>so many amazing animals throughout the history of the world>we ended up living with the lamest versions of them
>comparing hundres of millions of years of animal designs to the last few centuriesYou're setting yourself up for failure.
>>5039547retarded zoomer
>>5039540I personally think that African Clawed Frogs are pretty cool.
>tfw humans never specced into eye bones
>tfw you realize you could've lived in a world with 3'6'' people everywhereHomo sapiens shouldn't have been the ones to conquer the planet.:(
>>503954099% of everything is dead so the chances of anything alive being the coolest of its group are pretty slim
>>5039540It's because we just got out of an ice ageWarmer temps = more productivity = more organisms = more competition = more unique species to specialize into every available nicheThe ice age and interglacial periods fucked things up by making entire places be underwater or under a mile of ice which wiped the slate clean in lots of places. For example the East coast of the USA ecosystem is only 10,000 years old. Florida used to have its own tegu species and giant capybaras. You're only just now starting to see things migrate back like armadillos and iguanids (fence lizards) coming up north.
>>5039540Blue whale is the biggest animal to ever exist and cetaceans overall are some of the most fascinating animals ever (aside from humans themselves).
>>5039704bigger animals wouldve existed and we will never know because all the remains wouldve been destroyed at the bottom of the ocean
>>5039704Blue whale is the lamest version of anything that ever existed underwater
>>5039620Whew, them thighs are thicc.
>>5039704Blue whale isn't the biggest. Recent species of sauropods from China have been confirmed to grow up to 120 feet long.
hmm
BIG
>>5039547No, OP is correct, the cenozoic was a huge mistake. The Cretaceous extinction was probably the worst thing that EVER happened to Earth. Even the Permian wasn't as bad because it mostly wiped out sin-ass-piss (too bad it didn't get them all) and lead directly to the Dinosaurs.>>5039698We're still IN an ice age. We're currently in an interglacial and about to come out of it. In fact, it appears to already be beginning.
>>5039734>Boring lizard with flipperslame
>>5039540Because we ended up killing and hunting most of the remaining mega fauna and other animals to extinction
>>5040124Ichthyosaurs are definitely the coolest and least appreciated of marine reptiles. Their basal relatives likely started some time in the Permian as small semi-aquatic reptiles and still were at the beginning of the Triassic.In just 4 million years, those early ichthyosaurs evolved into forms like Cymbospondylus youngorum, which would've been about the size of a male sperm whale.>>5039736Blue whale will always be the biggest for the simple fact they reach 180+ tons. Even for large titanosaurs only reached about 70 to maybe 90 tons. (Patagotitan, the biggest and easily most complete was probably 76 tons)
>>5040124>the coolest thing ever>l-lameretard
I'm actually happy we don't live at the times of t-rex.
>>5040425triceratops legs typed this
>>5039540>so many amazing things around him and takes them all for grantedIf you lived back then you'd say the same about those things too.
>>5039673>be the top 1% whose ancestors survived all the mass extinctions and other disasters over millennia>not the coolest and best formsIf the other ones were better they wouldn't be extinct.
>>5039540Cause after the flesh is put on they look lamer, your imagination just projects something cooler than what probably was.Look at hippo skulls, then look at live hippos.
