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Hike

AU where Sydney lives and goes on a hike with TJ. That's pretty much it.

Work Text:

"So, do you want to take a hike?" TJ asked, "W-with me, I mean?"

Sydney feigned to consider it.

"Do you ev...

Origins

 An AU where Sydney lives. Yes, this is basically Route 65 with Sydney in it. 

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"Sydney, I-I need to tell you something" Chase whispered.

Sydney looked, intrigued. He was texting Flynn, apparently there wa...

Are opossums smart or dumb?

A common controversy you'll see brought up in discussions on biology is whereas opossums are what most p...

Birthday

Echo AU where Sydney lives and marries TJ and Chase, Leo and Kudzu all love each other and everyone is raising kids.

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“Flight 236-34 is now boarding. Thank you for flying with Ryan-Air.”

“Welp, he wasn’t l...

Podcast

Another Echo fanfic. AU where Chase, Leo and Kudzu are together and raise a kid.

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"Hello and welcome to the Cheeto in Speedos cast. I'm your host Shams Hunter and this week we have three very special guests. Care ...

Thylacosmilus Hunt

Based on the new study and its conclusions.

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She stands at midday, the heat of the sun bothering her. Still, compared to many other animals she’...

MTG Color Analysis: Echo

Echo and its prequel The Smoke Room...

Another marginally silly Echo fanfic

Sydney woke up in darkness.

For a moment he panicked, but he quickly realised he was in his bedroom. Next to him was the love of his life, still deep asleep, his beautiful face facing him. Love rushed in his chest like warm wate...

A slightly less silly Echo fanfic

"And we're here" TJ proclaimed as he pulled over.

It was an asphalt-less parking lot amidst the scrubland, some ten meters away from the beach. The days of Echo long behind them, Sydney and the kids liked the sea and TJ himself di...

Milk Eggs

 Non-placental mammals are faced with an unique predicament. Possessing epipubic bones, they cannot expand their torsos, and thus cannot give birth to complex, well developed young you take for granted. Marsupials eject joeys, monotremes ejec...

The Day the Placoderms flew

 In another world, there wasn't a first tetrapod dragging itself on the mud. Or, if there was, it faded into obscurity.

Rather, another group of animals took to the land. And they did it by the air.

Somewhere in the mid-De...

Ornithothoraces deconstructed

 Remember the outgroups I mentioned?

A) is the typical topology for Paraves, give or take. This particular result is derived from the Hart...

Enantiornithes: phylogenetic tree

 Using the dataset in Hartman 2019 albeit with the missing enantiornithean characters and additional taxa (same outgroups; the results are... interesting, and for another day). Only genera are listed.

As predicted by Mickey Mortimer...

Another World's Hell Creek

 Mammals

Tyrannotherium rex: A twelve meter long, 15 ton heavy gobiconodontid.

Napioa piadaph: A grizzly sized gobiconodontid.

Napioa leonina A polar bear sized gobicon...

New Enantiornithes Cladogram (oh, and Ornithuromorpha as well)

From the Hesperornithoides paper's supplementary we get this:

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Decision

 I already had the idea for a movie detailing Portugal's atrocities against Timor long as far back as 2018, but the sacred disease has me meditating on this. I think I will begin writing the script Thursday. 

Candy Forests

 Candy Forests are an unique type of subtropical environment found over most of Mediterranean and Iberian Europe, Central and Western Australia, Western Madagascar and most of northern Mesoamerica, with "False Candy Forests" ...

Parasitic Plants

 Fox Glove (Vulpagere chlorothanatos)

A specialised takakiopsid moss, the Fox Glove infects canines and occasionally other carnivorans like skunks, racoons, cats and bears, though its life cycle is best sui...

Petition

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On the Lusitanian Pantheon

Sea Conifers

 The sea conifers (Nepotsceae) are a clade of conifers that secondarily returned to the sea. Some species can be found in freshwater biomes, but the most impressive are those founds in marine ecosystems, some...

Fate

Klothys was livid.

Her hairs, the strands that connected all things from the heights of Nyx to the depths of the Underworld, were caught ablaze with a fiery light. For the briefest moment all beings, be them god or mortal, felt ...

Another World's Lijialaowu

 In a world where the KT event didn't happen, all bets truly are off. Even in the placid climate of the Paleocene - just before the Eocene Thermal Maximum and its ensuing turnover, long before the drastic changes of the Cenozoic - entire biot...

Post-updates

Up-dated both the archon and meridiolestida articles. Go check them out now.

Wacky Ideas for a no KT event world

 Wacky ideas for a world without the KT mass extinction:

- Extinction of dromaeosaurs either at the Eocene Thermal Maximum or Miocene turnovers. Instead, Avisaurids take the reigns as powerful aerial predators.

- Hadrosaur...

Velociraptors on air remix

Deinonychus by Darren Naish, showcasing both flying juveniles and clue...