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triassic

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the triassic is probably the most underrated of the three periods in the mesozoic. i mean come on, its like an awesome 50 million year-long tug-of-war between archosaurs and therapsids (proto-mammals) for control of the planet, until the triassic-jurassic extinction happens and the dinosaurs go “nah mate, we’ll take it from here.”

also, my hometown sydney mostly sits on triassic rock. so if any of my fellow sydneysider friends ever go to the beach or someplace and see sandstone cliffs, remember that rock was made over 200 million years ago when dinosaurs just started kicking around.

(this fun fact is guaranteed to make you extra fun at parties.)

the great dying

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oh boy, i did a lot of wikipedia bingeing to learn about geological timescales for this comic (and the next few), but here are the cliff’s notes:

the history of the earth is divided into 4 ‘eons’, the current one is called the ‘phanerozoic’, and it’s been going for the last 300 million years. basically everything interesting to do with evolution happens here.

the phanerozoic is divided into 3 ‘eras’:
the ‘paleozoic’ (boring single-celled organisms -> cambrian explosion -> much more fun organisms, yay!)
the ‘mesozoic’ (dinosaurs, yay!)
the ‘cenozoic’ (no more dinosaurs, boo!)

each era can be divided into ‘periods’ (we’re currently in the quaternary), and each period can be divided into ‘epochs’ (we’re in the holocene) if you wanna get real fancy. so it goes eon->era->period->epoch. remember that kids, you’ll be tested on it later (maybe).

play?

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sedna makes dini an offer he can’t refuse.

if you haven’t noticed by now, i’m a big fan of silent comics. personally, after page after page of dialogue, i love to take a break and let the pictures tell the story. visual storytelling is always more important than verbal storytelling in my opinion. especially with comics.

don’t touch

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now, before you get mad dini, in sedna’s defence, what’s the point in having a giant pile of dinosaur plushies if you can’t bury yourself in them anyway?

as you can probably guess, giraffatitan is what scientists like to call a really big dinosaur. 22 metres long and 12 metres tall. still not the largest known dinosaur, but definitely in the top 5 for cool names.

dinosaur collection

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i just assume sedna carries a prop asteroid around at all times, just in case there are some dinosaur plushies lying around which need smashing.

and spoiler alert: she definitely will not stop calling him “future husband”.

morning alarm

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i like to imagine the ridiculous amount of time sedna must have spent practising and fine-tuning in order to nail that shot instead of just knocking on dini’s door. but then again, what was sedna gonna do with her time anyway if not launch rockets?

the best dad

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whenever you think you’re the best at something, just remember there are 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (10^24) star systems in the observable universe. there’s almost certainly someone out there better than you. ;)

alien life

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unfortunately, trappist-1e is over 40 light years away, so it’s going to take a while for the rest of humanity to hear the wonderful news,

now that i think about it, when you have a head that big, a laundry basket is actually the perfect size for a helmet.