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[hermyonegrangr]

So are you going to tell us about the giant hyperpredatory sperm whales or do I have to go google some nightmares myself?

we’re all familiar with the Sperm Whale of our modern seas, largest of the Toothed Whales! it’s also completely specialized for eating squid and squid ONLY, a comfort to anyone who’s ever managed to get just a bit too close to those enormous razor jaws.

but this was very much not always the case! the earlier members of the Sperm Whale lineage were much less… discerning.

early Sperm Whales all resembled our friendly modern swimming school bus to some degree, but the main difference was in the jaws- early Sperm Whales like Acrophyseter and Zygophyseter all had wide, powerful jaws with ENORMOUS teeth suitable for snacking on fish, dolphins, aquatic sloths, and pretty much anything else they could fit down their enormous gullets, kind of like a modern Orca.

and from 12 to 7 million years ago, these things RULED the seas. Megalodon who?

but the greatest of these was Livyatan Melvillei, which was the size of our modern Sperm Whale. 

reaching up to 60 feet long and weighing well over 60 tons, it this thing was a Sea Monster in every sense of the word. 

it is so BONKERS huge that they named it after the Hebrew name for the Biblical Leviathan (and also Herman Melville, who would have gotten a real kick out of it). I cannot overstate how unsafe it would be to share an ocean with this thing. Moby Dick would have been an entirely different book if it was still around. 

so what does a 60-feet hyperpredatory whale eat?

*Groucho Marx voice* WHY, ANYTHING IT WANTS. 

(but mostly other whales.)

Livyatan spent most of its time cruising around looking for delicious smaller whales to shove into that nightmare maw up there, a lifestyle choice we call macroraptorial. though in a pinch, anything else would also do. 

(basically, if you were a mid-sized baleen whale in the paleozoic seas you were just SHIT out of luck, between Megalodon and this thing.)

Livyatan may have died out as little as 5 million years ago, meaning it might even have been around to make the early ancestors of Orcas regret their life choices! (Livyatan is the only animal that could possibly make an Orca regret anything, but God, at what cost)

but die out they did, and that’s probably a good thing for us. why don’t we all just take a moment to really appreciate our modern hyperspecialized Sperm Whales, especially the part where they don’t eat us!

[hermyonegrangr]

Or perhaps in Slytherin, you’ll make your real friends.

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Harry Potter Illustrated comes to life pt. 2  (pt.1) 

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Harry will see them until the very end

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I love how hazel levesque is widely accepted as the sweetheart of the seven, even as she decapitates numerous monsters, is an accomplice to suicide, manipulates horrible Mist images, kills a goddess, raises the labyrinth, and stares at frank’s midriff

#hazel levesque #pjo #books

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What he really wanted (and it felt almost shameful to admit it to himself) was someone like — someone like a parent: an adult wizard whose advice he could ask without feeling stupid, someone who cared about him, who had had experience of Dark Magic… And then the solution came to him. It was so simple, and so obvious, that he couldn’t believe it had taken so long — Sirius. 

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Black Panther (2018) dir. Ryan Coogler

#marvel #movies

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Why have I never seen this before😭??

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i feel like many people forget that rachel and annabeth are friends

reference

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this is an old drawing of piper that i decided to animate. as you can see it still has my design for her years ago hahaha

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What is Vormir? A dominion of death.

#natasha romanoff #marvel #movies

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Welcome to Hogwarts. The start-of-term banquet will begin shortly, but before you take your seats in the Great Hall, you will be sorted into your houses. The Sorting is a very important ceremony because, while you are here, your house will be something like your family within Hogwarts.

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the first wizarding war: Formation of the original Order of the Phoenix, 1970s

Fabian and Gideon Prewett were murdered by a group of five Death Eaters. Caradoc Dearborn disappeared, the Bones family was almost completely destroyed, Benjy Fenwick was brutally murdered, and Marlene McKinnon and her family were murdered by Death Eaters. James and Lily Potter were murdered the night the First Wizarding War ended. Frank and Alice Longbottom were attacked shortly after Voldermort’s defeat. Sirius Black was permanently made the scapegoat for Pettigrew’s betrayal of the Order.

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#always the tone of surprise (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

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We’re coming with you.

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It is time to go back, my dudes.

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