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#ReptileFriend #ShapeshifterBuddy #SnuggleYourReptiles

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#SomethingIWouldCheckOutOfTheLibrary

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😉

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#RIPClaudia #FallenLove #DontTakeTimeForGranted

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#DontSpendYourWholeLifeGettingReady

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#LearnToLaughToLearnThoseLessons #Jinkies 😉

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#Love

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#ShapeshiftersUnite #ReptileFriends #SnuggleYourReptiles

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...is it not the same?

High Society, 1956

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🎸💚🌹👽🌊

Born on this day in 1863, Edvard Munch’s captivating art depicts the emotions and fears of the human psyche. This painting of a mermaid transforming into a woman explores the themes of metamorphosis, desire, and anxiety.

“Mermaid,” 1896, by Edvard Munch 

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Duck-like dinosaur fossil, plucked from black market, makes debut

What has flippers like a penguin, a neck like a swan and a posture like a duck? It’s the newly discovered Halszkaraptor escuilliei or “Halszka”– a bizarre, semi-aquatic dinosaur with a collage of features never seen in any other prehistoric creature.

On Wednesday, researchers reported in Nature that this brand new dinosaur genus and species lived about 75 million years ago during the Campanian stage of the Cretaceous period. Halszka was the size of a modern-day goose, and despite its amphibious lifestyle and small stature, it was a predatory raptor akin to its relative the velociraptor.

Mysterious origins: This fossil was found partially embedded in a 3-foot-long rock in Ukhaa Tolgod, Mongolia — an area known to paleontologists as a poacher’s paradise. This fossil has a mysterious backstory. It is unknown when exactly it was discovered, and it was circulated on the “black market” for fossils for several years, Andrea Cau, paleontologist at the Giovanni Capellini Geological Museum in Bologna, Italy and lead author of the study, said via email.

Strange features? Halszka is bipedal–or walks on two legs–like all other theropods and has sickle-shaped claws. These traits were likely useful for walking on land and snagging prey with its feet. The dino also had stubby flippers instead of wings or arms, which helped it glide through water. Scientists determined based on the shape of its flippers that Halszka couldn’t fly. Its long neck, used on land or underwater, is ideal for ambush hunting.

Why it matters: “This demonstrates how much diversity is still unknown,” Cau said. “[Even though] Mongolia has been explored for over a century by several paleontological expeditions, there are still new and unexpected species to find. Also, it shows that some ecologies exploited today by birds were occupied by bird-like dinosaurs during the Mesozoic era.”

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I want this for my birthday, lol❤ #OhMyGoodnessLort

Mac & cheddar crunchwrap bun fried egg burger

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Lookin' kooky and trying out some unused tubes of ink & ink-thinner. Need moar .005 marker penss💀 🎃 #inktober2017 🐙 #speedballink #prismacolorink #prismacolorpencil #sketchbook #ayeaye #ayeayeart #spiderhand #spiderlegs #ayeayefingers #sketchychaos #keepcalmanddrawchaos #unfinishedparadise #everybodydrawstuff ! . . . 💀 . . . #inktober #SpyralStorm #juliemurphyarts #phillyart

#ayeayefingers #sketchychaos #unfinishedparadise #spyralstorm #inktober #prismacolorink #keepcalmanddrawchaos #speedballink #inktober2017 #everybodydrawstuff #juliemurphyarts #spiderlegs #phillyart #ayeayeart #ayeaye #sketchbook #prismacolorpencil #spiderhand

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#WhatInktoberActuallyLooksLike #whereisits #catsofinstagram #inktober2017 🚦🐱🚧 #ayeaye . . . . . . . #juliemurphyarts #SpyralStorm #art #PhillyArts #catsofig #cartoon #ayeayeart #oddity

#phillyarts #whereisits #catsofig #ayeayeart #juliemurphyarts #ayeaye #whatinktoberactuallylookslike #cartoon #spyralstorm #art #inktober2017 #oddity #catsofinstagram

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#tbt to that time Jp & I went on an October cemetery hike 2 years back at #MountMoriah and before getting there found a fall-colored #PrayingMantis meditating on a fence post directly facing a tree... He looked like a little statue! 🍂🌝💛💜💚 #mantis #mtmoriah #mountmoriahcemetery

#tbt #mountmoriah #prayingmantis #mtmoriah #mantis #mountmoriahcemetery

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After work figure modeling for teh art depart-mant #GnarlyTree #Osage #OsageOrange #HaverfordCollege #WaterTree #WaterErosion #OldTree (at Haverford College)

#haverfordcollege #osage #osageorange #watererosion #oldtree #gnarlytree #watertree

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#PrayingMantis #westphilly #harvesttime

#westphilly #prayingmantis #harvesttime