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spencerranch · 1 year

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She's a Spiny Spiny Girl

The kind you should take home to mother.

#Spinosaurus #dinosaur #paleoart #paleoblr #artsy #illustration #paleontology #Jurassic park #spinosaurus #cretaceous #spinosauridae #sailback #she's alright #waterside #digital paint #blur #crocoduck #monster

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cococrocoduck · 2 years

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In a noir mood...

#coco crocoduck #furry #art #furry art #furries #furry anthro #anthro #anthro art #cat #noir #film noir #detective #femme fatale #catboy #catgirl #noir film #cat furry #feline #sketch #drawing

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quark-nova · 8 months

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Why crocodile-line archosaurs are cooler than you think

Pseudosuchian evolution is like really, really underrated. Like people learn a version of "crocodiles have been around for 200 million years" even though pseudosuchians have a super interesting and diverse history. Some forms even converged on the "primitive dinosaur" body plan, despite not being dinosaurs at all!

In rough order of divergence:

Desmatosuchus, an aetosaur

Arizonasaurus, a poposauroid

Shuvosaurus, another poposauroid (not a dinosaur!)

Postosuchus, a rauisuchid

Terrestrisuchus, an early crocodylomorph

Neptunidraco, a thalattosuchian

Baurusuchus, a sebecosuchian

Chimaerasuchus, a notosuchian

Simosuchus, another notosuchian

Anatosuchus, a crocoduck notosuchian

Yacarerani, yet another notosuchian

While bird-line archosaurs are fluffier, and have been much more widespread since the Jurassic, pseudosuchians displayed a much wider range of adaptations than we gave them credit for - from fully aquatic thalattosuchians to small terrestrial, herbivorous, armored notosuchians!

#palaeoblr #pseudosuchia #crocodile #notosuchia

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bartfargo · 5 months

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War-on-Christmas Movies

The right wing's second-favorite war (after any war that actually involves sending other people's children to die) has got to be the "war on Christmas." This totally made-up war dominates right-wing media every year. And why not? What could be easier than telling gullible schmucks that there's a sinister plot to take away a major holiday (and throwing in as many antisemitic dog whistles as you can carry)? In fact, so successful has this formula been that they've actually gotten four movies made about it - which means that people have driven past dozens of Nativity displays, on their way to see movies that claim that there's an evil plot to put an end to Christmas.

Presented in chronological order, since I don't know how to rank crap:

Christmas with a Capital C (2010)

Ted McGinley is the mayor of a small town in Alaska, who takes umbrage when a judge tells him that he will have to allow townspeople who aren't Christian to put up displays next to his Nativity scene if he wants to put the thing up on town property. Brad Stine is the mayor's brother (no known other occupation), who has a Three Mile Island-level meltdown when a barista wishes him Happy Holidays. Daniel Baldwin is a local boy who became a big-city lawyer, who runs for mayor on the platform of respecting all faiths. It's a PureFlix movie, so the first two are treated like heroes even though they aren't, and the last one is treated like the villain even though he isn't doing anything wrong.

All these movies have parts where they say the quiet part out loud: Here, one such part occurs in the aforementioned coffee shop rant, where the designated hero kicks things off by saying "There's only one holiday that makes me happy." Later, when the other designated hero sees a local business put up a Happy Holidays sign, and the owner says "It's better for everybody," he replies, "It's not better for me." At the end of the day, these guys worship themselves.

Last Ounce of Courage (2012)

This film follows small-town mayor/pharmacist Bob Revere (because fuck subtlety) and his visiting grandson, Christian (because fuck subtlety with a garden hose), as they hatch a two-pronged scheme to bring Christmas back to the community. Bob's end involves putting up a Christmas tree in the town square (because who does that anymore, amirite?) and a cross back on a mission (because yeah, that totally happens). Christian's strategy involves taking over the school's Holiday Pageant, changing its plot of aliens coming to pay tribute to a newborn king back to the Biblical story (because, if they just used a secular story like A Christmas Carol, and Christian got butthurt over them not mentioning Jesus enough for his liking, he'd look like the asshole he is). Along the way, they run up against some guy who's supposed to be intimidating for some reason, and Christian decides to cap off the pageant with a snuff film (I'm not making that up).

Saying the quiet part out loud: When Christian greets Bob with a handshake straight out of Flip Wilson, Bob asks, "That's not an LA gang handshake, is it?" (And the movie shows Bob patching up a white biker gang member who had a gunshot wound, so it's not the possibility of him being mixed up in a crime that concerns him.) Later, he gives his best friend a death glare for busting out a rap version of "We Three Kings." Clearly, when the Reveres sing "I'm Dreaming Of A White Christmas," they're not talking about the weather. Also, a female news anchor walks off the job, so she can spend Christmas with her family.

Kirk Cameron's Saving Christmas (2014)

Kirk Cameron plays himself (an uninformed, egotistical twit), and director Darren Doane plays his brother-in-law, Christian White (I'll take What Kirk Cameron Thinks Everyone Should Be for $600). Christian worries that the real meaning of Christmas has been lost, and Captain Crocoduck throws him a line of bullshit to reassure him that it's all really still about Jesus (for example, Jesus had a material body, so it's right to celebrate with material things).

Saying the quiet part out loud: Cameron takes the apocryphal story of St. Nicholas slapping a cleric for doubting the divinity of Christ, and ramps it up, turning it into a story where St. Nick beats the man to death. This, he tells us, is "the defender of the faith you want to be."

A Madea Christmas (2015)

Madea and her niece go to the small town (yes, another one) of Buck Tussle, Alabama (or something like that), to visit the niece's estranged daughter. Along the way, they meet her secret husband (a white man), the in-laws (Kathy Najimy and Larry The Cable Guy), Madea abuses a child, and assorted other shenanigans. So, what makes this a War-on-Christmas movie? It seems that Poop Weasel has been suffering since a nebulous business built a dam, cutting off water to the town, and jeopardizing the town's Christmas Jubilee. The daughter's ex (who accompanied Madea and her niece) offers to fund the Jubilee, and the mayor readily agrees. Later, after signing the agreement, he reads it, and discovers that 1) the ex is the CEO of the company that built the dam, and 2) as a condition of the agreement, the celebration is to be called the Holiday Jubilee, with no mention of Christmas or Jesus allowed.

Saying the quiet part out loud: En route to Dingle Berry, Madea has to stop and use a restroom. Asking at a gas station, she is directed to a nearby building. She walks in, and finds a Ku Klux Klan meeting in progress. She hightails it out of there, and a Klansman looks after her like he isn't sure what's going on. Later, after learning that the daughter is married to a white man, the niece flies off the handle, telling her a story she's apparently heard many times, of the niece's husband being killed by a white man. This time, however, Madea interrupts, saying that the niece's husband isn't dead, but simply left her for a white woman, and she knows it. You tell me what it means when a filmmaker depicts the KKK better than a black woman.

So that's it; that's how many War-on-Christmas movies there are, and what they are like. They stopped making movies like this. Of course, instead, they now make Hallmark/Lifetime Christmas movies, where either the heroine gives up her career for life with some guy back home, or the hero decides to dump the woman he's been seeing for years for someone he just met, because the woman he's known for years thinks of home and family as something she can have along with a career, when that's his job.

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whee38 · 6 months

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2023 Golden Crocoduck award ceremony and WINNER!!

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danganronpasurvivoraskblog · 1 year

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A crocoduck waddles in and takes a bite out of Narumi's snack.

Heeey! Dick move!

#danganronpa survivor #danganronpa #danganrebirth voices #narumi osone #ask #rise and shine arc

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alphynix · 2 years

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Retro vs Modern #23: Spinosaurus aegyptiacus

Spinosaurid teeth were first found in the 1820s in England, but were misidentified as belonging to crocodilians. It wasn't until nearly a century later that Spinosaurus aegyptiacus was discovered and recognized as a dinosaur – and it would be another century after that before we really started to learn anything about it.

1910s

The first fossils of Spinosaurus were discovered in Egypt in the 1910s. With only a few fragments of its skeleton known it was an enigma right from the start, hinting at a large and very strange theropod dinosaur with crocodile-like teeth, an oddly-shaped lower jaw, and elongated neural spines on its vertebrae that seemed to be part of a huge sail.

A few possible extra fragments were found in the 1930s, but overall these few pieces were all that was known of Spinosaurus for a long time.

The fossils were kept in the Paleontological Museum in Munich, Germany,a building that was severely damaged during a bombing raid in World War II. Many important specimens were destroyed, including Spinosaurus, and only the published drawings and descriptions of the bones remained.

So for the next several decades Spinosaurus remained a very poorly-understood mystery. During this period it was generally depicted as a generic "carnosaur", often modeled on something like Megalosaurus, in the standard-for-the-time tripod pose and with a Dimetrodon-like sail on its back.

Interestingly a 1930s skeletal reconstruction shows Spinosaurus with an unusually long torso and fairly short legs, details that are surprisingly modern despite the retro posture.

1990s

In the 1980s some partial snout bones from Niger were recognized as having similarities with the jaw of Spinosaurus. Around the same time the fairly complete skeleton of Baryonyx was discovered, and along with further spinosaurid discoveries in the mid-to-late 1990s a decent idea of what Spinosaurus might have looked like began to emerge.

It was reconstructed with a long kinked crocodilian-like snout, a ridged bony crest in front of its eyes, an S-curved neck, and large thumb claws on its hands – an interpretation that was heavily popularized by Jurassic Park III in the early 2000s, bringing this enigmatic dinosaur to public attention and portraying it as a fearsome super-predator bigger than Tyrannosaurus.

2020s

Despite attempts to locate more complete Spinosaurus remains, only fragments continued to be found, and it remained a frustratingly poorly-known species even into the early 2010s.

Finally, in 2014, almost a full century after it was first described and named, Spinosaurus started to reveal its secrets with the announcement of the discovery of the most complete skeleton so far, discovered in the Kem Kem fossil beds in Morocco. Its body was still only partially represented, but it included skull fragments, part of a hand, a complete leg and pelvis, some sail spines, and several vertebrae from the neck, back, and tail.

And nobody was expecting what these pieces revealed.

It had a very long torso and proportionally short stumpy legs, and was reconstructed with a huge distinctive "M-shaped" sail on its back. Its feet had flat-bottomed claws and its "dewclaw" toe was enlarged into an extra weight-bearing digit – adaptations for spreading its weight over soft muddy ground, and suggesting its feet may also have been webbed. Initially it was also presented as possibly being quadrupedal, due to how far forward its center of mass seemed to be, reviving an odd idea from the late 20th century.

Along with its long crocodile-like head and conical teeth, this was interpreted as evidence it was a semiaquatic fish-eating swimming animal – potentially making it the first known semiaquatic non-avian dinosaur. Spinosaurids had been suggested to be specialized piscivores before, especially since Baryonyx had been found with fish scales in its stomach, but they were generally assumed to be more like modern grizzly bears, wading into water to hunt but not being habitual swimmers. Spinosaurus' weird croco-duck proportions, however, seemed like they might be much more suited to watery habitats than to the land.

Since Spinosaurus had become a popular dinosaur with the general public by that point, the discovery was big news – and a big controversy for a while. It was so bizarre that some paleontologists were skeptical of the radical new interpretation, wondering if the measurements of the skeleton were correct or if the short legs were even from the same individual or the same species as the rest of the bones.

After a while the new proportions were accepted as fairly accurate, and over the next few years attention turned to instead figuring out just how this animal worked and how aquatic it actually was. An earlier isotope analysis of its teeth supported a semiaquatic lifestyle similar to crocodiles and turtles, but a buoyancy study argued that it might not have been able to dive below the water suface and its sail made floating unstable – but also found that its center of mass was closer to its hips than previously calculated, suggesting it could walk bipedally after all.

Then in 2020 came another surprise: more of the tail of the new specimen had been found, and it was just as weird as the rest of Spinosaurus. Its tail was a huge vertically flattened paddle-like fin supported by long thin neural spines and chevrons, resembling a giant eel or newt more than a dinosaur and also giving some more weight to the idea that it was a swimmer.

Our modern view of Spinosaurus is still evolving, and likely to be full of even more surprises in the future as we discover more about this unique dinosaur. But we at least know it lived in what is now North Africa during the Late Cretaceous, about 99-93 million years ago, and whether it was a swimmer or wading generalist predator it was one of the largest known theropods to ever live, estimated to have reached around 16m long (~52ft).

While the "M-shaped" sail reconstruction has been popularized by the recent discoveries, the exact shape of this structure is still unknown. Like with other sailbacked animals it's also not clear what it was for, with ideas including temperature regulation, visual display, supporting a fatty hump, and a potential hydrodynamic adaptation.

EDIT: And while I was working on this entry (late March 2022) I missed that another study had just come out with more anatomical support for swimming Spinosaurus!

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#retro vs modern 2022 #science illustration #paleontology #paleoart #palaeoblr #spinosaurus #spinosauridae #carnosaur #theropod #dinosaur #art #retrosaurs #'and then jurassic park happened' is the theme of the final three entries in this series #let spinosaurus be weird #crocoduck

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lottley-art · 2 years

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#bad plays on words #a drocodyle #crocoduck #d&d monsters #pokemons #nov 2021 #duckodile

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religion-is-a-mental-illness · 5 years

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Ya know what makes me laugh? When creationists say there are no transitional fossils. Do you think these people A: never read science books, B: go to a museum, C: actually Google transitional fossils, or D: all of the above.

Don’t underestimate wilful ignorance, the Dunning-Kruger Effect, the need to believe things based on emotion and comfort - remembering they already hold a belief in supernatural magic that is, by definition, irrational - and a smug satisfaction that science cannot produce “transitional fossils” that correspond with their demand.

And being correct, but without any comprehension of why.

And of course, don’t forget good old denial.

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lpbestiary · 7 years

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The crocoduck is a hybrid animal proposed by evangelist Ray Comfort and actor Kirk Cameron as an argument against evolution. During a televised debate in 2007, they posited that a lack of direct hybrid animals, such as the crocoduck, proved that the theory of evolution was false. This has since become widely ridiculed, and the crocoduck has become a meme used to mock creationism.

Interestingly, several fossils of new types of crocodile were discovered in 2003, including one with a snout that closely resembled a duck's bill.

Image source.

Monster master list.

Suggest a spook.

#crocoduck #monster #supernatural #mythology #monsters #bestiary

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spencerranch · 1 year

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Spiny