>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.
>>5039736>we found half leg bone that looks vaguely like a sauropod (could be a tree) so we totally know that it was 600 miles tall and could breathe fire and had skin made of goldfake and gay
>>5039540You're living in the same time as 700 pound Iron-toothed venomous Lizards, Ancient blind Arctic Sharks that could have seen the Revolutionary War, and Gentle giant mammals with what are essentially arms growing out of their faces which are capable of learning alongside us, and you're worried about the ancient ass fish with *eye bones?*
>>5039736Height ≠ Size
>>5040814lame
>>5040814How could they see the Revolutionary War if they were blind?
>>5039637reminder that there was a time where 7-8 foot european giants rocking long blond hair could have sailed to the shores meeting tiny brown monkey men half their heights. That is almost still true now btw.
>>5040833they weren't blind at the time
>>5039540I like elephants. I think they're pretty cool.
>some Jew “expert” finds a fraction of a bone and invents a totally real animal around it>”Woah, why did all the cool stuff live millions of years ago?”
>>5039540Modern life can be just as kino as the past.https://youtu.be/zOf-uqoqrL4?si=sxg-0vieTc_pPJIG
>>5040865
>>5039540
>>5040865Even among elephants, the coolest ones are extinct.
>>5041165Things like the dwarf greek elephants were apparently around at the same time as ancient egypt.I've also heard some things about Palaeoloxodon being used as war elephants in Asia. There's some descriptions of elephants taller than the ones that are alive today. China also had a gharial offshoot (Hanyusuchus) that grew 20 ft long and only went extinct 500 years ago because of people killing them.Basically people are to blame for killing everything and they would have killed more if they could. Cavemen didn't know shit about conservation.
>>5041165Only MammothsAfrican Elephants mog everything else in that clade
>>5041165stawp saiyan "coolest", friendmakes you sound like a teenager
>>5041291lolno
>>5040576You say this as if the current ones aren’t here for only a limited time
>>5040892>White Christian men discover and study the extraordinary history of creation>Retard on the internet doubts it and backs that up with a picture of anime slop
>>5041440>Live beings ain't supposed to look "cool".Yes they are.
>>5041440saars...
>>5041582poo in loo
>>5039540Dunkleosteus was my favourite as a kid
yeah
Reminder than most megafauna died out around the same time humans arrived in the local areas. The Americas had a giant armadillo-anklyosaur at one point.
>>5042272stupid homos
It is so..
>>5039540retard moron manchild idiot
>>5039540All the bony eyes in the world can't compare to eyes that have witnessed the earth amidst the vacuum of space. Such beauty has only been known to a select few animals that have had the pleasure of living in the Holocene. It likely won't be more than a thousand years before another animal gazes up at a night sky from a different planet entirely. You likely only find comfort in the past as you weren't privileged enough to see the view Belka and Stelka were given.
>>5039540If any number of those fuckers from earth's evolutionary past had been around in the last 5 million years or so, you wouldn't exist right now to moan about it.
>>5039548kike-worshiping troglodyte detected
>>5043734We don't sign our posts here.
>>5043963dumb zoomer
I've find it so bizzare that there was life before the dinosaurs that was even freakier than they were, but the idea hasn't entered common consciousness at all.
>>5044203what?
>>5044237lmao retard
>>5039540We've got the best version of whales
>>5040906MOGGED
>>5040865>only tusklets in the age of humanitySad.
>>5044368brainless retard moron piece of shit idiot son of a fucking smelly hateful whore asshole dickhead faggot cuck beta simp loser
>>5039540>I wish we could have more deadly animals out there making sure we couldn't reach our current developmental state, I'm super smart!
>>5044203kek
>>5044526lmao retard
>>5044529The irony of this post is insane
>>5040865I don't like those ones with a trunk-length mouth instead of a trunk.
>>5044529Fucking retard
>>5044397I still can't wrap my head around the fact that the blue whale is very likely the largest animal ever.
>>5045393and the lamest
AIEEEE
>>5039540t-rex died so we can have chickens
>>5041200>because of people killing them.Thought it was the chinks killing them.
Huh
>>5040576A retard's interpretation of survival of the fittest.
>>5040865>Mastodon>Stegodon>Cuvieronius>NotiomastodonWhy did early humans have to kill off the cool offshoot groups and leave only the most boring members of the crown group?
>>5048324the people in places where pachyderms survived are intelligencemogged by elephants
>>5039540That's why we ended up living to begin with. No giant mega predators that would actively hunt us, or giant mega herbivores that would actively squash us.
