What are the chances that more prehistoric creatures are still alive, like the coelacanth?

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Thagomizer

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How Don Bluth sees dinosaurs:

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What up to date books about the mesozoic do you recommend? (unrelated pic, just looks cool)

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Discovered this week by locals in the Algerian Sahara, What could it be?

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I got to go to Drumheller for the very first time and I must say Black Beauty is a wonderful sight to see, even if it is a cast.

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Behold, a Mastodon with Mammoth tusks! Found at the Cincinnati airport

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The truth has been spoken

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What species/relative of a Zebra is shown in this picture?

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I spent 2 hours on a slightly more accurate shitpost

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Got some new books :)

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A new study has just detailed the report of possible Glyptodont hunting by humans in Venezuela. 6 skulls (belonging to Glyptotherium) were analyzed from 2 sites in Northwestern Venezuela and 4 specimens showed similar breaks in regions of the head which had thinner head shield covering.

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A few quick 3d prints of raptor skulls as Christmas gifts. Thought they looked good after a nice rinse

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Next we’ll be discovering a Cave cave

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I am a fiber artist/paleonerd and I stitched one of my favorite fossils or prehistoric creatures each day in August. Any of your own favorites on here?

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Which Extinct Elephant and Mammoth/Mastodon is your favorite?

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Am I the only one who thinks chalicotheres look like big horse gorillas?

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🔥 The world's only intact fossil of an early whale – the Basilosaurus dating about 40 million years ago – has been uncovered during a excavation at Wadi Al-Hitan in Egypt.

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Check out my Mosasaurus shelf!

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This week is Morrison Formation Week! This layer of Jurassic-period rock is found in Colorado and has given such stars as Stegosaurus, Allosaurus, and Brontosaurus! Celebrate with the hashtags #MorrisonWeek #MorrisonMay #MorrisonFormationWeek

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This is the Indricotherium (Near Horn Beast), the largest terrestrial mammal to ever live. It was about 8 meters long and came in at close to 20 tons. It’s title is constantly competed for by ancient elephants, but at least for now to no prevail. Photo Credit: Sameer Prehistorica

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Still annoys me some culture's did this, so much wasted knowledge

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Did Multituberculate mammals have live birth, or lay eggs like other mesozoic mammals? (art isn’t mine).

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why didn't birds evolve into whale-like animals?

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Found this while looking for paleogene predators in north america

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Figured I'd Give This Format Some More Love.

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Spinosaurus displaying | Art by Mark Witton

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Didn't know that Robert T. Bakker is an artist

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I painted an Apatosaurus yesterday at the American Museum of Natural History

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Which fossil sites do you think need more illumination in Palomedia?

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This Stegosaurus skeleton at the Natural History Museum (the most complete ever found)

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How can I improve on the anatomy of these Coelophysis?

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A daspletosaurus I modeled for my paleontology video game -- thoughts?

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Why did Postosuchus and other bipedal pseudosuchians evolve bipedalism in the first place? What were the pros to bipedalism for these guys?

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Giganotosaurus

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Birds too

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Does anyone think that Yangchuanosaurus should represent the year of the dragon? I mean people did think that its fossils were from dragons.

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Here’s your reminder that dinosaurs were the dominant life form on Earth for 4% of Earth’s history. Humans by comparison, have only been around for about 0.04% of Earth’s history.

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Dino feathers anyone?

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Genetic Evidence Points to Dire Wolves Being Separated from the Genus Canis by Over 6 Million Years. A New Study, Published in Nature, Places Them in Historical Genus, Aenocyon, Named by John Campbell Merriam in 1918.

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Fossils and Skeletal of Shringasaurus indicus from the Middle Triassic of India.

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Whale time

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Forgotten Bloodlines: Agate, a upcoming film (expected to release in 2022) documenting prehistoric creatures of the Agate Fossil Beds during the Miocene period.

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Pfft, look at this HAHAHA

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The king of the cretacious. A tyrannosaurus rex relaxes on a lake during the late cretacious. Artist is unknown.

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Under very rare conditions smilodon skulls can be preserved in igneous rocks.

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Today is Women in Science Day, and I find it fitting to celebrate the mother of palaeontology: Mary Anning (1799 - 1847)

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I love how the wiki page for The Land Before Time calls them ornithodirans to include Petrie

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How did eagles and raptors evolve the digit behind the leg?

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It’s about damn time!

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What Dinosaur/Prehistoric animal (in your opinion) gets not enough love? For me i would probably choose Stegouros.

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Little Plesiosaur Paddle 🦴

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Me: “What!?! That’s like the most important fact I know”

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A few Ammonites, Sponges, Iguanodon fossils and miscellaneous!

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Triceratops [Mark Witton]

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Is Dakotaraptor still valid?

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Went and visited Sue at the Field Museum in Chicago recently.

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He has a single braincell

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A joke for all you dinosaur lovers.

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My Deinonychus sculpture based on Hector that was sold at Christie for 12 million dollar

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Yutyrannus, made it in Algebra a few days ago

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Is there any Non-avian dinosaur that could fly? (The dinosaur shown in the picture is MIcroraptor)

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Please welcome the Luxembourgish Museum of Natural History's newest member: Simolestes keileni (a pliosaurus)

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ah yes, my favourite Pterosaur

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Glyptodon getting a “back scratch” from a saber toothed cat, in the Houston Museum of Natural Science

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Field Museum attempt >>>>>>>>> AMNH attempt

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When you study natural history long enough, you begin to notice something about how Asian animals arriving in new places has an ongoing trend

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I just really wanted to see a ground sloth... I didn’t know it was huge...

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Is this the oldest mummy found??!!

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Multicellularity before it was cool

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A rex meme... a better meme.

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Sorry, H2OLaurieStan, it had to be done

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Tyrannosaurus rex, Watercolour and pen, me. A4.

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When nature played Spore...

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Friendly reminder that paleo fieldwork is not like Jurassic Park

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Newly described species of theropod dinosaur, Spectrovenator aka Ghost Hunter It was unexpectedly found lying beneath a Tapuisaurus.

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2 claws. 1 giant and 1 small. (1:1 original cast) cost me 17 bucks each

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Thought you guys might appreciate this origami sarcosuchus skeleton I made!

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How do we know about titanosaur back armor?

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What exactly did Andrewsarchus look like?

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Struthiomimid Foot (Phalanges)

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A Size Comparison of Large South American Fauna. Art by Roman Uchytel.

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Got a new case for my birthday from my wife. Just finished putting my favorites in it. I found these in Virginia. Also my first post on this sub I thought y’all might like it.

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Deinocheirus by Gabriel Ugueto

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are you sure?

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My Great Grandpa gave me this Brittle Sea Star Fossil about 10 years ago, can anyone help me identify which species it was? Found in Morocco.

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“What do you mean we haven’t found the complete fossil yet? Are you guys even trying?”

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I specifically looked for that answer to make this meme

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Did you guys know tiny sauropods existed? This lil guy was placed next to a brontosaurus (I think) for contrast- the big lower legs and feet in the back. Taken in Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum.

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Hey experts! I need help identifying this. I got it from my father in law. He says it’s a tooth but he doesn’t know what species.

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School textbook 😐

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Incisivosaurus gauthieri by Sean Closson

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Do you agree ?

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Smilodon Populator and Orcas preying on South American sea lions on a Patagonian beach. Art by HodariNundu

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What is the texture of pterosaur fuzz? How would it feel to touch it? (Art by Mark Witton)

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A young Lambeosaurus gets separated from the herd but finds a wandering male, and now follows it instinctively. (created by Julio Lacerda)

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Tyrannosaurus rex by John Conway. I think this is such a good illustration of the dinosaur and makes it look almost cat-like.

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Can I get a anomalocaris fossil

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Trix the Tyrannosaurus freaKING REX (housed in Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands) She is 75-80% complete and 12 meters long!

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Where are the eyes on this thing?

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(OC) Today's sketch of cynognathus

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I don't know if this sub reddit is the right place to ask this question, but what dinosaur is this?

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Can you see the teeth? 🦷 The fossil is a Jurassic Ichthyosaur jaw from the Yorkshire Coast of Britain. 🇬🇧

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Paracyclotosaurus - a Capitosaurid Temnospondyl

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Bought this “mosasaur tooth”. Can anyone help me verify which species it might belong and if its real?

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How many feels can I get for my Xiphactinus boi

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Allosaurus Tooth from the Wyoming Dinosaur Center's Don't Fall Quarry!

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Saw this lovely utahraptor at the Morrison Natural History Museum in Morrison, CO.

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Pelorovis antiquus by Benjamin Langlois

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Fossil of a fish found in the Northeast of Brazil, probably from the Late Creataceous

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Here is some things i wanna ask:

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Mind boggled

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My latest Dilophosaurus wetherilli illustration. More artworks on my Instagram @paleoarte

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Any fun facts about Ceratosaurus?

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Overheating and Gigantism

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The Therizinosaurs were an interesting theropod foray into herbivory. Here are two species from the genus Nothronychus.

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Long necked aquatic reptiles

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Humans be like...

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Thought this was funny

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An Argentinian Farmer Recently Found 20,000 Years Old Fossilized Glyptodons

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T. rex attacking Triceratops with another family member watching. | Art by Joschua Knuppe

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Any other 3d printers out there into dilphosaurus?

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What caused sauropods to disappear from North America?

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Which extinct and prehistoric cat is your favorite?

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How were large-bodied dinosaurs able to spread through Cretaceous Europe if it was largely made up of islands?

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A 15m fossilized tree of 140 Ma

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Diplodocus skull

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Damn it! I hate 2020!

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What was the average body temperature of multituberculates?

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I propose we “dunk” on people as a paleo themed alternative to Rick Rolling

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A pretty cool phylogenetic tree of mesozoic birds by Lynx (from the book: Birds of the Mesozoic: An Illustrated Field Guide)

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I took this photo of Stegosaurus during my visit to the National History Museum in London. Hope to like it 😊

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Appendage & old reconstruction of Anomalocaris

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Does anyone know what this animal is it’s from the Cambrian and I’ve been trying to find the name for quite a while please help

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Nothosaurus mirabilis by Sean Closson

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Biggest leaf fossil I've found, chipping it away was tough since it was set in clay didn't want it to crumble

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Robert Bakker?

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Let’s assume for the sake of discussion that Nanotyrannus is a real species. How does this affect what we currently know about the Late Cretaceous North American ecosystem?

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Even bigger Bruh moment from Google (pretty sure the dino should be Argentinosaurus too)

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Whenever I see restorations of elasmotherium, it's shown with a gigantic horn on its head. But the skeletons I've seen of it all just have a sort of knob on its forehead, like pachyrhinosaurus had. Do scientists know whether or not elasmotherium had a giant horn? If so, how?

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Can you BEElieve it.. Santana formation lower cretaceous!!!

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seriously, at least t. rex can be considered to have 4 limbs, carnotaurus might as well have no arms

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This was in Natuurhistorisch Museum Maastricht

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Why do so many of the therapods (dilophosaurus pictured here) have this weird shaped premaxilla? What purpose does it serve? How did it evolve?

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Were dinosaurs good parents?

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What's your favorite paleo trope

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Dope turtle that i prepare 🥰

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