Kaiju Hentai!

Every so often something utterly innocuous just tickles the living shit out of me. For example:

Over at Lawyers, Guns & Money one of the bloggers (bspencer, to be specific) does something called a "Friday Creature Feature" where she profiles some sort of paleontological critter. Today's was the Permian reptile Dimetrodon - that's the dinosaur-y looking one with the big sail on his back, right?

OK, so I enjoy this little feature and I'm reading down the comments section and I come to this:

Denverite says:
April 18, 2014 at 12:59 pm

So I had no idea these “mammal-like reptiles” were around long before the reptilian dinosaurs.

Yeah, a lot of people don’t realize that dinosaurs and mammals really kind of evolved parallel with each other. A good way to think of it is that the dinosaurs were the reptiles that evolved into birds, and the mammals were the reptiles that evolved into rats.

And in the comment string to this comment are the following:

mike in dc says:
April 18, 2014 at 4:42 pm

B-B-But then, where did Godzilla come from, if not from the unnatural union of a stegosaur and a T.Rex?
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sharculese says:
April 18, 2014 at 4:57 pm

Well, see, when an undersea lizard and a nuclear blast love each other very much…

And that's the point where I completely lost it and laughed so hard my Diet Coke came out my nose.

Friday Jukebox: Improbable Paleontology Edition

Because if you reeeeally want me to keep posting the kind of stuff that tickles the ass offa me...
...well, here it is.

Yeah, I know - somewhere some Christian school is using this video for a teaching aid. Sigh. And it was the dinos that went extinct. Go figure.

Aaaaanyway, speaking of dinos, first, I should really credit the indefatigable Chas. Pierce, from whom I stole both the awesomely-Eighties Was (Not Was) video and the link to this website where you can find out all sorts of things you probably either didn't, or didn't want to, know about dinosaur sex.

Because when they taught you about dinos in school they left out the part where the ankylosaurus tended to roar "Yes! Yes! Ride me like a little pony!" and the ceratopsians were known to prefer dressing in kōkōsei gyaru outfits.

And, yes, this is just another application of Rule 34.