Of course the two “boy raises a plesiosaur” anime end up pitted against each other.
Newly named dinosaurs of 2025 (except extant birds), arranged phylogenetically.
Watching a new anime and— wait, is that a canonically left-handed character?!
Seriously though, I’ve barely seen anyone talk about A Mangaka’s Weirdly Wonderful Workplace, but I’m enjoying it very much. Very funny yet surprisingly heartfelt show. There’s probably a lot here that speaks to creatives, as well as folks in any field who are early in their careers. Not that I would know anything about that…
An Ornithology and Biogeography question I’ve been thinking about, I wondered if you had any ideas
Why aren’t there any native crows (genus Corvus strictly, I know there are jays) in South America?
An explanation I read was that they would be outcompeted by toucans.
This sounds implausible, for several reasons, but especially because crows and toucans actually do overlap in range across Mexico and Central America .
Crows live in every corner of every other continent (besides obviously Antarctica), in every climate from the arctic to the Sahara to rainforests, including in various isolated islands such as Hawaii and New Caledonia.
Yet somehow they couldn’t get to South America?
It’s a good question. I don’t think there’s likely to be anything about physical geography or climate that would prevent them from getting to South America, and ecological niche modeling has found that there are areas of potentially suitable habitat in South America for the pied crow, for example.
So my best guess is that it’s for the same reason that there aren’t any cranes in South America, which is to say that I haven’t yet seen anyone come up with a well-substantiated answer.
The magnificent bumstinger breathes underwater using feather-like extensions from its gut (colloquially called “arsegills”), which are venomous due to its diet of corals and sea anemones. Use that to inform your vote as you will…
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