AU where Sydney lives and goes on a hike with TJ. That's pretty much it.
"So, do you want to take a hike?" TJ asked, "W-with me, I mean?"
Sydney feigned to consider it.
"Do you even have to ask? Of course I'll go!" Sydney said, b...
2020-08-13 11:00:22 +0000 UTC View PostAn AU where Sydney lives. Yes, this is basically Route 65 with Sydney in it.
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"Sydney, I-I need to tell you something" Chase whispered.
Sydney looked, intrigued. He was texting Flynn, apparently there was a Day of the Dead party going on and he decided ...
2020-07-19 13:16:05 +0000 UTC View Post<figure>
</figure>A common controversy you'll see brought up in discussions on biology is whereas opossums are what most people would consider stupid or whereas they're som...
2020-07-18 10:44:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Echo AU where Sydney lives and marries TJ and Chase, Leo and Kudzu all love each other and everyone is raising kids.
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“Flight 236-34 is now boarding. Thank you for flying with Ryan-Air.”
“Welp, he wasn’t lying” Sydney said, snapping out of an almost-sle...
2020-07-03 18:06:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Another Echo fanfic. AU where Chase, Leo and Kudzu are together and raise a kid.
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"Hello and welcome to the Cheeto in Speedos cast. I'm your host Shams Hunter and this week we have three very special guests. Care to introduce yourselves?"
"Hi, I'm Chase Hun...
2020-06-30 21:17:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Based on the new study and its conclusions.
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She stands at midday, the heat of the sun bothering her. Still, compared to many other animals she’s well off, her jaw flanges, long tail and horn di...
2020-06-30 14:01:10 +0000 UTC View Post<figure>
</figure>Echo and its prequel The Smoke Room are two visual novels dear to my heart. I started...
2020-06-25 01:23:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Sydney woke up in darkness.
For a moment he panicked, but he quickly realised he was in his bedroom. Next to him was the love of his life, still deep asleep, his beautiful face facing him. Love rushed in his chest like warm water, and he barely contained a sob of joy. He gently...
2020-06-13 12:56:39 +0000 UTC View Post"And we're here" TJ proclaimed as he pulled over.
It was an asphalt-less parking lot amidst the scrubland, some ten meters away from the beach. The days of Echo long behind them, Sydney and the kids liked the sea and TJ himself didn't feel comfortable around freshwater beaches, s...
2020-06-12 10:06:03 +0000 UTC View PostNon-placental mammals are faced with an unique predicament. Possessing epipubic bones, they cannot expand their torsos, and thus cannot give birth to complex, well developed young you take for granted. Marsupials eject joeys, monotremes eject eggs that hatch into puggles - joeys by another ...
2020-04-19 11:59:45 +0000 UTC View Post In another world, there wasn't a first tetrapod dragging itself on the mud. Or, if there was, it faded into obscurity.
Rather, another group of animals took to the land. And they did it by the air.
Somewhere in the mid-Devonian, a placoderm similar to Stensioella 2020-04-09 02:55:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Remember the outgroups I mentioned?
A) is the typical topology for Paraves, give or take. This particular result is derived from the Hartman 2019 version with characters for Enantiornithe...
2020-04-03 17:28:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Using the dataset in Hartman 2019 albeit with the missing enantiornithean characters and additional taxa (same outgroups; the results are... interesting, and for another day). Only genera are listed.
As predicted by Mickey Mortimer, "Martinavis" is polyphyletic. North American and...
2020-04-03 02:31:49 +0000 UTC View Post Mammals
Tyrannotherium rex: A twelve meter long, 15 ton heavy gobiconodontid.
Napioa piadaph: A grizzly sized gobiconodontid.
Napioa leonina A polar bear sized gobiconodontid.
Circavelocipterus major 2020-03-27 14:49:53 +0000 UTC View Post
From the Hesperornithoides paper's supplementary we get this:
Enantiornithes cladogram. Credit...
I already had the idea for a movie detailing Portugal's atrocities against Timor long as far back as 2018, but the sacred disease has me meditating on this. I think I will begin writing the script Thursday.
2020-03-25 01:18:19 +0000 UTC View PostCandy Forests are an unique type of subtropical environment found over most of Mediterranean and Iberian Europe, Central and Western Australia, Western Madagascar and most of northern Mesoamerica, with "False Candy Forests" in South America, South Africa, New Zealand's Sout...
2020-03-08 14:31:24 +0000 UTC View Post Fox Glove (Vulpagere chlorothanatos)
A specialised takakiopsid moss, the Fox Glove infects canines and occasionally other carnivorans like skunks, racoons, cats and bears, though its life cycle is best suited for the cursorial hand anatomy of the former. ...
2020-02-28 18:27:21 +0000 UTC View PostThe sea conifers (Nepotsceae) are a clade of conifers that secondarily returned to the sea. Some species can be found in freshwater biomes, but the most impressive are those founds in marine ecosystems, some of which forming surreal undersea forests mirrori...
2020-01-18 16:05:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Klothys was livid.
Her hairs, the strands that connected all things from the heights of Nyx to the depths of the Underworld, were caught ablaze with a fiery light. For the briefest moment all beings, be them god or mortal, felt her wrath, her displeasure at their purposes being...
2020-01-11 20:27:59 +0000 UTC View PostIn a world where the KT event didn't happen, all bets truly are off. Even in the placid climate of the Paleocene - just before the Eocene Thermal Maximum and its ensuing turnover, long before the drastic changes of the Cenozoic - entire biotas were collapsing. Laramidia's fauna entered Appa...
2019-12-02 02:32:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Up-dated both the archon and meridiolestida articles. Go check them out now.
2019-11-06 13:44:20 +0000 UTC View Post Wacky ideas for a world without the KT mass extinction:
- Extinction of dromaeosaurs either at the Eocene Thermal Maximum or Miocene turnovers. Instead, Avisaurids take the reigns as powerful aerial predators.
- Hadrosaurs, sauropods and ceratopsians grdually replaced by...
2019-10-28 03:14:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Deinonychus by Darren Naish, showcasing both flying juveniles and clueless adult.
A brief one. Everyone got a...
2019-10-28 01:25:12 +0000 UTC View Post 
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2019-09-25 22:32:03 +0000 UTC View Post
"Coloborhynchus Attack" by ...
Inaechelys pernambucensis by Julio Lacerda. Once upon a time, the sea was full of side-necked turtles, sticking to the sea floor while the ancestors of...
Calculating volaticothere limb measurements with 460 species of bats now.
2019-09-06 13:50:10 +0000 UTC View Post