>It's a shame no animals are as big as the dinosaurs today :(>The blue whale is bigger than the largest dinosaurs, though.>Yeah but they're boring because... because they just are, okay?!>It's a shame there are no marine reptiles alive today :(>Yellow bellied sea snakes can spend their whole lives at sea, though.>Yeah but they're boring because... because they just are, okay?!
Because you can’t see Blue Whales at the zoo, retard.And “snakes, but underwater” ain’t that cool
So you're saying that if we had dinosaurs today we'd take them for granted and think they're boring?
>>5118664That wasn't what I was intending to say, but it's 100% true.
>>5118664Absolutely. People cry about the loss of the dodo still, but they were just very large flightless pigeons.
>>5118655>yellow bellied sea snack.jpgWhat do they taste like?
>>5118655I'm convinced if we ever found big foot or the yeti we'd stick a couple in zoos and then lose interest since they'd just be another great ape at that point.
>>5118655>It's a shame no animals are as big>big>implying size is the only thing making dinosaurs coolWhat about the extremely efficient respiratory system? The sheer diversity in body plans? The arms race between herbivores and carnivores, resulting in spiked tails, club tails, bone crushing teeth, literal armor? The current extant animals are simply lacklustre compared to DINOGODSI also notice you completely skipped pterosaurs because you knew no living flyer could ever be as impressive or weird as the Azhdarchids
>>5118664Elephants and giraffes are still very popular despite not being nearly as large as the largest dinosaurs
>>5118664Giraffes for example are such a unique and cool animal yet we kinda take them for grantedBut if giraffes were extinct people would be fascinated by them and their unusual proportions
Old good new bad, unironically. They are just intrinsically scarier, cooler and more primal in a way modern animals can never match no matter their feats.
>>5118833Giraffes are kind of like mini dinosaurs now that I think about it
>>5118685The dodo is only remembered for being the first recognised example of humans wiping out a species. Nobody cares about the rodrigues solitaire.
>why are people like thisBecause they are retarded, simple as.
>>5118764Modern elephants are boring, I want more Proboscidean variety. Deinotherians and Gomphotherians were cool as shit. Giraffes are perfect though.
>>5118759>redditdarchidsBrainlet. Fake fan.
>>5119094Giraffes used to live in Asia
>>5119094They have giant curly teeth and giant floppy ears and giant noses they use as snorkels, how is that boring?
>>5118655Biggest Dino’s mogged these slippery homos.
>>5118655>>The blue whale is bigger than the largest dinosaurs, though.Does nothing but swim around and suck in water>>Yellow bellied sea snakes can spend their whole lives at sea, though.It's just a snake
Because people are used to these animals. But really our animals are cooler. Dinosaurs got blown the fuck out and yet these still exist and all that remains of dinosaurs are birds. Dinosaurs and extinct animals are cool, but people severely underestimate and undervalue the dudes that actually won at life and are still here.
>>5121413>Does nothing but swim around and suck in waterSauropods did nothing but walk around and eat plants.>It's just a snakeMosasaurs were just big monitor lizards.
>>5118655>The blue whale is thought to be bigger than the largest dinosaurs, though. There, fixed it for you, faggot.
>>5118655Blue Whales are hella gay that's why
>>5118655>It's a shame no LAND animals are as big as the dinosaurs today fixed it for you
>>5118655>I fantasize about regular interaction with hypermegafauna>but the largest is in a remote section of the world that you will likely never see>I fantasize about a diverse ecosystem including giant creatures like plesiosaurs>some snakes can swim!
>>5118896If you look at a birds foot and then pretend the rest of the bird looks like a lizard that's kinda like looking at a dinosaur if you think about it.
>>5122433saltwater crocs also exist
>>5121410facts
elephants are already at the extreme limit of how big a land animal can be. if it was bigger no bones could support its weight, no heart could pump enough blood etc.t-rex was an agile hunter bigger than elephants? fuck off.big herbivores the size of a building? many theories about how they only survived in shallow waters and never came out, unable to support their own weight on land, but specimens are found far from ancient waterways so it doesn't track.fliers like pterodactycls have wingspans that couldn't support their weight.the only real explanation is that gravity was lower in the past.
>>5118655I am always in awe that we have such luxury status to live with the biggest animal ever to grace our planet, unless there’s some truly enormous jellyfish or siphonophore in the primeval past or something idk. Oh and it’s a gentle creature who will only hurt you if you swim right next to it like an idiot because it can’t help being a huge and strong motherfucker.
>>5118664people do take the dinosaurs we have today for granted, which is especially insane considering how unique and specialized they are, and their extravagant variety.
>>5123716people love cassowaries though
>fliers like pterodactycls have wingspans that couldn't support their weight.nobody tell him about the big metal birds living in metal caves at the airport
>>5118655>muh blue whaleWhen people say animals, they typically mean animals and not fish.
>>5123917not the same thing at all
>>5121426The Dinosaurs only lost because of an asteroid
>>5118655Ever hear of the concept of spectacle? We have snakes on land, who cares about a swimming one. When people say marine reptiles they mean giant archosaurs/60-foot crocs with flippers, something alien.And blue whales are mogged by the biggest dinosaurs. Any time you find a femur of some titanosaur it’s just as big as the biggest blue whale of all time and there were objectively titanosaurs twice that big at least if some random one-off bone is already matching the whale.+filter feeding gentle giants are fucking boring they don’t do anything
>>5123812Yeah, but I’m gonna bet that even if we had terror birds still running around, people would still mourn the loss of their Jurassic Park “Velociraptors” instead of appreciating their local phorusrhacids. Giraffes are tall as fuck, but people compare them to sauropod dinos. Current elephants are essentially hadrosaurs with a big fuck off trunk instead of a big fuck off tail.
>>5125403But marine iguanas are so cool:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTS46pVoX5w
>>5125815>you have to travel to Galapagos if you want to see marine iguanas, blue-footed boobies, Galapagos fur seals and sea lions, flightless cormorants, lava lizards, and a host of other cool species
>>5118759No dinosaur defenses are in-and-of-themselves as cool as porcupine spines.
>>5122433Even if sauropods existed in the Holocene, they'd have all been exterminated by cavemen.
>>5126446do quills even fossilize?
>>5127035Spinolestes.
>>5126446i wonder if they could throw the quills like regular porcupines can
>>5126446we don't even what defenses they might've had because of the incomplete fossil record
>>5118655Imagine flying crocs that converge evolved like pterosaurs if left alone?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mekosuchus
>>5126448Here implications.What if bipedal Crocodyliformes from Cretaceous Korea had survived into the Ice Age?
>>5125403>and there were objectively titanosaurs twice that big at leastlol
>>5128242idgi
>>5125577terror birds are birds, dinosaurs are an alien monster with jaws and arms and a tail, terror birds are literally just mean ostriches that ate meat
>>5118655>It's a shame there are no marine reptiles alive today Im not sure if this is a made up strawman or if there are people this genuinely oblivious or retarded.
>>5128242>dinosaurs were actually weak trannies that only ate fruits and nuts chud! they are smaller than their fossils actually!outlier titanosaurs were probably bigger than Godzilla
>>5126446A stegosaurus tail is infinitely cooler than a prickly rat wtf are you even saying? Only thing porcufaggots ever did was make me uncomfortable for the portion of the movie Homeward Bound when chance had some quills stuck in his face.
>>5128253basic literacy is recommended if you intend to use this website.
>>5118664They get tiger fandom at best
There's a reason why the biggest shonen battles take place on land or maybe space, and not underwater
>>5128330DBZ has a couple of notable underwater scraps but not really. Goku fought Android 13 and Cooler underwater.
>>5128289damn, you really are this retarded esl
>>5118655>>It's a shame there are no marine reptiles alive today :(?? who tf says that? I'm pretty sure the average person knows that sea turtles,iguanas and crocodiles are a thing. And no,a non biologist person doesn't think at all about the sea reptilians from the Mesozoic
>>5128396>n-no u!!!
>>5126448>they'd have all been exterminated by cavemen.Early human hunter-gatherers are a major red herring for the extinctions and changes in the last glacial maximum. At most, they were a domino in a large set of events that were gonna happen anyways.After the agricultural revolution though, anything is possible.
The problem with blue whales is theyre huge and insanely impressive but they live in the open ocean so no one ever sees them and its basically like they dont exist.They're hard to even film and even when filmed never have anything near them as size reference so its really really hard to even tell how big they are. In most footage a blue whale and regular whale swimming around functionally look like the same size or whatever.
>>5128501some maniacal billionaire needs to build an aquarium large enough to display one
Sperm whale vs Colossal Squid is cooler than T-rex vs Trike
>>5129498Sperm whale always wins though
>>5128501Tbf swimming next to whales is the greatest shit ever and without the vast open sea surrounding them im sure it wouldnt be quite as majestic
