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The Titanoboa, is a 48ft long snake dating from around 60-58million years ago. It had a rib cage 2ft wide, allowing it to eat whole crocodiles, and surrounding the ribcage were muscles so powerful that it could crush a rhino. Titanoboa was so big it couldn’t even spend long amounts of time on land, because the force of gravity acting on it would cause it to suffocate under its own weight.
I’m so glad they aren’t around
omg me too. I’m scared enough of 26 ft long anacondas. I’m so happy Megalodons, those giant sharks, aren’t alive either
Praise natural selection
I remember watching Walking with Beasts or something similar, or some British tv show about evolution
The subject was something like a 12 foot long water scorpion
I was so startled by its sudden appearance and narration that I yelped: “12 fucking feet?!?! I’m fucking glad it’s extinct!”
Dude, prehistory was home to some fucking TERRIFYING creatures. For some reason, everything back then was enormous and scary. Extinction doesn’t always have to be a bad thing!
And Poppy, what you saw was an arthropod known as Pterygotus (it was actually featured in Walking With Monsters). Not only was it as big (or maybe even bigger) than your average human, it had a stinger the size of a lightbulb. REALLY glad that bugger isn’t around anymore.
Also, Megalodon deserves to be mention again, because just hearing its name makes me want to never be submerged in water ever again.
GOD, I HATE THIS POST. HOW DO WE EVEN KNOW THAT SHIT ISN’T STILL AROUND? LURKING? EVOLVING? WE DON’T. WE DON’T KNOW SHIT ABOUT SHIT DOWN THERE. THE OCEAN IS A PRIMEVAL HELLSCAPE NIGHTMARE AND WE ALL JUST DIP OUR STUPID FRAGILE UNPROTECTED FETUS BODIES AROUND THE EDGES OF IT LIKE THAT’S NORMAL. FUCK THE OCEAN.
this is so relevant to my interests
It wasn’t just the predators. North Carolina was once home to giant ground sloths…
THAT IS A GODDAMNED LEAF-EATING SLOTH.
We’ve got a skeleton of one of these fuckers at the museum downtown, and man, just being NEAR it is unsettling.
DON’T FORGET PREHISTORIC WHALES, SOME OF THOSE FUCKERS WERE TERRIFYING
AMBULOCETUS WAS AMPHIBIOUS AND PRETTY BADASS
BASILOSAURUS WAS THIS GIANT REPTILIAN CETACEAN THAT PROBABLY SWAM LIKE A DUMB EEL BECAUSE OF ITS TINY FLUKES BUT THIS FUCKER WAS 60 FEET LONG AND AT THE TOP OF THE MARINE FOOD CHAIN
AND THEN THERE’S MY FAVORITE, ZYGOPHYSETER, WHICH WAS THIS HUGE EARLY SPERM WHALE THAT ATE SHARKS AND OTHER WHALES
IT WAS NOTHING BUT TEETH
The reason why the animals in the prehistoric times were so big was because there was much more oxygen in the atmosphere if I recall correctly. Because there was so much oxygen and so few carbon gasses, life on earth was able to grow to terrifying lengths and heights, don’t forget how giant the bugs were.
I have never seen so much prime nope in a single post
Also important to note that megalodon is theorized to still be alive,possibly living in the darkest depths of the ocean. They haven’t found signs of its extinction
scientists: “we haven’t seen a megalodon in quite some time now, let’s just hope it’s exstinct”
This whole post is my JAM not gonna lie I am fascinated by massive prehistoric animals
Who else wants to stick a saddle on the beetle and ride it across the land?
YES!!!
Hi, actual biologist here to debunk the Megalodon myth.
No, scientists do NOT theorize that the Megalodon could still be out there in the deep ocean. Yes, we do know the kinds of animals that live in the deep ocean. We have numerous pictures, videos, and specimens. We’ve had the technology to explore the deep ocean for decades.
The Megalodon is not a deep ocean shark. We can tell by the teeth.
Meg’s teeth look like those of the great white, but bigger :
(Picture from brittanica.com)
And a shark’s tooth shape is directly related to what it eats. Therefore the Meg ate similar prey as a great white.
And a shark lives in the same habitat, more or less, as its prey. And both the great white and its prey live in the sunlight and twilight depths, from 0 - 3000 ft. So must have the Meg.
The Meg therefore had a body type similar to a great white, but bigger:
(Picture from Smithsonian Ocean)
A body type which is adapted for currents and fast swimming.
Sharks that live in the deep ocean, like the Greenland Sleeper, have very different body types, adapted for low light levels, low oxygen, and great pressure:
(Picture from National Geographic)
And Greenland Sleeper shark teeth look like this :
( Picture from St. Lawrence Shark Observatory)
Which look nothing like Megalodon teeth.
And finally, did you know that in order to pass water over it’s gills to collect oxygen to breathe, the great white shark has to swim almost constantly?
We can therefore conclude that Meg had to stay swimming as well.
And so could Not be hiding out in the depths. It would die from pressure and lack of oxygen prety quickly.
So yeah, Megalodon is definitely extinct.
Thank god for you explaining it to them I was about to get really annoyed.
biting your forehead friday
Actually that's very affectionate and careful grooming. Wolves and other carnivores use their incisor teeth to nibble out tangles and scratch itches in their fur. Doing so for someone else, especially on their very sensitive face, shows a highly intimate level of trust. These two are likely a mated pair, or possibly parent and child.
If you have a cat, you've probably had this happen to you. If they lick and then bite your arm, they're trying to groom you. Trouble is, we humans don't have fur, and those teeth are sharp!
I promised you some lions! Let's talk about manes, males, and management.
This is Tandie, the current male lion at the Woodland Park Zoo.
Notice anything odd about him? He's got one of those hilarious awkward teenager manes. Except... this cat is nine years old.
I was, of course, immediately curious.
Manes serve a lot of purposes for male lions, including being an indicator of health and fitness - it's actually a sexually selected trait and a social signal. Mane texture / hair quality / length is dependent on nutrition and the body having energy to grow (and carry around!) that much hair! The color is also a signal: males with darker manes have been found to have higher testosterone levels.
In one research report, wild males were much more likely to avoid a lion decoy when it had a longer or darker mane - but the girls really loved a dark mane. It's thought this is because a long, dark mane is an indicator of mate quality. Males with longer, darker manes have higher testosterone and were pretty healthy: meaning they had more energy for fighting, had a better chance of recovering if they got injured, and generally had a higher rate of offspring survival. Manes matter!
So, back to Tandie. He was actually born at the Woodland Park Zoo in 2014 alongside two brothers, to dad Xerxes and mother Adia.
This was Xerxes (rip).
Obviously, a very large, dark, lush mane on Xerxes here. So where did these blond muttonchops come from on his son?
I asked the zoo docents and got an answer that didn't make a lot of sense. They told me that after the three cubs grew into adolescents, they were moved to the Oakland Zoo together. But living together suppressed his testosterone, and he never grew a mane.
Hmmmm.
Here's a photo from 2016, when the brothers debuted at Oakland. They're a year and a half old in this photo.
(Photo Credit: Oakland Zoo)
And here's from an announcement for their third birthday.
(Photo credit: Oakland Zoo)
Okay, so these dudes obviously all were growing manes as of 2017. I think Tandie is the one on the left in the first photo, and laying down in the middle on the second. What happened?
I was just in the Bay Area for a zoo road trip, of course I went to Oakland and tracked down a docent to ask some questions.
It turns out that shortly after the brothers turned three, they started acting like adult male lions: they started scuffling regularly. It's a normal social thing for male lions to live in groups, called coalitions, but according to my lion experts there's generally a baseline level of some social jostling within them. It wasn't quite clear from what the docent said if they couldn't manage the boys together, or if they just wanted to avoid the scratches and small wounds that result from normal lion behavior. Regardless, they put all three of the boys on testosterone blockers in order to be able to keep them together as a social group.
Now, I don't know a lot about the use of hormone alteration as a form of captive animal management, except in the case of birth control. I don't think it's something that's unethical - there was just a webinar on it that I saw go by - but I don't think it's commonly done with big cats. Lions have kind of complicated reproductive cycles, and for instance, we've been learning that female lions can take much longer to come into estrus again than expected after coming off hormonal birth control.
In males, testosterone blockers (or being neutered) means they lose their manes. This is why a lot of rescues will do a vasectomy on their males instead of a neuter - it allows them to keep their mane and the social signals that accompany it.
Tandie returned home to Woodland Park Zoo after Xerxes passed in early 2022, and the docent told me all of the lions had been off their blockers "for while." I'd guess those things happened around the same time, since bringing the trio down to a duo at Oakland would reduce some of the social tensions.
Hormones are such interesting things, though. One of Tandie's brothers has a full mane again, and the other is still totally mane-less.
As for Tandie, his mane is growing back in, and it looks like he might rival his dad for length and coloration.
He started here, in February:
Yesterday:
What a difference four months (and maybe proximity to a girl) makes!
The glow up continues!
Previous photos were from June 1, these are from yesterday, July 29.
I love seeing how the edges of Tandie's mane are getting darker and darker.
Look! At! This! Man! Now!
He's so gosh dang handsome.
I think it's really interesting how dark his body has gotten, too. He's much browner than when I first saw him.
Photos taken December 31, 2024
(Future content for @animalphotorefs, when I update lions next).
Just post-canon bonding between the boys (strictly platonic!)
Awww, I remember doing eyeliner like that! I do kind of miss it, but I don’t think it would look good with my glasses.
theres a popular brand in canada called no name brand and it manufactures everything you can imagine in a grocery store and it kind of makes me feel like im in a world no one bothered to do much world building for
things that sure are.
things that are.
This is peak design
Can't believe no one posted chair (for sitting)
💛 fantastic, I'd be buying this gear all the time (gives me Severance music/dance experience vibes)
"windows 11 upgrade ready!" "your computer is eligible for windows 11!" "download windows 11 now!"
Used cloud brushes to make a background so I had an excuse to draw Cure Sky XDD
Veneer pls don’t blame yourself anymore 😭
Belfort is everywhere on Twitter lately! Hence I have to join the hype!
Boxer Velvet! Have I missed anything??
Welcome to the dumping ground, here’s the masterlist!
POKEVERSE 108
RC9GN: NINE REALMS GATE AU
MIRACULOUS INHERITANCE AU
FIRE EMBLEM 14: MEMORIES OF FATE AU
FIRE EMBLEM 14: HAPPY FAMILIES AU
FOWLHAM 80’s ROMCOM AU
#Ribbonrambles
#Ribbonwrites
#my art
#Traditional art
#Digital art
#Digital coloring
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BIG AU comfort explanations art also added for reference:
Supporting artwork of Miku (Fairy), Sylveon, Snubbull, Alcremie, and Milcery with Luka (Fairy), Wigglytuff, Galarian Rapidash, Granbull, Slurpuff, and Swirlix and for Pokémon feat. Hatsune Miku Project VOLTAGE High↑, entitled Anniversary
Art and Luka design by Sakuragi Kei (Twitter/X: sakuragik)
Miku design by Megumi Mizutani (Twitter/X: megtany)
[ Related artworks: Miku (Fairy) key artwork and concept art | Luka (Fairy) concept artwork | Graphics of Wigglytuff, Galarian Rapidash, Sylveon, Granbull, Snubbull, Swirlix, Slurpuff, Alcremie, and Milcery ]
Pokémon graphics of Wigglytuff, Galarian Rapidash, Sylveon, Granbull, Snubbull, Slurpuff, Swirlix, Alcremie, and Milcery from Pokémon feat. Hatsune Miku Project VOLTAGE High↑
Art by Sakuragi Kei (Twitter/X: sakuragik)
[ Sources: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 ]
[ Related artwork: Supporting artwork featuring Miku (Fairy) and Luka (Fairy) ]
I am so ready!
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