#gigantism

i dont want to vent about my own issues as im shy so have a character rant instead..

This is deformimisia.

People who are making non-fantasy versions of characters with characteristics present in their fantasy race need to get more creative. I am so sick of them all looking like bland uninteresting redraws of themselves. Look into conditions that could give them similar characteristics!

For the four eyes aspect, you could give him birthmarks or seborrheic keratosis that look like eyes, or even partial facial duplication.

Can’t decide whether he’s filling her up like a Twinkie, or if she was already that fat and he’s absorbing her because, hey, big boy’s gotta eat!

One of our surprisingly popular March Madness competitors, Campanile giganteum is marine snail from the Paris Basin of France during the Eocene Epoch 56-33.9 Ma. It was first described by the famous Jean-Baptiste Lamarck in 1804, He initially had it in the genus Cerithium, which, to be fair, doesn't look a whole lot different.

It was found in the Lutetian limestone (Calcaire lutecian) also known as the Paris Stone. This formation consists of a freshwater limestone deposited on top of a marine limestone as well as some minor calcareous and glauconitic sandstones. This suggests an open, shallow subtidal zone.

This giant snail lived alongside other invertebrates like foraminiferans,

a bivalve called Crassatella,

other snails,

and marine worms.

C. giganteum is actually only one species of many within the genus Campanile. it belongs in the phylum Mollusca which includes snails, cephalopods and bivalves.

From there they belong in the class gastropoda, commonly known as snails and slugs.

There's currently a bit of debate going on with taxonomy further down, but there are at least 18 named species of Campanile including one living species C. symbolicum whose common name is the Bell Clapper or Giant Creeper. It lives in coastal waters off southwestern Australia.

C. giganteum was the largest gastropod to have lived (as far as we know). It got up to 35 in (90cm) on average. C. symbolicum only gets to a little less than 10 inches (24 cm).

A study was done in 2020 on C. giganteum in regard to growth and paleoseasonality. They found that C. giganteum grew upwards of 600 mm per year along the helix of their shell. They concluded that it lived in water between 21-32 degrees Celsius (69.8-89.6 degrees F) which really isn't all that different from the Mediterranean Sea today (a little warmer). If you want to read more about this study, here's the link:

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2019GC008794

Make sure you tune in Monday as we talk more about different types of igneous rocks! Fossilize you later!

i mean look at him in comparison to trevor

A little personal project I did the other night, it's a giant phantom jellyfish. They're really interesting, they live deep in the ocean, so they have gigantism, growing as much as possible. They can be insanely long, and their tendrils are more similar to fleshy ribbons, rather than the typical forbidden spaghett we get with other jellies. They don't sting, they just trap things within the ribbons, wrapping them up. We don't know much about these jellyfish, which just makes it that much cooler. :) I hope you guys like it.