Rather than acknowledge any current events that might be happening today, let’s get a thread going
Reblog this post and add a picture of a dinosaur. Any dinosaur will do. Is it a descendant of the most recent common ancestor of Megalosaurus and Iguanodon? Then great! Add it to the post. Birds, raptors, ceratopsians, hadrosaurs, even titanosaurs - just add a dinosaur. A good, friendly terrible lizard (because truly, they are terrible at being lizards. Good at being birds, though.)
I’ll start
The plot is Pleasant with new Pheasants (by @ryuukibart)
Scientist taking samples of dinosaur teeth to measure isotope ratios - not sure exactly what she’s looking at, but measuring isotopes can give information about temperature conditions when things formed, what they were eating, where they lived, and a whole bunch of other things.
Anonymous asked: I saw a Reddit post where some girl on a trip to Australia stumbled across a cassowary (no idea what it was just thought it was a normal big bird) and took pictures with it, and was somehow not eviscerated and I want to know how that girl got so lucky not to die, and how dumb does she have to to see a giant ass dinosaur and not turn around and make like a tree.