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#lizard #Komodo Dragon

Komodo Dragon. Indonesian Islands of Komodo,Rinca,Flores and Gili Motang.1 of 3 venomous lizards on Earth.

barely reblog anything these days, but this is nice.

I added a Lotad (and some friends) to this drawing for 131 days! See if you can find everything I hid in here!

#fossil #crocodile #yeah baby give me more croc ancestors #that’s my jam

These crocodile ancestors lived a two-legged life

A set of 106-million year old footprints show a crocodile relative appears to have walked on two legs.

Modern day crocodiles are pretty impressive. Some even climb trees. But 106 million years ago, a crocodile ancestor had another trick: It walked on two legs.

That’s what scientists now think, based on fossil footprints in South Korea. They are the first footprint evidence that some ancient ancestors of modern crocodiles walked on two legs. The size and spacing of the tracks suggest the reptile’s length spanned 2 to 3 meters (6 to 12 feet). That would make it about the size of modern crocs.  

Explainer: Understanding geologic time

The ancient tracks appear in the Jinju Formation, a South Korean site full of fossils. Most of its fossils date to the Mesozoic, between 252 and 66 million years ago. The Mesozoic is sometimes called the Age of Dinosaurs, but plenty of other animals lived at that time, too.

Now scientists have found a set of footprints there. It’s tough to identify what species made them, says Martin Lockley. As a paleontologist, he studies ancient organisms. He works at the University of Colorado in Denver. “Short of finding the animal dead in its tracks, there’s always a little bit of uncertainty,” he explains.

Explainer: How a fossil forms

But footprints, like animals, can be classified by type. The scientists couldn’t tell what animal left the beautifully preserved prints. For that, they’d need fossils of its tissues. Instead, they sorted the ancient prints into a “footprint genus.” So while they couldn’t say what animal genus the prints belonged to, they were able to determine that they were in the footprint genus Batrachopus.

All prints in this group were made by crocodylomorphs (Krok-oh-DY-loh-morfs). The name means “crocodile-shaped.” This group includes modern crocodiles, alligators and their ancestors.

The tracks’ most surprising feature is that they only show hind feet. There’s no evidence of “hand” prints at all. That’s strong evidence that this creature was bipedal — walking on only its hind legs, Lockley says. “We have dozens of these things, and not one sign of a front footprint,” he says. “So we’re pretty convinced.”

The Washington Post, May 19, 1912

Ohhhhh, well I will be picking this up to give to krok so he can have his actionmaster partner

Sprigatito, Fuecoco, and Quaxly travel into a fantasy realm.

#aww yeah another jackbox night

#this will be fun

Paranatural Jackbox Night 2!!!

Hey guys! I’m going to be hosting another Quiplash 2/Drawful 2 game night with custom Paranatural prompts!

It will be on SATURDAY NIGHT AUGUST 22, at 8:00 PM EASTERN TIME. We will be using Zoom, which I will give a link to when the game night starts.

If you’re not familiar with how Jackbox works, a game is put on the screen, and all the players answer prompts on their phone, which then appear on the game screen. We are using Zoom ONLY to see the game screen, so you DO NOT need to have your camera or sound on for the game night!

Quiplash works like Cards Against Humanity, and Drawful works sort of like drawing charades. If you don’t know how to play, that’s ok! You can watch a few rounds and then hop in. You can jump onto the Zoom meeting at any time, and even if you’re not a player in one of the games, you can play as an audience member.

If you can RSVP by sending us an ask or reply, etc., I’d appreciate it just to get a general head count, but you don’t need to by any means. Heck, if you find out 5 minutes before the game starts that you can play? Come on in!

Any questions can be directed at this blog or message @blairdiggory if you want to ask something more privately.

I like the juxtaposition between the message of “the medic is beautiful” and just how ominous he looks in this image. (”You’re Beautiful” plays as he ominously walks towards you, syringe in one hand and snapping his fingers with the other)

Medic from TF2 is beautiful

Requested by @the-man-in-green 

1918 Two women sharpening an axe. From My Vintage Dreams, FB.