Olophus

21 yrs

[Olophus @Olophus1]

Two commissions by @TalesofKaimere for a spec evo project I’ve slowly been working on.

[YAArt @flamboYAAnt]

trying to answer my own question if I can get away (mostly from my own judgement) if I don't shade at all, except of one stroke of hair lights and blush.

And othrewise only use self made rim-light & lineart re-coloring auto actions & overlay textures to simulate effort.

[Dr. Alexander Ruebenstahl @ARuebenstahl]

I'm very excited for @JGN_Paleo to see this keystone of his works published.

I'm hopeful for dinosaur paleontology, that we can continue to move beyond questionable ideas about growth and ecology.

The bedrock of our field is taxonomy and anatomy and there is much work to do.

[Dr. James G. Napoli @JGN_Paleo]

But I also know that many paleontologists would balk at me saying "alligators don't change like this as they grow, so Nanotyrannus couldn't have grown into T. rex". And I can empathize with that argument, even though I don't really agree.

[lena🦋⭐️ @yourstrulylenax]

im confused about the jax and ribbit deeptalk scene because jax only said “i told her something deep and personal” and how did it immediately click to ribbit that she’s a closeted transfem lol

[Olophus @Olophus1]

@UpFromTheDepths @DiscussingBones @Viv1_Desk Someone needs to name a sauropod Seismosauros or something like that.

[Olophus @Olophus1]

@JHorut2003 @SomniosusW That’s not how paleontology works

[Olophus @Olophus1]

@maddiet425 You know, you can just say you’re okay with species going extinct

[🌟 LIN 🌺💫 @wispiicoatl]

This ending was accidentally kinda hilarious to me like wdym the purple rabbit died and everyone else’s lives immediately improved

[joy ⭐trying to be more active @homofailbot]

i hate tadc's "forgive and forget" mindset with abusers like jax essentially killed two people with abuse and gaslighting, gets multiple episodes and the finale focused on her, arguably the character w the most flushed out story, and is forgiven with zero repentance

[Olophus @Olophus1]

@Goji_Saurus Tbf, the original description found Dracorex to be a sub adult, and the paper that synonymized them didn’t do histology on it.

[Dr. James G. Napoli @JGN_Paleo]

Vertebrate paleontology has an ontogeny problem.

I think I've solved it.

NEW PREPRINT and THREAD 🧵 (link to preprint at the end)

(Picture from Tetrapod Zoology, images owned by authors cited therein)

[Film Updates @FilmUpdates]

Emily Blunt on creating the alien clicking sounds in ‘DISCLOSURE DAY’

"Steven and I discussed it and he said "We could do it with AI or you could do it" and I said "I feel confident I can make some weird noises." And I was sending him voice memos of me clicking, humming mixed with morse code sounds… I just tried everything."

(Via @etnow)

[NƎON 1/2 here @Himalayaa]

Mailo had a bit of a health scare (vestibular syndrome) this year and I ran to the vet a lot. But now on medication he almost completely recovered back to his usual self, even though he‘s a tired, sleepy, grumpy old man now.
13 years, getting grey & still looking like a puppy 😌

[NƎON 1/2 here @Himalayaa]

I realized that when I can’t plant the roof, I can just grow grass in a box. And the pigeons use it exactly as I hoped they would😌
I did sow a lot more stuff, herbs & flowers, but while it was always intended for the wildlife, they always ate my seeds before I could get there😂

[YAArt @flamboYAAnt]

Wow, I'm so artsy,
let's never do that again

[SHINOBI-03 @SHINOBI__03]

@adison_jurassic Ancient South American temples were a recurring element across the Jurassic Park lore but according to Gareth Edwards he only added them to Rebirth because it was "South America = Ancient Temples" and to have an Indiana Jones reference
https://t.co/ZN3QrbyCX3

[YAArt @flamboYAAnt]

"bitch, have a vitamin pls"

[Olophus @Olophus1]

@ZiqZiqXD @DevMajorAbel @who_is_amaranth We don’t know what the other secret it. He doesn’t tell Ribbit, so she’s not referring to it

[-ˏˋ la missy ˎˊ˗ DELTARUNE CH5 SPOILERS @Miss_muertos]

entiendo que Pomni intenta hacer el bien con el I can fix him a Jax pero girl... TODO el circo intentó arreglarlo Ribbit MURIÓ en el intento y casi le cuesta la cordura a Ragatha son estas

[‘EWA WAHINE’ONIUHINUI (she/they/it) 🦈 @Evoincarnate]

speculative biology nitpick: when people say "to fly you need a big keel on your sternum"
when that isnt the case
birds have that because they use basically only 2 muscles attached to the sternum for the down stroke and upstroke