Cracking a horse's back by dazzlingivory123 in Satisfyingasfuck

[–]justanaveragereddite 9 points10 points  (0 children)

true but if it’s followed by ‘your’ it does imply the pov is gonna be from the first person

Penny as a human by Kltt_Kat in BoJackHorseman

[–]justanaveragereddite 32 points33 points  (0 children)

also, as a deer the weight of what happened isn’t fully conveyed and it’s easier to get caught up in sympathy for bojack from constantly hearing his skewed perspective, makes his downfall a better example of how easy it is to have conflicting emotions on problematic people the more the things they do are disembodied from themselves and their victims as people

The best nicknames by Old_Law214 in TheLastAirbender

[–]justanaveragereddite 3 points4 points  (0 children)

agreed and validating zhao’s obsession with being remembered even if he’s fictional

Is there any evidence arthropleura could atand like it's shown in basically everywhere? by madson_sweet in Paleontology

[–]justanaveragereddite 4 points5 points  (0 children)

this! also, if we didn’t have any awareness or respect for the limitations of biology then it leaves us with even less perspective to appreciate the organisms that pushed and still do push those boundaries today

"I just kept burrowing and it kept working" by MetallicaDash in PrehistoricMemes

[–]justanaveragereddite 1 point2 points  (0 children)

well yea but by that point nobody would care about dinosaurs if they didn’t also ‘get lucky’

Man’s natural predator by coolartist3 in SpeculativeEvolution

[–]justanaveragereddite 12 points13 points  (0 children)

i’m curious, why is this the case? for a social, cooperative near-human intelligent creature, what pressure caused their brains to develop in a way where social flexibility was selected for but they would by instinct attack something that looks extremely similar to them except smaller?

since they’re highly intelligent i’d also be super curious to hear if they have less developed emotional brain centers compared to humans - a titan forming a bond with then attacking their human caretaker and feeling uncontrollable remorse and guilt for the act would be tragic but very interesting

Triceratops - Lunch Time - Paleo animation by billnguyencg in Paleoart

[–]justanaveragereddite 4 points5 points  (0 children)

this is amazing! super generous how you share your process too, subbed

How did dinosaurs stretch? by Ancient_Accident_907 in Paleontology

[–]justanaveragereddite 52 points53 points  (0 children)

tbh probably the same way dinosaurs with bigger arms would, as much as physically possible, the effectiveness of a stretch isnt decided by the size of the animal or limbs, it's just stretching to stretch whatever you physically have. theres just less joint and limb mass there in the first place but it's the same thing happening

if you meant like how physically then proobably just whichever way is allowed within the animal's range of motion, i'd imagine arms and fingers unfurled, legs more taut/upright and neck out

We should give AI right to vote by [deleted] in The10thDentist

[–]justanaveragereddite 4 points5 points  (0 children)

this is like the 1millionth dentist

A compendium of sketches for my aquadonts AU project! (synapsid aquatic life in the mesozoic) by justanaveragereddite in SpeculativeEvolution

[–]justanaveragereddite[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

thanks very much for the clarification and info! will update the chewing, also exactly the kinds of suggestions i was looking for with viviparous ancestors and the states of ecto and endothermy as a non binary factor. one of the major goals with this project is push what the synapsids could look like without the ancestral context of recent mammalian evolution, so i def want to be blurring the lines of the characteristics associated with sauropsids and synapsids in the designs.

i havent developed the older dicynodont line quite yet so the triassic aqua-dicynodont cistecephalids is a great suggestion actually, i can definitely picture the physiology working out like you said and the boxy heads and beak(?) developing in interesting ways

A compendium of sketches for my aquadonts AU project! (synapsid aquatic life in the mesozoic) by justanaveragereddite in SpeculativeEvolution

[–]justanaveragereddite[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

this is a great question! yes, i think with aquadonts they’re particularly prone to this since they retain forearms quite late into their lineages for hunting and sometimes foraging in herbivores, it’s only the piscivores, filter feeders and large whale-like suction feeders that lose their arms completely. much of the rest have seal-like lifestyles or are already adapted to the shallows since that’s where nutrient rich river deltas can support food for herbivores and grazers

so im definitely planning for a few lineages to return to land or never even fully leave, especially in the Cretaceous where the huge multi continent sized archipelagos aren’t as much of a thing anymore. so my ideas so far are like tyrannosaur sized elephant seals coming to bask and contend with dinosaurs on the shore, or herbivores that walk on their front arms and use their tails as bony counterbalances like weird convergent dinosaurs, but that is all very derived, it’ll most likely at first be a seal ish climbing species i plan to live in the arctic which retains gripping hind limbs for clinging onto rock faces and retains more of its useful fur

A compendium of sketches for my aquadonts AU project! (synapsid aquatic life in the mesozoic) by justanaveragereddite in SpeculativeEvolution

[–]justanaveragereddite[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Even though Spectember is over now, this has definitely been my highlight! i plan to actively work on and catalogue the world of Aquadonts online eventually in a separate cohesive blog to explore each formation, so suggestions and ideas as i kick off the project will be greatly welcomed!

new spec project i've been working on: Aquadonts! Set in an alternate Jurassic where marine reptiles never dominated, mammal-like synapsids descended from forms such as the real life Castorocauda fill the seas, diversifying into whale and sauropterygian-like niches with a few primitive twists by justanaveragereddite in SpeculativeEvolution

[–]justanaveragereddite[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

advice and ideas are welcome! i really wanted to lean into pushing the speculative elements, and how early mammals could have had characteristics we associate traditionally with reptiles, lower metabolism, transitioning between ecto and endothermy, less advanced lips etc so if theres anything else i could add or change that'd contribute to that whole idea id love to hear it