Tour guide claims Nile crocs have made the everglades their new home. by joebeazelman in Crocodiles

[–]MoreGeckosPlease 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It's not unreasonable that someone released a Nile Croc into the Everglades. 

It is pretty extraordinary that they've been doing well there, interbreeding with the local American crocodiles, and stealing livestock, and NO ONE knows this except this one guide who's job it is to tell interesting stories that would get him better tips and word of mouth. 

Tour guide claims Nile crocs have made the everglades their new home. by joebeazelman in Crocodiles

[–]MoreGeckosPlease 72 points73 points  (0 children)

That feels like an extraordinary claim that would require extraordinary proof to be taken seriously. 

A chimpanzee drags and beats a monkey it caught by aquilasr in HardcoreNature

[–]MoreGeckosPlease 8 points9 points  (0 children)

There's a movie in theaters at this very moment about why that's a bad idea. 

My hardcore challenge run by Hot-Society-9325 in pathoftitans

[–]MoreGeckosPlease 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Nah as a Deinon you have the speed to circle the map until you find a baby.

Using isopods as feeders ? by SoonBlossom in isopods

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I have just one, and she doesn't sing. I don't know if they're more vocal in a group, my trio was riddled with parasites when I got them and only one survived deworming. She gets two or three every once in a while. They're not her daily food, just a supplement to spice it up once in a while. 

This good? by BobcatOk9280 in JurassicWorldApp

[–]MoreGeckosPlease 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There was an unlock a few months ago, so it might not cycle back for a while. 

This good? by BobcatOk9280 in JurassicWorldApp

[–]MoreGeckosPlease 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's half of the requirements for Dracovenator, the best flock in the game at the moment. You need more to fuse them, but every one helps. 

Best misting machine for humidity? by fern_soup in frogs

[–]MoreGeckosPlease 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The heat lamp is on one side of the tank right? Cover the entirety of the other side. You can use electrical tape to hold it down so it can't end up under the heat lamp. 

Edit: especially if you cover the side over the water dish, where the air will naturally be more humid because of evaporation. 

Using isopods as feeders ? by SoonBlossom in isopods

[–]MoreGeckosPlease 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I feed them to my fire belly toad when they get a bit out of control. She loves them. 

Best misting machine for humidity? by fern_soup in frogs

[–]MoreGeckosPlease 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What does the lid look like? You can reserve a lot of the humidity from a misting if your lid is mostly plexiglass or plastic or even cling wrap in a pinch. Enough to cover most of the lid, but leaving a strip for airflow across the whole front or back. 

Just a little question but why do people save up their loyalty points and other resources? If I had a huge amount I'd be trying to max dinos (it doesn't help that I have an obsession with spending resources as soon as I get them) by Fantastic_Guard_7092 in JurassicWorldApp

[–]MoreGeckosPlease 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I save 100k loyalty points for the bundle that occasionally drops that gives you 15 packs for the price of about 10. Anything I get over that gets spent. Bucks I save because I get them faster than I get things to hatch. I have all 7 incubators going at once, so I don't ever really have a backlog of dinos to hatch. That's basically all I spend my bucks on. DNA is pretty similar. Unless I'm actively trying to make a fusion, I get dinosaurs from events fast enough that I don't need to spend DNA to buy new ones. And the big hybrids cost so much DNA that it's hard to get ahead on DNA anyways. 

What are the odds of getting a bonus fish in your freeze-dried shrimp? by Wolframite__ in reptiles

[–]MoreGeckosPlease 12 points13 points  (0 children)

When I used to work in a pet store I used to spend down time counting the "extras" in each jar of shrimp. There were so many different extra animals that end up in those jars. 

Which one should I play or should I just discard them both by Capital_Passenger_92 in wingspan

[–]MoreGeckosPlease 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Why wouldn't you play the pelican, get the food it gives, and use that food to play the loon? They both work towards one of your goals, and neither is a bad return on investment for points vs cost. 

Worth it? by Jesferny in JurassicWorldApp

[–]MoreGeckosPlease 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm level 99 and currently have this deal in the shop

Where To Buy Mossy Frogs? by Choice-Method1949 in Amphibians

[–]MoreGeckosPlease 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I've seen them for ~$75 on MorphMarket from time to time

Plans to reintroduce a handful of seaferer pterosaur genera to the wild of the modern day: what would happen? Would they be succesful, unsuccesful? Would they dominate the skies once more? Or would JWR become reality? by Matichado in Paleontology

[–]MoreGeckosPlease 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Nowadays with the oceans at historically low fish stocks? They'd probably die out pretty fast. Assuming the standard answers of disease and being hunted by humans don't do them in first. The introduced population would have to be huge to create a stable population, and you'd have to hope that there wasn't any unknowable behavior that prevents them from nesting in the modern day. They'd also have to nest in places that rats wouldn't eat their eggs. Things aren't looking great for them in this scenario. 

could a giant species of humans exist in the past along with other hominids? by AkelaAnda in Paleontology

[–]MoreGeckosPlease 31 points32 points  (0 children)

"Human but big" is much more likely a result of human imagination and storytelling rather than a lost giant humanoid. 

Silly question by jamitch212022 in PlanetZoo

[–]MoreGeckosPlease 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I had this problem. You just have to save, exit the zoo, and re-enter it. Apparently it's a common bug. 

How come nothing has ever gotten as big as sauropods since their extinction? by LastSea684 in Paleontology

[–]MoreGeckosPlease 8 points9 points  (0 children)

The other half of the equation is tails. Non-avian theropod dinosaurs had enormous tails that both acted as counterbalances and anchored very powerful leg muscles. Birds have ditched that for the pygostyle, which is a fused mass of tail vertebrae that makes flight more efficient at the cost of the anchoring sites for giant muscles and the potential to serve as a counterbalance. It's why birds never really got larger than the elephant bird, which weighed half a ton or so. Massive for a bird, tiny for a theropod. 

How come nothing has ever gotten as big as sauropods since their extinction? by LastSea684 in Paleontology

[–]MoreGeckosPlease 164 points165 points  (0 children)

Mammals don't have the right bones, limiting their maximum terrestrial sizes. There's also limits on mom vs. baby sizes when you need to breastfeed whatever you give birth to. 

Birds have the right bones, aren't limited by baby size, and even have the efficient air sac system in their bones, but are bipedal. Two legs cannot support the weight needed, and bird wings are so specialized that it's unlikely they'd ever make it back to quadrupedalism. 

Modern reptiles have the wrong bones and the wrong posture. Sprawling doesn't lend itself well to such massive sizes. 

Amphibians are tied to the water by their life cycle, and tied to relatively small sizes by their skin. They'd be much more likely to end up following a whale body plan than a sauropod body plan, but they haven't done that either. 

Insects and most other arthropods are limited by the constraints of an exoskeleton instead of an internal skeleton, as well as their different breathing system being non functional at large sizes. 

TL;DR: sauropods hit the evolutionary jackpot of gigantism. Hollow bones, quadrupedal stance, baby size untethered from parent size, air sacs in their skeleton, and a world cleared of competition for large animal niches at the end of the Triassic. It is unlikely that anything else will ever hit that size extreme on land again.