The Titanoboa, Is A 48ft Long snake Dating From Around 60-58million Years Ago. It Had a Rib Cage

I love the fact that a group of crows is called a "Murder" and a group of ravens is a "Conspiracy"

It makes me sad how no one ever seems to mention how wild the crocodilian-line archosaurs were. Dinosaurs get all the attention when there was equally crazy shit happening on the other branch of the archosaur tree.

There was a whole linage of bipedal crocodylomorphs during the Triassic that were basically identical to theropod dinosaurs, so much so that a lot of them were initially classified as dinosaurs!

Just fucking look at them!

And these weren’t just little lizard guys, there were some big lads running around.

Not to mention the long-legged ones that galloped around on all fours like some kind of terrifying reptilian dogs.

These crazy crocodiles aren’t just from the Triassic, either; there was a galloping, hoofed crocodilian that lived during the Eocene and likely hunted horses. (They were smaller and not quite as fast as modern horses, but still)

But don’t worry, they weren’t all meat-eaters! There were vegetarian and omnivore crocodylomorphs too! Just look at this guy!

He was an ankylosaur before ankylosaurs were cool (or even existed).

Masterpieces of Mesozoic Seas

Large Hubble Survey Confirms Link between Mergers and Supermassive Black Holes with Relativistic Jets by NASA Goddard Photo and Video

Wow, it’s Friday! Have a great weekend. 

Dunkleosteus model featured in ep. 12 of Shelf Life: 6 Extinctions in 6 Minutes.

Picos de Europa, Spain - by Arturo Garcia

Greetings to the Universe in 55 Different Languages

Dr. Carl Sagan chaired the committee that organized and produced the Voyager Space Probe’s golden record. Among the contents were Sounds of Earth, a selection of sound bytes including nature, civilization, and humanity, and Greetings to the Universe in 55 Different Languages.

Every person who recorded for this project was given almost total freedom on what to say. They were explained the purpose of the project and asked to keep it brief. These are the genuine responses of each person sending a message to extraterrestrial life somewhere in the stars.

Hubble captured this image of Saturn in 2004, a view so sharp that some of the planet’s smaller rings are visible.

Dunkleosteus, motherfuckers.

M42 by NASA Hubble