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Another marginally silly Echo fanfic

Sydney woke up in darkness.

For a moment he panicked, but he quickly realised he was in his bedroom. Next to him was the love of his life, still deep asleep, his beautiful face f...

A slightly less silly Echo fanfic

"And we're here" TJ proclaimed as he pulled over.

It was an asphalt-less parking lot amidst the scrubland, some ten meters away from the beach. The days of Echo long behind them, S...

Milk Eggs

 Non-placental mammals are faced with an unique predicament. Possessing epipubic bones, they cannot expand their torsos, and thus cannot give birth to complex, well developed young you take fo...

The Day the Placoderms flew

 In another world, there wasn't a first tetrapod dragging itself on the mud. Or, if there was, it faded into obscurity.

Rather, another group of animals took to the land. And they di...

Ornithothoraces deconstructed

 Remember the outgroups I mentioned?

A) is the typical topology for Paraves, give or tak...

Enantiornithes: phylogenetic tree

 Using the dataset in Hartman 2019 albeit with the missing enantiornithean characters and additional taxa (same outgroups; the results are... interesting, and for another day). Only genera are...

Another World's Hell Creek

 Mammals

Tyrannotherium rex: A twelve meter long, 15 ton heavy gobiconodontid.

Napioa piadaph: A grizzly sized gobiconodontid.

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New Enantiornithes Cladogram (oh, and Ornithuromorpha as well)

From the Hesperornithoides paper's supplementary we get this:

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Decision

 I already had the idea for a movie detailing Portugal's atrocities against Timor long as far back as 2018, but the sacred disease has me meditating on this. I think I will begin writing the s...

Candy Forests

 Candy Forests are an unique type of subtropical environment found over most of Mediterranean and Iberian Europe, Central and Western Australia, Western Madagascar and most of...

Parasitic Plants

 Fox Glove (Vulpagere chlorothanatos)

A specialised takakiopsid moss, the Fox Glove infects canines and occasionally other carnivorans like skunks, racoons,...

Petition

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On the Lusitanian Pantheon

Sea Conifers

 The sea conifers (Nepotsceae) are a clade of conifers that secondarily returned to the sea. Some species can be found in freshwater biomes, but the most impr...

Fate

Klothys was livid.

Her hairs, the strands that connected all things from the heights of Nyx to the depths of the Underworld, were caught ablaze with a fiery light. For the briefe...

Another World's Lijialaowu

 In a world where the KT event didn't happen, all bets truly are off. Even in the placid climate of the Paleocene - just before the Eocene Thermal Maximum and its ensuing turnover, long before...

Post-updates

Up-dated both the archon and meridiolestida articles. Go check them out now.

Wacky Ideas for a no KT event world

 Wacky ideas for a world without the KT mass extinction:

- Extinction of dromaeosaurs either at the Eocene Thermal Maximum or Miocene turnovers. Instead, Avisaurids take the reigns a...

Velociraptors on air remix

Deinonychus by Darre...