Ah but this is just incentive to do a revised edition of the book

What a weird whale. It achieved these proportions by reducing the number of vertebrae, which meant the body wasn't very flexible. The bones are all ballooned up like in Perucetus too. The authors of its re-description compared it to a manatee, with the feeding method of a duck.

I see (although I couldn't tell if thats really the case with Hypuronector since its comparatively more disarticulated). Can I ask why the teeth of your skull run all the way to the end of the snout, instead of stopping halfway like Mirasaura?

Could it have had the "hump" seen in Mirasaura and other drepanosaurs then?

Wait, were there no vertebrae posterior of the cervicals preserved?

My biggest scientific gripe was the paleontologist referring to mosasaurs and pterosaurs as dinosaurs. My biggest writing gripe was undoing Duncan's sacrifice.

Hey Ville, some of your old sketches from your twitter account disappeared from the web after you deleted your account. Would you consider uploading them here on bluesky?

Wrasses: Wetmorella, Cheilinus, and Epibulus. The first is an adult, the rest are juveniles that look very different as adults. I've heard of Epibulus mimicking Wetmorella colours to deter predators, but I wonder if all cheiline wrasses appear such as juveniles and Wetmorella is just paedomorphic.

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Phainopepla are specialized for eating desert mistletoe, which they poop out in big mounds on tree branches called "tetrascata". The seeds then sprout to parasitize the tree they are on, creating more mistletoe.

Butterflies and Moths (Order Lepidoptera) Butterflies and Moths from 12750 Loppi, Suomi on August 18, 2022 at 05:53 PM by ingnes. Apparently caterpillar (Lepidoptera) poop in lakewater. Hard to identify species. Järven rantav...

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The feces of lepidopteran (moths + butterflies) caterpillars are called frass. When you soak them in water, they look like snowflakes (pooflakes?)

Vibranium fairy wrasse (Cirrhilabrus wakanda) Tea, Pinheiro, Shepherd & L. A. Rocha, 2019.

"...refers to the fictional East African nation of Wakanda... the purple chain-link scale pattern of the new species is reminiscent of [[vibranium]]."

#EtymologyEpithet @kaithefishguy.bsky.social

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DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4136.3.3

The last of the Targaryen dragons: Pseudocalotes drogon, Pseudocalotes viserion, and Pseudocalotes rhaegal. They're the same colour as Dany's dragons too!

Ok last one I promise: #EtymologyEpithet #asoiaf #hotd

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DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz113

The three dragons of Aegon's conquest! Liolaemus balerion, Liolaemus vhagar, and Liolaemus meraxes.

I know they're only fish phylogenetically, but #EtymologyEpithet

I know you mean Fletcher, but Hickory Smoked Bacon would've been a great first, middle, and last name