Genuinely Worried For OP If They Ever Find Out About Parasitic Barnacles

Genuinely worried for OP if they ever find out about parasitic barnacles…

things that scare me in an existential way:

barnacles

tunicates (now resolved)

diatoms (recently discovered)

some illustrations about Meganeura and how much we know about its anatomy based on fossil fragments and close relatives

links

ResearchGate

Figure 3. Meganeurites gracilipes Handlirsch, 1919, holotype MNHN...

Download scientific diagram | Meganeurites gracilipes Handlirsch, 1919, holotype MNHN R53005, general habitus. CuA cubitus anterior, CuP cub

ResearchGate

(PDF) The Odonatoptera of the Late Permian Lodève Basin (Insecta)

PDF | The discovery of numerous and very diverse Odonatoptera in the Red Late Permian Lodève Basin questions its current reconstructions of

ResearchGate

Figure 12: Reconstruction of a Namurotypus male (drawing by G. Bechly,...

Download scientific diagram | Reconstruction of a Namurotypus male (drawing by G. Bechly, based on a drawing of W. Sippel) from publication:

Tiny Hannibal of Carthage, and his trusty elephant steed ❤️

This is such a cool way of displaying character minis (and using up all those spare dice cases!)

Honestly I'm so proud of this

Happy Bandcamp Friday!

Just treated myself to Of Valleys and Mountains, by Pull Down The Sun, and the entire Diplodocus back catalogue.

Of Valleys and Mountains is great slice of Aotearoan metal from way back in 2020, though I only discovered Pull Down the Sun in 2021 and listened to the album in 2022. The band probably sits somewhere in the realms of post-metal, and the album is delightfully heavy, and has a real groove to it. Definitely one of my new favourites :)

Diplodocus, on the other hand, was much more of an impulse buy, in fact I only heard them for the first time yesterday. It's dungeon synth, by way of dinosaurs. So, dino synth. :D

It's heavy synth ambient music with shades of DIY black metal. Feels like this is going to get a lot of rotation when I'm playing prehistoric-themed tabletop games. It's honestly kinda delightful.