#dorsale

[information-2-0]

#langue #saveur #doux #amer #onctueux #salé #aigre #âpre #astringent #acide #mastication #phonation #déglutition #papille #gustative #face #dorsale #Youtube

[1mm4d13]

Mothra better survive this movie for once

#SHE LIVED MY BBY GIRL LIVED FOR ONCE #godzilla #gojira #mothra #mosura #best girl #kaiju #monsterverse #gxk #godzilla x kong: the new empire #they should eep #I like the 2014 dorsals for MV Goji better #bite me #I sometimes like to think that everything the fandom has done with Godzilla has helped him and japan really heal from their shared tragedies

[plesiosaurys]

getting emotional over footage of an amateur scuba diver interacting with a coelacanth. they are hunted by large deepwater predators, and here comes a large creature bearing the brightest lights it's ever seen, making strange noises, but it does not shy away. it hovers, calmly, as the diver reaches out and trails a hand down its back. im strongly against the anthropomorphizing of real life animals but the stupid emotional part of me loudly insists this is because it recognizes us, the alternating movements of its four paired limbs matching the diver's four paired limbs, & it is thinking, "hello, cousins, we missed you these 66 million years, it's so good to see you again. welcome back, welcome home."

#[OBLIGATORY DISCLAIMER: he should NOT have touched the fish. do NOT touch random fish you find while scuba diving #especially if the fish is 6ft long & has sharp teeth #ESPECIALLY if the fish is a critically endangered species #being overwhelmed by the majesty of the coelcanth is understandable but that does not excuse his behavior] #[obligatory disclaimer 2: i know nothing about this guy; by 'amateur' i just mean he wasnt part of a scientific expedition at the time] #[obligatory disclaimer 3: i mean it wasnt CALM. its first dorsal fin was erect which we have reason to believe means it is on edge. #but it didnt flee like you would expect of a wild animal] #...disclaimers over. now im going to wail about how life began in the sea and we left & they stayed #& we thought they were gone & now we're finding our way back home to them #they are so beautiful and they are our family and they love us ok. they do i know it in my heart #coelacanth #Latimeria chalumnae #animals #andy original #ALSO I KNOW THEY HAVE 8 FINS by four paired limbs i mean the pelvic and pectoral the others arent paired they dont move like legs do

[alphynix]

Most mosasaurs all had very similar body plans: they were streamlined scaly monitor-lizard-like marine reptiles with four rounded paddle-shaped flippers, and many of them also had large shark-like tail fins.

But Megapterygius wakayamaensis here seems to have been doing something a bit different.

Living towards the end of the Cretaceous, about 72 million years ago, in the waters covering what is now western Japan, this mosasaur was around the size of a modern orca, roughly 6m long (~20').

Unlike other known mosasaurs its flippers were huge, bigger than its own head and distinctively wing-shaped, with the back pair being larger than the front. This is an arrangement oddly reminiscent of the unrelated plesiosaurs, and may suggest a convergent sort of highly maneuverable "underwater flight" swimming ability – but unlike plesiosaurs Megapterygius also still had a powerful fluked tail, so how exactly all of its fins worked together is still unknown.

It's also the first mosasaur known to preserve potential evidence of a dorsal fin. Some of its back vertebrae show a change in orientation at the point where a fin base would be expected to be, closely resembling the vertebrae shape of cetaceans like the modern harbor porpoise.

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#science illustration #paleontology #paleoart #palaeoblr #megapterygius #mosasauridae #mosasaur #squamata #lizard #lepidosauria #reptile #marine reptile #art #congrats to the artists who put speculative dorsal fins on their mosasaurs before this

[dinoserious]

invertober day 14, blue glaucus

#invertober #blue glaucus #nudibranch #sea slug #mollusk #TIL that most pictures of them actually show their underside as they float belly up. their dorsal side is like a solid silver color #if this is common knowledge i did not pick up on it oopsie

[salamispots]

wanted to do a couple more examples for the commission sheet

#rug hooking #wip #fiber art #artists on tumblr #was thinking about repeating patterns in the design itself? like hte dorsal fin could've been a bunch of U's stuck together #hmm #oH I also finally updated my website >:'D #as in added a section for iris complex (spoilers if you go look haha and haven't read all the way or don't mind spoilers) #after this one gonna do a small square one #squints #I guess besides commissions I can also sell the ones I make/aren't commissions? like this one? idk

[moldspace]

i love ur paper mache fish but it has been driving me crazy, what type of fish is the top one?

it's an arctic grayling!

#ask #very silly fish i like their ridiculous dorsal fins #hard to paint! though!!

[emry-stars-art]

Got sharkdrew on the brain (thank you @sade-of-spades 😌)

Find the mer au masterpost here 💕

I’m issuing a “find the artist” below the cut:

Now maybe I’m just being stupid bc I don’t know how wattpad works but I don’t see any artist credit on this collection, it looks like the person went for a “none of this is mine, all content belongs to the creators :)” 🥲 at any rate this is my immense inspiration here so if the style/art looks familiar I’d love to know who it is

#big boy #I realized very recently that if the reason sharkdrew is so beefy is to be able to swim efficiently #without the stabilization or whatever from the two dorsal fins #then he’s probably not noticeably more beefy than anyone else at the start #he’s just A Mer #but of course he grows into the Andrew we know and love him to be on this blog #anyway #fan art #my art #aftg #all for the game #mer au #sharkdrew au #sharkdrew #neil josten

[reginaldubel]

godziller i designed a year ago

(quality might suck cause its huge)

#godzilla #gojira #kaiju #fangoji #<- i call em babygirlgoji #(friend of mine called them babygirl once and i find it funny) #anyways their design is based off komodo dragons and lizards #slightly inspired by the monsterverse design especially the plates #however for the dorsal plates i wanted them to resemble mountains (even the colors) #especially when they bend their back forward it really looks like a mountain peak youre looking at

[islandofohara]

One Piece Live Action Appreciation Week (Day 7: Favorite Location)

My favorite set is the Baratie, hands down. — Taz Skylar (source)

#in love with this set so much #and don't get me started on the dorsal bar! #i rlly hope they can make this an actual restaurant or attraction #oplaaw23 #useropla #one piece #one piece edit #one piece live action #one piece netflix #opla #opla edit #baratie #sel edits

[carsthatnevermadeitetc]

Buick Invicta Sedan Prototype, 1957; production Sedan, 1959. The Invicta was a new model for 1959 that evolved the Century body with Buick's 401ci Fireball V8 engine. The 1957 photograph shows a design proposal with a centrally-mounted “dorsal fin” on the rear deck lid that never made it onto the series production version

#Buick #Buick Invicta #Buick Invicta Sedan #1957 #design study #prototype #dorsal fin #tail fins #1950s style #General Motors

[weevilsdaily]

weevil 441, 442, 443, 444, 445, 446

#weevil #bugs #weeviladay #via https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Figures-1-6-Weevils-of-the-genus-Otiorhynchus-of-Ukraine-general-view-dorsally-1-O_fig1_341792682

[1mm4d13]

Loving the near contrasting personalities and ideals between these two

#godzilla #gojira #monsterverse #godzilla minus one #kaiju #fanart #legendary godzilla #toho godzilla #I can’t believe his dorsals did that in th new trailer

[birdstudies]

February 28, 2024 - Black-backed Thornbill (Ramphomicron dorsale) Found only in the Santa Marta Mountains of Colombia, these hummingbirds live in and around forests and grasslands. They eat nectar, frequently clinging to flowers while feeding, and capture insects in the air or pluck them from leaves. Nothing is known about their breeding behavior. They are classified as Near Threatened by the IUCN due to habitat loss in their small range from deforestation, fires, and over-grazing.

#black-backed thornbill #hummingbird #ramphomicron dorsale #bird #birds #illustration #art #tropical #birblr art

[cryptid-quest]

Cryptid of the Day: Dorsal Finner

Description: The Dorsal Finner is one of four cryptids of sea serpents coined by Gary S. Mangiacopra, based on sightings from the North Atlantic between 1878 & 1888. Dorsal Finners are 70-100ft long, alligator-like, sport a pair of front flippers & a powerful back-tail.

#cryptid #cryptids #cryptozoology #cryptid of the day #dorsal finner

[eowyn-igneelcheshire]

So I did some pixel measurements comparing Link to the 8ft tall gerudo to figure out his height and found that in botw/totk he's about 5'1-5'2.

using this information I found the heights of three things (people) I was most curious about then put said heights in a comparison chart and uhhhhhhhhhhh

this is terrifying

#but i'm kinda into it ngl #I can't put an actual lynel or a zorra into this so you'll have to just use your imagination there #real quick- how the fuck does Link use lynel weapons? #most if not all are like twice his height #also Sidon's height is including his dorsal fin thing which gives him a good 6 extra inches #unless i guessed the tip of it wrong because in the picture i used his dorsal fin is covered by his feather #so i can't actually see where the top of it is #link #botw link #botw #totk #ganondorf #totk ganondorf #prince sidon #totk lynel #botw lynel