#random selection of fossils

[rock-n-rocks]

Fossils from my favourite beach.

[raingerr]

i have found for the first time a wikipedia table that is, in essence, absolutely useless because nobody filled in any of the details

[marinecorvid]

also I know I’ve talked about it before but it’s insane how the pokemon world works if you know anything about caves + caving irl. like I know in the pokeverse caves are so big bc lots of them are canonically(?) formed by onix burrowing so there’s big rooms and tunnels you can actually walk through but not all of the little side paths that exist are like that. and yeah you’ve got pokemon to help you but again. little side passages and not everyone’s fuckoff massive mon is gonna fit in every space… also how dangerous it would be to set off earthquake or rock slide underground????? great way to collapse the ceiling on you. no wonder “rock smash” as an HM is specifically taught bc while lots of mons can smash through rocks with ease there’s a difference between careless destruction and selectively breaking only a small portion of something for traversal purposes without bringing down the earth on your head. like in Sinnoh there’s a whole underground - completely separate from the regular caves you dive into on the daily - that you can go down into and mine fossils n shit. also That’s Not How Volcanoes Work. sorry I’ve been watching caving videos on YouTube for the past 24 hours and it’s driving me insane with how many caves you traverse in the games and it’s just Fine. sure send out your monferno in a space where there’s barely room to walk and have it blast through a portion of some random wall and pray to god there’s no methane that needs igniting nearby.

[cyberrose2001]

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ABOUT ME

Hi! I'm Rose or Moni. I'm a silly Australian who's a bit too obsessed with transformers, specifically Ratchet. A couple of interests of mine are writing, fitness, traveling, paleontology/fossil collecting, space/the universe in general, and some others I haven't identified yet.

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Transformers Prime (main continuity) Transformers: Robots In Disguise (2015) Transformers Animated Rescue Bots/Rescue Bots Academy Transformers Cyberverse

IDW MTMTE (Select few characters since I haven't entirely finished it yet)

TF:ONE

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[wauzmons]

Instead of getting a random creature part like in Spore, you now can choose one out of three parts, when completing an objective!

(See "Fossil Hunt" reward selection on the right.)

[mythauragame]

Development Update - August 2023

Hi folks, Miyazaki here with quite the colorful update for you all!

In this update we're going to cover all things color, including:

New additions to the wheel

Magical color-shifting items

A shiny new page displaying the full wheel

Ways that you can design your own color via Ko-fi

A contest for you to design your very own color

We'll also cover the Quarter 1 (2023) Ko-fi sponsor rewards, two new sponsored companions, and our annual Beast Creator Contest.

More info available under the cut!

New Colors

We've been asked frequently if we'll be adding any additional colors to Mythaura's color wheel. We can now say with confidence: yes we will!

Koa found a sustainable way to add these new colors for Beasts, meaning that we have the ability to add in new colors even post-launch.

In the update where we talked about Seasons, we mentioned each Mythaura Season will have its own unique theme. This theme will determine the unique Seasonal items that are available for players to earn. We are planning to add one new color to the site per Season, which will be thematically appropriate as well!

To kickstart our color wheel expansion, each member of the dev team came up with a new color:

Fossil by MunkeKing

Pidgeon by Kymara

Racecar by Sark

Periwinkle by Luciellia

Sunset by Koa

Padparadscha by Sashie

Sunrise as a partner color to Sunset

Patina by Miyazaki

Color Wheel Page

Earlier this month we added a color wheel page so that the entire color wheel could be viewed at a glance. We've also got a handy Beast previewer in the middle, so that you can see what the selected color looks like for a Beast's base, top, bottom, and eyes. The wheel can be organized by either Hue or by its Standard order, which is the order the site uses when calculating colors during breeding.

This page also shows the relevant Ephemeral Inks that the selected color may be included within.

Ephemeral Inks

Magical brews of shifting hues...Ephemeral Inks and Ephemeral Eyedrops are Harpy-crafted products that shift a Beast's colors.

Ephemeral Inks will shift a Beast's:

Base color

Top color

Bottom color

Any Specials colors

Any Supers colors

Ephemeral Eyedrops will shift a Beast's:

Eye color

There is a wide variety of Ephemeral items. Each one corresponds to a pool of colors. For example, Ephemeral Blue Ink contains all colors in the "Blue" category based on its hue while Ephemeral Dark Ink contains all colors with a lightness value below 50%. The Ephemeral Dark Blue Ink is the intersection of those, containing colors in the "Blue" category that are also dark.

In addition there are three Ephemeral Inks which contain all colors...

Ephemeral Prismatic Ink - Completely randomizes the beast it used on

Ephemeral Analogous Ink - Shuffles to colors that are analogous to one another (e.g. yellow, red, and orange)

Ephemeral Complementary Ink - Shuffles to colors that are complementary to one another (e.g. orange and blue or purple and yellow)

Ko-fi Custom Color Sponsorship

Are you interested in sponsoring your own color to be part of Mythaura's color wheel? We are now offering this as a service in our Ko-fi shop!

Work with our art team to bring your custom color to life! After providing input and direction to our art team, we will come back to you with a proposal for your color. Up to two rounds of changes beyond the initial design will be offered.

Name suggestions are welcomed, but the final name will be left to the discretion of the dev team.

Turnaround time will vary based on the current workload of our artists. An ETA will be provided upon purchase.

NOTE: custom color sponsorshp will not be available post-launch. This is exclusively a pre-launch service.

Custom Color Contest

To celebrate the cooperative nature of the color wheel that we're making with you, we're opening a Custom Color Contest. We want to offer the opportunity for you to make a permanent impact on Mythaura's color wheel!

This contest is free to enter, and only has the following parameters:

Only one entry allowed

Fill out Google Form by Saturday, November 25, 2023 at 11:59pm PST

The dev team will reach out to the winner on December 1 to begin the color design process. Winner will have until December 22, 2023 to complete their color design.

Winner will also receive 3x copies of the Empemeral Ink that matches their color's base hue (Red, Orange, Yellow, Blue, Green, or Violet).

We're so excited to see what you come up with!!

Quarter 1 (2023) Rewards Reveal

Our Quarter 1 rewards have been completed and are ready for their public debut! Thank you to the Ko-fi Sponsors who voted on the different Glamour and Companion concepts, we appreciate your support and feedback.

Q1 (2023) Glamour: Twilight Dreamscape

Q1 (2023) Companion: Filigree Moth

Q1 (2023) Solid Gold Glamour: Adult Peryton

Ko-fi Sponsored Items

Pygmy Tunneler

Sponsored by: Skadiv

Shambling Rotcrawler

Sponsored by: Sark

Beast Creator Contest

We're back with another Beast Design Contest! We're looking forward to all the fantastic creations that this community comes up with.

Here are the parameters:

Each individual can submit one (1) Beast option for consideration

Any species fine (babies included)

Fill out Google form; provide both a picture and the preview code

We’ll pick three winners to have their Beasts featured on the front page for Quarter 2 (October 1 - December 31). Winners will also receive:

1x Beta Key

1x Quarter 1 (2023) Glamour: Twilight Dreamscape

1x Quarter 1 (2023) Companion: Filigree Moth

These rewards will be applied directly to your account.

Submissions for the Beast Design Contest are due by September 29, 2023. The form will close at 11:59pm PST. Winners will be announced in the October 1, 2023 Development Update.

Mythaura v0.22

Color wheel added

Color changing items created

Sustainable pipeline for new color creation added

Tile and floor refactor to support map builder

Adds integer ordering to colors and refactors ordering to use new integer

Forum categories and group structure created

Refactored tooltip and select dropdowns

Initial buildout of beast party selection and abode

Asset Updates

New icons for Dale Wanderer, Stonecrop Queen, and Gruffalow

Bogbint radiant alignment updated

Boreal & Umbral Vigilhound elemental effects adjusted

Breezetail lines darkened

Thank You!

Thanks for sticking through to the end of the post, we always look forward to sharing our month's work with all of you--thank you for taking the time to read. We'll see you around the Discord!

[eponastory]

Silly Game Time: Welcome to the Randomocracy, a society where we assign people to be the caretakers of randomly selected animals!

First, use a random *letter* generator to get a letter. Second, use a random *number* generator to get a number between 1 and 10. Finally, look up "animals that start with [your letter]", and go down the list until you get to the option corresponding with your number. CONGRATULATIONS! You are now responsible for ensuring this animal's well-being? What is it (post a picture), and on a scale of 1 to 10, how much is this going to impact your life?

(I got E and 1, which means I'm now the proud guardian of an Elephant! This is kinda awesome ... but also gonna ruin me financially.)

Jokes on me...

My animal is extinct.

I got 7 and S. Which gave me a Saber-Tooth cat.

Which are fossils now.

It's sad really.

[nobodyimportant41]

"The Ice cream flavors legacy challenge"

Its been A WHILE since i write down a legacy challenge,but that doesn't mean that i don't want to write more! I just can't figure out ideas for legacies...and then i had this idea!

General rules:

You can choose the lifespan of your choice or change it with MCCM

Sims can look whatever you want but they MUST reflect their personality

Heir sims MUST represent their flavor color(s) in their clothes,hair AND house,but they can have natural skintones (like NSB)

You can't use cheats,mods and/or Cc ONLY for an unfair advantage unless for storytelling

Sims who aren't heirs can have random or selected traits

Requiered* packs:

(*Of course, you can change this to fit your packs)

EP: Cottage Living (gen 1), Horse ranch (gen 2), Cats and dogs (gen 3), Discover university (gen 4), Be famous (gen 5 and 7), for rent (gen 8 and 9) Get to work (gen 9) and Eco living (gen 1 and 10)

GP: Parenthood (gen 4) and vampires (gen 9)

Gen 1;Strawberry:

Story: you grew up in the big city of San Myshuno because one of your parent was a VERY IMPORTANT politician. You hated it! They were much more focused in their work that you were mostly alone watching TV,painting animals,dreaming with farms...And mostly spending time chatting to your friends online.

When you discovered that your parents were signing you to heredate the power of your parent you decided to escape. Of course,they were (A LOT) of better ideas than going to where you went... but you will fight to become a farmer!

Traits:

Childish

Frigan

Outgoing

Objetives:

Complete the Countryside caretaker aspiration

Max the painting and cross stiching skills

Max the painter career (any branch)

Complete the postcards collection

Adopt at least one of your kids

All your kids must have the "happy infant" and "top-notch toddler" extra traits

Own a rainbow cow

Gen 2;Chocolate:

Story:You had a very happy childhood since you had a loving family! But in school...things were REALLY different. You were mostly alone because of your VERY competitive personality. So you spend the days thinking about how COOL of a horse rider you would be!

As an adult,you only want two things:Become THE BEST horse rider and create a SUPER COOL VIRUS to revenge of the people who ignored you!

Traits:

Rancher

Horse lover

Loyal

Objetives:

Max the Championship Rider aspiration

Max the riding and programming skills

Max the tech guru career

When you unlock the option,ONLY create virus

Find your partner through an enemies to lovers story

Gain an atrocious reputation

Complete the fossils collection

Win at least 10 competitions

Gen 3;Lemon:

Story:Your parents were way too busy with their work to care about you and, at school NOBODY wanted to talk with you because of your family reputation. So,you had to spend the most of the time alone,cooking. But with dogs things are complety different since they can't judge you!

As an adult you decide that your dream job is being a veterinarian! So you decide to open your own vet clinic! Of course, you have to pay the bills, so you to start working as a chef. At first,you didn't really liked it. But you end up LOVING IT!

Traits:

Dog lover

Soccially akward

Ambicious

Objetives:

Complete the friend of the animals aspiration

Max the cooking and vet skills

Max the culinary career (any branch) and own a 5 stars vet clinic (after you max it, you can leave your career)

Teach all the tricks to your dog(s)

Don't have any friends until becoming a teen and DON'T become friends with classmates

Complete the feathers collection

When you move out,don't talk to your parents ever again

All your pets must be strays

Gen 4;Mint:

Story:If there if a word that describes you,its DEFINETLY strict. You don't care about anything more than laws and order. You want EVERYTHING to be perfect,especially your family. Since you always expecting more than people can do, you always end up fighting with them. You loved them, but its really hard for you to show it to them. Will you stay as focused in your work as now or you will try to save the family? Knowing you,you will choose the first option.

Traits:

Perfeccionist

Neat

Glommy

Objetives:

Complete the succesfull lineage aspiration

Max the research and debate and parenting skills

Max the lawyer career

Always use the strict option to disipline your kids

Have an affair with another sim while married

Complete the crystals collection

Must go to university

Gen 5;Napolitan:

Story:Your family situation was never great, so you decided to sign up for each extra schoolar activity you could think off. Doing this, you discovered your true passion: Sports!

You quicky decided that your all time dream was becoming an athlete! Wait! But not a normal athlete: A SUPER FAMOUS ONE! You LOVE the idea of everyone knowing your name! Especially your parents! Since they would realize how PERFECT and AMAZING you are!

Traits:

Glutton

Active

Over achiver

Goals:

Complete the body builder aspiration

Max the fitness and rock climbing skills

Max the fitness career (athlete branch)

Become at least a two stars celebrity

Marry someone more famous than you (you can cheat ONLY for knowing them)

Complete the sea shells collection

Have twins

Gen 6;Cherry:

Story: Your twin was always the popular one, while you...well..you were the weird one;and by "weird" you were the one know for making "jokes" about everyone;even the teachers...

You were your twin best friend, but they DEFINETLY weren't YOUR best friend! They always insisted on helping you, while you were pranking them in the most cruel ways possible...

You continue like this until you meet a really funny person who also likes pranks! But definetly in a more innofensive way. You always found this type of people boring, but maybe this be a change..?

Traits:

Mean

Goofball

Lazy

Goals:

Complete the master of mischief aspiration

Max the mischief and comedy skills

Max the criminal career (any branch)

Marry someone with the good,goofball or outgoing trait/s

Complete the metal collection

witness the death of at least one sims

Gen 7; Blueberry:

Story: You grew up loving every related to literature and books; and this include both reading and writing them! Faster than slower, you realized this was your passion!

But you couldn't help but think that every time you write down about a person's death, the grim reaper will come after them!

You wanted to revive a ghost and ask them if the curse was real, But each you imagine that moment, you could only think about that you may find the grim reaper cute...

Traits:

Genius

Bookworm

Paranoid

Goals:

Complete the best seller author aspirations

Max the writing and logic skills

Max the writer career (any branch)

Write the book of life

Have a kid with the grim reaper while married

Win at least 2 trophies for your books

Complete the snowballs collection

Gen 8; Oreo ice-cream:

Story:You always knew there was something odd in you, you weren't sure what was it (but it was pretty obvious that it was your smell) but it made you being mostly alone playing music.. you really enjoyed, but you wanted was having at least one friend; this became EVEN harder when you discovered that your father was THE GRIM REAPER...

Traits:

Slob

Music lover

Good

Goals:

Complete the musical genius aspiration

Max the piano and singing skills

Max the entretainer career (musician branch)

Complete the tassels collection

Have only one friend besides your family

Marry your only friend

Meet the grim reaper at least twice (he's stills being your dad!)

Gain a bad reputation

Gen 9; Vainilla:

Story: You were a normal kid, until you discovered that YOUR GRANDPA WAS THE GRIM REAPER. Since then, you become OBSSESED with the idea of inmortality and you will do ANYTHING to become inmortal, it doesn't matter if it means becoming a scientist, trying to make ambrosia or even becoming an occult, you WILL become inmortal

Traits:

Erratic

Glutton

Outgoing

Goals:

Complete the master vampire aspiration

Max the logic and gourmet cooking skills

Max the scientist career

Got transformed by a vampire and marry them

Complete the marbles collection

Cook the ambrosia at least once

Try not to die even after gen 10 is complete

Gen 10; Pistacchio:

Story: You never were very close with your parents, they were very obssesed with inmortality and vampire stuff... You only wanted to turn the world into a greener one! So, as an adult, you decide to move into Evergreen harbor! Just to discover that you were scammed and that you buy an empty lot in the CONTAMINED part of the city...

Traits:

Vegetarian

Eco-maniac

Recycle disiple

Goals:

Complete the eco innovator aspiration

Max the fishing and gardening skills

Max the civil designer career

As a young adult, move to an empty lot but (using cheats) remove 20.000 simoleons

Vote in every neighborhood action plan

Complete the frog collection

Have two failed relationships before marrying your soulmate

[skippthecredits]

[MewTube video embed loading...]

Late Night Rustboro Gym Challenger: Skipp Normansson

Description: Today's late-night gym challenger was an interesting young upstart named Skipp Normansson! Fresh off the moving truck and on a research mission from our region's very own Professor Birch, he took on our gym challenge primarily using two pokemon known to be invasive in Hoenn: Big Gulp the Snom and Lumpy the Grookey! Despite being at the start of his badge quest, he's shown to be a ruthless competitor, and we expect to hear news of his victories in the near future across the region!

[Video transcript loading...]

[The clip shows Skipp facing off against Roxanne. She seems to be analyzing his every move, taking down notes and nodding to herself as Big Gulp hops out of a large, ice-filled drink cup and uses powder snow against her Geodude, bringing her down to low health. The Geodude sluggishly winds up for a tackle, but Big Gulp keeps up the pressure with the powder snow until the rock pokemon is swiftly knocked out.

The crowd cheers as the fainted Geodude is called back, Skipp relishing in the positive attention. He yells out a few taunts to Roxanne, though it seems neither the transcribers nor the gym leader could understand him through his Kantonian accent.

After musing for a bit to herself, she opens up a shelf in the rock wall and selects an alternate pokemon to replace a member of her team, seemingly changing up her strategy on the fly to adapt to Skipp's battling style. The pokemon she sends out is an Aerodactyl, which immediately makes a beeline for Big Gulp while scattering stealth rocks around the arena.

Big Gulp faces the danger head on with another powder snow, but gets caught in the Aerodactyl's jaws and carried high into the air. It's clear that the rock/flying type is having a hard time holding out against the relentless blast of snow, but the teeth gripping into Big Gulp's soft body are also doing visible damage as the tiny bug type cries out and squirms. Skipp grits his teeth and gives the order for a final powder snow to finish off the Aerodactyl, which Big Gulp squirms to deliver straight down the fossil Pokemon's throat. In shock, she drops the Snom out of the air before she's recalled, and a flash of panic can be seen in Skipp's eye before he calls the bug type back into her ball.

He looks at the ball for a moment, seeming to contemplate sending her back out for a sweep, but he resists the urge and swaps the ball out for another one. Pokemon are sent out at the same time from both sides: Lumpy the Grookey and Roxanne's Nosepass. The stealth rocks set up from before fire out of the floor, and Lumpy is pelted with the sharp stones, barely dodging out of the way of a few critical strikes as she bolts around the arena shrieking and throwing branches seemingly at random and in spite of any orders. Some of them are going into the crowd, some of them ricochet off of the ceiling, and one narrowly misses Skipp's head. One on these branches deflects the Nosepass's rock throw back at it, the rock colliding with its face hard and sending it into a daze. Roxanne pulls the Nosepass back to heal her with a potion as Lumpy scrambles up onto Skipp's back, hissing at the sentient rock from across the field.

Skipp gingerly peels the primate off of his back, visible indents left in his shoulder from the pokemon's grip as he sets her back down in front of him and hands her a stick from the ground. He then, with an exasperated expression, points to the stick, then to the Nosepass, which is just now re-entering the field after a good healing. Lumpy nods in understanding, still shivering from the panic induced by the stealth rocks, then turns to face her opponent.

The Nosepass misses a rock tomb. As Lumpy shoots out from behind the failed attempt at entrapment, it's revealed that she has found a second stick. What follows is several uninterrupted seconds of the Grookey mercilessly whaling on the Nosepass with the two branches, holding on with her legs as she repeatedly cracks the rock type over the head until it goes down.

The crowd (or at least the members who haven't been knocked silly by flying branches) erupts into applause at the fight, and Skipp is visibly pumped as he runs out onto the battlefield and scoops Lumpy up off of the fainted Nosepass that she's still trying to beat to death. As the Nosepass is called back, he holds Lumpy up in the air with a wild grin on his face, laughing maniacally as he takes in his first ever gym victory. Lumpy is still visibly shaking and beat up from the stealth rocks.

Roxanne simply cringes and takes down a few more notes before approaching him and handing over the Stone Badge, along with the TM for Rock Tomb. She also gives him some advice which goes unheard by both him and the cameraman before he walks out of the gym with Lumpy under his tattooed arm.]

[Video transcript end.]

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

🐬 Unlocking the Mysteries of Echolocation: A Glimpse into Nature's Ingenious Design

Ever marvelled at the precision with which dolphins navigate or bats locate their prey? This fascinating ability is due to a phenomenon called echolocation, a method far superior to man-made sonar systems. Here's a deeper dive into this topic:

▶️ Echolocation Explained: Echolocation is a sophisticated natural sonar system used by dolphins and bats. It involves using sound echoes to detect objects and measure their distances and speeds, showcasing a remarkable similarity to man-made sonar systems but with a higher degree of precision.

▶️ Questioning Evolutionary Theories: The prevailing theory claims that echolocation evolved through random mutations and natural selection over millions of years. However, there are serious problems with this view. There is a lack of fossil evidence to support the evolutionary development of sonar systems, pointing toward an intelligent designer behind these complex systems.

▶️ Homologies vs. Homoplasies: The article delves into the concepts of homologies (similarities due to common ancestry) and homoplasies (similarities not due to common ancestry but convergent evolution). The widespread presence of homoplasies undermines the credibility of using homologies as evidence for evolutionary descent.

▶️ The Biotic Message Theory: This theory, proposed by Walter ReMine, suggests that the patterns observed in nature point to a single designer responsible for the creation of these complex systems: the God of the Bible, who holds a mastery over design. Join us in exploring the wonders of God's designs, offering a Biblical perspective on the intricacies of the natural world.

See the full article here: https://creation.com/echolocation-homoplasy

[bruinhilda]

Ah, rock shows. The mix of serious gem and fossil sellers, amazing crafters, random jewelry sellers, and woo-woo crystal magic followers.

One booth owner assured me all the jewelry was infused with Reiki energy and that music bowls were involved and so forth. To me, this is code saying, "all wares are marked up because magic," so I moved on pretty quickly. The next booth had wonderful prices on simple carvings and random tumbled/polished stones. I dropped some money there, while listening to a family discuss the magical properties of various stones while they tried to decide what to buy. At one point, the booth owner was asked about the particular magic abilities of a particular stone, and I'm impressed at how she refrained from rolling her eyes as she recommend they look it up on google. Her booth was NOT selling magical items, so I'm not sure why this group thought she'd know whether serpentine has healing energy or whatnot.

Upon reflection, I probably should have gone back and bought more from her. The agate dragon heads were pretty cool.

I guess I just find it weird because back when I was into all things occult and mystic, "crystal magic" was explained as, "the rocks aren't actually magic. Some rocks are just good at focusing and amplifying certain energies, so they make good tools for doing magic." As in, any magic going on is coming from you, the rock is a rock to anyone else. And these days practitioners insist that the rocks are full of magic energy and just holding or wearing such and such stone will heal all your ills! Funny how there can be bins of $5 quartz readily available in a lot of places, but people still die of cancer, huh?

It's also possibly irritating to me because a lot of my selection IS based on personal vibes, and I don't like people blathering about magic that they haven't even researched properly while I'm trying to decide if this piece of jasper I'm holding will make me happy when I roll it around in my hands and study the abstract pictures in it. "Do you like rock? Does rock make you feel happy when you hold it? Buy rock. Don't expect rock to cure love life. Rock only bring love if you trying to attract geologist."

Which brings us to the multiple bins of penis carvings. The ones with little feet were charming, but most of them were just, "here's a bunch of dicks carved out of onyx!" Not that I'm objecting or anything. I fully understand why you might want a stone dick on your shelf or endtable. It's just with the magic talk floating around, I suspect some sellers would be giving me a lecture on how the carving will cure a person's erectile dysfunction if I showed any interest.

I don't know why the most common carving throughout the show was mushrooms. Except that it's probably a really easy thing to carve. I did consider buying one of the carved t-rex heads that were next to the dicks, but I would have had to risk using a downtown ATM to afford one, and that always gets my cards locked due to "suspicious activity."

I ended up with a bag of angelite that I'm going to try my hand at carving, a bag of I don't know what but they were pretty and the deal was for two bags, and I didn't need TWO bags of angelite, two nice tumbled pieces of ocean jasper that had interesting eye-like patterns, a crude sphere of I don't know what stone, but it looks neat, some beads that were on severe discount, a little bag of little fossils meant as a collector's starter kit, four cut pieces of quartz that were in the bargain bin because they were cloudy and full of inclusions (which is how I prefer them), and one rough opal that I couldn't take my eyes off of. I regret passing up some of the affordable carvings, but I don't exactly have display shelf space, and the cats routinely send everything they encounter crashing to the floor anyway. Maybe next time.

[obscurefossils]

Welcome to Obscure Fossil Animals!

Hi! This blog is dedicated to posting about the much lesser-known extinct animals from eras long gone that I think deserve as much love as the creatures everybody knows about.

Due to the nature of these animals, publicly available fossils and research may be pretty hard to dig up (or even access at all!), and I am also in college, so posts may be a bit slow sometimes. I’m trying my best!! If you ever think you would be able to contribute access to research or something like that, feel free to let me know :)

I have a long, long list of animals that I choose from to make posts about. This is most often through a spinner wheel for random selection, but sometimes not. Just expect lots of variety! All posts are tagged with the animals' taxonomy (genus, family, order, etc) to make searching easier.

Feel free to drop into the ask box to suggest some of your favorite obscure fossil creatures (or just to talk) and I'll add them to my list :) (this does not mean your request will be fulfilled next).

This blog is run solely by @raingerr <3

All drawings on this blog are free to use with proper credit.

Submission details and guidelines under the cut !

Want to submit an animal? Here’s how to make sure it’s “obscure”!

- What does its Wikipedia page look like? I’ve found that most obscure animals have very sparse wiki pages, if they have one at all.

- When was the last time you heard someone mention this creature, both inside and outside scientific/paleontology spheres?

- Does it have any depictions in popular media? Genera like Tyrannosaurus are everywhere in movies, TV, video games, etc. Typically, media producers like to use creatures that are popular and “cool” to general audiences, so obscure animals are pretty unlikely to be found in media! As a side note, expect a good amount of non-avian dinosaurs to not fall under the category of "obscure". Nowadays, even most newly-described dinosaurs get a good amount of attention!

- Has anybody drawn skeletals or paleoart? Unsurprisingly, most obscure animals I come across have little to no artwork done of them outside of occasionally their original publication.

Not all of these criteria have to be met, or even any of them at all! These are just some things I consider before adding an animal to my list to make sure they aren’t well-known. So if you’re considering requesting a creature, keep these in mind!

[crysthemist]

Unironically, pretty decent explanation of how evolution works.

Thing is, it’s not only random chance. Mutations are random, but selection is not. So random mutations sometimes lead to things that are selected for more, and then there are harmful mutations that would be selected for less.

Sometimes selection is how an organism chooses its mate, like how female bower birds will judge the collection of items that a male bower bird collects. If she deems the collection good, then she will mate with him.

Other times, selection is just survival of the fittest. I’m going to use my favorite example: the stickleback fish. This fish has freshwater and marine varieties. The marine stickleback has a pelvic spine that acts as a deterrent to getting eaten (no fun being stabbed in the throat) meanwhile, the freshwater stickleback does not have a pelvic spine, as seen below.

Why would that be selected for when there are still things in lakes that would like to eat it?

Well, the ocean is a very open environment and lakes are typically shrouded with vegetation. That pelvic spine would get caught on vegetation and slow the fish down. It becomes more costly to have it than to not have it, so sticklebacks with no pelvic spine are selected for in freshwater environments (and this phenomenon is specifically called adaptive evolution). The coolest part about this fish is that this has happened more than once before! The same gene mutated at different points in time in different populations that somehow became trapped in freshwater environments and led to very similar results. Idk why, but that's just so very cool and crazy to me.

Also, kinda nitpicky, the "billions of years" thing in that post isn't wrong, but it oversimplifies. Life has existed on Earth for a very long time (the oldest known fossils being 3.5 billion years old), but you can see big change in much less time than that. Like it was only 600 million years ago that multicellular life first developed and 460 million years ago when plants colonized land for the first time. Like just look into whale evolution if you wanna see some crazy fast evolution. Those things went from fully terrestrial rat-thing (pakicetus my beloved) to fully aquatic toothed whale ancestor (basilosaurus and dorudon) in only 10 million years or so. Now THAT is crazy!

Evolution is crazy fascinating the more you look into it. Absolutely it’s possible thanks to random chance, but random chance hardly ever dictates survival.

what annoys me about explaining evolution to people who don’t think it’s real is that everyone’s idea of how it works seems to be from this

Whereas the reality is far more like

[grayrazor]

Finished up SEED Destiny, can finally watch the newest Gundam movie SEED Freedom! First thoughts: “Oh neat Gelgoogs!” ... “Wow they’re even more blatantly using Star Wars blaster sounds.”

It’s kinda sad that this movie is the first time since the first few episodes of Gundam SEED that we’ve seen the alien fossil. That plot thread got abandoned HARD.

Even in movie form SEED can’t help but have little flashbacks while a character is monologuing. It's less annoying here than in the series though, at least we're not getting the same clips over and over in the same episode, though the selection still seems sort of random.

NGL, Foundation kinda feels more like a Code Geass faction than a Gundam one.

Oh no! The character we've never seen before with an obnoxious personality turned out to be a traitor! Who could have seen that coming?

OK seriously, the Requiem cannon is still just lying around? Nobody dismantled it after all the trouble it caused in the last show?

This movie’s entire plot would be over 30 minutes in if Lacus had been packing heat. These monarchist dorks with their swords wouldn’t have been ready for it.

SEED continues to have some of the best ship-to-ship battles in Gundam. They're actually getting into the thick of it instead of just being a backdrop for mobile suit fights!

Shinn Asuka: immune to psychic attacks because he’s an absolute nutcase with a ghost girlfriend.

Overall I like the movie.

Structurally, it’s kinda like a mix between Gundam Wing Endless Waltz and Star Trek Beyond, though with a much higher body count than both because of course a SEED entry needs some random carnage.

Being on the same side as Kira means Shinn can finally be the Kamille clone he was always meant to be. God’s angriest little guy.

[superbtacocollector-world]

Mutations

The problem with mutation in evolution lies in the fact that mutations are random changes in genetic material, and not all mutations are beneficial or adaptive. Some mutations may be neutral, meaning they don't have any noticeable effect on an organism's ability to survive and reproduce, while others may be harmful, leading to negative traits or diseases. The challenge is that only beneficial mutations tend to be passed on through natural selection, but they are rare and can take a long time to accumulate. In some cases, harmful mutations may persist in a population due to genetic drift or other factors.

Additionally, the mutation process itself is unpredictable and can lead to unintended consequences, making it a complex and sometimes slow-driving force in evolutionary change.

#Evolution#NaturalSelection#Darwin#SurvivalOfTheFittest#Adaptation#Genetics#EvolutionaryTheory#Speciation#EvolutionaryBiology#EvolutionaryPsychology#Fossils#Species#Mutations#CommonAncestor#Phylogenetics#Biodiversity#Paleontology#Ecology#DNA#SpeciesDiversity

[riearchivistfornow]

The Deception of Darwinism

Sunday 9AM 2016.04.24

The Deception of Darwinism

Genesis 1:26-28

The devil is a liar. He works in the minds of the whole world. The devil wants to deceive our minds to rob us of the relationship with God. Darwinism is a theory that persuades people that there is no God. Darwinism believes that all life comes from non-life, where simple natural matter will organise itself to become complex cells that form life.

2 Corinthians 4:4

Colossians 2:8

Why Darwinism is not true:

1) Fossil Evidence

Inadequacies of fossil evidence - We Are Fearfully Made.

Stark Absence of Transitional Organisms Cambrian stratum showed the explosion of diversity in the organisms. Where the layers of rock before, did not show any transitional organism to lead to the Cambrian explosion. This goes against Darwinism.

If the process of natural selection is slow, there would be many intermediary fossils. There has to be about 50,000 changes between different life forms. The overwhelming abundance of highly complex organism. Scientists have found more and more complex organism in the Cambrian layer. Creation is God's idea.

More than 100 years later, Darwin's links about the transitional and intermediary variables of species are still not found.

We are made by an almighty God, made in His image.

Genesis 1:20-25 Genesis 1:26-28

2) Molecular Biology

Complexity of the cell - You Are Wonderfully Made.

How did the first cell occur? The problem of irreducible complexity. Within a cell, there are a lot of molecular machinery, called the bacteria flagellum. The problem of informational complexity. It is at a point where there is no life, so natural selection cannot be possible. God spoke us into being, not by a random chance. We are a special creation of God. You are special, wonderfully and fearfully made.

Romans 1:18-22

The conspiracy is from the devil, he wants to blind us from the truth. When we sin, our minds are confused, and our hearts are hardened.

Psalm 139:13-18