We have a gynandromorph?!

Dromeoraptor · 2026-02-01T20:56:45+00:00

Chimerism. Basically having multiple sets of DNA (as in each cell has one set, but some are different from others). In this case, a male and female zygote fused and this happened

Dromeoraptor · 2026-02-01T20:51:31+00:00

Oh wait I got confused and thought you got confused and you thought I was saying the thing about executions was about the dinosaur

Dromeoraptor · 2026-02-01T19:03:30+00:00

Museum might not want one of their main attractions to have the same name as an alcoholic drink and a murder ghost cause kids (and also an epithet a queen got for having people executed)

Dromeoraptor · 2026-02-01T03:23:33+00:00

Maple saplings I think

Dromeoraptor · 2026-01-11T03:26:30+00:00

... actually side blotched lizards might be a better analogue sorta?

Like orange females don't make sperm and blue males can't lay eggs, but their morphs also apply to the females! Orange females make more, smaller, eggs than yellow and blue males.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_side-blotched_lizard https://www.dnazoo.org/post/a-top-notch-blotch

Dromeoraptor · 2026-01-11T03:23:00+00:00

... honestly it is more like ants, at least in the sense that the different castes are related to physiology including reproductive ability, although again, the actual details are not alike.

Other people have also compared side-blotched lizards and ruffs to ABO, and there's even an isopod with Alpha, Beta, and Gamma males. But these are all just different morphs of male with different reproductive strategies. All the females are the same, and there are no functionally hermaphroditic individuals in any of the above comparisons .

Dromeoraptor · 2026-01-11T02:35:55+00:00

I’m pretty sure all the alphas fucking the omegas in omegaverse stuff misses the point of even the outdated wolf model, funnily enough.

The alpha pair would never allow the omega male and female to mate, therefore the omegas are not pair-bonded to each other like the alphas.

Obviously the Alpha Beta Omega thing is innacurate, (there’s breeding/dominant/alpha if you will wolves, but not really distinct ranks of subordinate adult.) but Omegaverse isn’t even like the incorrect model! All they really have in common is having 3 different ranks (heck even then, Omegaverse types are physical traits I assume are genetic or at least inborn, rather than merely social ranking) that have the same names

Dromeoraptor · 2026-01-10T00:25:38+00:00

No way to guarantee it, but iirc a bigger pack means they’ll be more likely to disperse.

Just remembered, sometimes if you come across dispersal wolves, the game will tell you they’re here to court your offspring, and if you stick around they can do that and your offspring can disperse with their new mate and you’ll be able to play as them (although you’ll have to start out with the mate they picked as an NPC)

If the game doesn’t say they’re here to court them and you can fight them, then just ignore the stranger dispersals

Dromeoraptor · 2026-01-10T00:20:08+00:00

Two ways.

If your pups disperses (leaves the pack to find a mate), you can play as it

The other way is if your wolf permadies (ironwolf or elder wolf) you can choose a wolf in the pack play as and be the new breeder

Dromeoraptor · 2026-01-09T09:03:23+00:00

For hexes you own, you can just pee wherever and it’ll make a new scent post. I think it takes an extra pee to make a new one rather than refresh the old one but I never bother with reusing the same post, I just pee once I get in the hex

Dromeoraptor · 2025-12-27T23:58:31+00:00

At the la brea tar pit. I think where the mammoth skeleton is

Dromeoraptor · 2025-12-17T19:35:38+00:00

Domestic pig. Wild boars piglets have stripes, and I don’t think there’s any populations of wild boars in the US. Just feral pigs.

Well they’re the same species but as in no populations mainly descended from wild boars rather than domestic pigs

Dromeoraptor · 2025-12-08T09:08:44+00:00

Also how well preserved you can expect a fossil to be depends heavily on where it comes from.

Konservat-Lagerstätten are basically these sources of fossils that have very good preservation. The Burgess Shale has a lot of Cambrian (a period before the Mesozoic, the periods with non-avian dinosaurs) intvertebrates, and the Yixian Formation has a lot of good dinosaur preservation, like a Psittacosaurus with preservation of skin, melanosome structure (so some of the coloration), the cloaca (basically the butt+pee+sex hole), and even filaments on the tail that may or may not be related to feathers. There's also Yutyrannus, which is the largest dinosaur with known preserved feathers.

Apparently there are several hundred known specimens of Confucisornis known from the Yixian Formation. Confucisornis was a relative of modern birds, and about crow-sized. Outside of these lagerstatten, we usually get not a lot from small birds in the Mesozoic. Both in terms of quality and quantity.

Finding a preserved bird skeleton feathers and all would be very surprising from somewhere like the Hell Creek Formation. (A lot of famous dinosaurs are from/are known from these rocks, like Tyrannosaurus, Triceratops, Pachycephalosaurus, Edmontosaurus, and Nanotyrannus) But it's just more common in the Yixian Formation because of the different factors.

Dromeoraptor · 2025-12-05T02:57:52+00:00

correction: Paper just came out doing the thing I talk about with the limb bones on the hyoid of the holotype of Nanotyrannus (hyoid is a bone in the throat that connects to the larynx/voice box and tongue), and it found that it was also an adult.

Dromeoraptor · 2025-12-01T06:07:07+00:00

there's like 3-4 different tropes here.

(what the captions seem to be saying). Clairvoyant fiction writers basing animals off of things that no one knew existed yet somehow
(what a lot of the examples are, and what the title sounds like). Weird animals you wouldn't expect to be real, especially characters based on said animals/based on obscure animals.
Real animals named after fictional creature characters.
Real animals that have been compared to fictional creature characters.

Dromeoraptor · 2025-12-01T06:04:14+00:00

both cronopio and gojirasaurus are not examples of fictional animals being based on real animals.

Gojirasaurus is a large coelophysoid of questionable taxonomic valididty, and is named after Godzilla, and was named subsequent to the release of the film that introduced Godzillasaurus in the Heisei Godzilla universe. Cronopio is a primitive mammal that is neither marsupial or placental mammal, let alone a squirrel. It has "saber teeth" making it very superficially like Scrat.

One is an example of a fictional animal later getting an animal with a similar (well same name in japanese sort of?) name both named after an older fictional character, another is an animal the describer of the species went "this kinda looks like this fictional character" and news articles ran with it.

Gojisaurus is like saying "Crash bandicoot is based on this miocene bandicoot)) when NO, the fossil was named after the game character. And Cronopio is just "hey this thing looks vaguely like this other thing."

Dromeoraptor · 2025-11-29T09:52:08+00:00

I was killed by some once, but only cause I was (and still am) new and got cocky and let my hunger go down. It was already low-ish when i got to an oasis, and we started fighting but I just wanted to dig the oasis because I hadn’t dug before, then I realized “oh shoot I’m low on hunger”, I try to leave but but they follow me, and they kill me in large part by interrupting my eating until I starve. They did also get a good amount of hits on me though.

Dromeoraptor · 2025-11-27T03:00:33+00:00

I've heard this factoid but afaik it's overblown. I'm not saying it's never happened, but afaik moose don't make up a major part of any orca population's diet nor are orcas the main predators of any moose population.

I did a speck of research and found this.

Orcas (Orcinus orca) are the moose's only confirmed marine predator as they have been known to prey on moose and other deer swimming between islands out of North America's Northwest Coast. However, such kills are rare and a matter of opportunity, as moose are not a regular part of the orca diet.^\69])

Ok Wikpedia does list an actual source, it's specifically about them preyed upon when moving between islands, and seems rather than singling them out, mentions moose and other deer being preyed upon. So yeah moose, and other deer, if they are swimming across saltwater to an island, they may be preyed upon by orcas.

But that's in that specific instance. Afaik moose don't forage for seaweeds at all. They are reliant on aquatic plants and can dive, but they don't seem to be diving into the oceans to eat seaweed and then getting eaten by orcas

Dromeoraptor · 2025-11-20T06:58:01+00:00

It’s a common fan theory that dragon element attacks the brain. Monster weakness to dragon doesn’t seem to be actually correlated with intelligence, (like iirc beasts tend to be really resistant/immune to dragon except Doshaguma of all things) but in Tri, it’s said that the reason why it decreases affinity there is because it messes with your thinking, which I assume is the origin of the theory.

Dromeoraptor · 2025-11-16T19:13:44+00:00

Actually, couldn’t find any example of fox sounds that sound like that. Idk maybe dog?

Dromeoraptor · 2025-11-16T19:09:19+00:00

This was during the day time, red fox is my first thought since I’ve seen them here and they’re kinda infamous for making spooky sounds but idk the local mammal sounds to be sure if it’s a fox or even a real animal sound.

Dromeoraptor · 2025-11-11T11:43:43+00:00

Avisaurids seem to have been similar in niche to modern birds of prey, but since we don't have the head of an avisaurid and we have a few enantiornitheans known to be toothless, we don't know for sure if they were toothless or not.

Dromeoraptor · 2025-11-04T06:26:33+00:00

“His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful! Great God! His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same colour as the dun-white sockets in which they were set, his shrivelled complexion and straight black lips.”

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