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im a big "fan" of dimetrodon
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I was gonna post that FYAD was an extinct species... but their back.
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Aug 21, 2020 11:05
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Seals and whales are freaky to me because when you think about the weasel-like creatures they evolved from it's like they've become deformed into some kind of nightmare creature, especially whales. Compared to their land-based ancestors they're a bunch of freaks. Otters are less upsetting because they look more like mustelids. Those are my thoughts on marine mammals lately.
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Aug 21, 2020 11:09
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All these ancient giant crocodiles are cool, until you realize you'd never want to go by any body of water or boating with them around.
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Aug 21, 2020 11:25
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Dromaeosaurids were probably the coolest type of animal to have ever lived. 
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Aug 21, 2020 11:29
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Tekne posted:All these ancient giant crocodiles are cool, until you realize you'd never want to go by any body of water or boating with them around. Woah there's a level beyond deinosuchus??
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Aug 21, 2020 11:30
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Purusarus was a chonky boi. 
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Aug 21, 2020 11:33
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I had no idea how big any of those things were so I looked up the biggest one. That's pretty big. Edit: beaten 
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Aug 21, 2020 11:36
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Thylacine, aka Tasmanian Tiger. Around 99 or so, I remember a tv show called "Lost Animals of the 20th Century". It was about... Animals that became extinct in the 20th century. Also, passenger pigeons.
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Aug 21, 2020 11:42
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A spooky skeleton with just the skull. 
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Aug 21, 2020 11:45
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wesleywillis posted:Thylacine, aka Tasmanian Tiger. I have heard, that they have the genome, but it's all mixed up, and needs an advanced super or quantum computer that doesn't exist yet to sequence the DNA.
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Aug 21, 2020 11:47
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Tekne posted:All these ancient giant crocodiles are cool, until you realize you'd never want to go by any body of water or boating with them around. I guess they weren't so much crocodiles as closely related species, but the ones who were fully aquatic and living in the ocean are really cool. I think in the first couple of million years after the dinosaurs went extinct some were fully terrestrial predators too.
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Aug 21, 2020 11:49
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Yeah, evolution has taken crocs/gators/caimans some weird places. The boar crocodile is a perfect example. Just imagine this bastard chasing you through a forest. 
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Aug 21, 2020 11:59
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That reminds me of one type of monster I'm kind of glad crocodilians outcompeted, koolasuchus which some may remember from the Antarctica episode of Walking with Dinosaurs. Don't like the idea of being eaten by a giant salamander, of course it couldn't be more horrifying than being eaten by a crocodile but amphibians freak me out a lot more than reptiles. There's something about the dead eyes and their movements. Frogs and especially toads give me the heeby jeebies. 
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Aug 21, 2020 12:09
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You've gotta hand it to evolution when a design works like crocodiles and alligators it works
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Aug 21, 2020 12:39
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Weka posted:Dang does that top seal have a huge gaping hole in it's side? It's a holy diver
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Aug 21, 2020 12:44
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wesleywillis posted:Also, passenger pigeons. I grew up in the former range of the passenger pigeon and Carolina parakeet, and reading about them when I was a kid made me really sad. 
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Aug 21, 2020 12:50
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Re: Passenger Pigeons, John J Audubon reported seeing a flock fly over him for 3 days. Then people happened. quote:The notable decrease of passenger pigeons started when professional hunters began netting and shooting the birds to sell in the city markets. Although the birds always had been used as food to some extent, even by the Indians, the real slaughter began in the 1800s.
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Aug 21, 2020 13:08
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AFewBricksShy posted:Then people happened. 
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Aug 21, 2020 13:19
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Asterite34 posted:At the prompting of Sid, I have come out of lurking to creat this thread to discuss extinct species that, sadly, did not live to the moden day to be turned into mistreated exotic pets and gimmicky hamburgers by humans. For example, Lystrosaurus Good thread, OP. I've always been intrigued by that period before the ascension of the dinosaurs, when you had all these weird-rear end creatures who look like someone booted up Spore but then they had no inspiration whatsoever. Spinz posted:The giant rear end bugs that used to exist and trilobites, all that stuff is cool. Yeah.  If I remember correctly, that was only possible because oxygen levels were much higher during that specific era than they are now. Phlegmish fucked around with this message at 13:40 on Aug 21, 2020 |
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Aug 21, 2020 13:31
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Into The Mild posted:I was gonna post that FYAD was an extinct species... but their back. FYAD is what is known as a "lazarus taxa", like the Coelacanth.
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Aug 21, 2020 14:00
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Whorelord posted:just how well this nodosaur fossil was preserved is incredible I saw this in person last month and it's pretty amazing to see the face of something hundreds of millions of years old looking back at you, moreso when you are looking at it on LSD
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Aug 21, 2020 18:01
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Vim Fuego posted:you've never seen a leaky seal before? I think that's more a loose seal. I know everybody knows about mammoths, but I only just learned that a population was alive until as recently as 3600 years ago. The Great Pyramids were old when the mammoths finally died out. https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2019/10/15/the-last-woolly-mammoths-on-earth-lived-on-this-tiny-russian-island/#439298057840
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Aug 21, 2020 19:26
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Jose posted:You've gotta hand it to evolution when a design works like crocodiles and alligators it works Apparently the most successful version is the fat lazy one, too.
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Aug 21, 2020 20:02
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Laziness is selected by evolution across countless generations, I tell my mom and dad.
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Aug 21, 2020 20:11
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Mooey Cow posted:FYAD is what is known as a "lazarus taxa", like the Coelacanth. "I stood as if stricken to stone. Yes, there was not a shadow of doubt, thread by thread, post by post, ban by ban, it was a true FYAD."
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Aug 21, 2020 20:22
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only true connoisseurs of Cool Extinct Species will get that reference
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Aug 21, 2020 20:24
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palæontologists think Cretaceous starts with a K. idiots.
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Aug 21, 2020 20:30
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AFewBricksShy posted:Re: Passenger Pigeons, John J Audubon reported seeing a flock fly over him for 3 days. Iirc they also didn't like to breed in groups of less than like tens of thousands. So even a group of literally thousands of birds wouldn't get their freak on. They should be renamed orgy birds.
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Aug 22, 2020 02:48
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Tekne posted:All these ancient giant crocodiles are cool, until you realize you'd never want to go by any body of water or boating with them around. poo poo, you don't even have to be on a boat to have this doofy gently caress face charge at you https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmdcewIjXi0
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Aug 22, 2020 05:10
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Grevling posted:That reminds me of one type of monster I'm kind of glad crocodilians outcompeted, koolasuchus which some may remember from the Antarctica episode of Walking with Dinosaurs. Don't like the idea of being eaten by a giant salamander, of course it couldn't be more horrifying than being eaten by a crocodile but amphibians freak me out a lot more than reptiles. There's something about the dead eyes and their movements. Frogs and especially toads give me the heeby jeebies. I hated those in Dark Souls.
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Aug 22, 2020 06:20
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Grevling posted:That reminds me of one type of monster I'm kind of glad crocodilians outcompeted, koolasuchus which some may remember from the Antarctica episode of Walking with Dinosaurs. Don't like the idea of being eaten by a giant salamander, of course it couldn't be more horrifying than being eaten by a crocodile but amphibians freak me out a lot more than reptiles. There's something about the dead eyes and their movements. Frogs and especially toads give me the heeby jeebies. I mean. Getting eaten by a giant crocodilian would be bad, obviously. But the thought of that blank-eyed slime-coated giant salamander silently gumming someone to death is somehow much worse.
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Aug 22, 2020 06:42
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The masculine male Am I right fellas? Feminized society, it's all yak yak yak all the time!
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Aug 22, 2020 06:48
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Private Cumshoe posted:The masculine male Maybe in Tibet.
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Aug 22, 2020 11:24
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The Carboniferous Period is wild to me. The giant bugs that lived then are cool, but the weirdest thing to think about for me is the lack of decomposers. Early trees which were knocked over easily by wind would just sit around on the ground never being broken down. Combined with the much higher oxygen level there must've been some absolutely crazy fires.
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Aug 22, 2020 12:34
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GokuGoesSSJ3 posted:The Carboniferous Period is wild to me. The giant bugs that lived then are cool, but the weirdest thing to think about for me is the lack of decomposers. Early trees which were knocked over easily by wind would just sit around on the ground never being broken down. Combined with the much higher oxygen level there must've been some absolutely crazy fires. There's no real connection between the two. Fires occur every year, so it's not like fallen trees would build up to massive levels during the era and cause insane fires, it would be little different to the fires of today. Plus there were decomposers, but the early trees of the period were far more resistant to decomposers than modern trees. Back then most species of trees had more bark than wood, and the sap content in this excess of bark protected them from decomposers.
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Aug 22, 2020 13:26
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Mesozoic avians and other feathered dinosaurs are cool because together they serve as an excellent illustration of evolution over nearly a hundred million years, with nearly every step neatly preserved. Some species are so well preserved, we actually know the color of their plumage: or at least, the colors of Sinosauropteryx's feathers on its tail, and people have extrapolated from there in various directions. Ofaloaf fucked around with this message at 14:00 on Aug 22, 2020 |
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Aug 22, 2020 13:52
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:There's no real connection between the two. Fires occur every year, so it's not like fallen trees would build up to massive levels during the era and cause insane fires, it would be little different to the fires of today. I sometimes think about how grass has only been around for a few dozen million years (?), so the flora as well used to look very different from now
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Aug 22, 2020 13:56
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how about crocodile with hooves so it can run its prey down on land https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmdcewIjXi0  or the awesome buzzsaw shark Helicoprion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helicoprion there are some amazing renders of it.  
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Ofaloaf posted:Mesozoic avians and other feathered dinosaurs are cool because together they serve as an excellent illustration of evolution over nearly a hundred million years, with nearly every step neatly preserved. Some species are so well preserved, we actually know the color of their plumage: Wow it's brown. Thank you science.
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