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Post your best paleoartist reconstructions.
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>>4895522
The thumbnail is really confusing, it looks like one lovecraftian beast.
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>>4895997
What in the sweet dick is the bottom one? Is it what happens when you leave the ragdoll physics on?
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>>4895997
GET DAN
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>>4895997
is this trying to make some kinda point
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>>4895997
>*loud ground slamming sfx*
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>>4895997
https://youtu.be/_GGfz-o5khc
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>>4896063
No idea, the artist just seems to sometimes just draw bizarre stuff for no reason.
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>>4895522
One can only imagine how impressive seeing a confrontation like that must have been
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There's something very comfy about this one
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>>4895997
>>4896172
fucking kek is there more of this?
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>>4896233
https://x.com/satoshikawasaki/
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>I've got five clams on the big fish

>they're both big retard
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>>4896250
Oh it's that fucking guy. That's based
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>>4896250
me on the bottom left
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>>4896764
Do elephants the size of elephants not fight or something?
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>>4896804
>dragging tails

KILL YOURSELF FAGGOT
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If hadrosaurs were alive today, would an elephant rifle suffice or would we need to invent a hadrosaur rifle?
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>>4896807
Actual elephant guns are already entirely OP, so no. The .577 could actually kill a Tyrannosaur.
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>>4896807
Karamojo Bell killed a thousand elephants with a .275 Rigby, which is just another name for 7x57mm Mauser, IE a less potent cartridge than most people hunting white tail deer carry. .700 Nitro Express and other “Elephant Gun” cartridges are more properly termed “Stopping Rifle” cartridges and are designed to break the shoulder or hip of a dangerous game animal in a devastating enough fashion as to cause the animal to be unable to carry out a charge in the event of the guided customer failing to secure an immediately lethal shot with his more normal rifle.

Being bigger doesn’t make you less vulnerable to having a hole poked in your heart or your brain, it just means that there’s more area for you to hit that not vital.
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>>4896201
Shem
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choose one
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>>4895522
Kind of a stretch but I'll give it a shot: does any latam anon happen to have pictures, scans or the actual pages of picrel? I still have some of the other books in that collection to this day, but the dinosaur one didn't survive decades of abandonment on my uncle's part (he essentially left the books to rot in a box, can't blame him but still wish he had protected them from moisture and silverfish).

Book is probably very outdated by today's standards but I recall it having some cool paleoart in it. If nothing more than sheer nostalgia I'd be very thankful if someone happens to have just pictures of pages.
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>>4896178
>>4896633
>>4896734
Based. Please post more
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>>4896963
Smilodon obviously
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>>4896764
Animals aren't made of glass
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaWSEIi23d8
There was a much more extreme video of a rhino flipping over another one but i couldn't find it. Fucker even landed on his neck and didn't get hurt
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>>4896804
Soul
>>4896806
Souless faggot
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>>4897572
A trend i've seen with paleofags all over is that they always seem to underestimate how much punishment animals can actually take/vice versa and how they are behaviorally
Funnily enough people who obsess over dead animals don't seem to have a lot of experience with living ones
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>>4897579
I bet that if they were extinct, a lot of people would say it was impossible for elephants to stand on two legs
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>>4897579
This comes directly from the "science" which tends to treat all animals like they're made of paper.
The same kind of people who keep drawing some nonexistent hard line between predator and scavenger. These are people who just look at models and fossils and don't understand animals and how they function.
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>>4897579
>>4897584
Worst part is, there is a lot of fossil evidence of the contrary. Lots of healed broken bones and such. There's even a T. rex skeleton with its tail bitten off and the bone around the bite healed
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>>4897567
that triceratops is about to do the tom and jerry scream
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>>4897518
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>>4896367
>Whalefag made this
look at this monsterous depiction of Livyatan, fucking 5 meter long jaws to make it not look like an oversized pilot whale.
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>>4897599
This is so comfy. Digital art was a mistake
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spot a dino
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Whassup my Deinonyggas
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>>4897605
I'm sorry? They had the largest teeth of any animal ever. Of course they had big jaws to accomidate.
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>>4897663
I think he means the jaw is too big compared to the megalodon (completly forgetting about individual variation)
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>>4897567
The biting one reminds me of this
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>>4897057
needs bigger pointier ears to qualify for horny
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>>4897057
elden ring caelid
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>>4897825
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>>4896804
This has been my PC background for at least eight years now. I can't imagine replacing it with anything else. Beautiful.
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post dinocheirus
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>>4897057
I discontinued these pal
I'm more into theropod terror birds than theropod mammals now
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>>4898159
I never said they did that. I said they wouldn't break like glass. Or are you implying there aren't countless fossils with healed bone fractures?
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>>4898159
>>4898230
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJzay1D2jMY
Another video of a large animal falling and not breaking
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>>4898239
6' vs 5'11
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>>4898159
>dinobores are objectively inferior to elephants
no wonder they're extinct, shitty fucking animals
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>>4898159
Why are liberals so obsessed with making dinosaurs gay and lame with no scientific backing or reasoning? you freaks don't even know how living animals function, much less the shit you make up from 2 ribs and a fragmentary tooth
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>>4898157
You could've said Brian Engh you know
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>>4897567
>Mmmh. Eat my ass
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>>4898398
>insane tranny seething vs the cold, hard, inescapable truth of footage of an elephant shrugging off a fall instead of breaking apart in a million pieces because animals aren't made of glass
lol
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>>4898395
No i didn't. Only >>4897572 and >>4897590 are my posts
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>>4898395
Sperm whales can ram ships without breaking in a million pieces by the way
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>>4898398
So the countless bones with healed bone fractures are fake?
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>>4898445
oceanic species is cheating
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>>4896804
Absolute SOVL

>>4896806
Hang yourself in your I HECKING HEART SCIENCE shirt, redditor.

>>4896963
Pretty kitties.

>>4897567
>unbothered

>>4897599
I wish to pet the anky

>>4898041
Fucking majestic
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Why did Spinosaurus have an edgy phase where everyone drew it full of spikes and osteoderms in the late 2000's?
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>>4898156
>elephants don't gallop
Not sure what your definition of gallop is, but elephants can def run and stampede. They are far from slow moving lumbering giants. In fact, there are very few land animals that can afford to be slow, the majority of them can run/hop/glide when needed
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>>4897002
It does ring a bell but I don't think I have it.
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Why were his posts deleted?
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>>4898358
It's not just liberals (this time). Paleofags just have the need to question even the most obvious shit. Like when people were arguing Pachycephalosaurus didn't use its head to fight despite the countless bone fractures found in them
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>>4898586
he's been ban evading for a feww weeks, and he's super obvious
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>>4898507
2000s was generally like that for a lot of paleoart in my opinion. Dinosaurs usually had taught skin and very lean in this time.

also it was back when spinosaurus was the de facto "largest theropod" and obviously JP3 in particular is what put spinosaurus on the map, so it makes sense.
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>>4899065
One of my faves
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>>4899081
Barosaurus has to be the most underrated morrison sauropod. No one ever talks about it
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>>4899083
This looks stupid but >>4899088 this is very cool
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>>4899082
Fat fuck
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>>4899083
Why do they look like native indians lmao
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>>4899120
Because you can't prove they didn't have those structures or something idk
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>>4899096
Wasnt it traditionally considered to be sort of average but was recently theorized to be some kind of crazy Amphicoelias type megasauropod?
I love that kinda stuff
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That's all I have, probably not 100% paleo accuracy.
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>>4899397
>probably not 100% paleo accuracy.
Don't worry just say it's speculative
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>>4895933
like tears in the rain
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ayy lmao
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>>4899975
Post full image plese
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>>4900591
This is a good one
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>>4900591
Finding out crocs don't actually get their teeth cleaned by birds like this was like finding out Santa isn't real
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>>4900730
Some of those early cave paintings are so fucking good.
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>>4900725
Huh, that's a new one for me. Guess I never questioned it because there are fish that clean the mouths of bigger fish, so it seemed reasonable that in land environments small birds could clean the mouths of crocs or remove parasites from the backs of wildebeast. The myth going all the way back to ancient greece I did not expect.
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>>4900730
>a fucking caveman is a better artist than you
How does one cope bros?
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>>4900914
What tf are those demonic rhinos on the left ?
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>>4900976
Arsinotherium
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>>4896960
Kenshi looking ass
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>>4896025
I think it says. When you look at the bottom from a certain angle, it looks like the top picture.
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It's honestly a shame that talented paleoartists often have insufferable personalities, its sometimes hard to separate art from artist when they don't have separate art and personal accounts
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>>4901441
I once decided to make a twitter account just to follow paleoartists i like. It was the worst mistake of my life
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>>4896250
>jap
of course
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>>4898513
It was a longshot but I had to try just in case, thanks for replying
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>>4901121
it absolutely does not
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>>4901441
99% of the artists are insufferable cunts, anon
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>>4901441
a lot of them being faggots is ok with me, its the fact that theyre all pseuds that bothers me. the dunning-kruger effect is huge in online paleo-artists. even though they don't have any kind of degree they think they're scientists because they drew a skull from visual reference and imagined various bits of soft tissues on it.
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>>4901714
spoopy
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>>4900463
why is it colored like miku
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>>4901609
>you need a degree to draw extinct animals
kek
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>>4902377
Obtain reading comprehension skills
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>>4902390
stop projecting

just because you want everyone who draws animals to be a scientist doesn't mean everyone who draws animals is pretending to be a scientist.

You are very stupid. Other people aren't as stupid as you are.
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>>4902377
Would cull out the trannies and faggots so yes
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>>4902426
>Gay people never graduate college
I have bad news for you.
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>>4903155
Not enough feathers
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>>4895527
That is how the featherless beast procreates, simple neophyte.
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>>4903164
But why
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>>4903406
Feathers are ancestral to animalia, chud
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>>4903406
we are unironically very close to people trying to argue that prehistoric crocs had feathers
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>>4903435
But why?
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>>4903440
The average paleofag actually has absolutely no fucking clue what they are talking about, they simply regurgitate what they've heard and accept it as fact with no introspection
They've been convinced that "feathers=accurate" on literally every prehistoric reptile and they're going to die on that hill, without ever asking themselves what reason there is to think that
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>>4903532
because birds desend from dinosaurs so it makes sense they'd have feathers
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>>4903435
Nobody is arguing it, they are doing it to make people like you melt down
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>>4903554
But not every dinosaur, or archosaur in general, is related to birds.
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>>4903562
>But not every dinosaur, or archosaur in general, is related to birds.
every living thing is related to birds, you egregious multi-tard.
Mushrooms are related to birds. Algae are related to birds.

dinosaurs and other archosaurs are literally birds' closest relatives, all of them.
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Now that the God Emperor has been elected for his 3rd term do you think he might ban CCP infiltrators from the Academia and Make Dinos Great Again?
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>>4903128
I like Witton's current t. rex.
It's a modern yet conservative reconstruction that perfectly conveys it as that large, powerful, and imposing beast. The dark eyes are my favorite detail.
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>>4900768
but.... they do? we have hours and hours of video of it....
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>>4900782
Practice your fundies
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I love how this artist is able to make them look so photorealistic
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>>4904231
This artist masturbates to aliens btw
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>>4904260
So? Masturbating to aliens is based.
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>>4904260
Are they sexy aliens? Are we talking xenomorphs or are we talking vulcans here?
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>>4904260
Don't we all?
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>>4904085
>Witton
He does a great job making them spooky and dangerous, visually. Even the smaller relatives.
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>>4904403
I like how you list tarbosaurus as one of the smaller relatives like it's supposed to be less intimidating than a t-rex to a person when it's still a 10m dinosaur that could fit your entire torso in it's mouth
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>>4904606
The feather fans talk about Yutyrranus like it’s a giant tyrannosaur, when it’s less than 10% the weight of Tyrannosaurus itself. Tarbosaurus and Gorgosaurus, and Albertasaurus are all big animals, but they are half the mass of a Tyrannosaurus Rex. It’s like comparing Kurt Angle to Big Show.
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>>4895530
spbp
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>>4904612
Yutyrannus isn't even a tyrannosaur
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>>4904731
there's no such thing as a "tyrannosaur." That would just be T. rex.

all others are tyrannosaurids or tyrannosaurines or tyrannosauroids.

because tyrannosaur isn't a real thing unless you mean T. rex.
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>>4904742
I think he meant Yutyrannus is a tyrannosauroid and not a tyrannoaurid
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>>4904758
I think he meant that Yutyrannus is neither a tyrannosauroid nor a tyrannosaurid

it's hard to be sure though since he didn't say any of that.
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>>4904128
The videos I can find are all suspiciously the same one or two photos, a couple obviously photoshopped images, and a video of what looks like a fake crocodile.
The birds live near the crocodiles and sometimes eat near them, but we don't know if they have a symbiotic relationship, or if a bird sometimes gets lucky with a lazy croc.

Take picrel of a cohabitating wolf spider and leafcutter bee.
I looked everywhere when the report about this find came out. It's literally the only known example of this behavior.
We have no idea if these two species have a symbiotic relationship with eachother, or if this is a one in a trillion meetup of a docile bee and a retard spider.
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>>4905192
>we don't know if they have a symbiotic relationship, or if a bird sometimes gets lucky with a lazy croc.
this is a meaningless distinction

false dichotomy.

obviously the birds don't live entirely off the meat stuck in crocodile mouths, and obviously crocodiles don't require birds to pick meat from their teeth.

but birds do sometimes pick meat from the teeth of crocodiles. No need to label or categorize it. It happens, and nobody says it doesn't.
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>>4905192
>>4905279
a symbiotic relationship doesn't have to be obligate, exclusive, or perpetual

it only needs to help both organisms sometimes. and by that definition plovers and crocodiles clearly have a symbiotic relationship.

even if it only happens occasionally, it's still symbiosis. Because both animals benefit.
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>>4898507
Edgy era
You saw a lot of that on the Carcharodontosaurids as well.
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>>4904128
There isn’t very much evidence of birds cleaning the teeth of crocodiles at all
>>4905279
>>4905282
>it only needs to help both organisms sometimes. and by that definition plovers and crocodiles clearly have a symbiotic relationship.
But it wouldn’t really help the crocodile. Crocodile teeth are widely spaced and conical, they don’t really trap food to begin with let alone trap it for long enough that the food could rot. Even if it did rot that’s not going to cause the crocodile any issue when they have a nuclear immune system and frequently directly feed on already rotting meat
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>>4898507
>>4905298
The SOUL era
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>>4904731
>>4904742
>>4904772
Apart from the fact that Yutyrranus isn’t a giant by the standards of Tyrannosauroids, the misrepresentation of how closely related it is to the actually gigantic Tyrannosaurids is a problem, albeit one that frequently stems from ignorance and confusion, even if disingenuous shills who know better do exist.
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>>4905337
The 'dinosaurs are badass' era was a fun one.
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>>4905333
>But it wouldn’t really help the crocodile
then why do they allow it? Descriptions of the behavior are ancient, and there's plenty of modern records of it as well.
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>>4905493
>Descriptions of the behavior are ancient
The descriptions are from Herodotus who likely never actually saw it happen. This is the same guy who described hippos as having manes and ants that hunt camels. I haven’t seen a single modern record, so it seems like the myth stems entirely from the 2000 year old story
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>>4905507
>I haven’t seen a single modern record
if you haven't seen it then surely it doesn't exist.
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>>4905508
In this case, no it does not exist. Feel free to prove otherwise that Egyptian plovers clean croc teeth
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>>4905512
Aside from all the pictures that are easy to find online?
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>>4905520
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>>4904085
Mark Witton is one of the best paleoartists.
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>>4905520
Cool pics.
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>>4905512
>Feel free to prove otherwise that Egyptian plovers clean croc teeth
anyone can google it

except you apparently.
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>>4905546
The fact that you can read that proves you're a retarded human.
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>>4905547
Yeah.
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>>4905549
Hmm. Apparently not.
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>>4905551
Pretty interesting. Now you guys know what all those captchas are for.
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>>4905518
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>>4905520
>all these very real pictures
The second one isn’t even a nile croc lol. Those all poor photoshops
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>>4905538
>look at this hard evidence from google
You’re showing off your boomerism. If you believed those then I don’t know how you’ll handle AI images
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>>4905567
You're clearly lying or don't know what you're talking about.
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>>4905570
Here’s the same photo as the second one but even more poorly photoshopped with the bird further into the croc’s mouth
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>>4905571
You're still lying. That's clearly a real photo.
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>>4905571
Good thing the red circle is there, I wouldn’t have seen the bird otherwise
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>>4905567
less than one minute of searching found 2 videos from before AI
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>>4905570
I'm human. National Geographic is complete fakery, mostly cgi these days though they used to use puppets. Nature documentaries and such are seeded with false information regularly. It's really weird, dunno how they get so many labcoats to go along with the kayfabe.
I just remove bot posts about half a sentence into reading them, usually. It's mostly angry retard ones but lately I'm noticed some 'clueless' ones thrown in, seemingly to feed the angry retard ones posts to reply to.
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>>4905620
Hi. Your response was already predicted. Thanks for playing.
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>>4905602
Videos which you failed to link. Also I didn’t say these pictures were AI, they’re clearly not
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>>4905631
>Videos which you failed to link.
a purposeful omission since I've found bots can't google
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>>4905644
More like a purposeful admission since there is no footage of it. Curious how there are thousands of videos and photos of cleaner wrasses, oxpeckers, etc doing similar behaviour not to mention a wealth of literature written about the topic while crocodiles and Egyptian plovers have nothing. You’d think some zoologist would take interest in a symbiotic relationship like that
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>>4905557
This one almost gave me a migraine
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>>4905653
That's the point.
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>>4905647
>since there is no footage of it.
bots can't google
are you a bot
or just a handicapped human?
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>>4905657
Are you a liar? Why do you lie? There’s no videos of it and your refusal to attempt to link any is proof of this
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>>4905660
just like my refusal to link the mona lisa is proof that it doesn't exist

hell, anything you believe can be proven simply by other people not wanting to waste time educating you
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>>4905666
>just like my refusal to link the mona lisa is proof that it doesn't exist
I’m not sure who you’re trying to fool. Anybody can look it up as you suggested and see that there aren’t any pictures or videos of it. They’ll also see this >>4905649. You already posted three badly photoshopped pictures believing they were real, one of which doesn’t even use the right species of crocodile
>other people not wanting to waste time educating you
You are in no position to say this when you’re the one refusing truth in favour of myth
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>>4905666
Nice try Satan
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>>4905670
>Anybody can look it up as you suggested and see that there aren’t any pictures or videos of it.
assuming everyone is as bad at googling as you are

or maybe you're not bad at googling, you just want to argue. In that case people will see that I'm right.
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>>4905673
>or maybe you're not bad at googling, you just want to argue
Projection. You were corrected and are throwing a tantrum because you dislike the idea of being wrong. Still waiting on those “hours of video”
>In that case people will see that I'm right
In that case people will see the wikipedia page, stating that it’s a myth. They'll also see an overwhelming lack of video evidence, as well as nothing in scientific literature about the relationship
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>>4905676
>everyone who disagreed with me is one person
you're arguing with at least three anons, probably more.

I said there are at least two videos in the google results that predate AI

that's all I said.
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>>4905679
>you're arguing with at least three anons, probably more
I’m arguing with you. I might’ve responded to the replies of more than one person in my initial few replies, but right now it’s just you
>I said there are at least two videos in the google results that predate AI
Nobody said AI had anything to do with it. The most famous video of it is ten years old and cgi, and I sure hope that’s not the one you’re referring to. There are no real videos of this behaviour because it’s not real
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I like how the artist gave the dire wolves a dhole-like coat color
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>>4905692
Mauricio Anton might be the best at Carnivorans
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>>4905571
>>4905519
>>4905567
These examples are why I'm skeptical.
If this is real behavior, why photoshop it? It smells like boomers who swear they saw it happen or read about it, but need to make something up to show their students or colleagues.

>>4905602
Also I'm 90% I know the videos they're talking about. They didn't link them because if you click them, they don't actually show the behavior. It's all slideshows of dubious images and the same 240p quality obvious cg animation.
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>>4905732
>They didn't link them because if you click them, they don't actually show the behavior. It's all slideshows of dubious images and the same 240p quality obvious cg animation.
I watched three of those before I found actual video

dig deeper. If the video is just still images it's not one of the ones I'm talking about.
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>>4905734
No.
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>>4905737
I don't care if you do or don't

I just figure if you took the time to google the stupid slideshow videos on youtube you might take a minute or two more and find the actual videos. One of them was from a nature documentary from the 90's
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Hello? Paleoart?
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>>4905734
Is this the video you’re referring to?
https://youtu.be/Dd6GcQrkMDM?si=QplFFgG3dGVIc4bu
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>>4905747
no that one looks pretty fake.

I didn't see that one, where's it from originally?
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>>4905748
That’s because it is fake. It’s from a bubble gum ad
https://youtu.be/APw87h8_eiw?si=D1kxNTKG24zJGdzv
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>>4905749
kek

Ok I checked the 2 videos I saw and they're just clips from that video without the music. That's funny. You were right.
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>>4905512
Trying to figure out how "birds never clean crocodile teeth" turned into "Egyptian Plovers never clean crocodile teeth". Also, wtf? I just stumbled down a rabbit hole of TONS of obviously fake videos and images of Egyptian Plovers cleaning crocodile mouths. What the fuck is the purpose of this?
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>>4905752
>What the fuck is the purpose of this?
barenstein bears
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>>4905751
Clearly it’s a nature documentary
>>4905752
Herodotus didn’t exactly have our modern species names, and it’s likely he didn’t actually know of a specific bird other than stories he’d heard by the name Trochilus. People just assumed he meant Egyptian plovers so they’re the ones that always pop up in these images
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>>4905755
>Clearly it’s a nature documentary
so the poster said. And if you crop it really close and take out the music it does look like one.
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>>4905755
Well this is stupid. There's literally a video of a green bird going into the mouth of a croc trying to clean its teeth and the croc just closing its mouth on it. I don't remember the details so I'm not sure which species were involved. A bird wouldn't be doing that with zero precedent. Btw cleaner animals get eaten by their patients literally all the time. It's a major source of death for them.
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>>4905757
>Extensive observations of Nile crocodiles in regular or occasional association with various species of potential cleaners (e.g. plovers, sandpipers, water dikkop) ... have resulted in only a few reports of sandpipers removing leeches from the mouth and gular scutes and snapping at insects along the reptile's body.[17]

wikipedia cites work from 1974 and 1979 both in support of the idea and in doubt of it.

in either case, there wasn't a lot of video around in 1979, so it's no surprise no videos of it existed at that time.
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Paleoschizo got btfo a little too hard this time it seems
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>>4905763
Yeah it's funny. He's so pathetic.
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>>4905757
>A bird wouldn't be doing that with zero precedent
It would because that video is staged by the same sort of people who make videos like those “duck adopts and raises crocodile from egg” or “cat defends babies from reticulated python”. I know exactly the video you’re talking about where the croc slowly closes its mouth over a bird that walks up to it. The bird is clueless and the croc is restrained
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>>4905767
Honestly that wouldn't surprise me for /an/. This is the bestiality and general animal abuse board after all.
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>>4905761
Those observations are likely true, but they’re hardly a proper symbiotic relationship regardless of frequency. The croc would undoubtedly eat the birds if it could catch one, not like a moray eel actively seeking out cleaner wrasse or shrimp and allowing them into its mouth
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>>4905768
I’ll add that crocs do have true symbiotic relationships with birds, just not one that involves cleaning
https://youtu.be/TFAOnPvNyQI?si=B_zG6e6EWOwNDU91
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>>4905757
If I remember it right the bird was some kind of domestic quail and there was something very wrong with the crocodile
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>>4905693
Does anyone have his book?
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>>4905765
That's 0/2.
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>>4905732
Also yeah I went to wikipedia and it says these images specifically are all photoshopped, my bad.
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>>4905763
>>4905765

I thought paleoschizo was the one claiming "BIRDS CLEANING CROCODILE MOUTHS ARE FAKE" which seems like his usual m.o.
Which turned out to be correct
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>>4905795
Nah I come from /herp/. Not sure if paleoschizo is in this thread, but old paleontologist man who argues with him a lot was the one saying google the vids
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>>4905801
>Not sure if paleoschizo is in this thread
If he were any of them he’d be the one posting the bot proof images
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>>4905772
Peculative behavior like this is kinda tiresome, like yeah gators do this but do any other crocodilians?
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>>4905810
Yes
https://youtu.be/dzX9q-9Rj4g?si=pjC9mucJ_y9fnbpN
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>>4905810
>the most mundane shit that every single crocodilian does
>"ERRMM THIS IS A BIT TOO SPECULATIVE FOR ME!"
How do you think they called for mates, by doing summersaults?
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>>4905850
What's funny is that we're always being told that reptiles have shitty hearing and are basically deaf, which is clearly false.
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>>4905850
Gharials and drawf crocodiles don't bellow, so why would you presume this behavior is universal when it isn't and why would you presume it happened millions of years ago
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>>4905569
I hate the meme of giving blue highlights to otherwhises earthy color schemes. It always looks like trash
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>>4905692
Finally, some good paleoart amidst the schizo ramblings
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>>4905905
>Gharials
They don’t bellow but they do call for mates. There’s a reason males have that big resonating chamber on their nose
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>>4905969
So it actually does something? i thought it was there just because females found it hot
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>>4905961
I kinda preferred when it had the dumb knob crest instead
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>>4905801
>old paleontologist man who argues with him a lot was the one saying google the vids
correct

unlike paleoschizo, you actually did google the vids

unlike paleoschizo, I checked to see if you were right, and then admitted it when I was wrong.

the schizo can't use google, can't check to see if he's wrong, and certainly can't admit it if he's wrong.
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>>4906004
I don't know what's wrong with paleoschizo.
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>>4906013
Also, fucking hell is there a way to filter out shitty AI images? what the shit is this?
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>>4906013
The dickhead lives!

>>4906014
Looks like an Aphanosaur, completely by accident no doubt. It's weird how AI always makes these quadrupedal carnivorous dinosaurs.
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>>4906008
>everyone reply to me or you're a bot
You're the only schizo I see ITT.
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>>4905811
>I’m sure we’ll live on into the Triassi-ACK!
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>>4906041
1/3

It shouldn't have taken 300 posts.
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>>4906081
>everybody but me and 1 person is a bot
take your meds or fuck off faggot
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>>4906096
So congratulations, you showed us that the solution is quite simple actually.
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>>4906081
listen dude i can read them too but im trying to collect paleoart here not pay attention to whatever it is youre on about
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This is what schizophrenia manifests as
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>>4906103
Sorry, too late. We already established blue boards are just as botted as reddit. This experiment is complete now. You lost.
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>>4906110
>you lose
No, the game was never played. The real fun was watching you waste time on posing in captcha form.
>there are two types of bots
you forgot the third. schizophrenics are essentially nonpersons and operate at a lower level of awareness. It’s a disorder because you lose the ability to take care of yourselves not because you offend people and have odd religious beliefs.
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>>4905623
What does that even mean?
>>4906101
The Turing test is a joke and can be passed by LLMs simply because people are lazy and don't critically examine the things they read. It's never been a sign of intelligence.
As dull as many people are, their capacity of reasoning is still incomprehensibly greater than a machine's fascimile of """thought""", it's just that they don't use it.
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Paleoart
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>>4896178
Fresh OC from my friend!
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dump of my entire paleoart folder of ~3,000+ images
https://mega.nz/file/aZkzhTZC#QGw_4uiT5dYvkAv7GQjTrC8HVWtBtjO6_btwEwml7Io
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>>4907528
Thanks for the dolphin porn
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