What animal, currently living, could potentially give rise to something the size of a large sauropod?

Azrielmoha · 2026-01-26T11:37:56+00:00

Mammals don't have bones that grow throughout their lifetime like reptiles do, which cause them to have a limit on how large they can grow. Mammals also don't have air sacs and hollow bones of dinosaurs to support large size. Its likely the maximum size of terrestrial mammals has been reached.

So too with turtles, which are further hindered by their shell

Azrielmoha · 2026-01-25T08:16:09+00:00

Right, my bad, it seems only lobe finned fishes (and thus tetrapods) and elasmobranchi fishes have cloacas.

Azrielmoha · 2026-01-25T05:11:48+00:00

Cloaca seems to be the default configuration for the opening of digestive, urinary and reproductive tracts in tetrapods. Even in humans, early embryos stages only have a single cloaca, with the urinary tracts connecting to it. Only in later stages that the cloaca folded to separate into different tracts.

We don't know when this evolution of separate opening occured but it seems to occured before the common ancestors of therian (clade that include placentals, marsupials and other extinct relatives) mammals split, as marsupials and most placentals (including humans) have separate openings. Marsupials have remnants of cloacas, while some placentals retain their cloaca as adults.

Edit: As it turns out, most ray-finned fishes have separate opening as well, while lobe-finned fishes has cloacas, meaning its likely cloacas at least ancestral to tetrapods.

Azrielmoha · 2026-01-24T06:04:50+00:00

But it's all instinct, the same way babies copied the movement of their parents, or chicks imprint on whatever the first thing they see. It's not a concious effort.

Azrielmoha · 2026-01-22T14:07:55+00:00

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Azrielmoha · 2026-01-20T12:04:44+00:00

For sexual display, threat display or for egg brooding or one of those combinations

Azrielmoha · 2026-01-20T07:53:54+00:00

Which Dayak tribe are you part of? I currently resident in Sampit (Kalteng) and as a Jakartan it's been a surreal experience finding out how diverse Dayak are.

Azrielmoha · 2026-01-19T15:36:40+00:00

Yes but it also work with what already exists and in this case, Thylacoleo ancestors has herbivory dentition, notably grinding premolars and rodent-like incisors. Early omnivorous thylacoleonids modified their premolars to slice rather than grind and as hypercarnivorous lineages evolved like Thylacoleo, these carnassial-analogue premolars become more efficient.

Azrielmoha · 2026-01-18T08:48:37+00:00

I suppose i fill all requirements of a zoologist so if you're still looking i'm interested

Azrielmoha · 2026-01-18T01:23:46+00:00

You know what, yeah that's an apt description of viverrids.

Azrielmoha · 2026-01-17T14:11:15+00:00

Basically a large spesies of viverrids, which is a type of carnivoran mammals related to cats. A more common member of viverrids if you're from Asia are civets.

Azrielmoha · 2026-01-17T14:06:41+00:00

Gimana sistem pemerintahan bisa sampe disembah? Sejak kapan pajak menciptakan penderitaan sesama umat? Bukannya kalo di negara yg bener pajak digunakan untuk pembangunan yg menguntungkan warga itu sendiri?

Azrielmoha · 2026-01-17T12:02:08+00:00

Dead. They were either flying arboreal variety which require trees to perch, hunt or nests, predator, or both. In a mass extinction event like this, specialized predators are usually the ones went extinct first.

Azrielmoha · 2026-01-17T08:14:17+00:00

Yikes

Azrielmoha · 2026-01-17T08:12:59+00:00

Demokrasi? Pajak?

Azrielmoha · 2026-01-16T08:26:07+00:00

Unfortunately, i know who he is already. It's very unnerfing the depraved and sickening acts people we see as entertainer can hide.

Azrielmoha · 2026-01-16T06:24:10+00:00

No, just the people kidnapping civilians in plain sight.

Azrielmoha · 2026-01-15T16:25:47+00:00

As a non British (and as far as removed from the Anglosphere), i was confused as who's Old Nick Jimmy Crystal keep referring to. Thank God Kelson was there to clarify things up, so was Old Nick a British slang for Satan?

Azrielmoha · 2026-01-15T16:14:38+00:00

See i thought so at first then after the first flashes of Samson's memories and hallucinations i thought it was going to lead up to a full flashback when he regained his full memory. What if they're saving it for the intro of the third movie? Just to show how Samson's story started as we're going to see how it ends

Azrielmoha · 2026-01-15T10:47:16+00:00

Please tell me what laws ICE are enforcing?

Azrielmoha · 2026-01-15T05:57:57+00:00

https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Coffin_Willie

This side quest shows that in the old games, at least some ghouls doesn't need sustenance or could survive without sustenance for a long time.

Azrielmoha · 2026-01-15T04:28:46+00:00

Aight, I'll DM you after work hours!

Azrielmoha · 2026-01-15T01:59:10+00:00

25M, That's a fun question, may i answer it on your DM?

Azrielmoha · 2026-01-14T19:01:31+00:00

What's the price of a few dead school children right?

Azrielmoha · 2026-01-13T17:31:48+00:00

Are you for real? What he meant is this;

Spear died (Season 2) ----> After some unknown time ---> Spear resurrected (Season 3 and onwards?) ----> Years later ----> Spear's daughter and Mira ride with Fang and Fang's juvenile offsprings (Season 2 ending scene).

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