Mary’s Monday Metazoan: Why such a long face?

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   Ichthyic

   5 November 2012 at 9:15 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   If that’s a gharial, maybe the reason for the long face is that they’re almost extinct?

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   theophontes (坏蛋)

   5 November 2012 at 9:31 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   Fish!

   (No, not a surrealist answer. Really: fish!)

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   Ogvorbis: broken and cynical

   5 November 2012 at 10:13 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   I am amazed at how often the same basic shape has evolved among the archosaurs. From pterosaurs to crocodylians to some of the ichthyosaurs.

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   Ragutis

   5 November 2012 at 10:29 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   Because all his/her relatives have been turned into shoes?

   I would’ve gone with this pic.

   It’s a gharial, Ichthy. But the linked article points out some good news for them.

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   echidna

   5 November 2012 at 10:50 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   Ragutis,
   If you had paused for a moment, you would have realised that Ichthyic is already quite informed. I like the pic that you pointed to, though.

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   Dick the Damned

   5 November 2012 at 11:03 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   Why the long face? Jumpin’ Jeezus, don’t you Americans know anything? Steve Harper’s currently in India, eh.

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   F

   6 November 2012 at 2:27 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   Better to eat you with, my dear.

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   Stella

   6 November 2012 at 3:31 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   I’m impressed. That’s quite a face.

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   dancaban

   6 November 2012 at 6:33 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   Now he’s from Nose City.

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    theophontes (坏蛋)

    6 November 2012 at 8:30 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    @ F

    Better to eat you with, my dear.

    The “F” in your nym stands for “Fish”?

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    comfychair

    6 November 2012 at 11:16 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    Paris Hilton?

    …oh, sorry. I read ‘long face’ and, well…

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    geocatherder

    6 November 2012 at 12:43 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    Why the long face? No dental insurance.