Hiho, I'm Bananas. I'm an artist from New Brunswick and I specialize in making original characters and using them to fight other characters in OCTs. My dedicated art blog is @bananasartsnanimations. Enjoy yourselves!
feminism never taught me to hate men but it did help me realize that i shouldn’t prioritize them over women & it turns out that alot of men consider that to be hatred lmao.
So if you were in a room with two prisoners; a man and a woman, you’d never met, and the gender neutral soldier with the big gun told you to kill one of them, you’d automatically shoot the man?
tag yourselves I’m the gender neutral soldier with the big gun
im the completely off the wall reaction to a fairly mundane post
In the second Sonic movie, he refers to him self as âhedgehog of the houseâ in Tomâs absence instead of âman of the houseâ further implying his gender is hedgehog
not âheâ as in âhe/himâ but âheâ as in âhedgehogâ
Based on speculations going around the leaked alt cover for the new Donkey Kong game, where you can see what looks like a small freckled Pauline. Whether if it is her or not, the thought of Pauline having freckles consumed me. lol
To anyone who follows me, I donât care about nor trust Colossal Biosciences anymore (The people behind the âWooly Miceâ). They have proven themselves to be headline-chasing grifters after this latest stunt. They are claiming to have de-extincted *Aenocyon dirus*, aka the Dire Wolf, by editing just 20 genes from the the DNA of a Grey Wolf (*Canis lupus*) to make this thing:
If it wasnât clear from their scientific names, Grey Wolves and Dire Wolves arenât remotely related to one another aside from being Canids, despite what pop culture like Game of Thrones would have you believe. If they did look like each other, it would have had to be via convergent evolution, as they only shared a common ancestor over 5 million years ago.
This distinction, however, isnât found in the publicized articles about this so-called resurrected Dire Wolf and makes their claim that they brought the Dire Wolf back by simply editing *20* genes from the genome of a Grey Wolf laughable. A Dire Wolf would have shared more in common genetically with a Maned Wolf (*Chrysocyon brachyurus*) or Bush Dog (*Speothos venaticus*) than it would with a Grey Wolf.
Bottom line, donât fall for whatever this company is trying to tell you. If the Dire Wolf were to be brought back, it wouldnât be via something like this, and certainly wouldnât *look* like this. If you want an idea as to how a real Dire Wolf would look like in life, here is some fantastic paleoart by artist Mauricio AntĂłn:
Addendum: I seem to have partially miscalculated Dire Wolf genetics. They were not closer to Maned Wolves or Bush Dogs, but they were still not closely related to Grey Wolves. They were basal members of Canini, related to canids like Jackals (genus Lupulella) but distinct from them. I am sorry for this misinformation in my attempt to correct other misinformation. My main point, however, is still correct.
Yeah, I saw this and my immediate thought was âthese people donât know what theyâre doingâ. My second thought was, âthese people know what theyâre doing is a scamâ. Either way, Iâve always been very suspicious of Colossalâs, well, colossal claims, and now itâs clear theyâre full of shit