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taliawinters · 9 months
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I don't like mountains. Everything I need is at sea level.
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kiabugboy · 1 year
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My laptop is back
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a colorful Mycteroptid eurypterid briefly surfaces from the Murky freshwater depths
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mecharex2 · 2 years
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A prickly sea fella
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t00thpasteface · 6 months
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sea scorpion is back on the menu, girls!
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proflambeovt · 1 year
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Paleovember 2022, Jaekelopterus!
This Early Devonian creature is a member of a group of arthropods called Eurypterids, generally known as ‘sea scorpions’. Despite the common name, Jaekelopterus actually preferred fresh to brackish water as its main habitat. What’s more, it was not just the biggest eurypterid, it was also the largest arthropod EVER, with an estimated length of up to 10 feet.
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brekkie-e · 1 year
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So uhh.... what the heck happened internet? Did y'all really sleep on this queen?
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Seriously though, how come this woman has not completely flooded my dash already???? I am flabbergasted. I am dismayed.
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I seriously can not and will not get over her. The answer to my complaints about the rising "single dad figure rescues a kid" trope, and it's lack of female counterparts. A gaurdian figure to child-sized protagonists that not only adequately attempts to protect them from the violence they're up against, but also gives genuine parental smack downs. Who balances her well meaning criticism with genuine love and support?
I honestly do not think I have ever encountered a mentor figure in a narrative who has done the job even half as well as Sophia.
On top of that??? She's a freaking pirate queen. So legendary, they call her the Sea Scorpion! How cool is that?
I fully did not expect her to make it through the entirety of the game, but let me tell you I was thrilled that she got to live, and remains a part of Amicia's life. Im so happy they have a positive adult role model and protector.
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kdval · 1 year
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A Touch Tale: Amicia.
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atdoop · 8 months
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artfight attack for grovey!
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jorgeburgos8 · 1 year
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For this paradox I was inspired by the sea scorpions of prehistory, and although I thought of using onis inspirations as its name in Japanese but I was not convinced so I went to the basics
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pugwafflez · 10 months
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Swimming Stinger
(Paradox Skorupi) Based on sea scorpions
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paleopalsfacts · 10 months
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Megarachne
When studying prehistoric life, it can be difficult without a complete skeleton.  this was definitely the case with Megarachne.  It was discovered by the paleontologist Mario Hünicken and was described as tarantula like but larger than any spider you have ever seen with a body length of 33.9cm [1] this spider was closer to the size of a house cat then any spiders living currently.  You may know this version of Megarachne from the documentary Walking with Monsters where it was originally to be shown as this giant horrifying [2] tarantula on the hunt.
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There was speculation about if the giant spider was in fact a spider because of the lack of specific traits that most modern spiders have but the original specimen was held in a bank vault out of the reach of most paleontologists [1].  During the making of Walking with Monsters (2005) a new specimen of Megarachne was found and paleontologists gained access to original specimen.  A paper was published with Paul A Selden taking the lead and with help from José A Corronca and Mario A Hünicken (linked bellow [1]) concluding that Megarachne wasn't infact a spider but a Eurypterids (commonly known as sea lobsters).
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Sadly, Walking with Monsters was already late in production, so it was decided to keep the giant spider version of Megarachne but to instead describe it as a giant primitive spider in the suborder Mesothelae.  from my experience most people who know of Megarachne know it as a giant spider which I think is quite sad.  Maybe one day a new documentary will be made and Megarachne and its Eurypterids friends can get the spotlight they deserve.
Citations Bellow
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[1] Selden, P. A., Corronca, J. A., & Hünicken, M. A. (2005). The true identity of the supposed giant fossil spider Megarachne. Biology letters, 1(1), 44–48. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2004.0272
[2] Childhood Trauma
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neanderthalfakemon · 2 years
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#007 - Chitrawl
#008 - Lobrute
#009 - Eurytriton
water starter line
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kiabugboy · 1 year
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Lituites hiding from a eurypterid
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scienceskink · 4 months
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Recently I went to the Naturhistorisk Museum in Oslo and I was blown away by what they have in their collection. Sharing these spectacular invertebrate fossils
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artapir · 5 months
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The Arowanadire, possibly an alt-timeline antiarch converging on the arapaimids or a panspermic placoderm x euryptid hybrid. Midjourney 5.2
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typhlonectes · 1 year
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A new species of the eurypterid Hibbertopterus from the Carboniferous of New Mexico, and a review of the Hibbertopteridae
Simon J. Braddy, Allan J Lerner, & Spencer G. Lucas
ABSTRACT
Hibbertopterus lamsdelli sp. nov., from the Late Carboniferous Kinney Quarry Lagerstätte of New Mexico (USA), is a large (ca. 1.1 m long) stylonurid eurypterid (sea-scorpion; Chelicerata), similar to H. scouleri from Scotland but with less serrate segment margins, a wider pretelson, shorter telson (tail-spine), and more parallel ventral keels. 
It is only the fourth, yet most reliable record of an American hibbertopterid. A taxonomic reassessment of Hibbertopterus regards Dunsopterus and Vernonopterus (but not Cyrtoctenus) as synonyms. 
Hibbertopterids were aquatic (benthic) scavengers and microphagous sweep-feeders, but their trackways indicate that they were capable of brief terrestrial, seasonal nuptial walks, despite their large size; Hibbertopterus had walking legs with spinose extensions at the base (Laden) to spread their load, and the ventral keels on their telson functioned like sled rails to reduce body drag. 
Hibbertopterids were interpreted as moving into freshwater during the Late Palaeozoic, but a trackway from the middle Permian Collingham Formation (Ecca Group) of South Africa may be from a marine setting, though further analysis is needed to fully evaluate this possibility.
Read more: 
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08912963.2022.2032690?journalCode=ghbi20
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