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cassinij · 6 months

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I'm feeling a really weird longing for Anomalocarus right now like fuck why'd these weird little guys have to go extinct. They look SO cute and I really wish I could have seen what one would have behaved like in real life ):

#Anomalocarus #cambrian #dinosaur #Yes I know its not a Dinosuar I'm just using prehistoric tags #prehistory #zoology #dinosaurs #jurassic park #jurassic world #blorbo #My little glup shitto

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paleopals · 2 years

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We at Paleo Pals® love hearing from our supporters, backers, and paleontology enthusiasts!

Here's Bryan, a long time fan, with his Cambrian companion, Oakley the Opabinia!

#Opabinia #plush #plushies #science toys #fans #cool guy zone #Cambrian #cambrian explosion #paleontology #invertebrate paleontology #fossil #fossils #burgess shale #Yoho National Park #dinosaurs #paleozoic #paleo art

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cctinsleybaxter · 1 year

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Everything else about prev post aside I love the idea of trads being convinced that the industrial revolution ruined dragons

#cambrian park #atrwood

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dexo27 · 5 months

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12 Days of Ingen - Day 8 Of 12 - 🎵Eight Dunkles Dunking 🎵

🎵On the Eighth Day of Christmas, Ingen gave to we,Eight Dunkles Dunking, Seven Yuty's Yodeling, Six Brachi's Cuddling, Five Gilded Wings! Four Singing Stegos, Three Gigant Hens, Two Turtle Twins and a Concavenator Sanctuary! 🎵

A huge aquarium today for perhaps the most Nutcracker-like animal in the game, the Dunkleosteus! I felt these festive fish friends would be a fitting addiction to the park, albeit quite scary up close, but just as beautiful too :)

The alpha, Axe, has a green body with blue and black stripes (Champlain Valley-Pelophylax)

Icebreaker has a white grey body with icey blue stripes (Yukon River-Rana)

Nutcracker is our bright red, yellow and green dunk (Sonoran Desert-Papurana)

Bruce is our Dunkle of vengeance, rocking black and yellow scales (Svalbard-Chalcorona)

Blades body is grey with a white shine, like, something sharp...(Great Sandy Desert-Pulchrana)

Salmon has no stripes, with a fullish grey-red body (Limpopo River-Blank)

Much has a blueish grey body with a black central stripe (Amazon Rainforest-Lithobates)

And Crunch has a beautiful cyan body, with bright yellow underbelly and grey and white stripes (Gambia River Basin-Pulchrana)

Speaking of crunch, today was so busy this is by far the latest I've uploaded one of these! Hope yall still see it by today!

#dinosaurs #jwe2 #jurassic park #jurassic world evolution #christmas #12daysofingen #animals #dunkleosteus #cambrian #nutcracker #Crunch

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horoscopo-dehoy · 1 year

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Horóscopo diario en Grantsboro

El color que identifica a #Aries es el rojo

Tarot Y Videncia:

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Para resolver los problemas del corazón y entregarnos a la felicidad. ¡Los temas del corazón son tan complejos! Cuando el amor no ha tocado a la puerta nos sentimos ansiosos por encontrar a la paraje ideal y una vez que la tenemos nos enfrentamos al miedo de perderla. En cualquiera de los casos no hay de qué preocuparnos porque el tarot amor nos brinda la ayuda necesaria para triunfar en una relación.

#Renick #Coleman #Pocono #Cambrian Park

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bigangrytrev · 2 years

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Shriekers vs Raptors - Who would Win?

Shriekers vs Raptors – Who would Win?

Jurassic Park and Tremors – two film franchises that have far more in common than one might think. Yes the differences between the two franchises are huge; budgets, popularity, settings etc. But when it comes down to it both movie series, both franchises having 7 movies to their name thus far, are at their core about humans genetically messing with creatures from the dawn of time, before those…

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bobnichollsart · 4 months

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A few draft drawings showing how I built "Cambrian Epic" for Park et al, for their paper describing Timoresestia.

#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #cambrian explosion #cambrian period

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becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys · 9 months

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Hi! Big fan :) You're an environmental lecturer, right? I recently got into a debate with someone about rewilding in the UK, and the clash with farmers and agriculture. To me, this is a no-brainer - I absolutely do feel for farmers losing their livelihoods, and I think there needs to be a system to help them transition to something else, but also, the planet is dying. But you explain things well, so I wondered if you have thoughts? Particularly on the Welsh side of things. Thank you in advance!

Hah. I literally have a lecture on this. Or, well, a chunk of a lecture, anyway; so yes! I have thoughts. I'll use those notes, and stick a big reference at the end in case you want to read more

I'll talk about this specifically from the Welsh perspective, okay so:

The rewilding project in Wales is the Cambrian Wildwood, launched in 2004ish by a guy who bought an abandoned farm in the northern end of Mid Wales with the express intention of rewilding it. The aim is to convert some 7000 acres, and the initial mission statement said they'd reintroduce wolves and lynx. That's the project I'm going to talk about, because it's a great case study for how to spectacularly fuck something up (and eventually realise you've spectacularly fucked up, and do something about it.)

These are the Cambrian Mountains:

When looking at that, there are two competing viewpoints that are relevant here:

The Cambrians are ecologically depleted. Their biodiversity has crashed since the Second World War, when modern farming methods were introduced. Environmentally, there is a perception of emptiness and degradation.

The landscape is a glorious one that has been shaped by the human actions taken on it for generations, as we are a shepherding culture – culture and land are inextricably intertwined.

That's a big fundamental difference! Two people can look at that same photo, and see something diametrically opposed. But there's more lying on it, so you also need to understand the socio-political background.

Socio-Political Background

(I know! Headings! So professional)

A lot of rewilding – Cambrian Wildwood included – is taking place in areas where farming is declining for various political/socio-economic reasons, so this can be ENTIRELY FAIRLY seen as yet another threat. This goes hand in hand with rural migration and community decline, too.

In Wales, we’re mostly rural, and characterised by extensive upland livestock farming (sheep in particular). Most farms are small to medium family-run setups. ON TOP OF THAT, the vast majority of Welsh farmers are Welsh-speaking, and the right to operate a farm the ‘traditional’ way without UK government oversight is seen by Welsh Nationalists as an important post-colonial act.

Many of them didn’t even like the National Parks being set up, as they were seen as an English outsider imposition that ignored the working nature and cultural history of the land. Remember: the farmed uplands are often seen as a heartland of Welsh identity, and those have historically been intentionally destroyed by UK central government land management decisions (e.g. Tryweryn, Elan, Claerwen, etc)

“Over the past half century we have witnessed the arrival of countless environmental fundamentalists… seemingly oblivious to the fact that their new-found paradise is already occupied by people whose connection with the land is deep rooted, dates back thousands of years, and is embedded in their language and culture.” (Nick Fenwick [Farmers’ Union of Wales] 2013)

SO IT’S CULTURALLY DICEY

(And in my opinion an incredibly stupid idea to go and give it a primarily English name with a Welsh translation as an afterthought but that is Elanor’s Opinion and not Scientific Fact)

(But fr fr if you ever have to get involved in these sorts of projects you will go a long way if you have the basic respect of learning the Welsh names and pronouncing them right rather than lazily expecting everything to be in English sorry sorry I digress)

From the Cambrian Wildwood’s Mission Statement on their website, their objective is:

“To rewild or restore land to a wilder state to create a functioning ecosystem where natural processes dominate by carrying out habitat restoration, removing domestic livestock, and introducing missing native species as far as feasible.”

Can you see the controversial bit of the statement

Can you see the bit where they directly say they want to remove domestic livestock

Jesus Christ

Cultural Differences

AND THEN HERE'S THE BIGGER PROBLEM

‘Culture’ in Welsh is diwylliant – literally, a ‘lack of wildness’. There is no direct translation into Welsh for the term ‘rewilding’ – the closest you can get is anialwch or diffeithwch, which mean ‘wilderness’ in the sense of ‘desert’ or ‘wasteland’. So right off the bat, if you tell a Welsh-speaking farmer that you want to rewild the place, what they hear is "We want to make it dangerous and empty and degraded."

A related concept is cynefin - knowing one’s ‘patch’ and the feeling of belonging associated. The term has its roots as a description of the way grazing animals know their area of mountain land, but it is also used to describe how people come to form an intimate experiential knowledge of place - and specifically, a Welsh farmer's cultural attitude.

Basically, Welsh literature and oral traditions speak of a relationship with the land, not a separation and longing for an untouched wilderness. Farmers feel this especially keenly. Culturally, this is a big part of why they do it – they’re rooted to the land, and therefore to their identities.

“Interviewees conveyed this by referring to areas proposed for rewilding as being comprised of “a quilt of cynefinoedd: interwoven stories, the layered and collective place-making of families and individuals over-generations, co-constituted with the physical landscape” (Wynne-Jones, Holmes and Strouts, 2018)

So, to them, rewilding is erasing and disregarding these stories. To them, this is not just a land-use change, but the latest colonial attack. They've known the family who lived on that farm for generations - every birth, marriage, death, joy, triumph, loss, everything. You are saying that you are going to strip that family, all those stories, all those people out of that land, to be forgotten.

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However. There is a counterpoint to this.

Many farmers taking this view have therefore identified themselves as the only “truly Welsh” people in the debate, accusing environmentalists as being outsiders. The problem with this being, most of the environmentalists involved with the project are also Welsh; so who the fuck are they to say who is or is not Truly Welsh? It's what we on the internet would recognise as gatekeeping, with a big side order of No True Scotsman fallacy.

Also this quote sums it up well:

“Sheep farming in this country goes back a few hundred years. I think if you go deep enough into our culture and ancestry, we have a really deep native relationship with wild forest areas and with the wild animals that are native to this country…I just don’t agree that sheep farming is really part of our traditional culture.” (WWLF Interview [15] 2016) (Wynne-Jones, Holmes and Strouts, 2018)

This is also a fair point. It is true that upland sheep farming, the way we now practice it, is only a few hundred years old, and at the current intensity only a few decades (since WW2).

On top of which, there has been plenty of exploration over the years of farmers as being a government-subsidised landed gentry, which I won't go into here, but it also contains some fair points.

In truth, all of it and none of it is true. It’s far more complex and nuanced than either side might want to believe.

Solutions So Far

This is an ongoing project and they're still learning and changing new things and stuff, but a big thing they did was get someone in to basically be a mediator and listen to both sides, because Jesus, those sides were not listening to each other.

But to date:

They actually worked with a first-language Welsh speaker (WHY DID THEY NOT DO THIS FIRST I'm sorry I'm fine). Originally the Welsh translation of the project was Tir Gwyllt – wild land. But given that Welsh connotations with gwyllt are something out of control or dangerous, Coetir Anian has been chosen – anian refers to a sense of natural order and creation, a sense of health and vitality. Similarly, ‘rewilding’ is being translated as ‘di-ddofi’ – ‘de-taming’. This acknowledges the labour and culture taken to tame it, and just suggests an avenue for discussing some relaxation of farming practice in appropriate locations rather than, you know, releasing packs of wolves directly into sheep pens

In online materials and in community engagement events where traditional storytellers and musicians have performed to celebrate the Wildwood, the trustees have drawn heavily from Welsh myth in the form of the Mabinogion. Enormous amounts of the Mab lovingly and respectfully feature wild woods and wild animals. The emphasis is therefore on how wilderness is also part of Welsh identity – and arguably a much older part, going back to the Celts. (This is clever, in my view, but something to approach with care - it's rarely a good idea to play the game of "What's the most Welsh". But so far it's been done sensitively)

Land purchased for the project has so far been wholly limited to that available in the public domain. The main site, Bwlch Corog, was empty and unfarmed for six years before purchase, which has been stressed in all media interviews and releases; this is important, because farmers do have a sense of "Productive land is being stolen by environmentalists".

Large predator reintroductions have largely been abandoned. Lynx and wolves are no longer on the agenda. It’s possible they’ll be included in the future, but it is acknowledged as currently impractical (both from clashes with farmers and lack of habitat).

Instead, they’ve supported smaller species reintroductions, such as the Vincent Wildlife Trust’s pine marten translocations, and some proposed red squirrel ones.

Bwlch Corog is to be managed as an experimental plot that farmers are encouraged to engage with.

Assessing the potential for new income streams (from improved tourism and educational activities) rather than just the ecological benefits – this has become central to the project, and the emphasis is on how this might benefit farming communities and keep them together. This has been huge, and has also been successful in rewilding schemes in Europe.

Tensions are a lot lower now than they were ten years ago, but ultimately the problem was a bunch of outsiders came in and decided they knew best without listening to anyone else's point of view, and that meant both sides really dug their heels in. Much better now.

Ultimately... yes, I am in favour of rewilding, in a general sense. But I think it needs to go hand in hand with supplying farmers with the necessary subsidies to transition back to more traditional and sustainable farming methods, and the two elements run side by side. You can't do one without the other, not if you want them to succeed. The Pontbren Project is a great case study for how a farmer-led scheme can successfully aid them economically while also improving environmental outcomes, and we need to learn and incorporate more lessons from it when discussing this kind of landscape-level management.

Also, with land management in general, I think you're a fucking idiot and dangerously arrogant if you think you can get anything done without all stakeholders being on board. And potentially wandering down the ecofascism path, circumstances dependent.

Anyway, those are my thoughts. Source:

Wynne-Jones, S, Holmes, G & Strouts, G (2018), 'Abandoning or Reimagining a Cultural Heartland? Understanding and Responding to Rewilding Conflicts in Wales - the case of the Cambrian Wildwood.' Environmental Values, vol. 27, no. 4.

#asks #environment!#long post

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a-dinosaur-a-day · 10 months

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As a former human child I’ve always wanted to know: how exactly does one become a paleontologist?

okay there are lots of ways. this is my way

have parents that, while poor, value education and learning

have significantly older siblings that do not care about appropriateness for children in terms of television content

bc of b, see jurassic park as an infant

bc of that, and land before time, fall in love with dinosaurs

be neurodivergent

become OBSESSED with dinosaurs

bc of a, have parents encourage this and rent me all the documentaries

learn everything about dinosaurs

when asked "why do you like them" at age 5, answer "because their evolution is cool"

survive elementary school

survive middle school

do a lot of science stuff in school

do science competitions in high school

remain obsessed with dinosaurs/birds and other reptiles and prehistoric life

survive high school

go to college

major in biology

do research in evolution and the cambrian explosion

graduate

go to graduate school to become an evolutionary developmental biologist because your parents wanted you to do genetics bc they thought it had a better chance of me getting a job

be miserable during that program

only derive joy from docenting at the field museum and going to dino science conferences

cut out with a masters' when you realize you can't take it anymore

ponder being a rabbi for a while bc maybe you're not cut out for science

go to a dino conference online and actually network with a paleontologist who wants students

interview with him and find he has a lot of research interests in common with you

apply to the school, get accepted

move across the fucking country (chicago -> new mexico)

work hard because this is your second chance and you have *meds* now

help describe a bird in the first year

have a really holistic and ambitious thesis project idea

paleontologist now, I guess

#paleontologist #how to be a paleontologist #science #paleontologist ama #i was privileged in the parents I had in that they encouraged my curiosity. not everyone gets that.

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vickysaurus · 2 years

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If you’ve finished watching Prehistoric Planet, caught the dino bug, and want to watch more, well, I’ve got recommendations for some fantastic older Mesozoic documentaries and shows! I’m only gonna list my faves, but if you have good ones to add, feel free to do so!

Walking With Dinosaurs (1999)

The classic, the one I grew up with. A six episode miniseries that spans the entire Mesozoic, from the Triassic to the Cretaceous. Each episode focuses on a specific location and usually has one specific animal that’s more or less the main character, while also showing off others as they are encountered. The science and effects are 23 years old by now, so don’t expect much fluff or great CGI, but they used what they had very well. It helps a lot that the close-up shots are done using incredibly charming animatronics rather than CGI. The gorgeous music and Kenneth Branagh’s narration add a ton more personality to everything. You will cry about an Ornithocheirus at the end of his journey. There were three special bonus episodes released over the next few years that have Nigel Marven (more on him later) time travelling to see the dinosaurs in person. There are also two sequel series: Walking With Beasts and Walking With Monsters. WWM explores the Paleozoic but went through it too fast and suffers from some ‘Awesomebro-yness’ in my opinion but there’s not much else to turn to if you wanna see the Paleozoic unfortunately. WWB explores the Cenozoic and is every bit as good as WWD. When I had my recovery day after my third covid vaccine I put on all three in chronological order and just marathoned them and the various little aches didn’t bother me all day as I watched the history of the Earth from the Cambrian to the Quaternary.

Prehistoric Park (2006)

Time-travelling Nigel Marven returns from the Walking With Dinosaurs specials to bring back extinct animals to the present. As you might guess, it’s a bit more on the fictional side, but all the animals are really well done and scientific, as are the ecosystems they travel back to. The modern day parts are much more about actually properly running a zoo, including things like enrichment, proper animal care, and cranky zookeepers with a heart of gold becoming Ornithomimus parents than Jurassic Park type scenarios. Nigel doesn’t just get dinosaurs; he goes to the Cenozoic several times and even takes a trip to the Carboniferous for its giant arthropods. Recent enough that feathers are starting to appear on some dinosaurs, particularly the adorable Microraptors. Nigel is an absolute menace and I don’t know who gave him access to a time portal but i’m glad they did. The recent game Prehistoric Kingdom was strongly inspired by this one, to the point of having Nigel voice the tutorials and trailers. Features a friendly herd of Titanosaurs with a disregard for fences causing more havoc than any carnivores ever could.

When Dinosaurs Roamed America (2001)

America’s answer to Walking With Dinosaurs. A single two-hour long documentary spanning the whole of Mesozoic America and really focussing on how the dinosaurs developed between its segments. The only time I ever remember seeing the Early Jurassic depicted, and the only one on this list to treat the end-Permian and end-Triassic extinctions and how important they were for dinosaur evolution. Though it does blame asteroids for them. Very good stuff, aside from a scene where Velociraptors continue eating their prey even as a forest fire sets them on fire. It’s very America-centric, but that’s no weakness. John Goodman makes for a surprisingly good narrator and throws in a sneaky Flintstones joke or two.

Dinosaur Revolution (2011)

This is a bit of an odd one, and it might or might not be your jam, but it certainly is mine. It is essentially a mashup between a dinosaur documentary and dinosaur Looney Tunes. Very silly slapstick segments focussing on specific dinosaurs with somewhat anthropomorphic behaviours get intercut with scientists explaining the latest of 2011 paleontology. The animation is a bit naff but the designs are really good and there’s a lot of feathers. It highlights behavioural traits like intelligence and parental care a lot. Two of its episodes cover pretty much the whole Mesozoic in no particular order, two episodes do Walking With Dinosaurs style covering of a single animal’s story in a single ecosystem. Shunosaurus eats mushrooms and has a bad trip. Lots of mammals go flying after getting thrown about. In a true Blackadder Goes Forth type pivot, the final episode of this very silly slapsticky show has the most haunting and tragic depiction of the K-Pg extinction I’ve ever seen.

#prehistoric planet #walking with dinosaurs #prehistoric park #when dinosaurs roamed america #dinosaur revolution #dinosaur documentaries #feel free to add more

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marinebiologyshitposts · 2 years

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Jurassic park is boring, do it with the cambrian explosion

LITERALLY. it couldn't go wrong. what's gonna happen hm? it's just a fishtank. how are you gonna die to a fishtank bro. bad news is they'd still hire chris pratt

#cryptic clicks

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cctinsleybaxter · 2 years

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I was always such a killjoy with prehistoric creature colors; all of our books would be like ‘we don’t know what color dinosaurs were, so you can imagine them as any color you like!’ and i’d be like ‘they were brown.’

#opabina was brown hashtag deliver us the truth #my brother and i were both huge dinosaur kids growing up- them moreso than me #so while that made us very imaginative it also made us deadly serious #some adult: maybe t-rex had spots / any dino-loving 7 year-old: You Wouldn't Get It #cambrian park

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cypherscript · 10 months

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Danny phantom fever idea.

So we know that natural portals have existed since atleast dinosaur times due to the bermuda triangles shenanigans. Do you think there are ghost dinos? Or what about ghost cambrian era giant arthropodss that since they dont need oxygen to exist anymore they just kept getting bigger and BIGGER, the only reason theyve never attacked amity park is because they cant fit through any portal so the ghost zone is just a prison for these gigantic always hungry arthropods and one day danny just stumbles across some of them DEEP in the zone and barely escapes with his afterlife.

"Hey, Im the ghost king you can do that!"

*angry hissing and pinching*

#danny phantom #writing prompt

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zoe248 · 9 months

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