#with the fucking documentary and everything??

[randum-famdoms]

I will add that even though we know A LOT about extinct animals, there are obviously many exceptions. Some species only have a few partial fossils found so far, meaning we know some but not a ton about them, and sadly many many extinct species simply aren’t known about as we haven’t found fossils of them yet.

However! We are CONSTANTLY learning and discovering more about history, extinct animals included. Just because we don’t know everything, does not mean that we don’t know a great deal more than Hollywood and social media would lead you to believe.

Some amazing resources that I personally enjoy watching to learn more about palaeontology and cool animal facts in general (as a casual enjoyer, I have zero academic experience) are a few YouTube channels:

Lindsay Nikole (she’s doing a series called history of the world as we know it rn, it’s awesome, but she makes other stuff too):

Seven days of science series by Ben G Thomas (there are several sibling channels listed on their page, they’re all cool)

PBS Eons (their shorts are very good, and their long form videos are even better)

And History of the Earth (amazing documentaries, worthy of the history channel BEFORE it went to shit)

For non-extinct animals, Real Science is really fun! They’re what got me into marine biology and the reason the octopus is my favourite animal. Also they taught me that pudge ones are cool as fuck. If you like engineering, they also have a sister channel for that linked on their page.

Less specialised, but SciShow has some great episodes about this kinda thing as well! Hank Green and his team are awesome.

And while I’m at it, if you’re also interested in the Human Fossils (aka archaeology and anthropology), Milo Rossi from Miniminuteman is where it’s at! He’s got some great stuff in his channel, super fun, and knows how to do commentary/reaction/debunking videos without being outright mean and instead just sarcastically informative.

I have more educational YouTube recs but imma stop here because these are the most relevant to the post lol

I submit to you that the most iconic feature of any animal is either unlikely or impossible to fossilize.

If all we had of wolves were their bones we would never guess that they howl.

If all we had of elephants were fossils with no living related species, we might infer some kind of proboscis but we’d never come up with those ears.

If all we had of chickens were bones, we wouldn’t know about their combs and wattles, or that roosters crow.

We wouldn’t know that lions have manes, or that zebras have stripes, or that peacocks have trains, that howler monkeys yell, that cats purr, that deer shed the velvet from their antlers, that caterpillars become butterflies, that spiders make webs, that chickadees say their name, that Canada geese are assholes, that orangutans are ginger, that dolphins echolocate, or that squid even existed.

My point here is that we don’t know anything about dinosaurs. If we saw one we would not recognize it. As my evidence I submit the above, along with the fact that it took us two centuries to realize they’d been all around us the whole time.

[kurumeuruki]

Albedo is now part of the Study of Alien Philosophy AU :D

Albedo arrived at Gwen's door in search for the Omninomicon (Omnitrix) during the time Ben was stuck as a Celestialsapien for like... two weeks. This surprised Gwen until they see Ben just standing there still stuck in her living room and Albedo's fucking pissed. Like of all things, Ben's stuck as a fucking Celestialsapien???

Gwen was saddened and disappointed but she let Albedo stay with her for awhile so Gwen had Albedo take over his studies in the meantime until Ben transforms back, which ended up taking a year.

He does have his own omnitrix called the Ultinomicon but some pages are encrypted in a language too complex for Albedo because those are the aliens Ben has yet to understand and the pages for galvans were torn off so he can't use them.

Like normal Albedo and his chili fries, this Albedo has weird cravings for chicken nuggets with Kevin commenting that he orders way more than Ben but Albedo would still continue to blame it on Ben Tennyson's DNA.

While Ben and Gwen in this AU are more into documentaries and commentaries, Albedo has grown a liking to movies and tv shows but he'd rather die than admit it. The only person who knows is Kevin who saw him when he was working at the movie theater.

If he watches shows like Phineas and Ferb or Dexter's Lab, he'd critic their tech but would try to recreate one of their creations if it piques his interests enough. His fav character would be Dr. Doofenzmirtz (idk I just felt like adding that for some reason AITITSKGXKGX)

He would like shows with characters who had been wronged or has dysfunctional families cuz that's just fun to watch. Despite disliking a majority of shows, he liked watching the drama. His fav comfort show's Kitchen Nightmares

now uh, His color pallete went from yellow and white to purple and black after Ben finally transformed back from a celestialsapien cuz uh-oh, two nomicons.

Ben was surprised to see another him but Albedo explained that no he's not, he's just stuck in his form, grudgingly doing all his assignments and hating on everything until he could get his hands on the Omninomicon to return back into his galvan form in which Ben lets him.

The gang are cool with Albedo but man, he hates it here (doubtful)

[yourstrullyme]

they cancelled it? during the ides of march?

[risingsunresistance]

there was like a single scrap of dsmp lore that woke up some old fans and my twitter fyp is already shoving discourse in my face, do you guys even like to have fun 😭

[magentagalaxies]

just had a phone call with scott and when i mentioned i spent all weekend basically going through his career multiple times and i'm currently in the amazon era he was just like "oh god. i'm so sorry." lmao

then he sent me the photos of the eight new corncob dolls he made and laughed at the joke i made about them so now i'm feeling much better thank you scott

[muyru-iru]

Coruscanti critter community

Blog on 36', the Koon'arian grey wolf. Introduction; article 1.0

Photo/sketch made by ✘thired&wired

Commentary by ✘Comm's_us

"I'm impressed. But as we already have so many records of 36', it was expected."

"True that. It's not as if we have nothing else to do. Hey- Record! How 'bout we make this official?"

"Now you've lost your mind, we can't show the public our nor the GAR's campaigns!"

"The coruscanti critters would love to write adocumentary article, though. Maybe we can be discreet and open to the civilians though. I'm sick of reading the theories of whose with Senator Amidala, they are not really that subtle with each other."

"...I can't change your mind on this. You poor bastard, Comm's. You blind kriffer. You geniusFUCK."

"HEY!!!"

"Only if Commander Fox-"

"He does though. It was all his intention and idea when he started this site."

"Bullshit...really?...holy shit...OSIK!...FOX?!our commander?"

"yes, Record...yes. Welcome to the coruscanti critters"

[seonghwasblr]

SVT coming to Europe for the first time ever in 9 years (not counting Gastonbury, cause that was sold out a year before they were announced, so carats didn't get a chance to go) and it's not even going to be ot13 should be a crime.. AND IT'S BECAUSE OF A SCHEDULE?!

[pickapea]

you have no fucking idea what a rave can do to someone with old man bones

[doctorwhoisadhd]

this is so. fucking stupid

[vitzoki]

EXCUSE ME I HAVE A BONE TO PICK WITH WHOEVER TOOK THE EXECUTIVE DECISION TO ADD THE LAKE AT THE END OF THAT CONVERSATION. YOU WILL BE PAYING FOR THE EMOTIONAL DISTRESS YOU’VE CAUSED ME.

[darkacademiaarchivist]

i FUCKING HATE IT when people are mean to people who are learning something new and aren't good at it yet...

[ladyimaginarium]

i swear to g-d im& not even the jealous type but jfc i HAAAAAAATE this feeling when im& just lowkey like. who's :)))))) this :))))) bitch 👀👀👀👀🔪🔪🔪🔪 :))))))

[existential-dread-in-the-am]

Not me pacing around the livingroom for two hours, imaginary-lecturing an imaginary audience on many grand thoughts and ideas after reading a book written by a person with many grand thoughts and ideas

[babieken]

Why the hell did changkyun invite Z*CO of all people to his radio show?

[xxlethal-lunaxx]

If anyone relates to this even just a little bit, then I'm so sorry.

[dracolizardlars]

I get pissed about some of the shows I want to watch being exclusive to USA-only streaming platforms but it just occurred to me that y'all in the USA don't get BBC iPlayer and that's so fucking heartbreaking fr you can keep Hulu or whatever the fuck actually