) and lived around 37 million years ago.

He seemed interested and a lot more engaged when I brought them up.

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Guess what I'm gonna spend the weekend doing! :D

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Time for some Fun Facts!

The word ‘parasaurolophus’ means ‘near-crested lizard.’

Parasaurolophus was between 31 and 33 feet (9.5 and 10 m) in length, and it would've weighed around 5500 pounds (2,500 kg).

There is a general consensus among scientists that the tail and crest may have been brightly colored. Males could have used this to attract females or to help other parasaurolophus stay together in the undergrowth.

Three species of parasaurolophus are currently recognized, namely Parasaurolophus walkeri, Parasaurolophus tubicen, and Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus.

The specimen below is Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus. It can be seen at the Field Museum in Chicago.

@vintage-selfshipper

Hey, does Crooner/Frankie like Dinosaurs? He actually reminds me of the Parasaurolophus, a dinosaur with a large head crest and is generally depicted as being quite colorful.

Here's a pic! Maybe draw Frankie as a dino? What kind of dino do you think he would be?

He hasn’t given it much thought, although he probably thinks they’re generally pretty cool— BUT HIS EGO WOULD GO THROUGH THE ROOF WITH THAT COMPARISON!!!

Frankie would legit look like this:

And even though I don’t have a doodle this time around, I’ll get to one eventually! And also,, I’ve never heard of the Parasaurolophus before but they looked so cool!

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Tyrannosaurus Fun Facts!

Most people assume that the North American Tyrannosaurus rex—measuring 40 feet from head to tail and weighing seven to nine tons—was the largest carnivorous dinosaur to ever live. But it was surpassed by the South American Giganotosaurus, which weighed around nine tons, and the northern African Spinosaurus, which tipped the scales at 10 tons.

Some experts think shards of rotten, bacteria-infested meat constantly lodged in its closely packed teeth gave Tyrannosaurus rex a "septic bite," which infected and eventually killed its wounded prey. This process likely would have taken days or weeks, by which time some other meat-eating dinosaur would have reaped the rewards.

It's accepted as a T-rex fact that dinosaurs evolved into birds and that some carnivorous dinosaurs (especially raptors) were covered in feathers. Some paleontologists believe that all tyrannosaurs, including T. rex, were covered in feathers at some point during their lives, most likely when they hatched, a conclusion supported by the discovery of feathered Asian tyrannosaurs such as Dilong and the almost T. rex-size Yutyrannus.

For years, paleontologists argued about whether T. rex was a savage killer or an opportunistic scavenger—that is, did it hunt its food or tuck into the carcasses of dinosaurs already felled by old age or disease? Current thinking is that there's no reason Tyrannosaurus rex couldn't have done both, as would any carnivore that wanted to avoid starvation.

Henry Fairfield Osborn, a paleontologist and president of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, selected the immortal name "Tyrannosaurus Rex" in 1905. Tyrannosaurus is Greek for "tyrant lizard." Rex is Latin for "king," so T. rex became the "tyrant lizard king" or "king of the tyrant lizards."