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All of them are acting like you’d expect them to according to Scandinavian folklore: The gullible troll, the flirty huldrakarl, the suspicious gnome, the untrustworthy mermaid, and the creepy åmand (stream man or man of the stream)

Additional info: Trolls in Scandinavian folklore aren’t big dumb monsters but more like strong, less bright people of the woods/mountains. Huldrakarl is the less famous male version of the huldra. Gnomes are house spirits who help and protect the family they live with and are often the first to notice if something is off. Scandinavian mermaids are specifically said to have huge breasts which they use to lure sailors to their deaths. Though they’re often confused for each other Åmand is different from Näcken because more often than not he’s only heard but never seen, and will usually loudly announce that he plans to take a life days or even weeks before someone drowns in his waters.

And I just realized there are a lot of creatures with weird tails in Scandinavian folklore…

#queue wot #fave #troll #huldra #huldrakarl #mermaid #gnome #Neisse #åmand #folklore #scandinavian folklore #Denmark #Sweden #Norway #art

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idk man the nervous system makes me kinda nervous

#seriously though #skeletons are fine #muscleture system is freaky #nervous system is terrifying #endocrine system is a bit silly though #anatomy #physiology #a&p #skeletal system #musculature system #nervous system #endocrine system

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If a worker who isn't the owner says ANYTHING similar to "I'm not really supposed to do this but-" and then does something that helps you, under no circumstances inform the business, including through reviews. You tell them that the worker was polite, professional, the very model of customer service and why you like to go there. You do not breathe a word of the rulebreaking.

#important #work #employment #labour

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#fave #star wars #anikin skywalker #2000s emo #2000s #2000s aesthetic

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#animal behavior #beaver #video #plushies #plushes #toys #fave

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#ides of march #animal crossing #acnh #animal crosing new horizons #no... don't dont do this me... there has always been 2 's' in 'crossing' I swear... please... #video games #nintendo

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#anti terf weaponry

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Colla Wood Piece - Petrified Wood

#petrified wood #petrification #stone aesthetic #collectibles #geology #geology rocks #rocks and minerals #special collections #gemstones #copper #crystal collection #agate #opal #paleontology #natural history #nature

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TV

#furry #cotton valent #dorothy #solomon #doodle #scraps

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cute gnome-wizard for @vivi-bel

#queue wot #commission #ttrpg #gnome #wizard

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hey, neil! my sister didnt realize that crowley and aziraphale were in love until the last episode and the scene where he confesses. then she asked me why you went "the gay route" what do i say to her? i love crowley and aziraphale a lot btw

You could perhaps suggest that she watches it all again, and it may make more sense to her.

#queue wot

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I asked my portuguese speaking friends for help on my spanish project. They said;

"On paper, it makes sense. But in action, it's incomprehensible."

#language #linguistics #português #Portuguese #español #spanish #jokes #language jokes #linguist humor

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“If humans domesticated dinosaurs for food they would domesticate hadrosaurs because they’re harmless” absolutely useless take

Okay first, managed to domesticate Large Ungulate With Spears On Its Head

and Omnivorous Eating Machine With Bladed Mouth

I’m sure we could handle the “scarier” dinosaurs

And second you’re gonna tell me a beaked reptile the size of an elephant is harmless? All it has to do is lean on you

#dinosaurs #paleontology #paleoblr

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Sisyphus, holotype of Daspletosaurus wilsoni is now on display at Badlands Dinosaur Museum! The cranial elements will be added after they undergo CT scanning.

#fossil #fossils #rocks #paleontology #daspletosaurus #dinosaurs #tag later

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Sometimes, I wonder how the old folks of Egypt would feel about us turning their sacred deities into pop culture idols like this. Then I remember stuff like the priest's influence on Egyptian politics, the stuff with Thoth and the lunar calendar, and that one excuse note from a labourer saying, "Sorry I was late to work, boss. I had a hangover because I was out drinking last night with Khonsu under the moon."

Anubis & Horus spotted having tea in Cairo (2006)

#anubis #horus #cairo #khonsu #thoth #popular mythology #egyptian gods #ancient egypt #history #archeology #alcohol mention #alcohol #tea

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#how is the little egg ventilation tunnel built I wonder? #egg #goanna #varanus #varanus gouldii #squamate #lizard #reptile #animal #academic paper #academia

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Trilobozoans (also known as triradialomorphs) are some of the more enigmatic members of the Ediacaran biota. In the past their unique three-way-symmetrical body plan was interpreted as linking them to groups like sponges, cnidarians, or echinoderms, but currently they're considered to be their own weird little phylum with uncertain evolutionary affinities, classified no more specifically than "probably some sort of early eumetazoan animal".

Lobodiscus tribrachialis is a newly-described member of this mysterious lineage. It lived in warm shallow marine waters covering what is now Southwestern China, and with an age of around 546 million years it's currently the youngest known trilobozoan, extending the group's time range by several million years.

About 3.7cm in diameter (~1.5"), it had the characteristic trilobozoan disc-shaped shield-like body, with a central depression surrounded by three triradially-symmetric lobes with branching ridges and grooves.

Its body would have been soft but fairly rigid, and it's not clear if it was capable of moving over the seafloor or if it had a more static lifestyle. Like its relative Tribrachidium it was probably a filter feeder, with the grooves on its surface directing water flow towards the central depression – and this surface ornamentation may also have been covered with cilia that actively caught and transported suspended food particles.

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References:

Ivantsov, A. Yu, and M. A. Zakrevskaya. "Trilobozoa, Precambrian tri-radial organisms." Paleontological Journal 55 (2021): 727-741. https://doi.org/10.1134/S0031030121070066

Ivantsov, Andrey, Aleksey Nagovitsyn, and Maria Zakrevskaya. "Traces of locomotion of Ediacaran macroorganisms." Geosciences 9.9 (2019): 395. https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences9090395

Hall, C. M. S., et al. "The short-lived but successful tri-radial body plan: a view from the Ediacaran of Australia." Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 67.6 (2020): 885-895. https://doi.org/10.1080/08120099.2018.1472666

Rahman, Imran A., et al. "Suspension feeding in the enigmatic Ediacaran organism Tribrachidium demonstrates complexity of Neoproterozoic ecosystems." Science Advances 1.10 (2015): e1500800. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1500800

Zhao, Mingsheng, et al. "A putative triradial macrofossil from the Ediacaran Jiangchuan Biota." Iscience 27.2 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2024.108823

Wikipedia contributors. “Lobodiscus.” Wikipedia, 29 Mar. 2024, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobodiscus

Wikipedia contributors. “Trilobozoa.” Wikipedia, 10 Mar. 2024, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trilobozoa

#paleoart #ediacaran #science illustration #paleontology #palaeoblr #lobodiscus #trilobozoa #triradialomorpha #eumetazoa #animal #art #or maybe just precambrian disc golf #<- prev tags