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okay officially abandoning thiis blog in favor of my new set of blogs which have never deadnamed me @willisscared @cariadynsal are the sfw ones, send an ask to the first one if u want the nsfw boys ;)

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okay officially abandoning thiis blog in favor of my new set of blogs which have never deadnamed me @willisscared @cariadynsal are the sfw ones, send an ask to the first one if u want the nsfw boys ;)

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master has snatched dobbys wig

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me

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(843): I fully support your bad decision but I do not approve of your unironic use of the word yolo

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finally, some good fucking news

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If that doesn’t say ‘suck my dick, Nazis’. I don’t know what does

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Talpanas lippa

By Scott Reid on @drawingwithdinosaurs

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Name: Talpanas lippa

Status: Extinct

First Described: 2009

Described By: Olson & James

Classification: Dinosauria, Saurischia, Eusaurischia, Theropoda, Neotheropoda, Averostra, Tetanurae, Orionides, Avetheropoda, Coelurosauria, Tyrannoraptora, Maniraptoriformes, Maniraptora, Pennaraptora, Paraves, Eumaniraptora, Averaptora, Avialae, Euavialae, Avebrevicauda, Pygostylia, Ornithothoraces, Euornithes, Ornithuromorpha, Ornithurae, Neornithes, Neognathae, Galloanserae, Anseriformes, Anseres, Anatoidea, Anatidae

Talpanas, the Kaua’i Mole Duck, is decidedly one of the most interesting species of duck, for many reasons, but one of them being that it’s essentially a reverse Platypus - a duck that looks like a mammal. It was flightless, and like the platypus and the kiwi, it had tiny eyes set further back in its skull, giving it a very weird looking skull. In addition its skull was very flattened, and it had a long and broad bill, giving it a rather shovel looking appearance. Its eyes indicate that if it wasn’t fully blind, it was very very close to it. It had short and stout legs, giving it a very squat appearance, leading to the hypothesis of its flightlessness. It had extremely large and developed nares, indicating it had an excellent sense of smell to make up for its lack of good sight. As such, it was essentially a Duck-Kiwi, in addition to a reverse Platypus. It lived about 600- years ago on the Hawai’in Island of Kaua’i, and it was specifically found in the Makauwahi Cave. As such, it probably lived in dense forests, in caves and dark undergrowth, using its very sensitive bill and sense of smell to feed on insects and other invertebrates in the undergrowth. It was probably also nocturnal. Definitely one of the most interesting extinct ducks!

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Sources: 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talpanas 

http://cavereserve.org/blog/?p=139

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Alternatively, because he doesn’t like either of them

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hey guys I made a > twitter < ! I’ll probably just post the same stuff I post here but if you wanna come by that’d be rad !!

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I think he’s talking with Josuke