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Are there any amphibians/reptiles/birds that are considered living fossils? or are like sorta close to being such. Itd be neat to see methinks =^]?
Living Fossils:
So, I am usually leery of using the phrase "living fossil", because it elides the fact that all creatures living today are equally the products of ~3.5-4 billion years of evolution.
However, I get the idea... animals that seem to be from older groups (many of which are no longer around) and seem to have not changed too much over millions of years, get labelled "Living Fossils".
Crocodilians are sometimes referred to in this way, but the reptile that usually gets this is from an ancient group, called the Rhynchocephalia.
Tuatara (Sphenodon punctatus), family Sphenodontidae, order Rhynchocephalia, endemic to New Zealand
- There were once 2 recognized species of Tuatara, but now they are considered to be just one species.
- This is not a lizard.
- This is the only member of the reptile group Rhynchocephalia that is still around. All other species went extinct millions of years ago.
- Tuataras were eradicated by humans and introduced species from the main islands of New Zealand, and now only occur on small islands near the North Island and far north of the South Island. (*There has been some modest success re-introducing them to the main islands.)
- This is one of my very favorite animals!!!
photograph by Houston Chandler
photograph by Sid Mosdell
photograph by Chung-Wei Logan You
EAT A TASTY WETA!!!
photograph by Ryan Photographic
ANOTHER SPECIES OF REPTILE THAT IS CONSIDERED "PRIMITIVE" IN ITS ANATOMY:
American Pipe Snake aka False Coral Snake (Anilius scytale), family Aniliidae, Peru
- This family is monotypic, containing only this species.
- This species is considered to be quite primitive, in its anatomy, amongst snakes.
- Coral snake mimic.
photograph by Nick Volpe
photographs by Vincent Prémel
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contrasts
EVERYONE IS WINNING
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Cannot even fault them for that that's funny as fuck
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how it feels telling people Deltarune just got a release date on Nintendo Direct
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me this morning to my sister, jokingly "imagine if they show both deltarune and silksong on today's nintendo direct"
apollo:
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HAPPY SILKSONG IM OGINGO ITO LOSE MUY FUCKIGN MIND
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thinking about creatures.
look at this thing
Tumblr users will see some kind of animal or beast and just slam the reblog button
That is a banded linsang.
They sit very politely.
This is a banded palm civet.
They look very anxious.
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Happy Birthday Big Bill!
funny you should mention that
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Cory Booker has been talking in the senate for over 20 hours now
He’s not filibustering. He’s protesting the current administration.
For those of you from outside the US or those of you who didn’t pay attention in government class, in the US senate there’s really no limit to the amount of time a senator can speak. So sometimes if they don’t want a bill to pass they just. Don’t stop talking. To hopefully get past the deadline to vote on a bill. This is called filibustering.
Senator Cory Booker isn’t doing that. He’s disrupting “the normal business of the United States Senate for as long as I am physically able”. Just in protest. This doesn’t usually happen.
He’s less than 20 minutes away from breaking the record of the longest speech given on the senate floor
Cory Booker has officially broken Strom Thurmond’s record for longest speech on the senate floor and he’s still going
For those of you wondering what he’s been talking about this whole time, his staff wrote down a bunch of stuff for him to read like stories from people across the political spectrum opposed to what the administration is doing. He’s also been telling personal anecdotes about meeting important civil rights leaders and other democratic senators have been pausing him for “questions” but the questions have been as long as a small speech and have both served the purpose of giving him a second to sit down and updating him on the news that he’s been missing while he’s been talking.
He has yielded the floor at 25 hrs and 4 mins. His eyes are so wide they look like they’re going to bug out of his skull so I don’t blame him for stopping. He said to go out and get in some good trouble.
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