theropods, any member of the dinosaur subgroup Theropoda, which includes all the flesh-eating dinosaurs. Theropods were the most diverse group of saurischian (“lizard-hipped”) dinosaurs, ranging from the crow-sized Microraptor to the huge Tyrannosaurus rex, which weighed six tons or more.
Unlike the sauropod saurischians, all the theropods were obligate bipeds; that is, their hind legs provided support and locomotion while the short forelimbs and mobile hands were probably adapted for grasping and tearing prey. Despite the group’s name, which means “beast (i.e., mammal) foot,” theropod feet usually resembled those of birds. Birds are descended from one lineage of small theropods and therefore are members of Theropoda.
Three major theropod groups are generally recognized. Ceratosaurs were the first and ranged in size from the small Coelophysis to Ceratosaurus, which approached Allosaurus in size. Succeeding the early ceratosaurs were the tetanurans, comprising the carnosaurs (including Allosaurus) and the coelurosaurs (a larger group that includes Tyrannosaurus, dromaeosaurs, and Ornithomimus, among others). Coelurosaurs and carnosaurs both had many hollow bones and sharp, recurved teeth along the entire length of their jaws.
Theropod remains have been recovered from all continents except Antarctica and from the Middle Triassic through the Late Cretaceous Epoch (from 245 million to 65.5 million years ago). The earliest theropod is thought to be Eodromaeus, a 1.2-metre- (4-foot-) long dinosaur known from fossils discovered in northwestern Argentina that date to about 230 million years ago.
Dinosaurs VIII : Theropoda - Megalosauroidea and Carnosauria :bird-wat:
Megatheropods - "The Largest Killers To Walk The Earth"
The Most Accurate T. rex Ever Reconstructed? :bird-screm1:
Prehistoric Planet episode 1: Coasts :bird-screm-2:
The New Look of Spinosaurus :sicko-spin:
The Raptor That Made Us Rethink Dinosaurs :bird-mad:
2001 Walking With Dinosaurs The Ballad Of Big Al :comrade-birdie:
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So I've started reading Blackshirts and Reds recently and the other day I finally got to "The Quote" after seeing it posted for years and was unironically like :soypoint-1: :parenti: :soypoint-2:
i just finished this book but i forgot what the quote was can you remind me
During the cold war, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative. If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regime's atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system; if they didn't go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom. A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them. If communists in the United States played an important role struggling for the rights of workers, the poor, African-Americans, women, and others, this was only their guileful way of gathering support among disfranchised groups and gaining power for themselves. How one gained power by fighting for the rights of powerless groups was never explained. What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy, so assiduously marketed by the ruling interests that it affected people across the entire political spectrum.
Bf cried when I gave him the sword and now he's texting pics of it to all his friends.
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I had a prophetic dream that I would post on hexbear. The worst part about the dream was that the voices in my head were at it again. It got me worried because I recently lowered my medication which keeps the voices at bay. I sometimes have moments in which I cant really trust my senses which made me paranoid as fuck back in the day. These days im ok with being schizophrenic...meds keep the worst effects like hearing voices away.
Scorsese'a movies are all about how there are different types of new york guys and they're all cool.
One of the things I hate most about NYC is that New Yorkers insist that New York is the only place where things happen and having lived in a variety of midwestern midsized cities and suburbs the smug fuckers are right.
Can't wait til global warming sinks Manhattan.
Read an old forum comment about the 4kids One Piece dub that said, "4KIDS RUINED ONE PIECE. SANJI SOUNDS LIKE A N*****!" Anime fans always keep it classy
the one piece anime was ruined from the start by having Toei animate it
Oh gods I just saw the video of the azov guys burning down a longship on twitter and its set to some "Epic Viking Movie Trailer!!!" ass youtube music. Ugh :cringe: :cringe: :cringe: :cringe: :cringe: :cringe: :cringe:
It's really funny in hindsight that the only only reason we know any details about ship funerals is bc an Arab diplomat happened to arrive at a camp while one was happening on his way to deliver some Korans to like the king of the Tartars or something. Since the "vikings" were illiterate ibn Fadlan's account is one of if not the only contemporary written account of a "viking" religious or funerary ritual. It's another great example of how utterly fake "norse neopaganism" is. A bunch of white guys who are very proud about being white guys reconstructing their "ancestral religion" from accounts written by the very groups they're trying to define themselves in opposition to.
they weren't illiterate they just wrote dumb shit on rocks instead of in books. :theory-gary:
It’s another great example of how utterly fake “norse neopaganism” is
Whoa whoa whoa, first off the azov guys are slavic pagans, and I resent the implication that any other religion is more "real" than any kind of paganism. If cringe fascists being members of a religion makes that religion illegitimate then that rules out pretty much everyone else's religion as well .
Metal is made of rocks, and you use metal to carve the wood. Its simple mathematics.
Working on a theory that claims the reason US Americans are so obsessed with WW2 is because deep down we know our involvement is the only good thing the US has ever done on world stage.