I Was At The Dollar Tree And I Found A Cute Journal That I Can Write In To Give To My Partner As A Gift

I was at the dollar tree and I found a cute journal that I can write in to give to my partner as a gift oh my gosh.. but so many pages and so little time

I’m gonna be real I have NO clue what to fill this with. How do I be fluffy and cute I need a step by step guide (fastest route, no freeways)

I Love Prehistoric Ecosystems So Much

yeah individual taxa are cool and everything but no species is an island. What did it live with? What did it eat, what ate it? Did it have "friends" (term used loosely)? What was the environment like, where did they get water, what was the climate?

Tell me the whole story

Tell me how they lived

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It is just psitting there....

I wasn't originally going to keep any from this batch of psittacosaurus, but I accidentally snipped into the throat of this one while trimming the seams and left it with a tiny invisible scar, so... keep!

The little white snakeys remind me of nipper plants from Mario..

'When the Flower burst out' by Ivar Arosenius, 1904

Marine paleontology has a grip on my heart that I cannot even begin to describe. Wow

Result from the #paleostream For some times now I have been fascinated by the Jialingjiang Formation and it's bizarre content. It's best known for the hupehsuchians, the only place and time they are known from. But there are quite a few other critters as well.

here the little size chart that I made yesterday in preparation. Fun fact about the Jialingjiang Formation: we have not a single fish fossil so far, only incho fossils indicate that that they were present too. The reptiles however, are often preserved fantastically!

Here some examples of hupehsuchians and other animals from there. After some digging, people from our Discord server also found some invertebrates to include in the image.

The environment of this formation was apparently extreme: very warm water, high salinity (lots of potassium), arid climate over the waves (it was a hot soup). This and the relative isolation of the giant lagoon these animals lived in, potentially lead to a lot of endemism.

Btw. I came back to this formation because of the recent Hupehsuchus filter feeding paper. I think it's a fascinating topic. However I'm not sure I can agree with the idea that this animal would be a continuous ram feeder, similar to right whales.

While that fits the probably rather slow locomotion of the animal the jaws look more like those of Rorqual whales. So how does that fit? Thankfully a friend noticed that, while torso and tail are rather stiff, the neck is quite flexible...

so a potential strategy I could imagine here is that they thrashed their heads left and right into clouds of shrimp/plankton, similar to how some crocodiles do it to catch small fish. Let me known what you think. I'm looking forward to more research into these animals.