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Post by Ian Thomas on Jul 4, 2023 12:25:13 GMT 10
Best doco-explanatory-vid I've seen about the KT dinosaur extinction. 🦖 * 2+ hours worth, so best watched over a long lunch at work? 
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Post by johannes on Jul 10, 2023 19:32:45 GMT 10
An excellent, and very exhaustive video. I do not agree with every point, i.E. Lyell being the principal villain and Cuvier being the principal hero of the story (Cuvier's dictum that all large animals are known to western science has been proven wrong several times, the malayan tapir, the gorilla and the okapi are just three of the most prominent eamples) but the principal point still stands; science communication - and science literacy - are sadly underrated, wich explains things like this: www.puzzle.de/le-domaine-des-geants-200-teile-ravensburger-puzzle.html?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI9pCctOKDgAMVoTwGAB1EFgKaEAQYAiABEgJL8_D_BwE What is Dimetrodon doing in the K? If they want to put in a moderately large (if not gigantic) synapsid predator, there were quite a few of them at the time, but they certainly didn't carry sails on their back. Pretty much every village goth with a Deviant Art account can produce an halfway realistic image of Oxlestes or Khuduklestes by putting a quoll color scheme on a fossa or an clouded leopard color scheme on a quoll... |
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Post by Ian Thomas on Jul 11, 2023 11:07:47 GMT 10
... Pretty much every village goth with a Deviant Art account can produce an halfway realistic image of Oxlestes or Khuduklestes by putting a quoll colour sheme on a fossa or an clouded leopard color shemme on a quoll... That's a thought! Maybe try plugging in some descriptive dinosaur phrase for an AI image generator to work on .. 🦕 
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