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@dinlukeweek and Western AU. Real cowboys ride cowboys 😘 also made a song to this one.
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may i present to you the world's first lupin x jigen furby art.
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to me Obi-Wan and Anakin are like that guy holding another guy on a leash meme except the leash is Anakin's padawan braid
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this post is like being handed demonic visions of what hyper latex porn looks like in the cars universe
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"The Capitol vs District 12 in real time. Hunger Games in real time with the worlds elite obsessing over vanity, materialism, wealth and fame with total disregard to Gaza genocide" from Craving Palestine, 07/May/2024:
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why is this picture i took of my ipad behind my meowth figure the best thing i've ever made
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La la Lisa 🩷✨⚡️🩵
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they are wayyyy too fun to draw!!! 🫶✨
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El Gato Gomez has painted five Lisa Frankenstein pieces. 8x10 prints, signed by the artist, are available for $20 each.
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Anonymous asked:
Have you or your followers heard of any plausible-sounding "modern dinosaur" sightings? Not that I think it's even remotely possible but I like this kind of thing.
I saw a modern dinosaur just this morning—it looked something like this:
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When you’re young you learn that crocodiles are the closest living relatives of dinosaurs. Then you realise that’s not true. Then you realise it actually is.
To elaborate:
Stage 1: I was taught that crocodiles are the closest living relatives of dinosaurs when I was very young. I was taught that dinosaurs were scaly and cold-blooded, and that crocodiles haven’t changed in hundreds of millions of years, and were the most similar things to dinosaurs alive today.
Stage 2: Later, I learned that, actually, crocodiles had changed quite a bit in the last few hundred million years. Dinosaurs were actually mostly warm-blooded and active, and many were not scaly but instead feathered. At this point I was taught that it was in fact birds, not crocodiles, that are the closest living relatives of dinosaurs.
Stage 3: Finally, I learned that birds are in fact a branch of the dinosaur family tree. Just as humans are not “the closest relatives of mammals” but are ourselves mammals, birds are not “relatives of dinosaurs” but rather a type of dinosaur themselves. The closest living relative of dinosaurs are the the crocodiles—cousins of dinosaurs, but not dinosaurs themselves.
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Elizabeth Ann is the first cloned black-footed ferret and first-ever cloned U.S. endangered species. Above, Elizabeth Ann at 68 days old. (Image credit: USFWS National Black-footed Ferret Conservation Center)
Excerpt from this story from Live Science:
Researchers have successfully cloned a highly endangered ferret species using cells that were frozen more than three decades ago, according to news reports.
The adorable clone, named Elizabeth Ann, is a species of black-footed ferret, one of the most endangered mammals in North America, according to the World Wildlife Fund for Nature. Born on Dec. 10, 2020, Elizabeth Ann was created using cells from “Willa,” a wild black-footed ferret who died and had her cells cryopreserved in 1988, according to a statement from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), which was involved in the cloning.
The feat marks the first time an endangered species in the U.S. has been cloned, the statement said. Researchers hope Elizabeth Ann will help bring genetic diversity to the black-footed ferret population, which today is descended from just seven individual ferrets, making all living members of the species essentially half-siblings, according to The New York Times.