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@ainawgsd / ainawgsd.tumblr.com

Child of the 80's; former veterinary assistant;wife and mother of two. This blog is 80% animals with a side of gardening and food, and a smattering of fandom.

the birds of the "aDNA jp"

I need a name for this AU and "pleistocene park" is taken by something else

anyway

Pelagornis, a terrifying pseudotoothed bird (art by @quetzalpali-art)

Teratornis, a giant vulture relative (art by DiBgd, CC BY-SA 4.0)

Xenicibis, the Club-Winged Ibis (art sourced from NatGeo)

Haast's Eagle, the Moa Killer (art by @thewoodparable)

Moas, the top herbivores of New Zealand (art by @quetzalpali-art and @thewoodparable)

Aepyornis (and Vorombe, if that's a thing), the Elephant Bird, the largest bird to ever exist (art by @drawingwithdinosaurs)

The Giant Ground Owl (over one meter tall) (art by Stanton F. Fink, CC BY-SA 2.5)

The Dodo (art by Julian P. Hume, CC BY 4.0)

The Passenger Pigeon, great eraser of the sun

Adzebills, the Opportunists of New Zealand (art by Nobu Tamura, CC BY 3.0)

The glorious Mihirungs of Australia (art by @thewoodparable)

The Great Auk, the false-penguin of the north (photo by Mike Pennington, CC BY 3.0)

Chendytes, the giant marine ducks (art by Stanton Fink, CC BY 2.5)

Talpanas, the reverse-platypus (art by @drawingwithdinosaurs)

the Du, the Demon Chicken (art by @franzanth)

The Giant Flores Stork, competitor of the Komodo Dragon (art by Gabriel Ugueto, CC BY 4.0)

the Giant Swan, attacker of dwarf elephants (art by @paleoart)

Carolina Parakeet, the only parrot native to North America (photo by Huub Veldhuijzen van Zanten/Naturalis Biodiversity Center, CC BY-SA 3.0)

and, of course, Titanis: One of the Last Terror Birds (art by @drawingwithdinosaurs)

there are more, of course, but this post is already too long

What if when we were born we were each assigned a Wikipedia page like a social security number would that be fucked up or what

do you mean a wikipedia page about us? or do you mean some baby is arbitrarily given the rights and responsibilities to update the paramecium article?

ok I did mean a Wikipedia page about us. But keep talking I like where you’re headed

What's your government-assigned Wikipedia page? (No rerolls. I am in charge of "1929 in Wales" now. Not a great year, some bad floods in November.)

Take this dialect quiz! X

I answered "somewhat accurate" because there was no word for "it technically got me but it also got me WRONG and the entire country was red by the end (and it kept flipping between bright red and dark blue while I was taking it)

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I also had to go with "somewhat accurate" because it just kinda gestured vaguely at the whole country. Which makes sense since we moved every 4 years as I was growing up and I was exposed to people from a LOT of different regions. It did l highlight the areas I spent the majority of my childhood in, and also the area my mom is from. But not the area where I currently live and have now lived longer than anywhere else (i mean it's warm hues but not the hottest)

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Going to one of the local greenhouses and the bulk food store today. 100% chance of seeing horses!

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Watching someone turn around because they got tired of waiting on the train and suddenly noticed this horse lurking behind a trailer.

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Found a friend at the greenhouse (and also ran into a high-school teacher)

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Love it when flowers are trying to express a pattern but they don't know which pattern. Are these supposed to be stripes? Spots? Who knows, certainly not the flowers!

This is just the sprinkles section of the bulk food store. The spice/spice mix section and candy section are at least 6x this. Also I bought a 5lb bag of gummy worms.

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Going to one of the local greenhouses and the bulk food store today. 100% chance of seeing horses!

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Watching someone turn around because they got tired of waiting on the train and suddenly noticed this horse lurking behind a trailer.

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Found a friend at the greenhouse (and also ran into a high-school teacher)

I meant to make this meme ages ago when pride month was still on but yeah gé (pronounced gay) is the Irish for a goose.

IT’S FINALLY PRIDE MONTH, TIME TO REBLOG THIS AGAIN.