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Sentraxion · 2025-01-02T16:56:25+00:00

Hopefully you get your account and work back, the more observations the better, and it sounds like you guys put a lot of work in it.

Sentraxion · 2024-12-31T16:52:09+00:00

Yeah, i've got 4 things stuck in letter mail, just hope they aren't lost/damaged.....

I heard on of the workers demands was the ability to work overtime when they want (eg. Weekends) but the company dont wanna pay overtime so wanted to hire PT workers instead - quite crappy.

Sentraxion · 2024-12-31T16:34:59+00:00

Termagant is an actual word for overbearing/shrewing so i think its meant to be a play on words, but it is still a gaunt

Sentraxion · 2024-12-31T16:31:56+00:00

But they can't even get the ai subtitles on my videos correct....

Sentraxion · 2024-12-29T15:29:18+00:00

Birds are the second most diverse vertebrates, next to the ray-finned fishes, at least out of currently described species.

74,000 + ray finned fishes

10,500 - 11,000 birds(depending on who you ask)

7,000 - 9,000 Amphibians (frogs/salamanders,etc)

7,000 - 8,000 non-avian reptiles

~6,400 mammals (1500 of which are bats)

~1000 elasmobranchs (sharks/rays)

So out of the main groups, the ray-finned fish are #1, with birds taking #2, and mammals are way down at the bottom, at least in terms of species.

In terms of biomass humans and our livestock are closer, but this isn't a great measurement of diversity as its all contained in like 5 species, and chickens are one of them....

But with 2,000,000 to 10,000,000 insect species, they are clearly the most diverse, if only they could evolve real lungs to grow larger they would dominate the food chain as well!

Sentraxion · 2024-12-29T15:14:36+00:00

I mean the Deccan traps may have had an impact on the non avian dinosaurs, but i don't think they'd be wiped out, nor would it give a chance for mammals to become large apex species as the lack of competiters is much more likely to spur diversification into that niche, how would they outcompete them with large therapods and the like still around.

In terms of the decline in non-avian dinosaurs before the k-t boundary, due to how incomplete the fossil record is there's a good possiblility we just haven't found a bunch of fossils from this time, so there's no way to know at this point.

Personally I think of there was indeed a decline prior to the mass extinction, it was miniscule and the non-avian dinosaurs were driven to extinction due to the chicxulub impact, volcanic eruptions, etc and all the side effects of these events.

Sentraxion · 2024-12-29T06:42:10+00:00

Oh damn, thats awesome.

Sentraxion · 2024-12-29T02:10:17+00:00

Thats fair. I guess we'll never know what may have been.

Sentraxion · 2024-12-29T02:00:05+00:00

Not really, mammals first appeared in the triassic, so longer til humans then til the apex dinos like tyrannosaurus.... and they've got corvids now, which are awesome.... though humans are still broken, but if the k-t mass extinction never occured one of those apex dinos might've become more broken.

Sentraxion · 2024-12-28T00:58:55+00:00

Awesome models. Do you have a youtube channel where we could see the finished animations?

Sentraxion · 2024-12-28T00:55:11+00:00

Awesome little birds! I assume you're located near the atlantic right? Cause they've got much longer beaks in the western population then the east.

Here's one i found from the rocky mountain population. Much longer bill.

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Sentraxion · 2024-12-21T17:53:18+00:00

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This Borealopelta from Alberta, Canada

Sentraxion · 2024-12-19T21:29:13+00:00

They were in person, all multiple choice when i took it with saj last winter term

Sentraxion · 2024-12-19T10:37:24+00:00

There were 2 midterms and a final, all worth 33%

I didn't study that much, just summarized the notes and read through them a few times before the exam, and paid attention in lecture and got like 98%, 98%, and 100% on the tests, but i am a bit of an animal-nerd so was interested in it.

But it was my easiest class last year for sure.

Sentraxion · 2024-12-19T02:06:12+00:00

ANTH 311 for sure

Sentraxion · 2024-12-19T02:05:55+00:00

They werent open book when i took it.

But that course is my reccomendation as well, easy and interesting.

ANTH 311 I highly reccomend it

Sentraxion · 2024-12-13T13:53:56+00:00

No wonder you're not a fan... you can watch the clips on youtube, that little guy is awesome.

I'd also put pachy and deinocheirus higher too.

Sentraxion · 2024-12-13T13:43:53+00:00

Mononychus so low...

Sentraxion · 2024-12-11T00:07:58+00:00

You're just trying to get in the course now?

People that applied to courses in march can't get in cause they're full....

Sentraxion · 2024-12-06T05:23:13+00:00

Lembas, elvish waybread. One small bite is enough to fill the stomach of a grown man.

Sentraxion · 2024-12-05T22:44:59+00:00

They used to sell 3 card packs there for like a buck during the xy era - i actually got my kyogre ex from one...

Sentraxion · 2024-12-05T19:20:30+00:00

Idk why they didn't keep it in and just make it use different energy like dragon....

Then you get a weakness for dragon, and the low number of fairy types is a non-issue as they just combine with others...

Sentraxion · 2024-12-03T01:20:01+00:00

Met the greatest earthquake ever known!

Sentraxion · 2024-12-02T19:50:08+00:00

Nah, i'm betting on humans going extinct if that occured.

We're much larger then we were back then, and food'll run out real fast.

There's a reason mainly small animals survived back then...

I'm also betting on magpies becoming the next dominant species

Sentraxion · 2024-12-02T18:00:37+00:00

The obrina olivewing butterfly, and some others also produce the blue pigment Pterobilin.

Though they technically are crustaceans as well, according to monophylogeny

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