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Some late Cretaceous ammonites bask near the oceans surface. This art was made for the fantastic paper released by @JoeFlanSan in @NatureComms .
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Being swallowed by a giant sea creature is one of humanity's oldest and most repeated stories, across cultures and religions. Acting like this film is some unique evil because it engages with the trope is performative nonsense.
spencer 🦈@Unpop_ScienceOct 19
Setting aside the offensively stupid premise, there is something about the spirit of this plot — clinging to the monsterization of profoundly intelligent, social creatures that we feared for centuries and massacred in wanton ignorance — that is uniquely corrosive and hateworthy.
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Especially silly to critique it down these lines when the movies premise absolves the whale of any fault
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Breaching Tylosaurus my beloved
Hank Sharpe@PaleoartologistOct 9
#FossilFriday New work by @Formorphology just out in Current Biology quantifies burst swimming speeds in mosasaurs! Based on her results, this is how we imagined a fully-grown Tylosaurus could successfully breach. Paper below
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Hank Sharpe@PaleoartologistOct 9
#FossilFriday New work by @Formorphology just out in Current Biology quantifies burst swimming speeds in mosasaurs! Based on her results, this is how we imagined a fully-grown Tylosaurus could successfully breach. Paper below
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The monsterverse really isn't the sort of franchise to expect taxonomic rigor from.
BatteryMaster (C0mms 7/8)@BatteryMastorOct 9
How did it take THIS long to get dinosaurs in the Monsterverse? Assuming these are in fact dinosaurs and not some weird taxonomy-defying bullshit like the death jackals.
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david lynch bisaya vibes@autohysteriaOct 8
i never felt so close 2 ü.
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Schmidt Ocean@SchmidtOceanOct 8
Meet Planctoteuthis sp. 🦑 “Images have finally enabled the description of this tail, but no one knows what it is used for. It looks like a siphonophore from a distance, and one hypothesis is that it could be used for siphonophore mimicry.” — #SamplingGap Co-chief Sci Dr. Perez
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Eat shit Bezos.
Justine Moore
@venturetwinsOct 7
Someone discovered a new Amazon AI feature that summarizes what it knows about you and I am crying of laughter
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Callum Pursall (DM for commissions)@CPursall5 Feb 2024
The "Karetai Carcass" was entangled in the lines of the vessel where it had been fed upon by cookiecutter sharks. The original film was recovered from the first mate of the Karetai after the publication of the image in 2019. Analysis of the image has been inconclusive thus far.
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Kay Burley
@KayBurleySep 26
When you hear people say “let them drown”, this is what those words mean.
Louis Witter@LouisWitterSep 25
Un homme, mort, gisant dans l’eau après avoir tenté de traverser la Manche pour trouver refuge au Royaume-Uni. Cette image a été prise par le photojournaliste Sameer Al-Doumi sur la plage d’Hardelot, en France, il y a deux jours. Dans l’indifférence. instagram.com/p/DdqjKYZDVHh/…
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I just don't see how you can have Twin Peaks the return anywhere outside of the top 10. It is one of the defining art pieces of the 2010's and exists in full conversation with the medium of nostalgic revival TV and prestige drama which defined the era.
LOST
@TheLOSTworld_Sep 25
The New York Times’ final list of the 100 Best TV Shows of the 21st Century is now complete. What do you make of the final ranking? Which placements surprised you the most?
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Russel Crowe in master and commander is, in the films eye, the coolest and most competent man who ever lived.
Tor Parsons ⍼
@parsons_torSep 22
Are there any movies where the protagonist is not, at any point in their character arc, an underdog? Are any of them good?
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Rudolf Hima@HimaRudolfSep 16
Temnodontosaurus
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Stephen Ford
@StephenSeanFordSep 15
any time i see a glass table irl i think of
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caxela@caxela1Sep 8
Homology
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Quokka & Co@IluvbadthingsSep 8
No Country for Old Men- why does the good guy lose? Confusing. Too niche 12 Angry Men - guy is guilty. No need for talking. Talking boring. Stalker (1979) - too much walking. Why did no one go into the room? Are they stupid?
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Joanna Kobierska
@JoannaKobierskaSep 7
Yi qi is known for its bizarre webbed wings, but we should also appreciate its equally peculiar head and dentition.
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nao70shark@nao70shark1Sep 6
おはクリーチャー！！
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John West@johnbestwestSep 6
5 'Just Stop Oil' protestors are currently serving 4-year prison sentences for discussing, during a zoom meeting, the possibility of blocking road traffic. Is this 2-tier policing?
Channel 4 News
@Channel4NewsSep 5
Hundreds of demonstrators dressed in black and wearing balaclavas blocked the streets around Dover earlier today, shouting 'stop the boats' in what the Port of Dover described as a 'public order incident'. The protest seemed to take the police by surprise and intimidated residents. The demonstrators were eventually escorted to the railway station. It appears an anti-immigration group with links to the far right have claimed responsibility for the demonstration.
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Driptosaurus@SethIreAug 28
I CAN’T CONTROL MYSELF
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