#paleoposting

[shattersaurus]

Pridesaur, Omni-raptor

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[kadalsaurus]

calling the cavalry

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[mascula-sappho]

nothing would get done without the power of autistic historians

#tagamemnon #ancient rome #paleoposting #silmarillion #silm #ovid #just let the automated tags go to town on this #tism rizz

[wuzhere75]

they in all their highness

w/o text

#my art #2023 #procreate #digital art #paleoart #I love the proportions #perucetus #shitpost #paleoposting #whale

[tetrapodomorpha]

i feel bad for the tully monster. just because it was a funny little guy with the courage to have a unique body plan scientists called it a monster. petition to change the name to the tully buddy

#tully monster #tullimonstrum #paleontology #paleoblr #fishblr #fishposting #paleoposting #carboniferous #cambrian explosion

[whale-in-that-case]

Do you think trilobites taste like shrimp.

#mine #paleontology #paleoposting

[night-pterrors]

Sometimes I just wish I was a dinosaur you know? Today, I picked pine needles to make pine soda while in the woods by the river and I felt like a hadrosaur with a vitamin C deficiency. I crave that vitamin C. But I’m also near the river and have to keep an eye out for scary carnivorous dinosaurs (mountain lions and stuff) but the river looks so tasty for a drink. Hopefully there is nothing that intends on eating me under the water’s surface. Munch munch

#paleoposting

[waheelawhisperer]

Guess I'm just a bit cheesed by paleoposters in such a rush to shut down 'hey, birds ain't scaly, how are they reptiles?' that evolutionary causality gets applied *in reverse*. I mean, 'dinosaur' itself is a broad-ass category where most of the branches didn't wind up padding Colonel Sanders' bottom line, awesome as hadrosaur drumsticks would be.

Great, now I'm hungry.

[bisexualpussy]

EVERYONE SHUT UP THE PREHISTORIC PLANET TRAILER IS GOING TO BE THE ONLY THING I TALK ABOUT FOR A WEEK

#DINOSAUR. #paleoposting

[all-lakes-big-and-small]

Actual Megalodon facts

Because I am petty and bitter lol

((Here are some of my sources:

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On with the facts!

Megs most likely could reach up to 60 feet long but most may have been around 34 ft long.

Previously regarded as a relative of the great white, scientists now speculate it belongs to the family Otodontidae, whereas the great white belongs to the family Lamnidae.

Great white taxonomy on the left and meg on the right

The genus of the meg is still under disbute.

Otodontidae may have diverged from the family Lamnidae around the Early Cretaceous. So while they are related, it is less closely than originally thought.

Scientists speculate the meg to resemble modern day sand tiger sharks or blue sharks or even basking sharks in some ways. Depicting this creature as a giant great white, is seen now as pretty much inaccurate.

Meg ate whales. I was trying to find names of whales they may have eaten when I stumbled across a giant whale that was an apex predator and lived alongside the meg called livyatan. And that fucker was enormous! (And badass!) Here is what they may have looked like (Livyatan is the one on the left):

I found an image of a hypothetical recreation of the skeleton of the meg and I have been dying of laughter XD

Remember that picture of Livyatan? The whale on the right is called Cetothyrium (an extinct genus of baleen whale) and is one hypothetical food source for meg.

That is right, folks. Meg probably fed on fucking baleen whales. And competed with Livyatan- a non filter feeding giant ass whale- for food.

Would the meg have eaten humans? Well in a hypothetical scenarion where we lived alongside the meg, the answer is kinda complicated. When it comes to adults the answer is hell no. Humans aren't simply big enough and even someome with gigantism would be too small to be a proper food sources.

Juvenile megs are speculated at being anywhere from 6 to 35 feet long. They most likely went after smaller whales and some other fish. A 6 foot baby shark MIGHT eat a human but if modern sharks have taught us anything, it is to not judge a book by its cover. A juvenile shark most likely wouldn't eat a human since they most likely could be around 35 feet long and thus able to eat much larger prey.

Would a baby eat a human? It all depends. Most sharks don't go after humans. What is the point when there are other much easier and more nutritious prey sources out there? Evidence also suggests they would not be near humans. Their nurserys may have been as deep as 82 feet- not exactly somewhere most people wanna swim. So most likely very few people if any would come across a baby shark.

This has been post 1 of our series on extinct aquatic creatures!!!

#paleoposts #the meg #megalodon #meg #giant shark #shark facts #extinct shark facts #mod pez

[shattersaurus]

Wuerhosaurus

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[ballwizard]

paleoposting

#all names im considering too like i already use anomalocaris but im considering the other two #blinkie #flashing

[mascula-sappho]

literary analysis got me acting unwise

#tagamemnon #ancient rome #silm fandom #silmarillion #lotr #ovid

[rachenphobie]

you want asks, you get asks.

I saw your name in a long ass paleopost, mehh didn't pay attention, and honestly i don't get vore. but I'm thinking about this from an unbiased scientific pov.

• Why do people get into vore? How? What's the appeal for you guys? How do you guys figure it out, and is there any explicit lines that you guys don't cross? I own reptiles, and lurk a lot of art blogs, and encounter the subject frequently yet stay uninformed.

• I admit I'm not some perfect innocent thing myself and got my quirks, but I just never got vore...so can you explain the appeal for those who don't understand/know what it's about past just "getting eaten kink"?

Thank you for asking this question in a polite manner. I assume said post was from Denny-Nutmeg. I have nothing to say except that what was said is false.  Anyways, that is not the point. Most people get into vore from a very young age. For me it was when I was 6 years-old. Of course, not a fetish at that point. More of an odd fascination and fear. Many people more commonly enjoy the fictional “safe and soft” aspect of it, because of trauma and wanting to be held and loved closely. I enjoy this part with only one person, anyone else, not so much. Others, like myself, enjoy the thrill of a chase and danger. It is either a trope for comfort or a trope for conflict.  For the most part, people have their different opinions considering what is a good and... not-so-good thing in vore, and that is completely fine. Some people keep non-sentient animals out of it, minors (it depends on how you view vore inherently), or even just a certain gender of person. More in a wide-spread manner, though, real vore such as with normal predatory animals like reptiles and amphibians (I have 3 frogs) is incredibly taboo. It makes me horribly uncomfortable.  If you have quirks, niche interests, or kinks, that is fine. Everybody has them, and I don’t think people should try to be attacking others for said interests or kinks, unless they are actually harming people and there is solid evidence of such. For me personally, vore as a whole is more so of a plot device or even in most cases a character dynamic; something that makes that character who they are because of it. I like to use it mainly for a driving conflict, because it had always terrified me as a kid. It still does, so I incorporate it into much of my stuff simply because it is the only thing that scares me deeply, it gives a rush of adrenaline that is very fun.  Vore is a super common interest or kink, and we have lots of media from childrens’ shows and movies in our childhood to blame. But why would it be a bad thing for people to enjoy and obsess over such an interest? It’s totally fictional, not inherently sexual, and not hurting a soul. I admit that I enjoy both non-sexual and sexual sides of vore. All the content I post and view and reblog is not sexual to me. If something is obviously made for that purpose, and is explicit, then it will count as such. I hope this makes sense. There is a horrible stigma and hatred against people who enjoy it in that way, and people seem to think that you cannot separate between the two. It’s just untrue. With that said, I hope I could sort of piece together the odd puzzle that is vore. All people come from different places and have a different critical lense on what is appealing to them. For the most part, it tends to be unable to be explained. After all, why should anyone have to defend themselves for what they love?  You seem like a cool person, I would like to DM you if you’d send me a message; of course, not about the subject of this side blog, but you did say you have reptiles and lurk on paleoblr, sounds like you’d be fun to talk to since we have common interests. Have an awesome day, thanks for sending this ask. 

[shattersaurus]

Bubbly Baryonyx boy

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[shattersaurus]

Kentrosaurus

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