i need to recreate this truck i saw with my eyes while driving on the highway today gimme a sec
it was like this
found a pic on reddit. 10/10 for accuracy
reading creationist articles about evolution out of some terrible urge of morbid curiosity and it makes me sad about general scientific literacy and the pop science idea of evolution
like creationists really emphasize how the "Darwinistic worldview" is driven by competition and only the strong survive etc. and there's no reason for anything except for ensuring survival, so there is no reason for moral behavior or altruism and it's SO FRUSTRATING because people like Richard Dawkins really promote that
But it's not accurate! A lot of scientists now believe that cooperation is a fundamental driving force of evolution. the fact that we cooperate and take care of each other is a major reason why humans are such a successful species. Auuuugggghhhh
I would have been such a faggy lil caveboy, they'd be like "grug come learn hunt and throw spear now" and id be like waaaa no let me pick berry with old gran. I'm the best berrypicker and all the elders love me and are soso sad seeing me cry getting dragged off to do hunting.
At dark around the fire, uup the wise would say some shit like "different flower bloom different way, let grug bloom" and everyone would be like "aaaaaa thog see now, thank you uup the wise." so next day im allowed to pick berry and seed with old gran again and she lets me eat the juiciest ones (o^－^o)
when i was post op after top surgery i had a good friend there with me to help recover. but the nurse didnt get the memo and when i woke up she was like “ok i’m gonna go get your girlfriend and bring her in to see you!” and i remember being so zonked on anesthesia and so disoriented i just laid there thinking wow…… all that an they’re bringing me a girlfriend too this place is amazing
Anytime i see a bunch of pride flags i have to restrain myself from saying "where mexico" bc i doubt anyone will know I'm referencing this
i was rewatching the rite of spring segment from fantasia and i've got to wonder. Why Did We Draw Archaeopteryx Like That. i remember toys having that same, boomerang arm shaped pose too. it's like a monkey lizard more than a bird.
Ooh okay this is a fun one cause while it technically is an Archaeopteryx and is listed as such in the production draft, I don't think the design is based on Archaeopteryx at all!
To me, this "Archaeopteryx" almost exactly resembles something else, the fascinating historical phenomenon called Proavis.
Proavis, or Tetrapteryx as some four-winged interpretations were called, was a hypothetical prehistoric creature that was proposed in the early 20th century as a best guess at what the unknown ancestor of birds could have looked like. The illustration above was drawn in 1926 by Gerhard Heilmann, a Danish artist and amateur scientist who argued that birds evolved from non-dinosaurian archosaurs like Euparkeria. In his 1916 book Vor Nuvaerende Viden om Fuglenes Afstamning and the 1926 English translation The Origin of Birds, he presented Proavis as the imagined midpoint between a scaly ground-running archosaur and Archaeopteryx, which at the time held the title of The First Bird.
Other versions of the same hypothesis, like William Beebe's Tetrapteryx above, were published and discussed around the same time, but it was Heilmann's Proavis that gained immense popularity to the point that bird evolution was considered essentially "solved" for decades. It was also painted by Zdeněk Burian, one of the Old Greats of palaeoart, which kept the concept alive in dinosaur books for decades as well.
Of course further study has shown this hypothesis to be incorrect and that birds are instead members of Dinosauria (and honestly Heilmann either missed or ignored a lot of evidence for a dinosaurian origin of birds even in the 1910s), but the Proavis to me remains a beautiful and fascinating concept that represents scientists and artists striving to understand the prehistoric world and the passage of evolution, much like we still do today!
And of course, its popularity in the early 20th century put it at the perfect time for Fantasia's artists to take... let's say heavy inspiration from Heilmann's imaginary Proavis when depicting a creature that was intended to be Archaeopteryx the whole time! The pattern of feathers matches up almost exactly, although the larger leg wings might have been inspired by Beebe's Tetrapteryx as well:
So to get back to your original question that led to this whole deep dive, artists didn't actually Draw Archaeopteryx Like That except when they were mistakenly drawing something that wasn't Archaeopteryx at all! If you want to read more about the Proavis and Tetrapteryx I recommend this Tetrapod Zoology blog post by Darren Naish, he does into more depth about the history of the concept and some of the unusual evolutionary ideas that Heilmann used to arrive at this weird and cool imaginary creature!
had we discovered Microraptor yet, and just misidentified it, or is the fact that we just HAPPENED to discover a small, gliding dinosaur with four feathered limbs a coincidence?
Nope, Microraptor was completely unknown and wouldn’t be discovered for around 80 years!
Beebe’s Tetrapteryx having four wings was actually based on his observations of bird embryos developing winglike feathers on their legs which were then lost, and drawing the conclusion that they must have had a four-winged ancestor.
Not only is this in line with our current understanding that ancestral states are sometimes reflected in embryonic development, but he was actually entirely right! While Microraptor wasn’t part of the direct lineage that led to modern birds, much closer genera like Anchiornis and even Archaeopteryx show that long, stiff feathers on the legs are indeed the ancestral condition of modern birds!
^ our current view of how Archaeopteryx looked based on more recent reexaminations of the fossil material, from Longrich, 2006.
The two adhd people conversation with both constantly saying, "this is off topic" like it's okay, this is the off topic support group.
“hi welcome to mcdonalds what can i get for you?”
“yeah can i get a deluxe quarter pounder with cheese?”
“absolutely, do you want the meal or just the sandwich?’
“uuuuuh hold on”
*fishes something out of my pocket*
“mikey what do i do?”
“get the fries. youll need the energy in the coming days”
*stuffs it back in my pocket*
“uhh yes please the meal would be great”
Now that it’s back it’s hard to remember a time where they sued to get the post taken down
