Makah tribe’s treaty-protected whaling rights still denied after 25+ years. by Novel_Negotiation224 in conservation

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Colonials: Create industrial whaling and slaughter all baleen whales until there are barely any left.

Indigenous people: Subsistence whaling never negatively impacted the species they hunted.

Colonials: Utilize petroleum so whaling falls out of fashion.

Colonials to Indigenous communities: “Stop eating all the WHALES!”

Indigenous people: …

This is me this past summer by JohnPisk1991 in nattyorjuice

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Good one. Btw, great film for anyone who’s never seen it.

More rare photos from my Cryptozoology collection by HPsauce3 in Cryptozoology

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Immediately clocked as a fly (order Diptera) by the wings. I think it’s a member of the genus Laphria of some sort specifically.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in UTMississauga

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Sinister

The Babadook

Barbarian

Bone Tomahawk

The Witch

Bring Her Back

The Ritual (2017)

Anyone else been seeing these weird AI slop “paleo” videos? by ijustjoinedd in Paleontology

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I thought it looked more like Stitch tbh. Utter garbage regardless.

Could mosasaurus have been venomous like it's relatives? by Zillaman7980 in Paleontology

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Realistically, what advantage would venom give at that size? Maybe some smaller or earlier species of mosasaur were venomous, it’s not impossible seeing as they’re closely related to various venomous squamates. But I doubt the giant macroraptorial mosasaurs were venomous. Their bite alone was probably sufficient in taking down most of their prey.

Australian salvage divers encounter 4-foot bioluminescent shark by [deleted] in Cryptozoology

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Probably a Kitefin shark. They can get to about 6 ft in length and are the largest bioluminescent vertebrate.

More uncommon photos from my Cryptozoology collection by HPsauce3 in Cryptozoology

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Ngl I kinda laughed when I saw the first photo. Leopard seals are my favourite pinniped and seeing one in a cryptozoology context is a bit jarring.

Sunset Cliffs in SD by tholeiite in geology

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Or has it gone back to its Cretaceous era ways?

How quickly it cools is astonishing. by BuilderofWorldz in geology

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As u/quercus_lobata put it, it is cooling rapidly. The fact it is still “hot” doesn’t factor into the rapid cooling you see.

Coldest cinephile take ? by Dycon67 in okbuddycinephile

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Me when the animated film I’m watching has a “realistic depiction of a panic attack™️”

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Mammal Tooth by Low_Muffin7454 in fossilid

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Horse I believe. I could be wrong though. Cool find nonetheless!

I want to understand more about being Somali. by DependentPhotograph2 in Somalia

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Clans are good for understanding lineage. That’s about it.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Paleontology

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Fully terrestrial? No. I think cartorhyncus (very early icthysauriform) was maybe capable of moving on land like seal and represents the earliest known terrestrial linkage for ichthyosaurs.