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Scientists have uncovered an incredible specimen in Myanmar that has given us a glimpse of life from 100 million years ago - a piece of amber containing the remarkably preserved remains of an ancient bird hatchling.
Inside the amber, you can make out the head, tail, and neck of the bird, but it’s the wings and feet that are the real marvels - the chunk of fossilised tree resin has perfectly preserved the bird’s feathers, flesh, and claws, and gives us insight into a doomed group of prehistoric species called the ‘opposite birds’.
“It’s the most complete and detailed view we’ve ever had,” one of the team behind the discovery, Ryan McKellar from the Royal Saskatchewan Museum in Canada, told New Scientist.
“Seeing something this complete is amazing. It’s just stunning.”
“But what we can glean from this specimen is the fact that it was probably a member of the so-called opposite birds, or Enantiornithes - a group of prehistoric birds, thought to have evolved at the same time as the ancestors of modern birds, but for some reason died off with the non-avian dinosaurs.
‘In appearance, opposite birds likely resembled modern birds, but they had a socket-and-ball joint in their shoulders where modern birds have a ball-and-socket joint - hence the name,’ Michael Le Page reports for New Scientist.
‘They also had claws on their wings, and jaws and teeth rather than beaks - but at the time the hatchling lived, the ancestors of modern birds had not yet evolved beaks either.’”
if you’re asexual, you are not obligated to take part in the ‘ace discourse’
you are not obligated to fight discoursers on the internet. you are not obligated to find dozens of obscure sources to prove them wrong, which they might not even read, or believe. you are not obligated to defend your sexuality from constant invalidation, or other asexuals from bullying
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This is very important.
Asexuality is an identity, not a political movement. You don’t have to be an activist all the time to be valid.
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I’m posting this for 8 year-old me, who had just experienced the first loss of a pet when his dog, Karma, died suddenly. 8 year-old me asked his teacher at his Lutheran school if he was going to see Karma in heaven someday, and she told him no, because “dogs can’t choose to accept Jesus into their hearts, so they can’t be saved.”
What a shitty and terrible thing to say to a little kid who has just experienced his first real loss and just wanted some comfort.
So, to eight year-old me, who still believes in heaven: you’re gonna get to play ball with Karma again, someday.
