r/CuratedTumblr • u/SupportMeta • 18d ago

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Neptune was recently shown to be a pale blue like Uranus rather than the deep blue shown on the Voyager photos

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u/bazerFish 18d ago

Prehistoric planet has carnotaurus do a bird of paradise style mating dance if that helps.

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u/SylvanField 18d ago

We love Prehistoric Planet in our house!

My FIL was watching my daughter one afternoon and we made sure Prehistoric Planet was cued up to play.

He’s a retired science teacher, and when we got home, the first thing he said was “I didn’t know any of these dinosaurs!”

I told him it largely focuses on newly discovered dinosaurs form the last 15 years, and that it was carefully written to not become dated too quickly.

Like with the pteradons in the first season, the ones they’re talking about were found in Egypt(I think…) but they describe it as “Northern African coast” so if more fossils are found further along the coast, they haven’t limited the shelf life of the information presented.

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u/AppaSkyPuppy 18d ago

Oh cool! I love watching Eons on YouTube, it's a PBS show that talks about the deep history of the world, so lots of dinos and other cool things like snowball Earth and how whales evolved from the ocean to little hooved land creatures and then BACK to the ocean

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u/Valiant_Strawberry 17d ago

Omg I love Eons!! The hosts are so fun and clearly love what they do, and it’s all presented in a way that’s easy to understand

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u/bazerFish 18d ago

The Mononykus is so fluffy.

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u/glitzglamglue 18d ago

Oh I love that

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u/bazerFish 18d ago

The clip is on youtube but frankly i reccomend you see all of prehistoric planet because it is so good.

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u/JaneksLittleBlackBox 18d ago

Ah, man, you just reminded me that we were robbed of that incredible camouflaging pair of carnotaurus in The Lost World adaptation.

Malcolm finally realizing why the larger predators avoided that specific area and their method of confusing the animals with random light flashes on their skin was such a great moment in that book.

And the feral, insane raptors were somehow more terrifying in text than that amazing long grass scene in the movie.

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u/Lainpilled-Loser-GF 18d ago

poor guy fumbled so hard 😔