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Imagine how archeologists would draw an elephant or a camel if they only had bones to go from.
Boy had possums on the brain
He's the motherfucking pterodactyl, and he's here to ptero you a new asshole!
How is it that we discover bones of a large flying creature, and first thought is "it looks mammalian, like a flying possum!" And then "nah, that's ridiculous. It was a flying reptile! Like a DRAGON!"
Large flying creature, and nobody thinks giant bird? Really?
Apparently they were way more similar to bats than to birds.
We already have birds. Give us flying possums or dragons.
Possums with wings!
She nap, she crap, but most importantly, she flap
Ptossums.
A sort of battlefield drone used by the Raptor Legions. So called because you’d “ptossum” at the enemy where’d they’d wreak havoc
Screaming since the beginning of time!
So just regular angels <3
This is low key, terrifying.
Scary 😂
what's even scarrier is the idea that this might give possums... ideas.
Thinking takes brain wrinkles.
There's no thoughts in that head. Merely a marble.
And this is why no one will see the possum take over coming.
Our future overlords can be easily manipulated with Taco Bell and alcohol.
You won't even notice if it happens.
So far, it was working. The trail of possums stretched behind them. Where they’d just walked, possums sat hunched on the ground, munching contendedly. Further back, they slept.
The only problem was, they still had a long way to go.
“Taco check!”
“Three”
“One”
“I’m out”
“Me too”
Halfway across the field, and they were down to just four tacos left. A new cloud ptossums erupted over the hill, bearing down faster than the group before.
“Switch to soakers!”
They all carried Super Soaker 50s — courtesy of the Toys R Us — filled with jim beam. Carl and Anne also had the two pistols they’d found, loaded with Peppermint Schnapps.
“Remember to pump!” was all Carl had time to cry out before the swarm was upon them.
All hail our skypossum overlords!
Why do the background creatures look more like modern reconstructions than the creature in the foreground? Lmao
Because it's further away so you just see the shape like the skeletron
Omg I would love if they had big possum energy.
You know, like not dick seagull hustle tactics.
I never thought about Mesozoic fauna having external ears. Birds don't, so presumably their dinosaur ancestors didn't. But maybe pterosaurs did? (Would we be able to tell by looking for muscle attachment points on their skulls?)
Imprint fossils preserve feathers and other soft tissues. No ears.
It could work as a new Lemmy logo.
Pteroratyl
In German, we call bats "Fledermaus" (fluttering mouse) and this is the missing link between them and regular mouses. Who would have guessed that of all the peoples in the world, the Germans have been right all this time
My dog's name is Die Fledermaus. He's a black-and-tan dachshund.
We call him Maus for short. But he does look like a little bat dog.
wildly inaccurate animal illustrations is such a vibe
Look at samurai era illustrations of lions and leopards. The artists only had the skins to work off, so they used house cats for the faces. And they thought they were the same species, with lions being males and leopards being females.
With long nails 😜
this post was submitted on 01 Dec 2024
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