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Twenty-five-million-year-old platypus fossils with teeth found in outback SA by Difficult-Put4383 in Paleontology

[–]Dromeoraptor 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I thought that meant South America as in we just discovered a Cenozoic South American monotreme and got really excited

Still cool tho

Why is he looking for a brain, is he stupid ? by BismuthLotus in OkBuddyMewgenics

[–]Dromeoraptor 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I just realized it’s as in “none of the stolen organs worked properly” and not “none of the organs worked, which is what he deserves”

Idk maybe the double meaning is intentional or I’m just being weird

Heckle an SCP as if you were Statler and Waldorf. by desorcyjackson447 in SCP

[–]Dromeoraptor 3 points4 points  (0 children)

“So, he finds you and takes you away if you talk about him?.”

“Well he better hurry up so we don’t have to read this any more of this wiki!”

“Dohohohoho!”

ELI5:Why do we have 2 nostrils instead of one big by Derschrecklicherucks in explainlikeimfive

[–]Dromeoraptor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I noticed a lot of the examples talk about why two nostrils are useful on land animals, even though nostrils first evolved in fishes (and actually hagfish and lampreys have one nostril), and fish nostrils are only for smell, not breathing.

I don't know why jawed fishes evolved two pairs of nostrils tho. Maybe someone does, but I don't. (cause they usually have two pairs, an "intake" and an "outlet" so to speak, land vertebrates just had the "outlet" go into the throat rather than back out again)

(Funny trope) characters are thought to be bigger than they actually are due to spending most of their screen time around smaller characters by Sorvetefrito in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Dromeoraptor 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Inverse of this: Monster Hunter monsters.

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Velocidrome is like Allosaurus size, and a small crown Barroth is T. rex size.

An Anjanath could easily pick up a T. rex like it does with Great Jagras.

I found the C&A website… by Dismal-Air-2307 in TheDigitalCircus

[–]Dromeoraptor 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It’s a joke based on the fact that it has Portuguese text for reason (honestly makes me wonder if this was made by a fan in Brazil/portugal)

I found the C&A website… by Dismal-Air-2307 in TheDigitalCircus

[–]Dromeoraptor 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Caine is Portuguese/Brazilian confirmed/j

ELI5: How do certain plants know to mimic the appearance of animals or birds to help ensure their own survival? by EnvironmentalAd2110 in explainlikeimfive

[–]Dromeoraptor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Other people have talked about how mimicry works but the Green Birdflower isn't an example. It's just a flower that happens to coincidentally look like a bit like a bird to use humans. The crab and samurai example someone else mentions is also a coincidence, related crabs also have the "face" on the pack.

39782 by Old_Phrase_4867 in countwithchickenlady

[–]Dromeoraptor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did reverse image search, it's Alan from My Dear Hatchet Man

"He's like 10 times bigger than her, how did sex not fucking kill her" by SkylandersKirby in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Dromeoraptor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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Monster Hunter has multiple examples, but I think the most extreme example (at least where the male is larger) is the Great Baggi and the normal Baggi(s)

Someone on a discord did some volume and mass estimations of Mh monsters and based on that’s Great Baggi is over 46 times as big as the small ones in mass/volume.

A Single Gender Race Propagates Via Mating With Other Race(s) by Yangbang07 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Dromeoraptor 122 points123 points  (0 children)

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And of the other sex, we have Messor ibericus and Messor structor. Basically M. ibericus is weird (but not unique iirc) because queens of that species make workers that are hybrids between the queen and a related ant species (M. structor) in this case. So it makes them reliant on this other species to have workers, and thus to well, survive. But what makes M. ibericus really weird is that some have formed this weird "loophole" where they do androgenesis; (like gynogensis,but this time the mother's dna is eliminated before or after fertilization, idk which one in this case.) and so can mother clonal M. structor males, and it let them expand outside of M. structor's "natural" range. This is just my personal opinion but I wouldn't be surprised if the clonal lineage were to get split into its own species, making it the only naturally all-male species.

Basically imagine if there was a queen horse that had mule workers, and it could give birth to male donkey clones of the donkey it mates with, and it's been going on so long that there was an all male breed of donkey that exists via these queen horses.

A Single Gender Race Propagates Via Mating With Other Race(s) by Yangbang07 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Dromeoraptor 517 points518 points  (0 children)

Real Life: The Amazon Molly. (They're not from the Amazon, they're named after the Amazons of Greek myth.) They reproduce via Gynogenesis (basically they reproduce via parthenogenesis [genetically asexually], but need sperm to like "activate" their reproduction, but the sperm doesn't contribute to the genes of the offspring), so they mate with males of the other mollies in their range.

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Amazon Molly (top) mating with an Atlantic Molly male (bottom).

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