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| Carlos | Dec 6 2017, 01:37 PM Post #1 |
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Adveho in me Lucifero
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https://www.nature.com/articles/nature24679 |
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| TAXESbutNano | Dec 6 2017, 01:48 PM Post #2 |
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I'm going back to basics.
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Damnit, we already had a demon duck of doom! |
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| Ebervalius | Dec 6 2017, 01:49 PM Post #3 |
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Transhuman
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Damn, I was gonna post that! Anyway, pretty cool news. |
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The Sirens of the Land of Fire Codex Ebervaliorum Spoiler: click to toggle
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| Sayornis | Dec 6 2017, 02:20 PM Post #4 |
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Neotenous
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Darn you Carlos, I just came here to post that and I was going to make a crocoduck joke... Oh, and I don't see it in the Nature paper, so here's a link with a reconstruction: https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/12/duck-dinosaur-amphibious-halszkaraptor-fossil-mongolia-science/
Edited by Sayornis, Dec 6 2017, 02:24 PM.
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The Library is open. (Now under new management!)
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| Archeoraptor | Dec 6 2017, 02:23 PM Post #5 |
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"A living paradox"
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aquatic in which sense,it was ecologicaly like an aseriform,an stork? |
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Astarte an alt eocene world,now on long hiatus but you never know Fanauraa; The rebirth of Aotearoa future evo set in new zealand after a mass extinction coming soon......a world that was seeded with earth´s weridest and who knows what is coming next........... " I have to know what the world will be looking throw a future beyond us I have to know what could have been if fate acted in another way I have to know what lies on the unknown universe I have to know that the laws of thee universe can be broken throw The Spec I gain strength to the inner peace the is not good of evil only nature and change,the evolution of all livings beings" " Spoiler: click to toggle | |
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| TAXESbutNano | Dec 6 2017, 02:45 PM Post #6 |
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I'm going back to basics.
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Supposedly its wings are like those of a diving bird, and its neck is like that of a plesiosaur, if you analyse it. Not sure how the legs and tail add up- so sorta aqua-stork maybe? |
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| Carlos | Dec 6 2017, 03:19 PM Post #7 |
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Adveho in me Lucifero
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Functionally, it is compared to waterfowl, which it does resemble. |
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| Yiqi15 | Dec 6 2017, 03:54 PM Post #8 |
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Prime Specimen
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A new clade of aquatic dinosaurs? Go on. |
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| Dr Nitwhite | Dec 6 2017, 04:32 PM Post #9 |
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Luddite
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Strikes me sort of like a goose or swan, only on long legs. A wading dabbler? Perhaps it grazed like said birds. |
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| peashyjah | Dec 6 2017, 07:34 PM Post #10 |
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Bydo
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Perhaps this dinosaur would have gave rise to entire assemblages of highly-specialized creatures if it and many other dinosaurs weren't extinct. |
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| Dragon | Dec 6 2017, 08:00 PM Post #11 |
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/r/GamingCirclejerk is the best subreddit, don't @ me
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Relevant Munchkin card
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"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life," John 3:16 A neat pixel animation of a future cowboy
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| Vorsa | Dec 7 2017, 02:49 PM Post #12 |
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Mysterious tundra-dwelling humanoid
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| LittleLazyLass | Dec 8 2017, 12:45 AM Post #13 |
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Proud quilt in a bag
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Here's a blog post by Tristan Stock. |
totally not British, b-baka! You like me (Unlike)I don't even really like this song that much but the title is pretty relatable sometimes, I guess. Me What, you want me to tell you what these mean? Read First Words Maybe | |
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