Sometimes I forget that we’re living in a very boring time. Imagine having shit like this in the skies, and worse on land. My biggest worry is my mortgage, not being picked off by murder pigeons as I try foraging for food. We live in luxury, compared to much of the fossil record.
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Wish it was an article. I’m not watching a video about it.
Here's an article. And it's from the Cretaceous, not the Jurassic. I get that the headline is fun and all, but for fuck's sake...
https://www.sci.news/paleontology/meilifeilong-youhao-12561.html
Also, the paper was published on December 21st, so this is kind of old news.
Well it’s about dinosaurs, of course it’s old news.
Thank you!
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Cretaceous park
We found a coxis bone, but here's a hyper realistic image of how this new dinosaur beak looked like on a Wednesday afternoon.
