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Not all dinos and ancient animals were majestic - some were ugly, weird, and goofy. Today I learned about the existence of the Hyperodapedon -  Look at it.  I'll bet it made 'herp herp herp" noises as it scuttled -  Artist's rendition of this doofy thing -  Learn more about this stabby-faced rat prototype here - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperodapedon Share ancient animals that make you laugh and/or cringe.
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Oct 1, 2021 15:07
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That Spore critter won't last one generation where even is the mouth.
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Oct 1, 2021 15:46
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probably its rear end, makes things very simple
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Oct 1, 2021 16:12
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Australia had the goofiest mega fauna: 
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Oct 1, 2021 16:32
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I'm in this pic and I don't like it. Anyway, here's the Chalicothere. aka the gorilla horse -  They're actual horses, but they have bones like this -  "Chalicotheres (from Greek chalix, "gravel" and therion, "beast") are an extinct clade of herbivorous, odd-toed ungulate (perissodactyl) mammals that lived in North America, Eurasia, and Africa from the Middle Eocene until the Early Pleistocene, existing from 46.2 mya to 781,000 years ago. They are one of the five major radiations of perissodactyls, with three groups living (horses, plus the extinct paleotheres; rhinoceroses; tapirs), and two extinct (brontotheres and chalicotheres).[3]" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalicothere They're big, too -  Here's a guy riding a gorilla horse, which is badass. Cavemen were more advanced than we thought. 
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Oct 1, 2021 23:49
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Shringasaurus looks like those "dinosaurs" from the low-budget 60's films that were just ordinary lizards with fins and horns glued on them (slurpasaurs)
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Oct 2, 2021 01:15
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Sharovipteryx makes me strangely uncomfortable.  
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Oct 2, 2021 01:59
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So is it down to chance that rear-leg-wing-creatures are really rare? Or does it kind of suck as body form (beyond being really unsettling somehow)? Cotylorynchus! An early Permian synapsid that grew to five metres long. It's one of those dreadful-looking creatures that makes you suspect the palaeontologists got something badly wrong somewhere. I don't know what it's for. Tree Bucket has a new favorite as of 05:12 on Oct 2, 2021 |
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Oct 2, 2021 04:56
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I will never not laugh at that guy because of this
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Oct 2, 2021 05:06
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The Bloop posted:I will never not laugh at that guy because of this Imagine the slapping noises when this thing runs on the ground
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Oct 2, 2021 05:34
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Atopodentatus. It apparently ate algae, probably in a really dumb way.  Tree Bucket posted:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXXVvsxEGkc
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Oct 3, 2021 04:32
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Tree Bucket posted:So is it down to chance that rear-leg-wing-creatures are really rare? Or does it kind of suck as body form (beyond being really unsettling somehow)? Sharovipteryx was a glider only, probably evolved from a lizard with long hind legs for climbing trees. Having the wings on the hind legs makes a triangle like a delta wing aircraft, like the Concorde, which seems* less efficient for low-speed flight? Like if you didn't have significant thrust and you weren't starting a glide from a high altitude, it seems like it would be too top heavy to fly for very far before pitching headfirst into the ground. *NOT AN ENGINEER*
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Oct 3, 2021 04:37
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same
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Oct 3, 2021 06:25
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The extinct giant lemur Megaladapis was roughly human sized but was tailless and had a squat body shaped like a koala, a big chunky head that had a jaw like a cow, a nasal cavity like a rhino, vampire-like canine teeth and bugged-out eyes on the side of the skull.  Modern artistic recreations have not been kind to this species 
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Oct 3, 2021 10:36
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Tree Bucket posted:
..... and pushing things in the opposite direction was the Triassic archosauriform reptile Erythrosuchus  
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Oct 3, 2021 10:54
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Small heads? Big heads? How about Mononychus and his Itty bitty teeny tiny arms -  Artist rendition -  Very small - good for pets it you don't mind bites.  And also POTENTIALLY VERY VERY CUTE. 
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Oct 3, 2021 12:08
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:..... and pushing things in the opposite direction was the Triassic archosauriform reptile Erythrosuchus So, like... I get that this guy and Cotylorynchus are completely different kinds of animals from different geological periods, but are we completely sure that nobody accidentally swapped the skulls on these bad boys?
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Oct 3, 2021 12:15
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Knormal posted:It apparently ate algae, probably in a really dumb way.  e: this is also my face when I forget how to eat bananas.
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Oct 3, 2021 13:26
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Elephants had the dumbest evolution:   
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Oct 3, 2021 13:39
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lol at all these creatures
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Oct 3, 2021 14:10
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This thread is a delight. I'm not sure why these creatures are so wrong-looking. Is it because they're unfamiliar? Is it because the artists have messed up a bit (c.f. shrinkwrapped dinosaurs?) Is it because they have genuinely useless body shapes? Or all three?? Snowglobe of Doom posted:..... and pushing things in the opposite direction was the Triassic archosauriform reptile Erythrosuchus Although I'm pretty sure that's just a mislabelled bull terrier skeleton.
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Oct 3, 2021 14:46
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Tree Bucket posted:This thread is a delight.  You know what sucks? FLEAS! You know what's worse? DINO FLEAS!!!  They had LONG LEGS  And HUGE STABBERS  And they were much too large. 
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Oct 3, 2021 18:31
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I cannot stop laughing at the incredible gently caress-upedness of this extinct animal.
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Oct 3, 2021 22:40
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There's a thought- cotylorhynchus is a very bulky herbivore with a short neck and huge nostril openings in the skull. Sound familliar? Maybe it had a trunk!?
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Oct 3, 2021 23:08
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 Chiromyoides, an early primate (~55 mya) or a mutated nightmare raccoon.
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Oct 4, 2021 02:32
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Tree Bucket posted:There's a thought- cotylorhynchus is a very bulky herbivore with a short neck and huge nostril openings in the skull. Every few years someone tries to argue that Brachiosaurs might have had trunks and the results are always delightfully dorksome  This weird-rear end diprotodontoid from earlier in the thread actually went the other way: Paleontologists assumed it had a trunk when it was first discovered because of it's fukken weird skull:  ..... but more recent reconstructions did away with the trunk which makes it look even dumber imho: 
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Oct 4, 2021 03:46
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Oct 4, 2021 09:08
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 This is Cyclotosaurus. Part of a family of animals thought to be part of the distant ancestors of all modern amphibians and filled with some of the weirdest looking bastards you are ever going to see.
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Oct 4, 2021 12:40
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Love to bodyshame these goofy extinct fucks Just look at this thing. No wonder it's dead. 
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Oct 4, 2021 13:01
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How about Jeholopterus, whose discovered remains include the "exquisite preservation of carbonized skin fibers and pycnofibres. The fibers are preserved around the body of the specimen in a 'halo.' Wing tissue is preserved..." resulting in artist renditions getting real bold with the weird cross-section of "lizard" and "squirrel", including: and  and even 
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Oct 4, 2021 16:05
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I've been looking for this thing!!! One the most perfect preserved animals we have and it's not something cool, it's this weird little biting eyeball thing. It's like millions of years from now our descendents will find the most perfectly preserved modern animal and it's a gopher.
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Oct 4, 2021 17:46
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oh dope posted:Love to bodyshame these goofy extinct fucks "I think we've reached maximum amount of teeth.." "MORE TEETH!" "...but they won't fit in the mouth.." "MORE TEETH  ""...okay.." 
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Oct 4, 2021 18:02
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oh dope posted:Love to bodyshame these goofy extinct fucks That thing has seen things.
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Oct 4, 2021 19:44
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cant cook creole bream posted:That thing has seen things. Like it's own reflection.
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Oct 5, 2021 06:49
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Alhazred posted:Elephants had the dumbest evolution: I can't be the only one who thinks scoop-nose elephant is frightening as gently caress? Like objectively it's throat isn't that wide but the giant pig tusks and scoop jaws coming at me with that huge body and stompy feet is scary as hell. Like if someone gave an alligator some stilts, an extra 1000 pounds and a speed boost and then said "have at it".
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Oct 6, 2021 08:16
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Blue Footed Booby posted:Imagine the slapping noises when this thing runs on the ground 
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Oct 6, 2021 08:50
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empty sea posted:Like if someone gave an alligator some stilts, an extra 1000 pounds and a speed boost and then said "have at it". Oh they hand long legged 'galloping' crocodyliforms as well, such as the kaprosuchus which was maybe 20 feet in length and had ridiculous tusk-like teeth:   They also had colossal crocs the size of a bus such as the deinosuchus which was about 30 to 40 feet long and weighed 5 to 8 tons (there's been a LOT of arguments over its size, they usually only find the skull and have to guesstimate the rest):  But this thread is for weird-rear end ugly critters so here's laganosuchus whose name translates as "the pancake crocodile":  .... and the dog-sized anataosuchus whose name translates as "duck crocodile":  A real life crocoduck! .... and the armadillosuchus whose name means ..... well, I'm sure you can figure that one out on your own 
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Oct 6, 2021 09:21
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A crocodile with a safety helmet! That's the dorkiest animal yet.
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Oct 6, 2021 10:29
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My favorite ancient animals are pterosaurs. Just look at these things. They're alien crazy. it's like a buffet of weird.  Tag yourself. Edit - Oh poo poo, a gif of Quetzalcoatlus, one of the scariest animals that ever lived - 
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