27. Astrophysicist, writer, artist. Michigan. Business inquiries: kaijunobiz@gmail.com
I have this mod in minecraft where I can wear a flower crown and when I do wear it all the sheepies follow me around
stalkingyermom asked:
kaijuno answered:
aw poor newt bby
also imagine: bb noot in dinosaur footie pyjamas with a hood and a tail and him refusing to take them off
yeah but what about adult noot in dinosaur footie pyjamas with the hood and the tail and refusing to take them off and hermann shouting at him because “it’s stupid and he cannot allow that kind of behavior in the lab”
Hermann eventually tries bribing him to take off the footie pyjamas with junk food and cuddles
i want fanfiction based on this i need it
oh yes i 100% need a fanfic on this
stalkingyermom asked:
kaijuno answered:
aw poor newt bby
also imagine: bb noot in dinosaur footie pyjamas with a hood and a tail and him refusing to take them off
yeah but what about adult noot in dinosaur footie pyjamas with the hood and the tail and refusing to take them off and hermann shouting at him because “it’s stupid and he cannot allow that kind of behavior in the lab”
Hermann eventually tries bribing him to take off the footie pyjamas with junk food and cuddles
Running with the pheasants
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I know that all birds are dinosaurs, but some birds are better at looking like dinosaurs than others.
stalkingyermom asked:
aw poor newt bby
also imagine: bb noot in dinosaur footie pyjamas with a hood and a tail and him refusing to take them off
Factfiles:
Abditosaurus kuehnei
Artwork by @i-draws-dinosaurs, written by @i-draws-dinosaurs
Name meaning: Walter Kühne’s forgotten reptile
Time: 70.5 million years ago (Maastrichtian stage of the Late Cretaceous)
Location: Tremp Formation, Catalonia, Spain
For a species only fully described in 2022, Abditosaurus as a fossil has a long history, stretching back to its discovery by Walter Kühne in 1954. Kühne began his palaeontological career as a political refugee from Germany after he was imprisoned by the Nazis as a communist sympathiser then forced to migrate to Britain in 1938. There he hunted for tiny Triassic mammal teeth, and in his later career he would find the fossil site where Abditosaurus was buried.
After collection expeditions in 1954 and 1955, the site was abandoned when funding for the dig was lost. The rest of the skeleton was assembled together piecemeal over the next six decades, with other researchers returning to the site in 1956, 1984, 1986, and 2012-2014! Finally, after decades of languishing in storerooms and being misassigned to other genera, Abditosaurus is back together as the most complete titanosaur ever found in Europe!
Ibirania parva
Artwork by @i-draws-dinosaurs, written by @i-draws-dinosaurs
Name meaning: Little wanderer of Ibirá (a municipality of São Paulo, Brazil)
Time: ~85 to 72 million years ago (Santonian to Campanian stages of the Late Cretaceous)
Location: São José do Rio Preto Formation, Brazil
Enormous sauropods keep making the news as the next giant behemoth, stacking up a roster of incredibly huge animals that push the limits of how big a land animal can get. But every now and then, a sauropod comes along that is just a certified Little Guy, and that is Ibirania! Described in 2022 as a new genus of saltasaurine, Ibirania is remarkably little even within this modest-sized clade. It clocks in at under 6 metres long and only a couple heads taller than the average human, which also makes it an extremely temptingly rideable size. Like that’s just a less messed up horse with some slightly more uncomfortable armour plates!
Another unique feature of Ibirania is the evidence for acute osteomyelitis in the leg of one specimen, an example of one of the many diseases that could and did affect dinosaurs throughout their probably pretty difficult lives. Not only that, but there are preserved blood parasites inside the leg bone that would have caused the infection, a definite first in dinosaur paleontology! Kinda sucks for the dinosaur, but also fascinating stuff!
hey, @bunjywunjy - this might be your jam (and any other dinosaur enthusiasts, it’s a heck of a read)
man that’s not just a heck of a read it’s fuckin GROUNDBREAKING is what it is!
it’s a geologic snapshot of the apocalypse.
reading the full article is certainly a trip, and to summarize for those who are intimidated by longer reads:
- chicxulub is the given name for the meteor that struck/initiated the event
- the paleontologist within is described as making groundbreaking discoveries of multiple species every day, but many of his peers discount him because they’re grouchy old dudes he accidentally had a fragment of a turtle bone involved in a larger reconstruction of a fossil this one time and they won’t let him live it down.
- the extinction event was so fast and so destructive, this guy describes this particular dig-site as being so densely layered with dead and dying creatures, there is a lot of organic tissues that have been preserved, and he is able to even discern that many of the marine and freshwater fish may have still been alive as they were buried due to molten glass being found in their gills, implying they were still attempting to breathe.
- they looked into exactly when and how this could have happened, having freshwater and marine animals stacked on top of mammals and larger dinosaurs (including an amazing deinonychus forearm discovery he was able to match to feather fossils he was finding atop the pile), and rather it being the initial tsunami, they are fairly sure that it was caused by a seiche of catastrophic proportions, which would have been set off within the first hour of the event. denser and larger creatures sunk to the bottom, leaving lighter debris like leaves, small fish, feathers, and molten glass on the surface.
summary: terrifying!
This is fucking incredible
Holy SHIT!
Here’s a famous book snippet describing how feasible that we could find dinosaur fossils on the moon.
Zoomed in and found this gem
I think I found someone who knows about the camera
Hello there, observant person!
uh oh
i encourage you guys to click the link it’s hella rad
bonus:
special protected fire hydrant
Bucket
damnnnnn
w h
I assume they mean animatronic dinosaurs but honestly with how this year is going who fucking knows
vegetable maintenance
To respond to some of the comments, I planted this little row of veggies just for my flock. They graze from it a bit each day and leave my native pollinators alone. We have two raised beds nearby designated for people veggies.
dinosaurs grazing
