ITT: Extinct animals that you never saw anyone showing appreciation for
So ugly boring animals
OH SHIT DID SOMEONE SAYGLYPTODONTS?
>>4837754There's something I find quietly appealing about the Gomphotherium. It just seems to emulate a lot of underdog qualities: it spread across the entire planet and had a cosmopolitan distribution but its' infinitely less popular and more obscure than the more specialized elephants, its' kind of short & fat and not particularly robust or exaggerated, even its' unconventional tusks aren't 'as remarkable' as some of the other elephants like the shovel-mouth or the stegodonts. >OP's pic The Toxodon is a really fascinating animal because it's basically South America's attempt at making something to fulfill the rhino/elephant/hippo niches within its' isolated biome and it ends up producing the platonic image of "large generic megafauna". Like, so overwhelmingly generic and generalized.
>>4837764>>4837766any animal that has a pokemon based on it get enough appreciation
Amphycions in general
>>4837792Chesnaught is a Hyrax mixed with a Chestnut it's not some talentless Beaver Turtle
>>4837792Love this space marine squirrel nigga
>>4837764>>4837766At least people can actually recognize glyptodonts. Literally nobody ever knows about meiolaniids.
>>4837803I would've said armadillos...
>>4837791he looks like the pliocene equivalent of that one unremarkable herbivore dinosaur that I forgot the name that always gets clapped by large predators in documentaries
>>4837903were they actually able to use their tail as a weapon or was it just for show? Now that I'm thinking tails in turtles are sorta pointless
Weird otter
>>4838052>that one unremarkable herbivore dinosaur that I forgot the name that always gets clapped by large predators in documentariesSounds like the Maiasaura or the Edmontosaurus. No eccentric frill or crest, not even a spiky thumbs on their hooves, literally just giant fast-growing mountains of meat living in massive herds. Even I would feel confident enough trying to hunt one of these animals if I was sent back in time and reduced to the status of a caveman - they're probably fucking delicious too.
>>4838052>>4838417https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7xKyPSGrMpEThey are the deuteragonists of this short doc of my childhood.
>>4838417>EdmontosaurusI think it's that one, I also remember one particular species that could grow even bigger than the t-rex
>>4837754just recently it were found fossils of giant sloth, smilodon and toxodon near from where I live, of course the news article made a big deal about the sloth and the smilodon but the toxodon was just a small foot note
>>4837903I know about them because it was in Zoo Tycoon Dinosaur Digs. For some reason they made it a polar semi-aquatic turtle in that game
Archaeoindris aka the Gorillemur
nk4m
>>4838718Hog
>>4838716Dunce hat buffalo>>4838718Smile pige
>>4838717which one is Sid?
>>4838460>For some reason they made it a polar semi-aquatic turtle in that gameThe game does actually acknowledge that their original range was never really a polar climate, but since they're from the pleistocene they just lumped them in with the saber tooth cats and woolly mammoths anyway. It was probably just an excuse to have a polar "dinosaur" for some gameplay variety. It's a shame the game was made before that one Alaskan tyrannosaurus was discovered, maybe they would have used that instead.Aquatic because turtles = amphibians to most people.
>>4839183I think the only thing I liked about Ice Age was how it focused on the non-dinosaur prehistoric animals. Shame the sequels just immediately got lazy and made them about dinosaurs.
>>4839239my favorite thing about Ice Age was how they predicted a species that wasn't discovered yet by the time the movie was made
>>4839183
>>4839239Wasn't only one of them about dinosaurs?
>>4839183Megalonyx.
>>4839260tfw no fetal alcohol syndrome ayy lmao gf
>>4837754Lol why would anyone appreciate these ugly ass niggas
>>4839284Because they were the size of a white rhinoceros
>>4839183>>4839260One of the funniest corpses I've seen was when a guy blew off half his head off with a shotgun and he ended up looking like this squirrel.
>>4839304no one asked
>>4837754>Swiggity swooty but it's 11m bce
>>4839304I know exactly which pic you're talking about. That's kind of an old one.
>>4839460I feel like this dude gets memed on a lot because they were the dominant lifeform for at least one point in history.
>>4838417>wandering herds of lizard steakI'd have a ranch full of these tasty critters
>>4837903What's the source for this image? As a Lord Howe native I love it. Meiolania are severely underrated. My father found one of the skulls they display at the Australian Museum.
>>4839460Dicynodonts my beloved
>>4839890YJK
hi guise
>>4838437Probably Shantungosaurus. 50 feet long, 15 tons, this thing was fucking massive
>>4837754>SHEEEEEEEEEEEEIT
>>4838417I've acquired an appreciation of hadrosaurs when people complained that they were in every episode of Prehistoric Planet. That just means they're that successful. They have so many fossils that we even got ones with skin on it.
>>4839304 >>4839338#me2not even sure how old it is. probably at least 2010 or so. >>4838717one of the mid sized ones is still alive in the amazon
>>4838417It's really hard to get a grasp on how easy or difficult hadros were to hunt. The animal people compare them most with is bovines, and yet people forget how fucking huge and dangerous bovine can be. Wild bovine can demolish every apex predator they share their environment with, be it wolves or tigers or lions, because these predators are like half their size.Can you imagine some bull Bison in the American plains just being taken down so easily by a predator twice it's size? Fuck.
>>4839993>Wild bovine can demolish every apex predator they share their environment withthat's why normally the predators that take them down are not the apex one, but those at the middle of the food chain like wolves and hyenas so the apex predator can come later to steal the carcass
>underappreciated prehistoric animals are still far more interesting than animals living todaywhy are we cursed to live in such boring times bros
>>4839972I refuse to believe he didn't had a ton of facial fat to hide those massive cheekbones
>>4840018Chameleons are way cooler than most extinct animals
>>4840080at least you didn't use the "but the blue whale is the biggest animal ever!!!" excuse, who cares about filter feeders honestly
>>4839460>>4839478>>4839890I'm violently fucking fascinated by the Lystrosaurus because as little as 50,000 years after the Permian-Triassic extinction it had supposedly successfully established a complete and total, uncontested, cosmopolitan population covering the entire planet. Where the main input controlling their populations were massive periodic continent-scale Australia-Rabbit-Tier famines caused by them literally eating every scrap of vegetation, starving, and dying back. That and the phase they went through where they finally started niche partitioning into all these "me but bigger", "me but neck long", is also really interesting. I think the most compelling periods in biological history are those brief succession moments, after a HORRIBLE extinction event, where most everybody has died and a handful of animals have to repopulate the planet. Super fuckin' neato.
>>4837754>swiggity swooty
>>4839972>Hi!
>>4840018Most of these animals lived millions of years apart anon. If you traveled back to the end of the Cretaceous to see T.rex and Triceratops, you'd be missing out on megalodon and Livyatan. If you traveled back to the Miocene to see the giant shark and killer sperm whale, you'd be missing out on Arthropleura and Meganeura. If you traveled back to the Carboniferous to see giant bugs, you'd be missing out on lions and elephants. There's no period in the history of this planet where every cool animal lived together at the same place at the same time. All of the wild animals alive today are technically prehistoric animals that survived being wiped out, I'm personally upset about animals that were literally killed off by modern people like the thylacine and the Steller's sea cow since they were wiped out by greed and ignorance.
>>4838053That's why most turtles have very reduced ones, except for snappers of course which use their tails to help them climb. As for meiolania I'm sure they wouldn't have such elaborately armored and spiked tails just to not use them.>>4839485Hodari Nundu
>>4840219I just find weird how in all art the meiolania is depicted dragging the tail on the floor instead of having it suspended like the ankylosaur's and glyptodon's tails
>>4840272Well meiolanids are stem turtles with a sprawling posture and cold blood. So it's definitely more likely to drag its tail like other tailed turtles or lepidosaurs/crocodilians.
>>4838417>just go hunt a wild hippo or rhino on foot brothat thing can probably run as fast as a horse and can stand on its hind legs and swipe at you with its hands or turn you into a shattered heap of bones with its baseball bat tail. This isn’t Ark the video game, that’s was a real 5,000lb agile animal.
>>4839974anatotitan
>>4839972Hey pajeet CG “artists” that design creatures for movies and shit like this, animals hardly ever have whites in their eyes, pretty much just makes any animal character with whites in their eyes look like Pixar.
>>4838432I liked the one with Pod the raptor but the lil das’s hunt one was fucking trash. Just a poorly written/played out story.
>>4839974>giraffe spots patternwhy?
>>4840859laziness, hate turkey vulture skin raptors and all that shit, fucking be creative
>>4837903Nahh. That thing has gashapon toys.
>>4841135Forgot Pic
>>4841136Pretty cool
>>4841135thats because japan is awesome and not gay
>>4838053sick
>>4840027Have you seen a whartog?
>>4837755ugly boring DEAD animals
>>4841136Holy shit. I'm betraying Schleich. I need this fucking toy man.
>>4841247
>Single-handedly overturns everything we knew about early life>Nobody gives a shit about it because it looks like a plantCharnia gang rise up
>>4837754Pseudopus pannonicus, the giant limbless lizard
>>4840148The Triassic in general is just super interesting and its not even for just "when dinosaurs first appeared"You have so many weird groups just spontaneously show up, and its not just dinosaurs who were successful.It only took 1 million years after the Permian extinction for ichthyosaurs to become fully pelagic ocean animals and quickly became some of the largest and most successful ocean organisms.
>>4837754The 90% or so of all extinct animals that we have no clue ever even existed because we haven't found any fossils of them
>>4841601I bet my dreamed 40+ foot abelisaur is one of them...
>>4841618I feel like this is ironic, but do you not know about the Turkana Grits Abelisaur?
saltopus
>>4841620It is not 40+ feet long. I'm talking about an abelisaur on the same size range as T. rex and the giant carcharodontosaurs
>>4838716
>>4841383
>>4841380Being purposefully disingenuous, hm?
>>4841821Being purposefully ugly, hm?
>>4841837Purposefully gargling on my monster cock, hm?
>>4838717what happened ~10kya that killed all these?
>>4841856younger dryas impact
>>4841821Yes i'm sorry, modern "paleo artists" would have the tusks fully covered by lips
>>4841916Except they wouldn't though, because unlike yourself, they're smart enough to understand that warthog tusks are very obviously designed for digging and rooting, and would have been exposed as a result. I will be hiding any and all of your subsequent posts btw.
For me, it's Pseudosuchians.
>>4841939Desmatosuchus, my beloved discount ankylosaur...
>>4837754Hobbits
>>4841821Being purposefully disingenuous to a purposefully disingenuous meme seems like the natural thing to do
>>4841623absolutely based
>>4841601Guarantee there were super dinosaurs triple the size of a blue whale and only like 4 ever happened to fossilize in all of history and they’re buried a mile under israe or some shit so we’ll never know.
>>4841986>nature's "bruh" momentI hate zoomers so much
>>4840148>"me but bigger", "me but neck long", is also really interesting.Which spin-off of them is the ancestor of mammals?
>>4839304Seek Christ. Also link?
>>4842000Why?
>>4841969>>4837754Elves
>>4842166I fucking hate synapsids
>>4842300they look bretty gud and fun tho!
>>4838620holy kino
>>4840215>missing out on elephants >missing out on whales>missing out on lionswho gives a fuck give me dinosaurs
>>4840215When earth ends they should take every species that has ever lived and put them on one big super earth to clash and see which form of life is the best, I think that's be pretty cool.
>>4842572Play Ark.
>>4842595I know they look completely different but I always confuse rhamphorynchus and dimorphodon.
>>4841986Guarantee there weren't. There are hard physical limits on the size that a terrestrial animal can be due to the necessity of supporting its own body weight. That limit is somewhere in the neighborhood of 120 tons. Blue whales, being entirely aquatic, have their body mass supported by the water they live in, and on average mass about 145-165 tons, with the heaviest recorded specimen weighing about 190 tons.
>>4843211Actually sauropods probably could have gotten larger if we're speaking purely in physical limitations, it's the energy cost that limited them far more since krill are like a billion times more calorically efficient than greens.
>>4838716>However, no horn has ever been found, and other authors have conjectured that the horn was likely much smaller. I'm so fucking tired of made up and fake animals and dinosaurs...
>>4838460that img goes really hard
>>4843249"The Rouffignac limestone caves (Grotte de Rouffignac), are located in the Dordogne (south-western France) and this location was given UNESCO World Heritage Site status in 1979. The cave walls depict more than 250 drawings attributed to the Magdalenian culture of the Late Pleistocene. Many different types of animal are depicted with Woolly Mammoths (Mammuthus primigenius), predominating but there are a number of cave paintings that show Woolly Rhinos (Coelodonta antiquitatis) and one image that illustrates a powerfully built rhinoceros with a single, very large nose horn that has been interpreted as representing Elasmotherium."I'm going to believe more on a painting of someone that most likely saw one alive than on people going "what if"
>>4838718That looks an awful lot like the diorama in the Denver museum. I miss the allosaur vs triceratops in the entry way.
>>4843252Those could be woolly rhino, lots of paintings of them around caves in Europe. And their remains still have horns.
>>4843256As the text said, that same cave had woolly rhino paintings, and those had two horns are weren't as bulky
>>4843211You’re a moron. They were already that big there’s no way we just happened to find the largest specimens of all time. At the very least there were certainly outlier animals bigger than anything else that ever lived.
>>4841938hope the heckin scientistarinos see this
>>4842166Where did you get these two guys and why are they in a crate?
>>4843211Pseudoscience mumbojumbo. We can’t even explain physically how dolphins move so efficiently through the water but you know the cap on how big a four-legged animal could possibly be.
>>4843675Reminder people thought Pteranodon was the limit of flying animals only for Quetzalcoatlus to quadruple that limit
>The great auk (Pinguinus impennis) is a species of flightless alcid that became extinct in the mid-19th century. It bred on rocky, remote islands with easy access to the ocean and a plentiful food supply, a rarity in nature that provided only a few breeding sites for the great auks.>By the mid-sixteenth century, the nesting colonies along the European side of the Atlantic were nearly all eliminated by humans killing this bird for its down, which was used to make pillows. On the North American side, eider down initially was preferred, but once the eiders were nearly driven to extinction in the 1770s, down collectors switched to the great auk.>In July 1840, the last great auk seen in Britain was caught and killed [...] Three men from St. Kilda caught a single "garefowl", noticing its little wings and the large white spot on its head. They tied it up and kept it alive for three days, until a large storm arose. Believing that the bird was a witch and was causing the storm, they then killed it by beating it with a stick.>The last colony of great auks lived on Geirfuglasker off Iceland [...] the last pair, found incubating an egg, was killed there on 3 June 1844, on request from a merchant who wanted specimens, with Jón Brandsson and Sigurður Ísleifsson strangling the adults and Ketill Ketilsson smashing the egg with his boot.
>>4843691A later interview with the men who killed the last great auks,>"The rocks were covered with blackbirds [referring to Guillemots] and there were the Geirfugles ... They walked slowly. Jón Brandsson crept up with his arms open. The bird that Jón got went into a corner but [mine] was going to the edge of the cliff. It walked like a man ... but moved its feet quickly. [I] caught it close to the edge – a precipice many fathoms deep. Its wings lay close to the sides – not hanging out. I took him by the neck and he flapped his wings. He made no cry. I strangled him."
>>4843686People thought goliath beetles were the limit on terrestrial invertebrate mass when they knew coconut crabs exist
I'm a fan of the weird teeth wombat cat nigga
>>4843530Thank you for admitting you lost the arguement.
>>4838726I first saw this in a manga.
>>4843691>on request from a merchant
>>4839990post proof, please
>>4845141
I feel like silesaurids don't get enough love.
>>4842069Homo naledi?
>>4845224We all know what group wiped them out, cut it out anon
>>4840837Pretty sure that’s just somewhat lighter skin around the black eyeballs
>>4845213>t. tranny retard who lost the argument
There is not a single day i don't miss him...
>>4843252Elasmotherium weren't in Western Europe and loom at the placement of the horn in the drawing. It's definitely a big hunky woolly rhino
>>4843691>impennisMust had been well endowed.
>>4839248More common than you might think
>>4840862>turkey vulture skin raptorsThat sounds dope, do you have any pictures?
>>4843217Looks like some shit from man after man
>>4838437All species of Edmontosaurus grew bigger than T. rex.
