#laurasiatheria

[inaturalist-propaganda]

[ID: A photograph of a southern spotted skunk, looking out towards the camera from between a small gap. It has black fur covered in wiggly, thick white stripes, with a white spot in the middle of its face between its round black eyes. End ID.]

Observation by pavellperez on iNaturalist

alright this is killing me with how cute it was so I was obligated to share it with you all. Please look at this adorable little face. Oh my gods.

#skunks #spotted skunk #southern spotted skunk #photography #iNaturalist #Spilogale angustifrons #spilogale #spotted skunks #Mephitinae #Mephitidae #Carnivora #Laurasiatheria #Placentalia #Theria #Mammalia #Vertebrata #Chordata #Animalia #YES I AM GOING TO BE LISTING OUT ALLLLL THE TREES SO I CAN LEARN THEM :) #described images

[animalids]

Burchell's zebra (Equus quagga burchellii)

Photo by Simon Francis

#burchell's zebra #plains zebra #equus quagga burchellii #equus quagga #equus #equini #equinae #equidae #hippomorpha #perissodactyla #euungulata #laurasiatheria #placentalia #mammalia #tetrapoda #vertebrata #chordata

[captious-solarian]

Put off put off your gown of green Stand straight upon the stone And I will tell you by and by Whether you be a maid or none

#Child ballad #Child ballad 100 #Thomas of Winesbury #Willie o Winesberry #in which I slut-shame a dog #dog #Canis lupus familiaris #Canis #canid #Canidae #Carnivora #Laurasiatheria #mammal #Mammalia

[kvothbloodless]

Hi hello I need everyone to know immedietly that a large portion of mammals can be classified as "beasts with scrotum" or "truly fat and blind".

That will be all.

#beasts with scrotum #animals #taxonomy #new band name called it #i need to stress that these two clades make up Laurasiatheria #a Massive clade of mammals #im going insane #WHO NAMES THESE

[friendly-neighborhood-imbecille]

@sabertoothwalrus Now that people are interested in moles. These three moles are not related.

Top one is Laurasiatheria (same superorder as dogs, horses, bats, and hedgehogs)

Middle one is Afrotheria (same superorder as elephants, tenrecs, aardvarks, and manatees)

And the bottom one is Australidelphia (same superorder as cuscuses, quolls, bandicoots, and wallabies)

All three have convergently evolved to be moles! How cool is that!

#animal facts #mole interest

[hyephyep]

been realizing some things by playing metazooa. for starters, apparently us primates split off with the rabbit/rodent group into our own branch? i didnt know rabbits are closer cousins to us than our dogs and cats. is this why squirrels and hamsters have such good paws for grabbing objects and climbing?

[Image Description: A flowchart of the taxonomy of several animals. Larger groups split off into branches of smaller groups, and will be listed as Group: Branches.

Boreoeutheria: Euarchontoglires and Laurasiatheria.

Euarchontoglires: Primates and Glires.

Primates: Human and Lemur.

Glires: Rabbit and Squirrel.

Laurasiatheria: Carnivora and Deer.

Carnivora: Panthera and Caniformia.

Panthera: Tiger and ???.

Caniformia: Wolf and Brown Bear.

End Image description.]

#metazooa #more of this incoming eventually

[ailurinae]

moles != rodents

Re: mole classification

This tree isn't totally up to date and indeed these high level relationships remain hard to figure out, but the orange (Laurasiatheria) and blue (Euarchontoglires) groupings are overall correct, and rodents and moles (in the group Eulipotyphia) are not close at all. Rodents are closer to rabbits and primates than to moles, and moles are closer to hoofed mammals and dogs than to rodents.

#taxonomy #phylogeny #clades #Eulipotyphia #mole interest #my posts #Eulipotyphla means 'truly fat and blind' #it includes moles hedgehogs shrews solenodons desmans and moonrats #(and they aren't blind generally)

[metazooa-everyday]

Introduction

Hi! You can call me void, my pronouns are they/them. I wanted to make a short intro to tell you what this blog is about.

If you don't know, metazooa is a game where you have to guess the animal of the day, by going through a tree where each guess tells you the closest common groups between the animals (eg: Laurasiatheria, Amniota). I decided to make this blog, somewhat inspired by the art everyday accounts i've seen on here, where I will draw the animal of the day hopefully everyday if I can. I will also share my score of the day, using the format m[total amount of guesses]/[amount of mistakes] (eg: m6/2). The posts will likely be made towards the end of the day (GMT) as to avoid spoiling the answer for anyone.

I hope anyone who finds this blog and follows along enjoys the journey, and that you have a good rest of your day/night.

-Void

#metazooa #art #art every day #sketch #animals

[istherewifiinhell]

metazooa dot com spoilers?

[ID: The metazooa, a puzzle that shows a tree of the taxonomy/cladistic of an animal you try and guess. Solved in two guesses. Sheep, with the common group 'Laurasiatheria' and then the correct guess: vampire bat. END ID]

got lucky huh?

#some shit #was telling buds about this and one got really excited so i was like okay go do todays THEN. i will explain how i cheesed it #wifi at the zoo

[aviculor]

The animal wordle site is fun, but I'm not sure how fair it is that I keep having to blindly grope around the genus Panthera while entire families or even classes have been condensed into one. If I don't get trapped in Laurasiatheria (aka every placental mammal that isn't a monkey or a mouse) it's basically a process of elimination of whatever 'species' are actually available to choose from.

[kaijuthespacemaniraptorian]

The Flying Beast; Bathrata

Bathrata is a large basal bat that lives in cold swamps and ruined civilazations, they are fairly intelligent animals capable of massive problem solving skills and and work with each other cooperatively whenever danger is nearby so they can protect their youngs,these monsters eat large animals but often prefers small prey as its quite difficult to hunt large preys as always, interestingly these bats carry an infectious disease that infects dragons making them very tired and groaning in pain extremely quickly, no one knows what it is and it only seems to be infecting elder dragons as theres no signs of this disease infecting other monsters or even humans only in dragons suggesting that they use that disease as a defense against dragons, these bats are extremely dangerous only the bravest and most experienced hunters can challenge these beasts!

Classification; Fanged Beast Order: Chiroptera Suborder: Yinpterochiroptera Superorder: Laurasiatheria Family: Pteropodidae

Size; 38ft long Elements: none Ailments: Bleeding Weakest To: None

You can leave your thoughts down here on the replies i would love to see what you all think of this monster i made that would be appreciating ^w^!

#monster hunter #art #monster hunter ecology #fanmade #monster

[planets47]

Paired photographs of elephant shrew with elephant; tree shrew with gorilla; antechinus with kangaroo; true shrew with blue whale. Caption: “Each of the small shrew-like mammals shown here is more closely related to the large mammal that it's paired with than to the other small shrew-like mammals.”

In this context "is more closedly related to" means "has a more recent common ancestor with.”

Elephant and elephant shrew represent clade Afrotheria; gorilla and tree shrew, Euarchontoglires; kangaroo and antechinus, Marsupialia; whale and true shrew, Laurasiatheria.

#mammal #mammals #evolution #animal facts #shrews #mammal evolution #shrew #phylogeny

[animalids]

Southern African lion (Panthera leo melanochaita)

Photo by Leon Molenaar

#southern african lion #african lion #lion #panthera leo melanochaita #panthera leo #panthera #pantherinae #felidae #feloidea #feliformia #carnivora #laurasiatheria #placentalia #mammalia #tetrapoda #vertebrata #chordata

[shopcat]

🐳 Animal #189 🦓

I figured it out in 5 guesses!

🟧🟨🟨🟩🟩

🔥 3 | Avg. Guesses: 9.4

slay

echidna to figure out it's a mammal -> random ungulate random other mammal guess -> not in laurasiatheria -> sister group is like rodents and primates and stuff so mouse guess -> hamper lucky guess

#🐾 #also my guess thing always changes bc sometimes i do it on incognito and forget

[eyebrowpunk]

fuck laurasiatheria all my homies hate laurasiatheria

#playing metazooa again #who allowed me near a computer

[friendly-neighborhood-imbecille]

Lesser hedgehog tenrec

Echinops telfairi

Family tenrecidae, order Afrosoricida, superorder Afrotheria (the elephants, sengis, manatees, aardvarks, and hyraxes)

These guys bear an uncanny resemblance to another African animal: the four toed hedgehog.

But four toed hedgehog’s are in an entirely different clade! Laurasiatheria, like pangolins, cats, dogs, moles, deer, and rhinos.

All tenrecs have a cloaca like reptiles, so these guys only have one hole to excrete waste.

They’re terrestrial and spend the day curled up sleeping under leaves, logs and anything else they can hide under. If it’s really hot, they sleep splayed out.

They eat insects and sometimes small vertebrates. They forage alone with the exception of mothers foraging with young.

They’ve become common exotic pets. I’ve held one before.

These guys are in a relatively new proposed clade: Afroinsectiphilia. These guys are afrotherians that were thought to be in Insectivora, which is not considered a legitimate group anymore.

@jackalspine @lemon-snake

#jackson’s creadures #creature report #lesser hedgehog tenrec #afrotherians