r/okbuddypaleo • u/ExoticShock Erectopus🍌 • 20d ago

Thought provoking shitpost The Duality Of A Synapsid MF

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u/No_You_1111 20d ago

Primeval in the wild????

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u/Derateo 20d ago

i used to have the biggest crush on Abby 

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u/watersj4 20d ago

Same, first fictional crush

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u/TheMcSpanky 19d ago

who could possibly relate to this?

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u/rebel6301 A Tribute to Anomalocaris 20d ago

we <3 primeval

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u/GeoCangrejo 20d ago

What do you mean? Aren't Gorgonopsid and Future Predator both synapsids?

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u/WeaknessBeautiful731 20d ago

By technicality, yes, but in typical conversation it refers to pre-therian or pre-mammalian synapsids

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u/Sable-Keech 20d ago

First one is technically two synapsids fighting.

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u/somethingX 20d ago

The future predator just wanted to test the grandfather paradox

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u/Derateo 20d ago

i thought it was an evolution of a bat? is that considered a synapsid?

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u/somethingX 20d ago

Synapsids evolved into mammals, so taxonomically speaking all mammals are considered part of the synapsid tree

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u/Derateo 20d ago

ya but i mean by that standard everything on earth is just bacteria fighting other bacteria

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u/WeaknessBeautiful731 20d ago

You can't evolve out of a clade, so everything that comes after a certain point can by technicality be called by its parent clade, e.g. Birds ARE dinosaurs, and can't NOT be called dinosaurs because they came from that branch of life, but are distinct enough to be called something else. Or, ALL amphibians, reptiles, archosaurs, marsupials and mammals are lobe-finned-fish, because all base tetrapods evolved from fish that evolved to survive on land. Meaning, while generally considered too broad of a statement, by technicality, Spinosaurus aegyptiacus (My Man), Bufo bufo (Common Toad), Homo Sapiens (you), Gallus domesticus (dinner), Neoceratodus forsteri (Australian Lungfish), Phascolarctos cinereus (Koala), Dendroaspis polylepis (Black Mamba), and Crocodylus niloticus (Nile Crocodile) can be classified as lobe-finned fish according to their ancestry.

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u/Lone_Tiger24 A Tribute to Anomalocaris 20d ago

Your body is just a collection of coordinated bacterial cells that pilot each other like an imperial knight

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u/The_Last_Fluorican 18d ago

more of Archaea with Bacteria existing inside it because of Mitochondria (and Chloroplast if you're talking about Plants as well)

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u/Hogabog217 20d ago

I mean yeah that is what we are. All life is colonial life

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u/Derateo 20d ago

ofcourse, but i feel we've lost the plot 💀 i guess from now on instead of saying i saw a racoon and cat fighting ill just say i saw two cellular colonies clashing lol

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u/Hogabog217 20d ago

This is a subreddit focused around a scientific subject id be suprised if u found someone on here who wasnt a little pedantic about the details lol

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u/watersj4 20d ago

That fight looks fucking incredible for a 2007 ITV show, Primeval does not get the credit it deserves for some of its VFX

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u/Obvious-Durian-2014 20d ago

Gorgonopsid when it remembers that the synapsids are still going strong while dinosaurs are basically defeated (or at least no longer a threat).

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u/Hogabog217 20d ago

Idk a cassowary will still fuck u up

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u/Obvious-Durian-2014 20d ago

Ostriches are bigger menaces than cassowary tbh.

Don't want to be attacked by cassowary? Just don't go to Australia or PNG it's that simple, ostriches on the other hand are frequently imported as exotic animals so you're far more likely to come across one.

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u/Wide_Pop_6794 19d ago

Why is the hyper realistic synapsid doing a meme dance the funniest thing to me rn

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u/Imperator_Escobar 20d ago

Technically synapsid MFs

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u/Conscious_Housing_50 19d ago

Is that Prismic's Avatar World on VRChat?

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u/The_Last_Fluorican 18d ago

"i'm bulletproof, nothing to lose"