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Lopes et al. (2026-05, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society)
Stony secrets unveiled: evolution of hypercalcified calcareous sponges (Porifera)
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20 Jun 2024
#SpongeThursday Once classified as a tabulate coral, Chaetetes is now recognised as a hypercalcified sponge. This sectioned example comes from the Carboniferous of the Moscow region.
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The hypercalcified rostra of Lamna are most similar to those of putative otodontids. This suggests that it probably present in the otodontid-lamnid common ancestor and the lamnid common ancestor, but subsequently reduced in Carcharodon and Isurus.
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15 Jul 2023
Teeth are situated within bone. They are literally right next door to each other and they serve entirely different functions.
There is no bone marrow.
Bone does not have a hypercalcified shell (enamel).
It’s a fairly elementary concept
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3 Jul 2023
Rostrum is hypercalcified and Lamna-like with "the face of a porbeagle" according to Greenfield, Cooper's 2d model snout is taller and has more depth. Possible that Cooper's version may be slightly closer to how it looked irl (though not completely). Probably in between imo.
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19 Jul 2022
True to its name, #Cyberblood characters have access to both cybernetic and biological modifications that augment their abilities.
Tired of breaking limbs? Choose from a Hypercalcified Skeleton or Compressiontech Carbon-Fiber bones.
#TTRPG #RPG #game
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This is heavily related. It's bad positive feedback loops in society, particularly in childhood education. Macroscopic hypercalcified positive feedback loops are very hard to fix 😢
It's such a shame most of the smartest ppl always go to the most "basic" stuff like physics & math, instead of e.g. applied social cybernetics & education
I lowkey kinda feel like we're just gonna keep cycling through dark ages until society figures out some way to change this🙃
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