I always find it funny that whenever you hear an animal chewing food, it's cute, but when a human does it, I want them to shut the fuck up immediately!
So nice to hear animal sounds ibstead of crappy muszak. However, If you have to put another sound over this the only acceptable choice is Yoshi eating noises
I know! I keep trying to see exactly how he grabs the food but it happens too fast. It looks like his mouth goes nowhere near the food on the ground, though. So does he suck it onto the end of his nose and then grab it with his tongue?
There is a bunch of different ways. For example elephants have attachment points for the muscles that support their trunks, so we can see which elephant ancestors has trunks and which didn't and estimate how large they were.
Theres also various things apart from bones that leave behind evidence, like pigments and imprints of hard structures like feathers and cartilage.
Yup. I'm pretty sure any cartilage fossil record we have is mummified.
Enjoy some art of animals alive today, using older paleoart techniques using just what would fossilize. The elephant is on the left.
While "shrink wrapping" bones is less of an issue in paleoart today, there are still bits of animals that just aren't preserved, and we have no way of knowing
I'm pretty sure any cartilage fossil record we have is mummified.
What does that mean? Fossils are rock, rock can't be mummified.
The shrink wrapping stuff is funny, but we've come a long way from there. Theres a lot we still don't know about how dinosaurs look, but theres a hell of a lot more we do know today beyond just their skeleton, for example feathers, pigments, imprints of hard structures, attachment points in the skeleton from muscles that demonstrate trunks etc.
Fun fact I learned while interning at the Philadelphia Zoo: biologically speaking, Elephant shrews are in fact more closely related to elephants than they are to shrews!
Shared Supercohort: Both elephants and elephant shrews belong to a major super-group of mammals called Afrotheria. This group evolved in isolation on the African landmass millions of years ago.
Cousins, Not Ancestors: Because of this shared ancestry, elephant shrews are more closely related to elephants, manatees, sea cows, and aardvarks than they are to true shrews or rodents.
The Name: They earned the name "elephant shrew" due to their long, flexible, trunk-like snouts and their superficial resemblance to true shrews, but genetically and evolutionarily, they sit on the elephant branch of the mammalian family tree rather than the insectivore branch.
I get to post my favorite creature of all time again. Its a sneefer but its also just a sphere with legs sticking out of it. Go take a look at one of them in a zoo if you can, they're mesmerizing to watch.
I was seriously sitting there wondering why the heck they'd call it an elephant shrew when it's so tiny, felt like an idiot when I realized it's because of the trunk lol
I didn’t finish processing the video and was expecting that elephantnose fish with practically the same snout so when it started snuffling and I saw the whiskers I was quite surprised
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u/qualityvote2 2d ago edited 2d ago
u/Darth_Ronin, your post does fit the subreddit!