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https://screenrant.com/nbc-surviving-earth-documentary-trailer-exclusive/

Made by Impossible Pictures; the same guys who did the original Walking With Dinosaurs.
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>>5134047
I liked it. Positives are the effects and pacing. Negatives are the narration, moments aimed at a younger audience, and animals that were almost certainly endothermic moving like they were exothermic.
Also it was very nostalgic to see them reuse the filming location of Cruel Sea at the end of the episode.
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How would you feel if you died to this goofy looking fuck?
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>>5122451
>>5122508
This one
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i'm gonna be honest bros, i got dinosaur revolution vibes from the first episode.
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>>5134914
The scutosaurus stampede scene was cringeworthy

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how can evolution yield entirely new features out of nothing? mutation, i get that, but that requires something to exist in the first place.
how did the earliest known ancestor of all life who ate and shat through the same hole get a sophisticated nutrition processing system with all the parts of the intestines, liver, kidney and so on.
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>>5133875
>It would also mean that every single animal with that mutation has the same ancestor
correct.

all blue-eyed people on planet earth descend from one dude.
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>>5134871
Actually it could have been female at first and then passed on to a male the next generation before it exploded. In fact we can't say how many generations may have been passed from female to female before a male finally got it and spread it far and wide
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>>5134871
>all blue-eyed people on planet earth descend from one dude.
Are we sure about that? Like blonde hair has evolved in Europe and Melanesia independently.
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>>5133776
Time and (environmental) Pressure.
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>>5133881
>the mutation doesn't "spread" to other individuals
>he doesn't know

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A thread for everyone's favorite rascally and prolific cat hunter.

Wile E. fans also welcome.
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>>5133551
??
yotes gotta eat too
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>>5133551
yotes are formidable predators
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motherfucken dollarstore wolves.
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>>5133219
>>5132391
aryan a10s btw
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>>5129381
thats because theyre aryan beasts

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Keep in mind that nuclear weapons would be useless against them and since they possess human-level intelligence, they will quickly figure out how to sabotage drones, take down power lines/grids, organize well-coordinated attacks, etc.
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>>5133451
birds could just steal all this junk or use it once humans are driven underground
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>>5134007
how are they gonna drive anything underground when they're dropping dead everywhere to weaponized bird flu?
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>>5127293
>"graear intelligence that some subspecies of human"
You would know about that, huh? ESL Meximutt retard.
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>>5134190
humans won't have time to develop a weaponized bird flu before they're driven underground
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>>5134893
bold of you to assume such things aren't already developed and waiting in secret military labs forever because biological warfare is forbidden.
Now, even if we go by your thinking of "we haven't developed such things yet", not only would it take little time to develop because we already have the tools, the resources, the scientist and the knowledge, but we also have plenty of other biological warfare to use that until now we haven't because its forbidden. And if time is your concern, the moment we do set the weaponized bird flu out in the open its game over for birds, it takes decades to form a military biological warfare scientist, birds just won't even make it past a few months tops unless they fly away to some place like Antarctica where they won't have neither the tools, the resources nor the knowledge to create a vaccine.

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I’m not even a catfag, but dog nutters are unironically some of the most insufferable people in existence.
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>>5133742
agreed, Dodo is a trash website for retards
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>>5133727
>Brings their dog to the party
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>>5133727
Nah this is just shitbull nutters. They're the only ones who actually don't believe that breed attributes beyond esthetics are a meme and that it's "how you raise them". A beagle owner will tell you that you should steer clear from them if you want a quiet dog while every pitmommy in existence will tell you that a dog breed created for fighting is fine to have in a home.
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Dodo makes cute videos and pit-mutts can be some of the smartest, cutest, and friendliest dogs around. Any dog can display nigger-type behavior. I've seen a "smart" collie try to break the neck of a kooikerhondje because it barked at them funny.
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>>5133727
>catfag
>dog nutter
you mean millennial faggot?

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>do nothing
>get labeled as the epitome of evil and deception by some random race of primates
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>>5130946
uh, based snakes??
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>>5134751
normalshits aren't human, they lack that part of their soul
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>>5134676
>per capita?
You mean, per snake? Huh, that's a good question, I guess. I'd assume no, there has to be a lot more individual venomous snakes than hippos, right?
>>5134763
Babies don't function well at most tasks.
Fear doesn't need to be specifically about which were our "greatest" predators, but which threats were best answered through fear. Snakes, many insects and rats triggers a different reaction from some random midsize predator you might come upon. What trigger fears is different in each cases, and so is the response.
>>5134714
>okay but indians are retarded
Indeed, indeed.
>remove them from the statistic
As long as they are there, we should be honest about how dumb as fuck the human animal can become, and take account of them in our statistics. If there are things to be fixed, its not through delusion, but through actual understanding and the subsequent actions.
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>>5134857
Then why do monkeys eat spiders instead of being scared of them retard?
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>>5135084
we should also be terrified of large birds as well considering our arboreal ancestry

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post /an/ reaction images pls frens
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>>5134576
lol
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>develop a defense mechanism which repels animals and bugs so they don't eat you
>OH SHIT
I've been thinking about this often. Is it technically an evolutionary victory (for it) if a plant gets farmed for food?
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>>5129489
did the Chinese really invent it?
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>>5129489
imagine the smell
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>>5132940
eating a fruit's seeds doesn't kill the plant like eating an onion's bulb does
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>elephant garlic
>>largest of the garlics
>>>not an actual garlic
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>>5129489
Imagine the smell.

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He's just like me fr fr.
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>>5133983
Just like people believing the caption that says lionesses want to mate dozens of times a day and they bite the lion's testicles to demand him to mate over a photo of a juvenile lion playing with her father.
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>>5133422
>He's just like me fr fr.
Literally a porch monkey.
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Always wondered why the males have such large foreheads, like they’re Homer Simpson or something
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>>5135057
Muscles for chewing tough greens.
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>>5133980
You're next cletus

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It's now spring, hungry hedgehogs are coming out of hibernation.
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>>5134189
i would like to enter, but i worked in state biosecurity for a little while, and i think i would get raped bringing american ticks into the country. I do love the tick orb though. I'm sure it will go to a good home
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I admire the tick orb, but I would consider it a cursed relic.
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Well, so far only 3 people entered.
>>5134338
>american ticks
Those are european ticks.
>>5134337
Would this count as biological material? They were frozen and cast in resin.
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>>5134341
oh yeah, americans have got porcupines instead, don't they
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Slowly getting more people to join. That's currently a solid 20% to win.

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I fucking despise armchair paleontologists. I wouldn’t even care about their ramblings if it wasn’t for the fact that every time a new paper drops, they make a shitty idea off of it. And whether it’s by video, blog or Twitter post, if it picks up traction it somehow ends up being seen as fact by the general paleo community. Actual literal headcanons being made up with zero professional research or backing behind them.
>Nanotyrannus being dubious even though we already knew about its tooth count and fore arm difference a decade before the 2025 paper.
>Dakotaraptor being dubious because of some guy pointing out its sickle claw had a vague resemblance to a Nanotyrannus claw. (Yeah no shit they’re both theropods) It’s like they needed a new target to point the dubious finger at after the Nano paper dropped.
>Nanaimoteuthis being a shellfish specialist despite the very paper describing it pointing out wear patterns on its beak that prove the contrary.
>Carnotaurus being the “Cretaceous cheetah” because it ran fast, ignoring literally every other aspect of its anatomy.
>The average Edmontosaurus being a 15 ton monster that regularly raped Rex, because of a paper describing a superadult specimen that represented the smallest top percent of adults lucky enough to live that long.
>Titanoboa being an obligate piscivore because it had adaptations for hunting the most common prey source in its environment.
For years I have watched this endless cycle and it’s god damn exhausting. If you want your thought experiments to be seen as scientific, go get a degree, start researching, and publish an actual paper about it. You can't just make a hypothesis, stop there, and assume you're correct, it doesn't fucking work like that. Why does the science community that prides themselves on "Realistic portrayals" not know how to fully read through a published paper?
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>>5133123
>>5133122
>>5133034
Spinosaurus isn't real. It's a misidentified Dimetrodon.
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>>5127858
>>5129568
>anatomy is fake
this is really retarded. I don't know how things are with people who study dinosaurs but if you think reasonable inferences can't be made from the anatomy of a creature you just don't know anatomy.
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>>5127856
Hello Carlos Albuquerque, long time no see!
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>>5134812
I love Dimetrodon. That being said, I'm going to kill you with my bare hands.
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>>5134812
Actually it's a misidentified Secodontosaurus

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post animals just sitting
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>>5133825
Did you know coyote is actually pronounced co-yoh-tuh, and coyotes is pronounced coh-yoh-tus? Tell your friends
>I heard a bunch of coyotes across the road last night
>all my hens died from midnight coyotes
>coyotes killed my last cat
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>>5133933
nice, thanks yotes!
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>>5133825
You didn't even pick a good fitting reaction pic. What a trash thread.
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>Why yes I love my cat, that's why I let it go outside without supervision so it can end up inside a coyote's stomach or turned into a pancake by an unsuspecting car
Why are catfags like this?
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>>5133919
Idk if I had to guess scent tracking is probably harder in more arid environments.

Does /an/ like penguins?
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>>4974611
Emperor penguins are now endangered
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>>5134968
this is what happens when you get too big
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It's pronounced pengwing

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My favorite is macaque I wish I could own a pet one
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>>5133912
these sound completely random, like you're making them up on the fly
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>>5134936
what do you think this thread is about
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>>5129240
I thought this was a stealth million pity thread. Thank god it wasn't.


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