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Paleoart that shows a Mosasaur in river eating a crocodylian. There are hadrosaurs in the background.

So how did a Mosasaur tooth end up in a river?

Paleontologists looked at the enamel and found it contained oxygen, carbon, and strontium.

What does that mean?

Well.

It suggests that it ate freshwater animals.

Which indicates it lived in freshwater or at least spent some of its time there.

Back in 2022 paleontologists found a large Mosasaur tooth in the Hell Creek Formation.

What’s so weird about that?

Well it was found in sediments that are deposited in freshwater.

It was also found with a T. rex tooth, and a crocodylian jawbone, in an area known for Edmontosaurus remains.

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So you’ve found yourself transported back to the Late Cretaceous.

You think you’re safe from Mosasaurs as long as you stay out of the sea.

The rivers and streams are safe, right?

Wrong.

See a recent study suggests that some Mosasaurs lived in or at least adapted to freshwater.

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Timeline cleanse: Hazel the Anti-Maid edition

Timeline cleanse: Wholesome Chop Suey edition

(Sound on)

(via r/MadeMeSmile repost from r/Millennials)

Into the garbage bin they go, right next to Target.

We don’t need your shitty brands! You’re expendable but trans people are not.

@tlbjames.bsky.social @tlbtim.bsky.social
Look at Monkey the malinois! I think this is real. I looked up Monkey the malinois in google and watched a few videos of him. I would frame this and keep it forever.

Medium and small custom markings:

Decal progress on Starseeker.

I use ABP and the almost daily tab that opens touting how many things it blocked and PLEASE GIVE US MONEY is almost as annoying.

A website with local stories repels this reader with, I think we can all agree, WAY TOO MANY ADS.

I wanted to read the story but every website looks like this now and I close the article around the 2nd screenblocking ad they throw at me. 😬 I cant even close any of them. Boo to the internet.

And though we know those well for being weight loss drugs, they are firstly meant to help folks with diabetes.

We owe a lot to these cool lizards!🦎 🧡

#sciart #lizards #wildlife #scicomm #game

Besides that, scientists took a compound out of their venom which eventually turned into semaglutides which are a big part of Wegovy and Ozempic.

If you know anything about me, you know I love Gila monsters! They are such a cool species of lizard (and my favorite color). They’re venomous, they have beaded scales, and big personalities. What’s not to love?!

Remember how great The Odd Couple was?

Well said.
And a hearty "Fuck You" to the immoral and despicable Grammarly, "AI"/LLMs, Microsoft, Google, and anyone else complicit in making or using this forced-on-us tech that only exists due to theft and is a giant, still-thieving, inaccurate, SCAMMING PILE OF SLOP

Timeline cleanse: Plavalaguna's Aria edition

A four-panel picture showing pictures of a golden retriever puppy as described below aging up from top-left to bottom right. Caption reads, "Injury at birth left Rae with only the right ear. As she grew, it migrated to the top of her head, making her a unicorn!"

Timeline cleanse: Unidog edition

(via r/MadeMeSmile)

FUN.

What's your sign?

#StreetArt

Question - does anyone know of a quality non-profit youth journalism/civics organization in the Orange County area?

Paleoart that shows Acrocanthosaurus engaging in an elaborate mating dance.

But not just any scratches.

They are lekking scratches.

Lekking is a behavior that some modern birds (and other animals) do. Its where they dance around and scratch at the ground.

Those fossils are the same thing, just on a much, much bigger scale.

How cool is that??

Answer, very cool.

Not only do we have birds (modern theropods) who do mating dances, but we have found fossil evidence that show large theropods engaging in the same behavior.

Yeah, actual fossil evidence to support that behavior.

Dinosaur Ridge in Colorado has fossils that show scratches in the rock.

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So in The Dinosaurs on Netflix it shows Pterosaurs having a mating dance.

We have no actual evidence that they would have done that.

But you know what we do have evidence of?

Theropods participating in mating dances.

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To the tune of the Hot Pockets jingle:
🎶WOKE MAPPING!🎶

AI fakes spread disinformation. Is the distrust they create even worse? Manipulated images undermine our shared reality—and the democracy built upon it.

“When disinformation is constant, the everyday cost of knowing what’s going on rises. People spend more time verifying the basics, or they stop trying."

Sonselasuchus was one of several species of Shuvosaurid pseudosuchians that lived during the Late Triassic. This small animal was part of a large radiation of crocodile relatives that went onto many niches that will be eventually occupied by dinosaurs later in the Jurassic

Illustration of Sonselasuchus next to the silhouette of a ca. 1.8 m tall human

This amazing animal was described yesterday in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology by Elliot Armour Smith and Christian Sidor. I was commissioned to create the illustration of this amazing animal that appears in the paper and the press releases www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Illustration showing a pair of adult Sonselasuchus eating in a bipedal pose while the juvenile in the foreground is adopting a quadrupedal pose

Allow me to introduce you to Sonselasuchus cedrus, a new bipedal, beaked and herbivorous crocodile-relative that lived during the Late Triassic in North America

#paleoart #sciart