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An ammonite is a prehistoric sea creature now extinct, for those not in the know. [link]
I think they were precursors to mollusks; they do look like little kraken-snails, don't they?I doodled this in writing club last Thursday.
Also, as I had no reference for this, I realize this image fails horribly at ammonite anatomy.
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Oh, I'm sure they were still huggable little dudes*. X3 Well, some were very big dudes, but you know what I mean.
Also, I want a plushie like that. Maybe more green than orange, but I still want.
*For the record, I tend to think really weird animals are cute.
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Now I have an image of someone walking their 3ft trilobite on a leash. 'But mommy I promise I'll feed it every day as soon as I figure out what it eats!'
Oh, I'm watching her on etsy waiting to pounce on one if I see a color combination I have to have
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...Come to think of it, what did ammonites eat? :U Fish?
Etsy has a lot of fun stuff. I'd buy some if I had the money. :c
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I don't think anyone is sure. I think there are theories that some fed on plankton and some on small fish like modern cephalopods.
Yeah, I know. I see lots of things I love, but little I can get. Though I did just splurge on a pretty stone.
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Pretty stone? I like stones. I wish to see. 8D
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I'm sure it'll get posted here once I get it and make something 
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I love you, man. :3 Hermit crabs have made animals like this grow on me.
I would hope that they're extinct. (I was in fact, in the know.) They're too big for the modern gravity force. With a body that big, the poor thing would collapse inward on itself.
/nerdism
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Hermit crabs are adorable.
Maybe the change in gravity over time was a major factor in their extinction?
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Yes, they are!
That was my theory as well. I imagine the change in gravity was a factor in the extinction of many large animals. That would explain why the cockroaches survived, too. I'm not sure that I accept the giant meteor theory. There would be a massive crater somewhere.
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The giant meteor thing sounds too sudden, personally. I think it was more evolution and atmospheric/gravitational change than anything else.
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Right. There's too little room for humans to suddenly pop down on earth if the meteor thing were true. I agree.
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Not necessarily that; I just find it hard to believe an entire species* could be wiped out by a huge meteorite especially with the recent discoveries of birds' evolutionary ancestors. Funfact: apparently the chicken evolved from the tyrannosaurus rex. Evolution is hilariously cruel, no? XD
Not to say that a huge meteor impact couldn't affect the atmosphere enough to decimate a species, nor to say that 65 million years of sediment building up in the crust couldn't potentially hide immediate evidence. It's mostly the evolution thing that makes the meteorite theory bug me. I guess we could compromise by saying that most of the dinosaurs were killed by a meteorite and the rest evolved, but I still need to learn more about the evidence supporting this particular theory.
*referring to dinosaurs here, mostly. The meteorite thing supposedly applies to them, yes? Correct me if I'm wrong.
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They've a possible crater of the right age in the waters off of mexico. [link] There's also a huge one in the middle of our country. You forget that this was several ice ages ago, land topography changes and the biggest crater in the us is completely buried in later dirt. Sort of like how people forget (good thing, it's the stuff of nightmares) that all of yellowstone is essentially an ancient volcano caldera, and we've no proof it's really extinct. It wasn't just dinosaurs, and it wasn't a complete extinction. The theory is essentially that it coughed up so much ash that the world cooled and the sun was dimmer. So it was like the dustbowl in human history. Lots of plants died, so the big plant eaters died, meaning not enough food for the big meat eaters, so they croaked. It wasn't instant, they found hundreds of species before the kt boundary and only a few after, so it was more like attrition. It was a good time to be small and able to survive on small amounts of food. It's one of many theories, but the boundary shows that something did crash into the planet and muck things up quite a lot. Of course, an unlikely but really fun theory someone proposed is that flowering plants and allergies killed off a lot of species. Since I've bad allergies I do rather like the idea that they could kill off the dinosaurs
*and regarding decimate [link]
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Well, it was said that when the meteorite struck Earth that it kicked up a lot of debris in the air. And we're talking about a huge meteorite. As we're talking about cold-blooded animals that are accustomed to a tropical area, I can see where they would get that. It was also said that it was first the tropical plants that died, then the herbivores, then the carnivores. So they kicked it by trophic level.
Still, it's a bit hard to believe.
It was indeed applied to the dinosaurs, my friend.
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It's times like these I kind of wish I had postcognition.
We're learning about evolution in Biology right now; maybe we'll learn something about that?
Sorry I haven't replied for a while; messages like building up.
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Haha, you lucky duck with your many messages.
Oh, God. Evolution? Are all the extreme creationists screaming discordantly yet? I know a few people that refused to put the correct answers just because they didn't agree with the theory. Like. Why not just get an A? Nobody said you had to agree. O__o I don't even agree, and I put it anyway. My mom is Asian. I NEED THAT A. D:
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It looks fun until you're sifting through a ton of them and you realize you should respond to all of them, but don't know what to say. And then they pile up. And pile up. And pile up.
So far, no. Which surprises me, because my classmates usually aren't the brightest bulbs in the box. Then again, they're usually more silly!stupid than whiny!stupid. Sometimes whiny!stupid comes in, but not to a great extent.
I agree with the evolutionz. 
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Haha. I don't think I've experienced that. I was excited when I had twenty.
I'm quite open-ended about most things. I'm very sure of my beliefs, but I believe them knowing that I could be completely wrong, and that we may very well have evolved from monkeys. I'm not going to be so arrogant as to assume that I know everything and do it all the correct way. So I see evolution as something that I don't follow, but is another possibility. :3
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Some day, young Moku. Some day.
Technically, we didn't evolve from monkeys - we evolved from the same ancestor as monkeys. 8D One of the reasons I took Biology was to learn more about how evolution is supposed to work, given how many misconceptions there are about it.
I suppose there might be a deity of some kind in existence, but I'm not gonna go with that idea until I get an explanation of it that makes sense to me.
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One can only hope.
I completely understand that point of view. :3 Though I don't think I ever really doubted the existence of a higher power. My mom is a very spiritual person, but she let's me find my own answers; so even when I got old enough to question things (and I do question everything), it always made sense to me.
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I personally like the idea of there being no higher power; it means we did things on our own, without the help of a god's power. 
Backing up a moment, if the gravity force had been much more accommodating of larger/heavier organisms way back when, would humans have weighed somewhat less in the same environment? :U And does the shift in gravitational force have to do with crust building up on the Earth and slowly making it slightly bigger, or does it have to do with the moon slowly drifting off somewhere? Or something else entirely?
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Like a big dollhouse, eh?
Those are very good questions, but I hope we wouldn't weigh less; I'd end up weighing less than a hundred pounds again, and I'd probably float away or something. It took me until last summer to break 100. And I'm 5'4".
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BAWWWWWW. Dude. The eyes. They're sucking me in.
WE MUST REPLICATE THIS AMINAL.D:
Dear christ.
Fuck.
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But what shall we replicate it with?
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GOOD THINKING!
OVARIES, GO!
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ANY MOMENT NOW!
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Hurr.:3
Ovary pokemon would be the best ever. You could like, put the babies against each other. And then like. The baby that came out first would have high speed levels, man.
I don't know why I said that.
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Reminds me of what I read about ancient Egyptian royalty earlier.
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What was it? Did they have baby wars?*A*
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Cleopatra and her siblings bickered over the throne. Bloodshed was had. Yay, historical royalty!
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Royalty was a bitch in the old days.'A'
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Everyone I showed it to at school thought it was a squid. XD I'M PRETTY SURE SQUIDS DON'T HAVE SHELLS, GUYS.
Thanks. 8D
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Hahaha I looked at it like "SQUID! Wait..... it has a shell..... SNAIL SQUID!!!" XD
You're welcome!
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