#whale wins

[ltwilliammowett]

Whaling scene, by H. Silva Fernandes, 20th century

[andy-clutterbuck]

1x04 - What We | The Ones Who Live

[rysttle]

Everyones posting their art fight attacks so i wanna post my first 3 here xD

First attack for @beholding-moth (ellyGhost on AF) just,,, immediately attacking with a sad piece lol

Second attack for @northstarfeukren (feukren on AF) !!! Monke :D

And then one more for @og-doeiika (doeiika on AF)

More attacks to come!!!!!! :D

[pcktknife]

i might have dreamed this but have you ever drawn zoro one piece as a ferret

probably a dream. ive drawn zoro maybe 3x and of those times the only animal one was a parrot. ive drawn maya/pearl/dahlia of ace attorney fame as ferrets tho. anyways not a ferret but heres a mongoose zoro and cobra sanji

[popatochisssp]

Another question! (Of course answer when ur ready)

Which of your boys don’t get along?

Sadly, I have another 128 combinations of boys to work through before I can answer that to the completeness I want to 😩

The raw, unrefined word-vomit first draft of what I do have is currently at about 68k, so by the time I finish it could end up as long as 100k...or longer if I do what I usually do and write way too much for no reason 😂

[tardisslayer]

WHAT DO YOU MEAN LOWER DECKS SEASON 4 IS A LOVE LETTER TO THE VOYAGE HOME AND THE SNW LOWER DECKS CROSSOVER IS COMING OUT TODAY INSTEAD OF NEXT WEEK I'M GOING INSANE

[maximura]

Asian Excellence at the 2023 Oscars Nominee Luncheon: Stephanie Hsu, Hong Chau, Ke Huy Quan and Michelle Yeoh.

[umm0lly]

SEMIFINALS - Whale Shark vs Hammerhead

[thalassous]

more people gotta see enjolras as that one vine thats like. "hmhmhm. you were wrong! <:)"

(goddess braids enj from the-march-hair because lord thats so smart)

[sirelisboldretort]

I'll make you free album art if you 🐶 🐕 dare me

#SampleGarden #toowetforgoodgrowth #badatDAWs #originalmusic #albumart

[fishyfishyfishtimes]

why did the ray finned fishes win out in terms of speciation and population in the water compared to us lobe finned fishes? did we lobe finners just have a skill issue (or gill issue if you will) and fumble the aquatic niches?

Ooh, what an exciting question! I didn't know the answer myself, but this news article provides an interesting and good (in my opinion) hypothesis for how. The article explains that in the Devonian, the now-extinct class placoderms and lobe-finned fish were the two dominating animal groups of the aquatic world, no doubt closely followed by sharks who also diversified greatly. So, we did in fact thrive and dominate over ray-fins for a while! However, the Hangenberg event, also known as the end-Devonian extinction that took place about 359 million years ago, sadly brought an end to the placoderms as a whole, along with many, many lineages of lobe-finned fishes that used to exist: heck, over 96% of all vertebrate species were lost during this time! With great losses of diversity like this, entire classes of animals gone, well... a power vacuum forms. With only some cartilaginous fishes and ray-finned fishes left, it took them no time to diversify and fill in those previously full niches! Looking at the current diversity of ray-finned fishes, it really doesn't take much to assume that they took this opportunity with stride.

How come sharks didn't quite get as diverse, then? Well... I'm not sure. Perhaps the ray-finned fishes were quicker to reproduce? Maybe bony skeletons are just that much better? Some ponder that a bony skeleton would've been more protective and offered more points of attachment for muscles to allow for more powerful movement. It could also just be that bony fishes can live in freshwater as well as saltwater which allowed them to diversify away from cartilaginous fishes! But these are just guesses.

TL;DR: Us lobe-fins didn't have a gill issue at all — heck, two of of the "fishy" lobe-fin lineages are still alive today after other numerous extinction events! Though, perhaps us tetrapods did in fact develop a literal gill issue soon enough... we were rather quickly on our way to colonise the land and follow in the footsteps of invertebrates during and after the Devonian. In any case, the ray-finned fish just saw an opportunity once a power vacuum emerged, and took it! Super happy for them for taking that chance ngl, clearly it worked out really well for them. Now they're the most diverse group of vertebrates!! Love to see a heartwarming success story of the underdogs winning haha

[dawsonscreekwasalwaysbad]

me, through gritted teeth, trying to be happy about the eeaao sweep instead of just pissed about the jlc win: when i choose to see the good side of things i'm not being naive it is strategic and necessary it is how i've learned to survive through everything when i choose to see the good side of things i'm not being naive it is strategic and necessary it is how i've learned to survive through everything when i choose to see the good side of things i'm not being naive it is strategic and necessary it is how i've learned to survive through everything when i choose to see the good side of things i'm not being naive it is strategic and necessary it is how i've learned to survive through everything when i choose to see the good side

[whowouldwininafite]

[stevethehairington]

MOBY DICK MAY HAVE BEAT THE BOAT BUT I FUCKIN BEAT MOBY DICK JFC LONGEST BOOK EVER