#hipparion

[antiqueanimals]

The Quizzer Book of Knowledge: Nature. Written and edited by George Beal. 1978.

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[philoursmars]

Marseille. Le Palais Longchamp abrite deux musées, ici le Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle.

Mosasaure Prognathodon

idem

Trilobites Paradoxides gracilis

crâne d'Hipparion, miocène

ammonites fossilisées en opales, je suppose ??(pas d'explication sur place)

cristaux d'améthyste, je pense (là, c'est ma faute : je ne l'ai pas noté !)

[darekasama]

Day 4: Nature and animals

The fantasy world of Project TL resembles our Earth and you'd be able to easily recognise a great deal of plants and animals. However, there is more than what meets the eye…

Deep in the rainforests, long necked herbivores feed off the highest canopies where toothed birds make their nests.

Past the the seed ferns of the undergrowth, along the many rivers and lakes, odd shaped paw prints collect in the mud.

Herds of  three-toed horses trot through the ginkgo woodlands, stalked by sabre-toothed carnivores that are neither cats nor dogs.

A mismatched collection of creatures all inhabiting the same land, as if it was a crossroad of epochs.

Is it pure chance? The influence of magic? The will of higher beings?

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[knuppitalism-with-ue]

Another sketch brought to you by #paleostream!

Choerolophodon, a quite small and weird proboscidean next to a Hipparion.

[o-craven-canto]

My reconstruction of a “realistic ;)” winged horse, after the mythical Pegasus, made in collaboration with my students at a course of Systematic Zoology, as presented during the 2023 SpecPosium (recording pending).

As the professor pointed out, a cellulose-based diet would make the Pegasus far too heavy to take flight, as it requires a large and bulky gut. We changed its diet to that of an opportunistic predator/scavenger, exploiting the fact that long-distance soaring makes it easy to find carrions (see: condors, giant Azhdarchids). Face and teeth had also to be redesigned of consequence: unlike ruminants, horses still have canines that can be repurposed for carnivory. No longer required to be long to keep the eyes above the grass while grazing, the jaws are much shorter for better leverage when biting into bones.

The loss of heavy guts also allows to move the body’s center of gravity forward, between the shoulders, where massive pectoral and dorsal muscles are attached to power the wings. Unlike birds, but as in large pterosaurs, wings have to carry much of the body weight on the ground, and provide the main force for take-off.

Since a re-evolution of bird-like feathers seems unlikely, we went for a wing surface made up of stiff hair-derived bristles with essentially the same function, each bundle controlled by skin muscles. We derived the Pegasus not by the modern horse Equus but by the earlier three-toed equids such as Hipparion, so that one toe could be repurposed into a wing finger as in pterodactyls.

[symphcnii]

Whilst K'lyhhia does have a traditional Miqo'te name, she usually just goes by Lyhhia.

She doesn't really have any connection to her Miqo'te heritage and doesn't consider herself part of the Hipparion (K) tribe. She doesn't really even worship Azeyma or indeed any of the Twelve, having been raised to worship the kami. The only reason she knows her real name is because she was found in the remains of a bassinet, upon which her name was engraved.

She does want to learn more about Miqo'te culture, and is always longing for information about her real family, but she has so far come up empty-handed as she's not even sure where to look.

[ankewehner]

I posted 6,268 times in 2022

That's 921 more posts than 2021!

65 posts created (1%)

6,203 posts reblogged (99%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

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I tagged 1,599 of my posts in 2022

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Longest Tag: 129 characters

#there was also a group of european settlers in the usa who got stuck on a trek because they were stupid and there was cannibalism

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

*sees in recommended blogs "fullfrontalfetish"*

WTF?

*looks again*

Oh, it's @fullfrontalfish

OK

24 notes - Posted June 15, 2022

#4

How many rows of teeth should a unicorn have?

27 notes - Posted June 2, 2022

#3

Imagine you decide to move or replace an old shelf in your cellar, and behind it you find a small coal mine. Only it's fake. Only legally it's not.

So happened at the university of Cologne in the early 1980s.

Back when the particular building was constructed, back in 1932, they included a 1:1 model of 40 metres of mine tunnel, with actual coal glued to the walls with pitch, real minecarts and tools sourced from mining companies... all that as demonstration object for the faculty of economics and social sciences to demonstrate the conditions in coal mining at the time (again, early 1930s).

And I don't know when it happened, but at some point it was registered like a real mine under German law.

And at some point, people forgot it. Until for some or other reason the shelf that was put in front of the entrance got moved.

Today the institute for occupational medicine, environmental medicine and prevention research is responsible for it.

Source (German): https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbarastollen_(K%C3%B6ln)

31 notes - Posted June 8, 2022

#2

If I had a nickel for every time a cartoon series had an episode about a lake monster that turned out to be a submarine made to look like a lake monster, I'd have three nickels. That's not much, but it's odd that it happened thrice.

41 notes - Posted April 10, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

Random etymology lookup: Hippo

Hippo is shortened from "hippopotamus", which derives from Ancient Greek hippopótamos, which is put together from híppos (horse) and potamós (river)

Potamós is also in "Mesopotamia", the land between the rivers [Tigris and Euphrates]. The meso- prefix derives from mésos (middle)

Potamós is also also in "potamodromous", which is a jargon adjective applied to fishes that migrate in freshwater only. Drómos means "race" or "racetrack".

Drómos is also in "hippodrome", a horse race track, which brings us back to the beginning.

We could continue to "dromedary", dromàs kámēlos, the “running camel”, but let's stick with the horsies. Hipparions?

53 notes - Posted June 26, 2022

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[enbnuuynoises]

Raephyn K'lynth

[Ray-fhin Koo-lin-th ]

Their name was given by their adoptive Miqo'te parents, so pronunciation sounds more feline.

Ph, K, & Th sounds are sharper, like imitating a cat hissing/spitting. But also K is koo, since one of their mothers is from the Hipparion tribe.

Due to their parentage and voidsent things, Raephyn can propperly pronounce it.

8/13/23

How do you pronounce your wol(oc)'s name?

[flaviastrani]

New heraldry inspired paleoart available on Redbubble featuring the three-toed horse Hipparion! https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/51979061 ArtStation / Twitter

[antiqueanimals]

Machairodus. Zdeněk Burian.

via

[extinct-horses]

Hipparion by RomanYevseyev

[paleofan]

Hipparion was a small three-toed horse with a wide distribution from North Africa, to Eurasia and Africa. It lived from the Miocene to the Pleistocene. Many species were described. Neohipparion affine from North America was one of the larger ones. Illustration for the Museum of the Rockies #Hipparion #horse #paleoart #paleontology #fossil #neohipparion (at Nebraska) https://www.instagram.com/p/BuiWqxsFwIY/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1885m9ha2t2xt

[sagoliisaffron]

SagoliiSaffron - Super Spices

🥥🌻Golden Milk🌻🥥

Golden milk has traditionally been used by Thanalani and Thavnairian households as a remedy for illness, but this drink can benefit people even if they dont have the sniffles.

Turmeric, one of the main ingredients, is great for your liver and has anti-inflammatory properties.

Turmeric was once called a poor man’s saffron, but now we know how incredibly healing and powerful this spice truly is. Curcumin is the active compound in turmeric that is powerfully anti-inflammatory as well as rich in antioxidants. Curcumin has powerful antioxidant effects. It neutralizes free radicals on its own, and then stimulates the body’s own antioxidant enzymes.

Curcumin can cross the blood-brain barrier and has been shown to lead to various improvements in the pathological process of Alzheimer’s disease. Curcumin can help treat symptoms of arthritis and is in some cases more effective than anti-inflammatory drugs.

To make this drink gather: 3 cups coconut milk 1/4 tsp ginger 1 1/2 tsp ground turmeric 1 cinnamon stick 1 tbsp coconut oil 3 tbsp honey (also chock full of things that are great for your body) A pinch of pepper. Mix these all into a small pot and bring to a boil then simmer for 5-10 minutes. Ta-Da!!!

If you ever find yourself in the company of a Hipparion Miqo'te from the Spice & Sotol Trade(K'ajia's family branch), they will be quick to offer you this drink if you seem under the weather.

If not, they are not worth the salt they peddle!

[volcarona-the-fox]

TOTAL DRAMA PALEONTOLOGY

in the world tour episode “chinese fake-out”

chris tells “in 8 million years bc, king dim sum led a battalion of donkey warriors down this great wall!”, even though it’s possibly not true

courtney says “8 million bc was the miocene era, there were dinosaurs!”

OMG THE MIOCENE IS MY FAVORITE ERA AND SHE SAID THATTTT

she’s obviously wrong about dinosaurs other than birds, which were badass during the miocene anyways but she IS right about the epoch, 8 million BC is the Miocene, to be more precise the Tortonian stage

i regret clicking on all of the ages i’m a nerd ha

BUT

ignoring that the legend of king dim sum was most likely false, remember that chris also said “donkey warriors”, and the episode was taken place in china too

well

according to PaleoBioDB, in the late miocene of china, there was really something like a donkey

but no, not really

it’s a primitive horse instead

called Hipparion

maybe those were the donkey warriors down the great wall after all

[donnyclaws]

🚀🐗🦓  REDBUBBLE UPDATE 🦓🐗🚀

Transgender retro aliens, zebras, The devil & Scp postcards! + Some older art tossed up as stickers and prints. I also have better quality prints over on Inprnt. 

[howrsechronicles2-blog]

Shit!!  A new type of horsie I didn’t even fucking knew existed! Fucking score! God damn!