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an interaction im very tired of in online autism spaces. aka when you don’t have a special interest / when your special interest isn’t [character] or [fandom]

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Have there been any primarily arboreal crocodilians?

Alas no. Aside from the fact that arboreality already preserves rather badly in the fossil record, theres just been no crocodilians (or even pseudosuchian) with any decent evidence of having been a climber.

Now crocs are able of doing a little bit of climbing, toppled over trees, logs sticking out from water, fences even. But nothing close to "real" climbing as would be expected from an arboreal animal.

Now before anyone brings up Mekosuchus, sadly theres just no good evidence for that. The claim has originated with Paul Willis, who identifies it as terrestrial and remarks on similarities between the humerus of Mekosuchus and those of monitor lizards, informally suggesting arboreal behavior without really going in depth or providing any solid evidence. J.D. Scanlon later argued against this idea, highlight that 1) the niche of monitor lizards was not open as mistakenly thought by Willis and 2) there are no remains from the deposits yielding Mekosuchus (at least on the mainland) that suggest anything other than "normal" crocodile foot structure.

Coupled with the fact that the past 30 years saw no actual evidence for arboreality to back up what was a more informal suggestion, a recent paper that summarizes all mekosuchines (which Willis was involved with) didn't mention arboreality at all. Which makes it seem like the claim just isn't regarded as serious enough to even be included.

That being said, theres work being done on Mekosuchus remains from Vanuato that should hopefully shed more light on the animals ecology. For now, its probably safer to go with the interpretation of it as a more terrestrial animal, possibly similar to modern dwarf crocodilians that inhabit hidden rainforest streams.

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Charles from the henry stickmin collection

Today, Jesus is holding:

Charles from the Henry Stickmin Collection

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jury is giving cunt

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Saw Sol’s sopping wet tits and Gabe went home. This episode was peak.

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Jules Verne novels are the opposite of The Twilight Zone. “if three guys went to the sea floor in a submersible vessel and they saw every kind of sea life imaginable, wouldn’t that be fucking sick? hi i’m Jules Verne” mf

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The amount of red on the belly of a red-bellied woodpecker is nothing short of lacking if not laughable

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Close enough welcome back oviaraptor

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if youre ever feeling bad just look at pictures of albatross chicks bc theyre adorable but also fucking hilarious like the parents look like they go to pta meetings in full makeup carrying gucci handbags and the babies look like funky little muppets and i love them

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Hi my name is Don Quixote of La Mancha the Knight of the Rueful Figure and I have a rueful figure (that's how I got my name) with purple bruised ribs and tall stature and gaunt features and hair turning gray and a rather hooked aquiline nose and large black drooping mustaches and a lot of people tell me I look like Amadís of Gaul (AN: if u don’t know who he is begone!). I’m not related to Lady Oriana but I wish I was because she’s an incomparable flowering beauty. I’m a knight errant but some of my teeth and grinders are missing. I have long lank limbs. I’m also a defender of damsels, protector of orphans, succourer of the needy, righter of wrongs, undoer of injustice, and I wander a magic countryside called the mountains of Spain where I’m in my first year of knighthood (I’m forty-nine). I’m a gentleman (in case you couldn’t tell) and I wear mostly armor. I love my great-grandfather's forgotten corner of the house and I cobble together all my clothes from there. For example today I was wearing a doublet of fine cloth with matching shoes and velvet breeches and a helmet, morion, visor, breastplate and backpiece. I was riding outside La Mancha. It was early morning so the rays of the sun fell obliquely and the heat did not distress me, which I was very happy about. A lot of giants stared at me. I put up my pasteboard visor at them.

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Uh… Awakening crew based on this concept art of Grey Warden armor(???)

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every tight knit friend group got the: - always at 1HP - never has inventory space - refuses to wear armour

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I’m actually really glad I went into DA:V completely blind because I made a Qunari Crow warrior and it’s been the funniest fucking thing.

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i like this armor for davrin

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Raptors would have been really silly, this is my scientific opinion

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Lil balls of Outrage! 🐽💢 Made a group of Mankey cake pops, filled with banana cake and banana-infused white chocolate ganache 🍌 Not sure where that one got a hat though, anyone missing one? 🤔🧢