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extremely funny to me that Kermit the Frog is the only main overlap character between Sesame Street and The Muppets. imagine your day job is hanging out in a community of lovely people that genuinely just want to help kids learn and care about everyone so so much and then your night job is the reason that you have to stay up to date on your rabies AND tetanus vaccine

at noon the giant you're hanging out with is Big Bird! a wonderful fellow who likes reading stories and singing and telling fun facts! at midnight there's a giant named Sweetums who makes you feel like you're being hunted for sport

Ernie, trying to maybe come out to Kermit: well you know Kermit, me and Bert-

Bert: Bert and I

Ernie: Bert and I, we've been best friends forever, but we're also something else too!

Kermit, who every goddamn night has to tell Beaker and Bunsen to keep it professional, deal with Statler and Waldorf's bullshit, AND update his organizational chart on Dr. Teeth and the Electric Polycule: that's really great to hear fellas, happy for you two! :)

Accidentally spelled 'agreement' as 'a greement', which is for some reason amusing to me in my sleep deprivation..... a greement.. an greement... just one singular Greement.. #mygreement

guy: it sucks that the train back is such a long ride

his friend who is trying to get him to wear foot shaped shoes with toes but is taking it slow: it does

how much simpler can I possibly make it

Hey what's outside the bounds of that screenshot

the image contains only the information inside of it

but where do these other lines lead to?

to the edge of the image

Day 176#: Wendiceratops pinhornensis

Merry Day five of Dino-December! Today's animal of the day is Wendiceratops pinhornensis!

Image credit: Danielle Dufault

This species of ceratopsian dinosaur lived during the Late Cretaceous period in what is now Canada. It was named after Canadian fossil hunter Wendy Sloboda, who discovered the first fossil specimens of this dinosaur during an expedition to the Pinhorn Reserve in Alberta, Canada. It was around 20 ft long, weighed 1.7 tons, and, like its larger cousin, Triceratops, had three horns on its face (two brow horns and one nasal horn). However, paleontologists have not yet found any of the brow horns, so their exact size and shape are unknown, but we know that Wendiceratops had them due to the shape of the available skull fragments. We have a better idea of what the nasal horn looked like, but it's broken in most specimens. Paleontologists estimate that it was around 4.5 inches long and had a base length of around 3.5 inches.

Image credit: cisiopurple on DeviantArt

Unlike Triceratops, the topmost epoccipitals of Wendiceratops, which are the little spikes on the edge of the frill, curved up and folded down against the front of the frill instead of sticking straight out like the epoccipitals of many other ceratopsian dinosaurs did. Having a distinct frill shape would have helped Wendiceratops differentiate members of its own species from other types of similar dinosaurs that lived in the same place and time. Wendiceratops was a member of the Centrosaurine subfamily, which typically had smaller but more elaborate frills, while the Chasmosaurine subfamily, which included Triceratops, had larger but less fancy frills.

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