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nimble, a border collie-papillon mix, wins the 12” class in the 2024 masters agility championship. the first time a mixed breed has won at westminster ever.

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Results from the last #paleostream of the year!

Acheronauta, Diatryma, Hadrosteus and Imperobator (wing mobility is rather speculative).

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a while ago I read this sci-fi short story from the 50s where a guy is kidnapped and interrogated by aliens using a very sophisticated lie detector, but he realizes that the lie detector works off technical truth, and with some careful phrasing and misdirection, he manages to make them believe that humans are a race of immortal, overpowered, omniscient telepathic beings. and it works.

my favorite part is when he tells them that humans are "capable of transportation without the aid of spaceships or any vehicles, just by using mental power to control physical matter". it's true, we can. it's called walking.

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Harpies are avian scavengers found across partly forested areas, deserts, grasslands and shorelines. These large buzzards are a vital part of the ecosystem acting as the natural cleaning crew of their territory, cleaning away carcasses and as such keeping disease low. Their ironclad stomachs are capable of eating rotting flesh and even bone.

Males and females are dimorphic, with males possessing a bony crest, longer plumes and colored facial skin. While both sexes possess the impressive mammary like wattle, males are able to inflate theirs as part of their courting display. Which originally caused early explorers to believe these avian beasts possessed human breasts.

Harpies are monogamous and will rear up to 3 chicks in a single breeding season. Often in large necks high in the canopy or along cliff sides. 

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Some Fangoji things

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y'all ever reach the end of google

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In Russia squirrels have been known to hunt stray dogs in packs, mobbing them in large numbers, gnawing them to death, and witnesses claim the squirrels then ran off carrying small chunks of flesh. It's probably a social defensive response that ended up accidentally killing the percieved predator and the squirrels were just like "hey, waste not want not" and decided to eat some of their would-be attacker.

hey what the FUCK is going on in Russia

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Your insane kaiju lore for the day, courtesy of Wikizilla's Les.

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NOW YOU CAN SEARCH SPECIFICALLY FOR FREAKS

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I thought I was the one obsessed with potatoes but it turns out that when you point it out people come with 82493 justifications about why potatoes (and it's always just them, even in my other posts few people wanted to talk about say, coffee in space) are always justified actually and you don't need to think about them

noooooooooooooo I don't wanna think about the thousands of years of civilization and culture in the Andes please please please don't make me think about other cultures pleaaaaaase just let me have my knights and wizards noooooooooo

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some tiny little guys have established themselves on my car mirrors- first noticed them as little specks this summer, they’re getting to be a respectable size

I love that some lichens are like, highly sensitive habitat specialists that only survive in idyllic, pristine conditions, and other lichens are just like, fuck it. Car mirror.

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The Swords Grow Wild: Ninanak

Hiding among the rings of a distant gas giant is a strange celestial body unlike any other. Probes have come to title the construct as "Ninanak", speculated to be an ancient biomechanical satellite that has since overgrown into an extraordinary being. Whatever its purpose once was, it now shields the world of it's birth like a rib cage containing a heart.

An oceanic membrane between it's "ribs" contains an atmosphere that connects various celestial bodies, seemingly gained through unknown means of gravitational manipulation, perhaps using it's homeworld as a sinkhole to drag in things of interest. Many asteroids and moons have been taken in and broken down by Ninanak, slowly stripped of resources to sustain it's core planet named "Heliconia".

Ninanak shows some signs of holding an A.I. intellect, seemingly picking worlds to strip of resources very carefully, and even rejecting things that do not fit its requirements or curiosity. On occasion, however, it has engulfed planets or structures with sapient life on them, leading to accidental colonization of Heliconia. There have been attempts to communicate with Ninanak, but it responses are few or incomprehensible. It is speculated that either the A.I. is not interested in talking, or it has overgrown it's own "mind" and it's body is running on instincts developed over its long, unrestrained existence.

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The Swords Grow Wild: Kladenets (Ruby Throated Kladenet) A common group of post-weapon Trochilimorphic fauna that act primarily as predators of their ecosystem, Kladenets are defined by their bladed mandible. This feature was used by it's ancestor to behead and dismember targets, now used to hunt prey, break open plump Ancile stems, or to gather materials for nest. The toes of their feet once held wheels which gave their ancestors deadly speed, but currently natural selection favours better grip and balance.

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The Swords Grow Wild: Tagryxnie A post-vehicle Trochilimorph, Tagryxnie are a common sight on the overgrown stromata-highway plains of Heliconia. While many creatures lost their wheels via natural selection, Tagryxnie kept them for the high-speed advantage. Tagryxnie are Anciliavores, snipping at the smaller Ancile growth with their beaks and pulling them in with great efficiency. Bioluminescent organs on their head help light their way at night, as well as for display to fellow herd-mates. They are a common choice of prey for larger predators.

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The Swords Grow Wild: Emque

(Species presented are Red Winged Target species of Emque, Targets being a kite sized group with exotic spots that distract predators from their main body.)

A common Trochilian organism in the skies of Heliconia, Emque are descendants of ancient biomechanical bombing drones.

They are a very successful animal group, diversifying into various shapes and sizes that fill in most avian niches. They can be as small as a human hand, or as large as a human car, sometimes bigger. All species fly via organic jet propulsion. Three eyes are common, two for side observation and one for forward and below viewing.

Emque are nectarvores for the most part, using their proboscis to suck up energy rich fluid from Ancile nectar pools or from skybound Re-Fueler mega-organisms that many Emque have co-evolved with.

Emque carry biomechanical bombs on their undersides which payloads are varied based on species and hormonal influence. For example, some species that flock in the sky will deploy flare bombs when pursued by a predator in order to confuse it's vision. Other species clear out nesting sites by dropping incendiary bombs to ensure a safe landing.

All Emque species are dispersal reproducers, meaning that during the reproductive season, their bombs are modified into seeders holding a payload of embryo-spores that are widely spread across fertile lands.