• FuglyDuck
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      91 month ago

      This is low key, terrifying.

        • FuglyDuck
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          91 month ago

          what’s even scarrier is the idea that this might give possums… ideas.

            • FuglyDuck
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              51 month ago

              And this is why no one will see the possum take over coming.

              • Rose Thorne(She/Her)
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                41 month ago

                Our future overlords can be easily manipulated with Taco Bell and alcohol.

                You won’t even notice if it happens.

                • @[email protected]
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                  11 month ago

                  So far, it was working. The trail of possums stretched behind them. Where they’d just walked, possums sat hunched on the ground, munching contendedly. Further back, they slept.

                  The only problem was, they still had a long way to go.

                  “Taco check!”

                  “Three” “One” “I’m out”
                  “Me too”

                  Halfway across the field, and they were down to just four tacos left. A new cloud ptossums erupted over the hill, bearing down faster than the group before.

                  “Switch to soakers!”

                  They all carried Super Soaker 50s — courtesy of the Toys R Us — filled with jim beam. Carl and Anne also had the two pistols they’d found, loaded with Peppermint Schnapps.

                  “Remember to pump!” was all Carl had time to cry out before the swarm was upon them.

      • @[email protected]
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        01 month ago

        A sort of battlefield drone used by the Raptor Legions. So called because you’d “ptossum” at the enemy where’d they’d wreak havoc

  • @Sanctus
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    301 month ago

    Why do the background creatures look more like modern reconstructions than the creature in the foreground? Lmao

  • @TheDoozer
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    291 month ago

    How is it that we discover bones of a large flying creature, and first thought is “it looks mammalian, like a flying possum!” And then “nah, that’s ridiculous. It was a flying reptile! Like a DRAGON!”

    Large flying creature, and nobody thinks giant bird? Really?

    • @SkyezOpen
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      271 month ago

      We already have birds. Give us flying possums or dragons.

    • @marcos
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      51 month ago

      Apparently they were way more similar to bats than to birds.

      • @[email protected]
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        117 days ago

        the wings were in structure, yes, but i don’t think basically anything else is even remotely similar to bats, maybe the fact that they were fuzzy but like… baby birds are fuzzy too a lot of the time

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    I never thought about Mesozoic fauna having external ears. Birds don’t, so presumably their dinosaur ancestors didn’t. But maybe pterosaurs did? (Would we be able to tell by looking for muscle attachment points on their skulls?)

    • @mineralfellow
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      61 month ago

      Imprint fossils preserve feathers and other soft tissues. No ears.

  • @[email protected]
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    Omg I would love if they had big possum energy.

    You know, like not dick seagull hustle tactics.

  • @[email protected]
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    81 month ago

    In German, we call bats “Fledermaus” (fluttering mouse) and this is the missing link between them and regular mouses. Who would have guessed that of all the peoples in the world, the Germans have been right all this time

    • @TheDoozer
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      31 month ago

      My dog’s name is Die Fledermaus. He’s a black-and-tan dachshund.

      We call him Maus for short. But he does look like a little bat dog.

  • @[email protected]
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    Imagine how archeologists would draw an elephant or a camel if they only had bones to go from.

  • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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    31 month ago

    He’s the motherfucking pterodactyl, and he’s here to ptero you a new asshole!

  • @Sam_Bass
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    31 month ago

    Boy had possums on the brain