#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 !)

[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%)

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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

[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

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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!

[diplotomodon]

ISPH 2017 - Day 1

I have spent ten hours total on trains and been forced to wake up before 6AM over the past three days but it’s WORTH IT because ISPH officially started today and boy howdy a lot is going on!

Greg Erickson of bite force mechanics fame started the day off with a keynote discussion on hadrosauroid dental batteries, among other things. It turns out they’re among the most histologically complex teeth currently known. (A special highlight: a slide on Archard’s wear modeling titled only “Science?”)

The first session was all focused on ontogeny and development:

Oscar Cambra-Moo talked about identifying human rib age classes through histomorphology

Holger Petermann aged three Anchisaurus specimens based on lines of arrested growth and other skeletal features (spoilers: it may be a paedomorphic taxon)

Daniel Barta took a look at the basal ornithopod Haya and found that we don’t actually have any adults yet so we may have to reconsider their diagnostic characteristics

Eli Amson schooled the audience on xenarthran forelimbs (those’d be sloths, armadillos, and anteaters for the uninitiated) and found that a high degree of anisotropy in the humeri was generally consistent with a more restricted range of movement

Sophie Sanchez presented some life history data on the tristichopterid fish Hyneria based on histology via synchrotron, also this is exceptionally relevant to my current research and my lab managers are literally coauthors so I feel all warm and happy inside

After a generous 90 minute lunch break Megan Whitney brought us back with some cute baby emus and started a discussion about the so called “hatching line” purportedly seen in long bone thin sections of dinosaurs extinct and extant, which led directly into...

Mateusz Wosik’s work on ostriches and hadrosaurs which specifically names this line as the “neonatal signal”, defined as a dark, parallel-fibered zone corresponding with a significant reduction in vascular canal size, and more importantly you can sometimes see raccoon faces in there

Edina Prondvai sought to identify precocial or altricial habits in a variety of “dinobird” taxa (read: basal avialans), and found that there was a much greater range of intraspecimen variability than one might expect (and it didn’t help that the Jeholornis in the study turned out to be half fake)

Jennifer Botha-Brink dove straight into prozostrodontian cynodonts from Brazil, a lot of which went a bit over my head because mammals aren’t quite my thing (a line of my notes literally reads “cynodonts, how do they work”), but being able to thin section these tiny bones is really impressive

Carmen Nacarino-Meneses returned to the idea of birth being histologically visible, and found a corresponding non-cyclical cortex growth mark in young horses that had not yet remodeled their bones

I took the opportunity to score some of the sweet chocolate chip cookies the organizing committee provided before heading back to the next session on dental tissues. And this is where things got really interesting.

Julia Audije-Gil reviewed a Cretaceous Lagerstätten in Spain and found iron precipitating between the growth lines of crocodile teeth, which has some interesting preservational implications for the site

Mike D’Emic reaffirmed to everyone in the room that Majungasaurus was Really Freakin’ Weird, and it turns out its tooth replacement rates are more similar to ornithischians than anything else. Also, he went over van Ebner lines, which really do reflect daily dentine deposition because the alternative is ridiculously implausible and would take too long

Yara Haridy gave a great presentation on Opisthodontosaurus teeth, and it turns out that while it may appear to have acrodont dentition, extant taxa skew our interpretation of what that term really means, and this guy actually grew replacement teeth in the soft tissue of the jaws, leaving remnants of old teeth visible in layers in the alveolar bone

Aaron LeBlanc was up next and talked mosasaur teeth, where upon examination it turns out that the different tooth attachment structures seen in squamates, archosaurs, and mammals may actually be homologous. Also, mushroom jokes

Guillem Orlandi-Oliveras gave us a rundown on the many species of Hipparion, and how the small size seen in a few morphotypes is likely a consequence of a fast life history influenced by ecological and dietary pressures

And finally, Barbara Grandstaff talked about this fish called Cylindracanthus that we still know next to nothing about even after slicing it into bits, and still somehow made it one of the most entertaining and insightful presentations during the entire day.

I’m back tomorrow in a scant few hours for Day 2, where we shift gears to biomechanics, physiology, practical methodology, and a little bit of archaeology. Also, Phil Manning pays us a visit and I take a selfie with a polar bear, maybe, no guarantees. More to come.