• 𝓔𝓶𝓶𝓲𝓮@lemm.ee
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    Remember to not judge whole group by degeneracy of one or two members. Not all paleontologists are fascinated by multipurpose dinosaur buttholes. It’s just a vocal minority.

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    cloaca

    I mean didn’t we know this already, though?

    Also Calvin is right

    What if God was a chicken and dinosaurs were his chosen people, and we just happened to get the story right?

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      What if messages from god can’t travel faster than the speed of light so we are receiving prophecy meant for long dead and far off civilizations

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          Ever paint yourself into a corner of a room?

          Maybe we got one of those special ed gods

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            Hey now, its his first gig as a god, cut him some slack. Sure, he forgot to add special admin overrides to the physics simulation but he’s doing the best he can to fix the mess he created and bring the project back on track!

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              Maybe he knows everything because he wrote it all but can’t friggin remember 1/4 of it now that its been a few aeons?

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            Developers aren’t all-knowing. But God supposedly is. That by definition includes knowing how everything he created works, and what everything is doing at any given point in time and space.

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              But you realize that’s how the average person sees developers, so you can see how thinking god being omniscient is a bit of a fallacy?

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    The dinosaur’s derrière is so well preserved, researchers could see the remnants of two small bulges by its “back door,” which might have housed musky scent glands that the reptile possibly used during courtship — an anatomical quirk also seen in living crocodilians, said scientists who studied the specimen.

    How do you know they weren’t testicles? I wonder if it’s possible that dinosaurs started out with external testes that migrated inward as the climate cooled.

    None of the reproductive soft tissues (like a penis) were preserved. So the researchers can’t say whether the dinosaur was male or female. Even so, this dinosaur likely had copulatory sex, unlike some birds that bump butts when they do a “cloacal kiss” during reproduction, Vinther said.

    Why? Too big? Body the wrong shape? Not flexible enough? I’m actually curious about this. It’s been a question I’ve had for a long time but I feel like I never get a satisfactory answer. I know a lot of paleontology is guesswork based on extant/recently extinct species, and that a lot of the guesses involve “cloacal kissing” due to the fact that most birds and many reptiles reproduce that way. However, theropods, the seemingly most likely candidate for the “cloacal kissing” route due to their suspected relationship with modern birds, had ridiculously big tails which were likely feathered. To me, that raises the question of whether or not theropods truly started the tradition of “raising tail” among birds, or if they were more like ducks but reduced tail size made obscenely large, prehensile penises obsolete because they could go cloac-to-cloac. The tails seem like they’d be too big to “go cloac-to-cloac”.

    Also, since I did a quick Google search to try and find the answer before posting, here is some dino porn, courtesy of the BBC

    Hot theropods in your area!

    Big Sauropod Rails Scaley MILF

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      I’ve kept birds (ducks, chickens, guineas), so I’m familiar with the term cloacal kiss, and I follow what you’re saying here, and I’m also in agreement that I wish there were more information here.

      But I just need you to know, chopping that final A off cloaca made me incredibly, viscerally uncomfortable.

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        But I just need you to know, chopping that final A off cloaca made me incredibly, viscerally uncomfortable.

        You’re gonna regret giving me this level of power.

        Sadly though, as wonderfully upsetting as it might be, I can’t take credit for that expression; I stole it from Jabroni Mike.

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      Of course the Big Black… Of course the British Broadcasting Corporation has images of dinosaurs copulating