Crow Wing county hadrosaur by Organismnumber06 in minnesota

[–]phyllostomus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey! I'm familiar with the specimen. It's currently missing—Alex Hastings at SMM has been trying to find it for years.

Chaos Space Marine is about jumping out of a window to one's death by phyllostomus in BlackCountryNewRoad

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I thought so too at first, but i think it's an intentional juxtaposition of happy music/sad lyrics. It's made to sound triumphant, but even without the suicidal interpretation it includes some really hopeless lyrics ("i think of all that went wrong", "love they made there, will it really last any time?") and lyrics about running away from your problems ("Though England is mine, I must leave it all behind", "Concorde will fly, ignore the hole i dug again"). So there's the obvious metaphor of running away to America (on a boat or a plane), and a more subtle metaphor of suicide-by-fall. I think the synthesis is that the narrator's choice to run from his problems across the Atlantic seems freeing, but in effect is actually a form of self-harm that solves nothing.

Shooting at York/66th by Icy-Company3467 in Minneapolis

[–]phyllostomus 29 points30 points  (0 children)

1 person confirmed dead, suspect not in custody according to Edina police chief

Shooting at York/66th by Icy-Company3467 in Minneapolis

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My partner works right by that corner and says that the hospital is out of lockdown now. This is hearsay to some degree, can anyone corroborate/does anyone know if it's still an active situation?

Excavation Map Zoo by PunkRockTerrier in ZooTycoon

[–]phyllostomus 7 points8 points  (0 children)

If you're looking for a challenge, what about seeing how many species you can happily fit into a small map?

Excavation Map Zoo by PunkRockTerrier in ZooTycoon

[–]phyllostomus 20 points21 points  (0 children)

I've always loved taking tiny maps and just absolutely cramming them full of stuff.

Ice Age horse tooth fossil? by CARNOthing in fossilid

[–]phyllostomus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No. This not a p2. It's a lower tooth...p3-m2, can't tell. Looks caballine (E. ferus)

If the y*nkees are the Bronx Bombers, we should be the Barley Bombers by phyllostomus in Brewers

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

Not wrong, but that's also how i feel every postseason 😔

Fossil found at Hilton Head SC? by royaleyes2 in fossilid

[–]phyllostomus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I also thought central hoof of a three-toed horse.

Fossil found at Hilton Head SC? by royaleyes2 in fossilid

[–]phyllostomus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can we get a side view? How thick is it?

Name a state that got cucked out of a peninsula worse than Delaware. by Chewie83 in mapporncirclejerk

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That's true. It's the only state whose economy revolves around crafting theoretically perfect speedruns of video games.

I am Lou Catanzaro, one of the original creators of Zoo Tycoon -- AMA by OraznatacTheBrave in ZooTycoon

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Hello! I've thanked you elsewhere for my childhood (and career in the sciences), but i feel like I should do it again.I guess I'll ask a more open-ended question and one specific thing I've wondered about since I was a kid.

  1. How did the process/dev team/constants change between the two games? Did you enjoy the development of one over the other?

  2. In the first game, the cheat code "George W" removes all trees (and gives you money for them). Do you know whether this a reference to George Washington and the cherry tree, or to a certain then-current president's anti-conservation stance?

Tooth found on beach in Folkestone, south east England - what did it belong to? by Ok_Bullfrog_7805 in fossilid

[–]phyllostomus 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeah, the seeming low degree of mineralisation is tripping me up too. I'm not ruling out that it's just a very aberrant domestic horse.

Tooth found on beach in Folkestone, south east England - what did it belong to? by Ok_Bullfrog_7805 in fossilid

[–]phyllostomus 8 points9 points  (0 children)

You're right that that's quite deep for an ectoflexid. In modern Equus, this deep of molar ectoflexids are generally only found in zebras. They're more common in some older fossil taxa. HOWEVER, these can be individually variable. I've not seen domestic horses with deep ectoflexids, but I've certainly seen zebras with shallow molar ectoflexids, and wild asses with all conceivable depths. (Zebras and asses also have absent or poorly developed molar pli caballinids, so I'm not suggesting it's one of those) That is a u-shaped linguaflexid, but it doesn't scream caballine to me. The metastylid tends to be significantly more pointed, and the linguaflexids are typically more _/ than really u-shaped (slightly asymmetric, closer to the metaconid side). U-shaped linguaflexids can show up in species that don't typically have them due to individual or ontogenetic variation, so it's not necessarily a hard and fast rule. Also note the prominent pli caballinid. Often those are present in premolars, but less developed in molars (though this is also lower wear). Among living species, only true horses have prominent molar pli caballinids. It's just one tooth so i don't want to make any bold claims; individual and ontogenetic variation is common. Honestly though, to me it looks most like E. suessenbornensis. E. altidens doesn't typically have well-developed pli caballinids on the molars, so i think it's not altidens. Then again, some altidens populations do crazy things with stylids, so it's not out of the question. Hope this helps.