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from the bottom of the sea

@listenforthelove / listenforthelove.tumblr.com

Take me away and guide me through to some place where I can breathe -
Mizumi|Miz|she|old|Dutch EN/NL/JP
Honestly attempting to keep an even mix of my favourite fandoms. Previously mostly Kingdom Hearts and No. 6, these days more of Tales of Zestiria, Haikyuu!!, Yuri!!! on Ice and anything else that catches my fancy. Which is mostly dinosaurs these days. Sorry not sorry.Forever living a KOKIA appreciating life.
This blog runs mostly on a queue that I like to shuffle, but I do check my dash daily. I've been here since 2010, you aren't getting rid of me that easily.
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KOKIA lyrics KOKIA lyric translations, (very) sporadic updates.
Aster in Japan Japan travel blog. On hiatus until my next trip.
listenforthelove @AO3Mostly No. 6, including my No. 6/KH crossover and assorted stuff.(See also the tags #miz writes and #miz draws.)
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aquilegiaformosa asked:

i’m watching Jurassic Park with my dad and talking about how birds are dinosaurs, but it made me wonder: where is the split between dinosaurs and mammals? did it split back in amphibians? earlier than that? i’m pretty sure i read there’s a greater gap between crocodiles and dinosaurs than dinosaurs and mammals, and we’re both warmblooded, so i’m curious about how close we really are.

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a-dinosaur-a-day answered:

Dinosaurs and mammals are actually not very closely related at all! And neither evolved from amphibians!

Amphibians, Dinosaurs, and Mammals all share a common ancestor, and are grouped together in a clade called "Tetrapoda"

Amphibians split off from Amniotes (the group that includes Dinosaurs and Mammals) long before dinosaurs were even close to showing up

The first amniote, upon evolving, immediately split into two groups: Sauropsids and Synapsids. Synapsids include mammals and all their extinct relatives. Sauropsids includes reptiles (and birds) and all of their extinct relatives. This split happened around 320 million years or so ago.

Dinosaurs are a specific group of reptiles, their closest cousins being Pterosaurs ("flying reptiles"). The group that includes Dinosaurs and Pterosaurs is actually "sister" to Crocodiles and their relatives - so the closest *living* relatives to dinosaurs are crocodiles!

Dinosaurs are defined as "the most recent common ancestor of Megalosaurus and Iguanodon and all of that ancestor's descendants" (those are the first two non-avian dinosaurs we named). Since all birds descend from that ancestor, all birds are dinosaurs.

So, Crocodiles are the closest living relatives to dinosaurs, and birds are the only living group of dinosaurs. Crocs are closer to Birds/Dinosaurs than they are to lizards, snakes, or turtles. Mammals are equally closely related to all kinds of reptiles, including birds. Amphibians are equally closely related to mammals and reptiles!

I hope that helps!

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#dinosaurs#prehistory
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villain-philia

hinata being able to rely more on himself. kageyama being able to rely more on others.

bokuto seeing the value in the ordinary. akaashi seeing the pull of the extraordinary.

oikawa learning how to make progress one step at a time. iwaizumi having the courage to take a leap of faith.

to be loved is to be changed.

#haikyuu!!
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An Old Friend and a New Tour Biome

Now that spring is well on its way and the Gyrosphere Winter Biome continues to delight, it seems only right to announce the opening of our new specialized habitat: the Desert Biome!

Accessible via the River Adventure, this sandy oasis is supported by Mantah Corp Holographic technology to recreate an environment comparable to Cretaceous-era Egypt, complete with tidal flats and marshes along the sandy shores!

But what of the dinosaurs, we hear you ask? Well, we can now reveal that a beloved old friend, long awaited by diehard Jurassicateers, is now on display: Spinosaurus!

"We checked and double-checked, then triple-checked, every box on the paper before we cleared this guy coming to the park," says George Lambert, head of Security. "After what we saw his predecessor get up to all those years ago, we wanted to make sure this one didn't have any tricks up his scales."

Indeed, the new Spinosaurus (nicknamed Suki) seems to be doing well in her new home, lounging along the river and snapping for fish with lazy grace! While security measures ensure she can't get anywhere close to the boats, it's easy to forget when guests see her take a dip underneath with an almighty splash!

But she won't be alone for long.

What do we mean by that? Wait and see, Jurassicateers. Wait and see!

#dinosaurs#jurassic world#suki!!
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Okay, decided to load my queue back up again. I hadn't done that in 4 months so there's a lot of older stuff but ssssh. (Mostly dinosaurs again. And Zestiria. Bc why not! But also other things and I randomized it, so we'll see in which order it gets spat out.)

Things are still. Ugh. But hey at least I completed my KOKIA album collection until she inevitably announces a new album!

... yeah uh oops.

#miz rambles#this has been a useless text post#I want to continue typing out my zestiria fic too but brain won't have it sadly#it's been a struggle. a year and four months now. so. yeah#I'm so tired and tired of being tired and I just! want things to be normal again!#whatever normal entails these days but y'know. for me personally. very selfishly. nvm
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