Anonymous asked:

How is the parasaurolophus used its horn for sound resonating idea seen nowadays?

a-dinosaur-a-day answered:

100% the leading hypothesis. we’ve even modeled what the sound would be like

[impossiblepackage]

Sometimes if I get the exact right/wrong amount of drunk ill cry a little bit because i will never hear a parasaurolophus call.

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

Originally posted by historic-nerd

[impossiblepackage]

[impossiblepackage]

i just

why would they need to be so loud? did they spend a lot of time spread apart from each other?

do you think they made contact calls, like parrots and other birds of today?

do you think they spread out foraging, calling out to each other?

"I am thinking of you. Are you thinking of me? I am lonely, but not when I can hear you. I will see you soon."

i just. fuck dude. i am once again having feelings about the parasaurolophus. i'm only crying a little bit.

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

I mean, thats *exactly* what we think they were doing!

Plus, lots of hadrosaurs (the group Parasaurolophus is in) lived alongside each other, and they all would have been that loud and constantly talking to each other. So they needed to be able to tell which calls were whose!

[spinosnoreus-aegypticus]

oh to romance a fellow hadrosaur by bellowing from a great distance, singing a song that would be totally unique, only to be complimented and returned by an equally beautiful call from across the late cretaceous marshes. I think it would be beautiful actually. I would like to see that documentary

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

honestly the more we are able to find out about dinosaurs and sound the clearer it is that sound was just as important to nonavian dinosaurs as it is to modern birds

the Mesozoic was loud and everyone had something to say

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

#i am so heartbroken i will never see a dinosaur

good news! if you've seen a bird, you've seen a dinosaur!

[salteytakesonmanga]

THIS SMILE

This scene illustrates something I think is really important and overlooked about Zoro and Nami’s relationship. And to be clear, I’m not talking a romantic relationship, just a relationship between two people.

I’ve mentioned before how Zoro and Nami carry the emotional balance of the crew, how when one of them is worried or freaking out the other will be calm, and vice versa. Zoro and Nami are characters that carry a lot of authority on the crew. Hardly anybody will outright refuse to do what one of them says when they bother to use that authority, and they both seem to be aware of each other’s role without having to discuss it.

Zoro feels the weight of responsibility more than anyone else on the crew, and I think he wants to reassure people that he can handle that responsibility by being strong and reliable. And to him, that means acting reserved and stoic. Zoro is, ultimately, a shy and awkward guy who doesn’t know how to express his feelings.

But Nami is the other person who carries that weight, and this is how Zoro reacts to Nami when he thinks the two of them are completely alone. He has this open, sunny, trusting smile. He, with all his pride, can be honest and a little embarrassed about getting lost. He doesn’t feel the need to act tough around her because he knows Nami understands something about him that nobody else on the crew does.

As the main two characters who manage Luffy, of course a lot of Zoro and Nami’s relationship hinges on their respective relationships with Luffy. But they also have their own relationship with each other and that’s one of my favorite dynamics in the series.

Also Oda, let our boy smile like this again, please. He deserves it. WE deserve it.

[salteytakesonmanga]

Oda and Takei were assistants together so that’s why they did this crossover!

Shaman King is another one of my favorite series, but it had such a different trajectory from One Piece and other series from this cohort. It ran for over 30 volumes but by the end Takei was severely burned out and unable to write the ending he wanted. He returned to the story several times with miniseries and side stories set in the same universe, but he’s never been able to bring everything together to actually complete the story.

I’ve always thought of Shaman King as an unfinished work on a 20-years-and-counting hiatus. It’s clear Takei isn’t satisfied with the ending so I hope someday he’s able to finish the story that he wants to tell.

Even though they’re very different, Luffy and Yoh are both unconventional shonen protagonists and I have a special place in my heart for them.

Another fun connection here is that Takei Hiroyuki's brother Hirofumi draws the Chopperman spin-off manga. Of course Oda knows them both, so he calls them Takei-san and Takei-kun. But I can't remember which one is called which...

[writing-prompt-s]

You're a Warlock. But instead of drawing power from a higher being, people can choose to donate a portion of their magical power to you. In exchange, they can scry on your adventures and can send telepathic messages to you, as well as make requests. It can get annoying, but you make it work.

[aimzicr]

“Alright, we’re about to head into the dungeon. Daz has gone ahead to check for traps, but we’re pretty confident -- hey,  M’stha’venalth the Destroyer, thanks for the three months, really appreciate it -- yeah we’re pretty confident we got the, uh, we got the thing in the bag, shouldn’t take more than a few sessions at best. Who needs a long rest, am I right? Oh, just got a Sending from Gleek, ‘are you gonna need Darkvision again’, nah, comrade, torches all the way. You know we gotta keep it real around here. Plus I love the burning pitch smell. Okay, good vibe emojis only, viewers, we’re going in!”

[sporesgalaxy]

[hey-adora]

(breath of the) wild geese by mary oliver

[suzumori521]

🦌🦌🦌

[cargopantsman]

ASCII art 10,000

[lizluvscupcakes]

“It’s something to do” sIR—

[coping-via-clint-eastwood]

[catmask]

developing cockroach mentality about the state of my life

[catmask]

i cant die now after everything because its only getting funnier the more i withstand

[beardedmrbean]

Outsmarted by an orange cat, how embarrassing

[cretaceous-kid]

by @hausofdecline

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

this would be *significantly* funnier if it was a living bird, which is a dinosaur that survived

just saying

[a-lost-daemon]

a feral chicken

the closest thing to an irl velociraptor

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

as much as I appreciate feral chickens, you're forgetting seriemas, which literally have sickle claws like velociraptor and the same ecological niche as velociraptors. and also are of comparable size

ALT

we musn't forget the tiny terror birds