I would give another chance to the classic non-avian theropods. So, my choice includes two big guys:>Utahraptor>Imperobatortwo medium-sized predators:>Deinonychus>Dromaeosaurand a small, clever rascal:>TroodonYes, they are a few tens of millions of years too late and are unlikely to catch up with mammals in intelligence. But do they really need to?*Yes, I learned about Imperobator from that really questionably-scientific show made by a slopmaker from Disney. Don’t judge me, I'm not a professional paleontologist.
>>4778086The 4 biggest terror birds and garganornis. Just because I want to see what people who complain about aggressive geese would have to say now.
Otodus megalodonMosasaurus hoffmanniiHelicoprion bessonoviBarinasuchus arveloiInostrancevia alexandri
>>4778086ThylacineGreat aukDodoSteller's sea cowMoaAll animals we lost because they were overhunted before laws could protect them
Dickinsonia costataSpriggina floundersiAuroralumina attenboroughiiKimberella quadrataHaootia quadriformis
>>4778086Troodon never existed.
>>4778099This
>>4778086Ivory billed woodpeckerPassenger pigeonCarolina parakeetAmerican mastodonDire wolf
>>4778086I wonder if the average person could even name 5 extinct species
>>4778086neanderthals and mammoths and have them fight to the death in an arena for my amusement
>>4778086All the past 5 Homos.
>>4778138Literally this. Your gay birds are cool and all, but nothing would compare to having some real homos back.
>>4778099Yup, hard agree here. Except replacing dodo with rodrigues solitaire.
>>4778141I had assumed you were still here anon.
>>4778141Why? We'd just genocide/breed them out again.
>>4778099Damn nigga you had 4/5 of my picksOnly difference is I might swap the moas out for either the Elephant Bird or archeoindris, because it’d be cool to have a gorilla-sized lemur hanging around.
>>4778086I want the largest primate ever back, whateve fitnwas. Imagine getting it to do all your manual labor for you
>>4778299Yeah and then when it doesn't want to do labor anymore, it'll rip you in half and go off to do it's own thing. Or it'll unionionize. Not sure which is worse.
>>4778086Why exclusively Maniraptorans? I'd like to bring back Allosauroids from different clades. Allosaurus, Sinraptor, Carcharodontosaurus, Neovenator and Megaraptor (just to see whether it belongs to Carnosaurs or Coerlurosaurs).
Homo neanderthalis, floresiensis, longi, and that unknown hominid from whom west africans inherited 20% of their genes.And since I have an unused spot, the aurochs.
>>4778393They represent the pinnacle of non-avian theropod evolution. All those big and scary Ceratosaurs, Abelisaurs, Carnosaurs, and Tyrannosaurids are already expended branches, forever stuck in the niche dead-end of large predators. While raptor-like theropods still have evolutionary potential (both for new giant predators and for brand new clades). Plus, brain size.
>>4778099This, it wouldn't rock the ecological boat too much considering how recently they went extinct.
>>4778086Alamosaurus sanjuanensisTyrannosaurus (ojo alamo formation locality)Glyptodontopelta mimusDineobellator notohesperusOjoceratops fowleri
>>4778086Carnotaurus in north america. Finally a predator that can catch up to those pesky pronghorn.Paraceratherium, elephants have had it good for too longAtopodentatus, as i think it would fit well in modern beach ecosystemsAnd finally, the dodo and the stellar's sea cow, back where they belong (i would also bring back the thylacine, but OP said only 5)
It has to be my nigga and friends
>>4778392Almost choked on my food reading this
>>4778099>>4778123Recency bias wouldn't you want crazy wierd extinct clades instead of just stuff we have already but bigger or a different color?>>4778086Terror birds becase people who hype out about a territorial fruit forager cassoary (so scary!!!!) like it some kind of monster need a real avian monster to hype up. Also giant predator ostritches are subversive and my handlers say subversion is good.Velociraptor because they are small and could probably become domesticated like a mix between a bird and a dog.Lystrosaurus out of respectA giant temnospondle amphibian like koolosuchus to strike the fear of aquatic maneaters into temprate people.A ceritopsid we could domesticateI would pick a marine reptile but I feel like dolphins would get jealous and rape most of them to death while the orcas would beach ball the rest to death
>>4778517I don't like to think of evolution as being a constant linear improvement, but these guys were around before jawed fish. Fish would just tear them apart now.Trilobites are better suited
>>4778557Seeing extremely ancient species would be interesting, but those animals are basically from a different world and no longer have a place in modern ecosystems, they could only exist as a curiosity. Recently extinct animals could be reintroduced in their habitats and restore the ecology.
>>4778570I think the critters I picked would fit in fine
>>4778557>LystrosaurusToadline breeders are already in on it.
>>4778086Stegosaurus - common dinosaur herbivoreBrachiosaurus - one of the largest land animals everAllosaurus - classic big land predatorSpinosaurus - big amphibious predatorHatzegopteryx - big flying dinosaurbonusone of the massive scary marine dinosaurs. sharks and orca whales need some competition
>>4778574It's interesting to think about unfilled niches. Freshwater temnospondyl ambush predators for the swamps too cold for crocodylians, etc. And certainly there are mesozoic and cenozoic animals that are extinct due to the vagarities of disaster and chance, but a lot of the animals from deep time are functionally less refined than what has come since and would have a hard time finding a niche in the face of competition from modern forms.Maybe I'm wrong about Lystrosaurus. But I think that it would have a hard time competing with mammals.
>>4778591how long until they make the muzzle into a beak?
>>4778099all boringalso the dodo deserved its fate.
>>4778618>be dodo>largest land predator on little island for 20 something million years>crushing beak and sturdy body means absolute top of the food chain>only competition is other dodos and seabirds>suddenly cats, dogs, rats, pigs and humans>royal flush of mammal Harlem Globetrotter all stars curbstomp your entire island at the same time>”tHe DoDo DeSeRvEd ItS fAtE.”Set a dozen polar bears loose in Antarctica and tell me the penguins deserved their fate.
>bring back prehistoric animal>it auto-dies from lack of oxygen and freezing temperature
>>4778086Homo naledi comes to mind>>4778402Yes, at least one of the homos. I don’t know much about them to pick a favorite.
Bringing back the T. Rex to get answers, and also bringing back the Parasaurolophus and Spinosaurus for the same purpose.
>>4778138>>4778127>>4778402>>4778863>He wants abos but even dumber to come backBrainlet retard. They'd be humans in the eyes of the law and they'd be the diversity hires at your work while forming some retarded nigger culture. On tv there'd be species mixing ads instead of race mixing ones.
>>4779094No not to live among us lol
1. Megatherium2. Doedicurus3. Columbian Mammoth4. American Lion5. TitanisThe New World deserves to have some of its cool megafauna back. Especially with Xenarthra.
>>4778086T-RexDon't care about the rest
>>4779094>>4779097Why would this be so bad you fucking weirdos lol. I want a neanderthal wife.
>>4778557>wouldn't you want crazy wierd extinct clades instead of just stuff we have already but bigger or a different color?No because I don't want to cause extinction events out of novelty
>>4779130>you fucking weirdos>I want a neanderthal wife.self awareness = 0
>>4779094Neanderthals and denisovians are smarter than below average populations of Homo sapiens. Well, maybe Denisovians, but Neanderthals are with good certainty. Homo sapiens outcompeted the Neanderthals by needing fewer calories and being able to live in more populous bands, which lead to the Neanderthals having a smaller influence on the genetics of the blended species population that resulted in all modern humans who aren’t sub Saharan Africans.
>>4779124T-Rex would have feathers and a dad bod and also be gay according to experts.
>>4778561Not really. They're basically predatory shrimp. Not the apex predators they used to be, but they'd do fine against crabs and such.
>>4778086a couple extinct human species, maybe the pigmy ones for potential shortstacks
>>4778864Sorry, they'd all die due to earth's greater gravity and lower O2 content.
>>4779340Also because T-Rex were homosexual according to science so they wouldn't be able to reproduce.
>>4779281>>4779341Well if the science says so!
>>4779094If it works as you said, the world is doomed anyway because of regular niggers who will be like half of humanity by the end of this century.But I think the existence of people that are already classified as different species will force people to reinstate segregation, and to realize that niggers are a different subspecies at least and should be segregated too.
I’ll bring back all those cryptids they think are still around, just to troll humanity by making the kooks right.
>>4779794based
>>4778086>Icthyosaur>Megalodon>Anomalocaris>the giant dugong thing>Spinosaurus
>>4778086I would bring back 4 feathered theropods and T. rex, but genetically engineered to have feathers, then kill them all off again, erase all notes for the process and burn down the facility for maximum seethe.
>>4778099Dodos were apparently delicious. I say bring them back, domesticate them, and then have them as poultry.
>>4781257>Some early travellers found dodo meat unsavoury, and preferred to eat parrots and pigeons; others described it as tough, but good. >Some hunted dodos only for their gizzards, as this was considered the most delicious part of the bird.
>>4778086Hyracotherium to fix some mistakes, giant armadillo for cheap housing, giant sloth, unicorn because the world is lost since they died out and pic related because how terrible would it be to be sitting in a chair and it sneaks up and puts it's horrible lips over your entire torso?
>>4781257Every primary account says they tasted like dogshit. The green fat of a tortoise made them sort of palatable.
>>4781257Like others said pretty sure it was the opposite, I imagine they would taste like pigeon or something
>>4781438Pigeon is good though, it's why people introduced it all over the world in the first place. The only reason why it's no longer commonly eaten is that it's smaller and requires more space than chicken.
>>4781443>it's why people introduced it all over the world in the first placeI thought that was because they were effective messengers. I’ve never tried it though so idk
>>4781453They're one-way messagers. You'd need a battery of pigeons from multiple locations then send some of yours to various places by wagon or whatever and hope it gets there. It was logistics mess in the best of times.
>>4781392>umm akshually, i'm not an elephant
>>4779094Neanderthals were more empathetic and just as smart as homo sapiens. The opposite of niggers.We'd be dramatically better off if a couple billion modern humans got replaced by Neanderthals. The last several thousand years of us has been slowly ratcheting towards being narcissistic faggots.
>>4781667Neanderthals lived in smaller groups and did not have art until they borrowed it from sapiens. They definitely weren’t more empathetic. Their “larger brain” had a smaller frontal lobe and enlarged areas for vision and motor control. They were primitive small family group hunters somewhat like a basic ass dog.
>>4778086tasmanian tigerdodoophthalmosaurusallosaurusgiant ass penguin
>>4781677>Neanderthals lived in smaller groupsYes, as a consequence of the reduced carrying capacity compared to Homo sapiens in a given environment>did not have art until they borrowed it from sapiens.Wrong>Their “larger brain” had a smaller frontal lobe and enlarged areas for vision and motor control.Their brains are only larger than the human average, there's no feature of their brain which is outside the range of non-pathological homo sapiens brains.His claim about empathy is unprovable, but the idea that they are more like a dog or an ape than a man is retarded in the extreme.
all of the giant crocodiles
Dilophosaurus, Ceratosaurus, Allosaurus, Albertosaurus, Imperobator
>>4782081Extremely based.
1: a species of crustacean eating mosasaurid, currently there are no large crustacean eaters that weren’t fish2: Passenger pigeons: hate starlings, simple as3:leviathan whale: ocean is in need of a whale predator, but I don’t want to prove the stupid megladon people right. 4: xyphactinus: hate dolphins, and I think these are the only predator that has the chance to outcompete and eat them. Also would make sport fishing interesting again lol5: koolasuchus
>>4782515>hate dolphinsLove u
>>4782520All dolphins deserve extinction, I would trade in all 5 picks to eliminate all dolphins from evolutionary or current existence. Whales I can tolerate. But I have a feeling they would eventually become dolphins so they have to go too. Basically just undo this whole thing
>>4778086>unlikely to catch up with mammals in intelligencepic looks like he heard you
>>4783019jej picorcas can stay though
>>4782515Lol at the random girl
Semi-realistic (i.e., animals probably could survive on modern-day earth without choking to death due to different oxygen levels or something)1. Paranthropus boisei2. Homotherium latidens3. Megaloceros giganteus4. Mammuthus primigenius5. Pinguinus impennis
>>4779333Why do you imagine they would be any less ugly than modern pygmies?
These absolute units.
>>4778086>woolly mammoth>Steller's sea cow>Haast's eagle>Moa (let's pretend this is one species)>Dromaeosaurus I'd mainly restore recently extinct species but also an actual dinosaur because it would be cool as fuck.
Spinosaurus so that people can stop bitching about how it looked.
1. Thylacine2. Kauaʻi ʻōʻō3. Steller's sea cow4. Passenger pigeon5. Irish elk
>>4778618why? for being fat and useless?what's that say about you, then?
>>4778086>vendia>yorgia>dickinsonia>ovatoscutum>sprigginaProarticulata will rise again.
Lepidodendron> the classic prehistoric plantThylacine> first mammal I'd resurrectTrilobites> Dodo> obligatory, almost like tame pygmy terror birdsCothurnocystis> most alien as fuck asymmetrical animal
>>4785711>Cothurnocystisim convinced it didn't actually look like that and every single fossil is grossly deformed
>>4778086Jaekelopterus rhenaniaeGorgonopsQuetzalcoatlus SigillariaHomo sapiens neanderthalensis
>>4778124well most people could throw out dodo, t. rex, mammoth, sabre-toothed tiger, and velociraptor, surely?
Europasaurus - a sauropod only roughly 20 foot long, and roughly 1,800 pounds - perfect for a farm animalWoolly Mammoth - A traditional food source for humansDodo - supposedly very tastyOne of the many dwarf elephants not sure which one - would be very fun and basedMekosuchus - a small tree-dwelling crocodilian would be extremely based as a pet
>>4782515Based aside from the passenger pigeon meme. But do you really think that xyphactinus would outcompte killer whales? These are the real stinkers among dolphins, i really hate that they are the apex ocean predator, Livyatan and the others physeteroids are the only animals that can outcompete orcas.
>>4785740Why do dipshits assume that dodos were tasty? Practically all primary accounts say they tasted like shit. How did it get flipped for so many people? Did some cartoon say they tasted nice so that's why they're all dead now?
>>4786420Can you post the primary accounts? I genuinely thought the primary accounts claimed they tasted good.
>>4778138Your last five fuck buddies are extinct?
>>4779131Is this retard really eco virtue signaling in a thread about bringing back dinosaurs?
>>4778086I'd go with>AcrocanthosaurusNeed a giant theropod and I've loved Carcharodontosaurids since I was a kid>Columbian MammothSeeing those giant bones at La Brea makes me wish that they were back. I bet we'd just call them American Elephants>UtahraptorGrizzley Hawks hunting Bison would be a sight to behold>Pacific MastodonYeah, they are pretty similar in look to Mammoths, but I'd love to have a large browser in the forests of Northern California, Oregon, and Washington.>MoropusIt's a damn shame there are no Clawed "horses" left.
>Titanoboa>Tyrannosaurus Rex>Wooly Mammoth>Irish Elk>Argentavis Magnificens
>>4787806Why megaloceros? We already have a great idea of what it looked like and how it behaved. Why not something more exotic?
>>4787806can’t tell if this is AI
>>4788019It is AI and probably made by using Bing; you can tell from the airplane's fucked-up wings, the filename, and the image size.
These 2 are cool>>Deinonychus>>UtahraptorI would add Megatheridae (ground sloth)Pachycephalosaurus wyomingnesis tooAnd for the last one some pterosaur. Not necessarily one of the big ones thoughPossibly one of the teethed bunch. Definitely not memecoatlus
>>4788061You don't even have to look very close
>>4788061hmmm I suspected as much
>>4778138You have them twerking down in atlanta
>MegalodonTo help the orcas reclaim the oceans>Utah RaptorWould release them by the tens of thousands in Central America, Africa and India >GigantopithecusLet’s settle this bigfeet shit once and for all >TitanoboaNo plan for this. It’s just for the kek>GorgonopsidCool as fuck apex predator that single handedly ruled the world for millions of years
