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myrmepropagandist

"Endoskeletons are best!"
"Exoskeletons are best!"

(image via "fossilguy" fossilguy.com/gallery/vert/pla)

A photo of the head of the armored fish, Dunkleosteus, the head is fish shaped with impressive jaws and even bone circle plates around the eyes. Text has been added so the dunk is saying "why not both?"
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Mark T. Tomczak

@futurebird Oh God, it's following me now.

Visited the Cleveland Museum of Natural History for the first time this weekend and they have fossils of that fish in five different places. It's IIUC the state fish fossil.

I swear, every time we turned around, it was staring at us. I'm going to remember "The Dunkleosteous had a self-sharpening beak" like I remember the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell.

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Think of all of the horrible scraping sounds in the Devonian seas!

Jan 14, 2025, 01:09 AM·Public·Web
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Eph

@futurebird @mark I remember straight-up developing a lifelong case of thalassophobia from one illustration of a dunkleosteus in James Gurney's Dinotopia books, and I'm so glad now that child-me never considered the sound... this tanky lad terrified me lol.

Illustration of a dunkleosteus in James Gurney's Dinotopia books, a massive armored shark in the middle of tearing a limb from a submersible.
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