#lopho

[karma-wizard]

He’s so cute omg 😭 get this baby a lil snack please

Calappa lophos

[weirdmarioenemies]

Name: Dilophosaurus wetherilli

Debut: Real Life, Circa The Early Jurassic (roughly 280 million years ago)

Hi I'm gonna talk about my favorite dinosaur now and you're gonna like it! Or maybe you won't, I don't know you! But y'know what I do know? Dilophosaurus!!! It's my best friend. They named it after the fact that it's got two (di) crests (lopho) on its head and also it's a reptile (saurus). A big reptile at that! In fact, it was the largest known animal of its time to walk the land in North America, and was almost certainly the apex predator of its environment, the Kayenta Formation (located across several of what are now the South-Western United States).

As you can see, this size chart demonstrates that the largest specimen discovered was about 7 meters (23 feet) long; no Tyrannosaurus rex, mind you, but still far larger than... some popular depictions might lead you to believe.

Also contrary to what some popular depictions might lead you to believe, Dilophosaurus would not have required the use of various biological mechanisms such as, for instance, retractable neck frills or venom-spitting to take down its prey; mechanisms which, mind you, are exclusively seen in animals as methods of self-defense, and would therefore only serve to scare away potential prey items.

Speaking of prey items, this stunning piece by Chase Stone depicts a pair of Dilophosaurus as having just brought down a prosauropod (a name for early sauropod relatives). Dilophosaurus did in fact live alongside at least one prosauropod, Sarahsaurus, the Holotype specimen of which bears tooth marks very likely left by a certain two-crested culprit! On that note I want to address another prevalent misconception in regards to life reconstructions of this animal...

On the left we have a (frankly hilariously sock-puppet-like) restoration by a sadly unknown artist, and on the right is another absolutely breathtaking rendering by Chase Stone. As you can pretty clearly see, the way the crests (among other things) are restored is very different between the two! For a long time, the crests were restored as seen on the left: very thin, and with a little protrusion jutting out of the back. This is due to something called shrink-wrapping, a trend in paleoart exemplified by the omission of tissues such as muscle or fat when reconstructing the animal, leading to much of the skeleton being visible through the skin, particularly in the case of the skull.

Stone's restoration, on the other hand, wraps the skull in a much more naturalistic-looking amount of soft tissue, and completely envelops both crests in a keratinous structure, much like the casque of a cassowary or a hornbill (in fact I believe the coloration is actually referenced specifically from a knobbed hornbill's beak).

This is due to the fact that the crests were likely a kind of bony core which would have supported a larger keratinous structure as is to be expected of... sigh... horny structures such as this. Stop smiling. Don't you know there's no fun allowed when you're learning about things? That's what school taught me, anyway. Ahem. As I was saying, the original shape of the crest was extrapolated from incomplete remains, which you can see a restored illustration of above.

Also worth noting is the inclusion of a thin, fluffy covering of feathers along the head, neck, and back of Stone's restoration. This is entirely plausible, as the current consensus is that dinosaurs and their close relatives, pterosaurs, were descended from a fluffy common ancestor due to the fluffy-feathery coverings seen in both groups being found to be basically the same stuff!

I could go on about so many things, like how tremendously fucked up and addled with tumors and infections the Holotype specimen was, or how we have a trace fossil which seems to preserve a Dilophosaurus sitting down in the mud like a big dumb bird, complete with an impression of its butt, but I trust that if these things pique your interest enough, you'll seek them out on your own time. Just remember not to have fun, because as we all know, fun is the one thing learning should never be.

[theoihalioistuff]

The Murder Trial of Hermes

"Anticlides, following Xanthos the Lydian, describes the gods' response to the first murder performed by one of their number: "When Hermes had killed Argos, the guardian of Io, at Zeus' behest, he was brought to trial. He was arraigned by Hera and the other gods, because he was the first god ever to be stained with death. Now when the gods were holding this trial, they were afraid of Zeus, for Hermes had acted on his orders. They wanted both to remove this stain from their presence, and to acquit the god of murder: agitated as they were, they threw their voting pebbles at Hermes, so that a pile of stones grew at his feet." (FGH 765 F 29; 140 F 19; Eust. 1809.38-43. The sources note that passers-by are required to throw an additional stone on the pile). Both ancient and modern readers treat the incident as aetiological in design: it can elucidate the term Hermaios lophos, a cairn of stones dedicated to Hermes (Schol ad. Od. 16.471), or might supply a fanciful origin for the practice of voting with pebbles at trials." Stoning and Sight: A Structural Equivalence in Greek Mythology by Deborah T. Steiner

I wonder what Hera felt when she was tossing the stone (and if she was aiming at Hermes' head)

[thehandwixard]

i think ive decided my crabsona is a box crab btw i think theyre so cute <3 images of Calappa lophos and Calappa sulcata respectively

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I was inspired by this reddit post by u/Transylianic to do this, so thanks for the inspiration: https://www.reddit.com/r/Ben10/comments/1e8yyqj/if_you_could_turn_any_incidental_alien_into_a/

I decided to make a few undertown residents into transformations. Powers aren't final so if you have any other suggestions, i'm open.

Mediogre is a Newtrocian from the metropolis planet of 1-ZUK. Newtrocians are often mistaken for deformed atrocians, which is something Ben also picked up on when naming this alien. Mediogre's body is made of a non-newtonian fluid. Meaning he's squishy & malleable most of the time, but enough pressure applied to him turns his skin rock-solid. While this does give him an excellent defense, he has little to no offense, much like an actual atrocian. his three antenna are quite sensitive. If all three are pulled at once, it leaves his body flip-flopping between hard & soft, which also causes immense pain for Mediogre.

Wayfind is a Pocharidyte from the oceanic planet of Lopho. He's a member of Rad Dudesman's species. I was looking on the wiki to see what Rad could do & found out his species have innate navigational abilities, so I took that concept & stretched it as far as I could. Wayfind's primary abillity is a low, practically untraceable, radar pulse that lets him know absolutely everything around him. This pulse is always active & is surprisingly potent, essentially turning him into a walking GPS. Alongside that, he can also glide short distances & is rather agile, but is barely above the average person strength-wise.

Thriller Whale is a Belu-Jeian from the aquatic planet of Smoov-Krimzul. Thriller Whale is covered in barnacle-like vents on his body that function almost like secondary mouths. Thriller Whale can replicate any noise he's heard before & blast it back out of his barnacles. He can do whatever he wants with the sound once he's heard it, like sentence-mix it, change the volume, change pitch, etc. This, combined with his more musical personality, allows Ben to blare out a "battle-theme" as he's fighting. Thriller Whale's attacks are always on-beat with whatever music he's playing, so as long as you can stay in-tune with him you can practically predict when he's gonna strike next.

[invasato]

para lopho saurus <- definitely that guys name

[rebuiltproject]

Lophomon

Nível Criança / Seichouki / Rookie  Atributo Vírus  Tipo Dinossauro  Campo Rugido do Dragão (DR) / Império do Metal (ME)  Significado do Nome Lopho de Dilophosaurus, Dilofossauro em inglês. 

Descrição 

Lophomon é fruto de uma experiência realizada por algum grupo pertencente ao Império do Metal que adquiriu dados de uma espécie antiga e a modificou, usando o Anticorpo X, com o objetivo de adaptar essa criatura ao ambiente hostil do Mundo Digital, como também pensando em atualizar seu código com características comuns entre Digimons Máquina. 

O resultado de tudo isso foi esta criatura que, mesmo mantendo quase 100% de sua aparência original, projeta membranas de energia nos braços e em volta da cabeça, estas que são afiadas o suficiente para cortar vários materiais, graças às altas temperaturas que emitem. Suas cristas também são capazes de rasgar seus oponentes, ainda que não sejam tão poderosas quanto suas membranas. 

Lophomon foi considerado um sucesso como Espécie de Combate, mas incapaz de ser submisso e seguir ordens pois seus instintos mais primitivos são de um predador solitário. Inclusive, é extremamente difícil formar qualquer tipo de laço afetivo com Lophomon, pois ele vê isso como fraqueza, e muitas vezes a primeira coisa que faz quando alguém se aproxima é expandir suas membranas e atacar. 

No fim, foi apenas solto pelo Mundo Digital para que observassem seu impacto no ambiente, dando tempo aos pesquisadores de acharem uma forma de controlar essa criatura que demonstra um potencial destrutivo além das expectativas. 

Técnicas��

Crista Dupla (Double Crest) Corta o oponente com as cristas em sua cabeça. 

Rasgo Dino (Dino Gash) Usa as garras das mãos ou dos pés para ferir o adversário. 

Lâmina Predatória (Predator Blade) Usa as lâminas em seus braços para desferir um corte poderoso. 

Fulgor Relâmpago (Lightning Glow) Expande as membranas de sua cabeça e lança uma rajada de energia que queima aqueles que estiverem e seu raio de ação. 

Linha Evolutiva 

Pré-Evolução  Fossilmon 

Evoluções Rasiermon

Artista Jonas Carlota  Digidex Empírea 

[theloph0]

Lopho's Morning

Embodied cognition of social exclusion:: the idea that the experience of being socially excluded can be understood through the lens of our physical body, meaning our perception of social rejection can be directly influenced by bodily sensations and motor processes, essentially "feeling" the exclusion on a physical level, not just mentally.

Lopho sat up from his bed, his hair a mess, his ears flicking, his eyes half lidded. He barely made a sound as he crawled out of bed and got ready for the day. The grogginess he felt wasn’t what made him stumble around the house, it was the literal fault of his past actions. When he walked over to his dresser for a fresh pair of clothes after his shower, he picked out his favorite outfit: a turtle neck, slacks, a belt, fingerless gloves, a pendant, and his flat cap. All these articles of clothing were dark in color; ranging from blacks and dark grays for his clothes and a dark, leathery brown for the belt. His pendant was a sun made out of a yellow gold alloy with a blue lace agate stone in the middle, the sun has its brilliant rays with silvery accents to make the colors pop.

The color palette wasn’t one that really expressed him, but he felt it helped him stay warm and was an elegant, neutral color. As he walked throughout the house, he slowed down in front of windows to glance at the bright world just beyond the pane. The rays of sun hit his dark clothes, warming him up and feeling a sense of relaxation. It was his favorite sight in the morning after a light rain throughout the night, a morning dew. As he stood there, embracing the warmth of the sun and the beautiful scenery, his hazel eyes began to flutter shut as it was becoming a bit too bright for him to handle. He turned away and slightly rubbed his eyes; to have eyes like these curved as a double edged blade.

He shook his head and knelt down before the window as the sun shone on him. He held his pendant in a gingerly manner, before softly muttering a prayer. Each word filled with gratitude for the sun; the sun was his life, deity, and only source of warmth. He prayed in isolation as it was the thing he was forced to like by the lack of any social interactions from the people he had sought to speak with.

When he was done, he stepped away from the window and his body felt instantly cold. Everything about life was a slight pain: not having a tail made him have no balance; Nekomimi ears gave him the wrong kind of attention; dark clothes made him a target for stereotyping; hazel eyes made it difficult for him to enjoy the light; his cold demeanor arose from being socially awkward and it gave the wrong idea; his serious and by the book manners made it hard for certain types of people to approach him; and his deep voice attracted the wrong kind of people to him.

“Maybe I’m too serious?” “What if everyone’s just too childish?“

“Agh- why can’t I just talk to someone, why do I have to freeze up.”

“I wish I didn’t get weird looks for my ears. . . where’s the gel?”

His mind in the morning was always a jumbled mess of thoughts. The last thing he does before going off into the world and leaving his comfortable home is put some hair gel on his ears. He’s never gotten used to touching his own ears but he had no choice, or so he thought. He did everything in his power to adjust the strands of hair to look fluffier; when he finished his ears looked unrecognizable. He’d accomplished his look of disguising those feline features and turning them into more of a Okaimimusume’s ears. This was for his own personal comfort, as his past kept a steely grip on his current actions. People would always tease him for being a Nekomimi, so he wanted to separate himself from that as much as possible. In a act of desperation, he “removed” his tail; the process was not clean or painless. Was it worth it? No.

He’d lost his balance, being unable to walk without stumbling every few steps of unable to react to things with his species’ typical speed had made him feel even more shame. When he was younger he would refuse to let his ears show, it also hurt as they’d be in an uncomfortable position for hours on end. As he grew older he’d come to appreciate his traits but the damage had already been done. Instead of hiding them, he began to stylize his ears to look different and he’d pretend like he were just hiding his tail. He’d been lying to people for years and years, which to him felt like a small price to pay for what they did to him.

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[magnesar]

Cryo-lopho-saurus

Cryolophosaurus with sexual dimorphism (the male has vibrant colours on the crest)

[onlinelvrs]

3 things i want to anynoumsly know about you : fav cactus, steamdeck total play time, last manga you read that made you cry

omgg 😳 ure aware of me

fav cactus has to be lophophora lOVe the way they look when they flower. especially all the variations they can come in. i’m very much a “branching/paddle/arm” cactus type lover but i make the exception for lophos bc i find them to be so CUTE.

probably 6–12 hours lOL. i spent like a month customizing and tweaking. but only played like 6-12 hours in total. i could very much be underestimating tho. around the time i was starting to actually play on it i got distracted by minecraft so it’s been neglected 😅😅😅

last manga… yikes when was the last time i read anything o-o. sorry i really can’t remember right now >~<

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European crested tit

[thedailycactus-blog]

Euphorbia obesa calva disponibile in asta in questi giorni https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F232801089963 #cây #tree #trees #houseplants #crazyplantlady #burrostail #stringofpearls #toronto #apartmentgarden #horticulture #cactusforsale #lophophora #lopho #lophophoralover #lophophoradiffusa #diffusa #cactusthailand #cactuslover #cactusgarden #ไม้หนาม #จำหน่ายแคคตัส #ขายกระบองเพชร #ขายของออนไลน์ #ขายของ #ต้นไม้ #ต้นไม้เล็ก #cactussociety #cactustattoo #cactusinlove #blairbrittcreative

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Bought crabs

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