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I was looking up more weird critters and discovered a Korean toy series called Dino Mecard Tiny Saur that's a collection of unusual ancient animas in cute mini form and I want them so drat bad -   Babies!!!! 
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Oct 19, 2021 11:11
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Those look very Korean.
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Oct 19, 2021 12:58
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Dead pigs!! There are a lot of extinct mammals in the Suidae family who are close relatives of modern pigs and some of the looked pretty weird. Celebochoerus fossils have been found in the Philippines and Sulawesi and it had massive stonkin' tusks:   Megalochoerus weren't all that distinctive except for the fact that they were gigantic, with M. humungous standing 2.2m tall and weighing a ton:  Kubanochoerus were unicorns  
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Oct 19, 2021 13:11
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Holy poo poo regular pigs are scary enough when they want to be
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Oct 19, 2021 13:14
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Megalochoerus weren't all that distinctive except for the fact that they were gigantic, with M. humungous standing 2.2m tall and weighing a ton: I choose to interpret that name in the French fashion. "Monsieur Humungous"
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Oct 19, 2021 13:42
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While I’m sad we don’t live in an era with giant rideable pigs I’m also glad we don’t. When it comes to wild animals I fear running into a wild boar more than anything
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Oct 19, 2021 14:01
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McGavin posted:Those look very Korean. Whoops, you're right.
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Oct 19, 2021 16:27
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SUPERMAN'S GAL PAL posted:While I’m sad we don’t live in an era with giant rideable pigs I’m also glad we don’t. When it comes to wild animals I fear running into a wild boar more than anything I wonder if humans have taken over the giant pigs' ecological niche of "social omnivorous ever-hungry murderbeast"
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Oct 19, 2021 22:08
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Astrapotheres were an extinct order of South American ungulates who probably looked like a cross between elephants and tapirs (although not closely related to either). They're a great example of convergent evolution going "Eyyyyy we need a hippo/elephant thingy to fill a niche over here, throw some tusks and a trunk on a random chubby little thing and we'll call it good" Astrapotherium looked like a little elephant with vampire teeth and boar tusks:    Granastrapotherium snorki was pretty much a bigger version of Astrapotherium (as the name suggests) with massive walrus-like tusks. Just look at this ridiculous thing: 
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Oct 20, 2021 19:10
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Holy poo poo regular pigs are scary enough when they want to be Well, to be honest, selective breeding did a number even on existing fauna and flora. This article on depictions of medieval pigs in video games has more.
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Oct 21, 2021 07:05
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Speaking of dumb elephant things, the actual proboscidean order has obviously been super successful with all those massive mammoths and mastodons and the current extant elephant species but they weren't all winners. One early side branch of the proboscidea family tree was the Moeritherium, the shittiest elephant that ever livedquote:Moeritherium was a rotund semi-aquatic mammal with short, stubby legs that lived about 37-35 million years ago[1] Its body shape and lifestyle demonstrate convergent evolution with pigs, tapirs, and the pygmy hippopotamus. Moeritherium was smaller than most or all later proboscideans, standing only 70 centimetres (2.3 ft) high at the shoulder and weighing 235 kilograms (518 lb).[2] The shape of their teeth suggests that they ate soft water vegetation.  It was one of the most pathetic, nebbish, hyper-nerdy creatures to ever walk the surface of this planet. Just look at how lovely it was:   You can't help but assume that the other Eocene creatures beat it up and stole its lunch money
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Oct 21, 2021 15:37
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I like to imagine it makes a noise like a squeeky toy when you poke it.
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Oct 21, 2021 15:54
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quote:Moeritherium was a rotund semi-aquatic mammal with short, stubby legs so what's their username?
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Oct 21, 2021 16:16
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:so what's their username? Semi-aquatic implies either frequent bathing or lack of a fear of water, essential to be an ancestor to the Goon. No, the '-therium' should have clued you in on the fact this is of the Bit Coinosaur genus
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Oct 21, 2021 17:14
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It looks so miserable.
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Oct 21, 2021 18:11
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Buncha scrub creatures in this thread, it's great
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Oct 21, 2021 18:16
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(Reading Moeritherium description and seeing skeleton) Well that doesn't seem so bad. Sounds kinda cute, actually. (Sees recreations) I'll bet he speaks only in 'herps' and 'derps'.
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Oct 21, 2021 18:39
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Mr.Chill posted:
lost a war to emus, god help you if you run into these things.
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Oct 21, 2021 18:53
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uber_stoat posted:lost a war to emus, god help you if you run into these things. I wonder if you could have them as aviliary. Like cavalry but make it birb.
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Oct 21, 2021 19:27
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Terror birds were around for a super long time, 62 to 1.8 million years ago.
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Oct 21, 2021 19:37
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I bet the old school dino illustrators would've left the body fat off moetherium and made it look like a rad crocodile or something.
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Oct 21, 2021 21:33
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Josef bugman posted:I wonder if you could have them as aviliary. Like cavalry but make it birb. anyone who likes giant killer birds go read the Blacktongue Thief.
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Oct 21, 2021 22:30
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SUPERMAN'S GAL PAL posted:While I’m sad we don’t live in an era with giant rideable pigs I’m also glad we don’t. When it comes to wild animals I fear running into a wild boar more than anything https://twitter.com/sunshinechi1/status/1447595536635289606
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Oct 22, 2021 02:31
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Knormal posted:This has made its way through most of the relevant threads, but for anyone who missed it: holy poo poo this delivers.
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Oct 22, 2021 02:36
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:
This just looks like an elephant seal but still has the stubby legs. It’s a sometimes water puppy Speaking of which Knormal posted:This has made its way through most of the relevant threads, but for anyone who missed it: Thank you, I had NOT seen this. The slow approach as if it’s purposely trying to get the people to let their guard down; if it weren’t for thumbs and some extra wrinkly brains we’d be screwed as a species.
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Oct 22, 2021 12:32
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That thing gets better every time I rewatch it. *pig screech* "Help me! Help! Help!" You'd think it was scripted.
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Oct 22, 2021 12:43
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:That thing gets better every time I rewatch it. *pig screech* "Help me! Help! Help!" You'd think it was scripted. I believe 1994’s The Lion King demonstrated that warthogs can indeed read scripts.
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Oct 22, 2021 16:19
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SUPERMAN'S GAL PAL posted:While I’m sad we don’t live in an era with giant rideable pigs I’m also glad we don’t. When it comes to wild animals I fear running into a wild boar more than anything It's not like domesticated pigs won't gently caress you up if they're given the opportunity: https://www-vg-no.translate.goog/ny...o&_x_tr_pto=nui
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Oct 22, 2021 16:21
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South Korea has a problem with wild boars wandering into restaurants and going bugfuck crazy, there's a bunch of videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkFcrszfOTI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7k1Pawy9GM
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Oct 22, 2021 17:40
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I grew up in an area with a lot of feral pigs and while I don't want to go all "30-50 feral hogs," I do not envy having one of those fuckers come at you in a restaurant. They're comical until they rip your intestines out for fun.
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Oct 22, 2021 17:52
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A boar killed one of my uncle’s hunting dogs once. He refuses to hunt them anymore because they’re so unpredictable.
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Oct 22, 2021 19:46
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uber_stoat posted:anyone who likes giant killer birds go read the Blacktongue Thief. Ah, that's the same author as Between Two Fires, right? That loving owned.
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Oct 24, 2021 13:53
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Groke posted:Ah, that's the same author as Between Two Fires, right? That loving owned. hell yeah, Between Two Fires rules and so does Blacktongue.
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Oct 24, 2021 16:38
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Almost ran into a boar moving through tall reeds in a depressed wetland section of forest, and man. Boar was resting on a bed of reeds but just sprinted when i came face to face with it, a bit startling for me too. Most my encounters have been at a distance though which is pretty chill if both of us are aware of each other. And once on a drive to my familys summer cottage one was resting on the country road basking in the spring sun, reluctantly getting up and moving to the side of the road when we approached. Took a picture from the car. It was pretty far north, almost as far north as you could find them (in boreal central Sweden), a decade or so prior they probably didnt extend that far up. 
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Oct 24, 2021 17:24
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Now for a change of pace, some dumbass sauropods! Isisaurus ("isi-saurus" or ISI-lizard, named in honour of the Indian Statistical Institute) was a weird sauropod which had extremely tall neckbones and very long forelimbs:  ...... which made it look like a weird fatnecked hyena-proportioned weirdo:    Brachytrachelopan was pretty much the opposite, a sauropod with a fairly typical body but a really short neck:  ..... which made it look like a cartoony chubbo  
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Oct 25, 2021 05:18
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Almost need a thread devoted to the "human for scale" silhouettes in these pictures. We've got the pincer-fingered endomorph above, as well as guys slouching, guys standing pillar-straight, scuba divers, and at least one verging-on-mudflap-silhouette curvy lady.
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Oct 25, 2021 05:32
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Tree Bucket posted:Almost need a thread devoted to the "human for scale" silhouettes in these pictures. We've got the pincer-fingered endomorph above, as well as guys slouching, guys standing pillar-straight, scuba divers, and at least one verging-on-mudflap-silhouette curvy lady. My favourite is this paleo artist who always uses a caveman of indeterminate height for scale, which is SUPER useful thanks!  Runner up is this paleo artist who I suspect is just photoshopping himself into all the pictures: E: yeah that's definitely him  https://www.facebook.com/UchytelRoman Snowglobe of Doom has a new favorite as of 05:50 on Oct 25, 2021 |
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Oct 25, 2021 05:44
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:My favourite is this paleo artist who always uses a caveman of indeterminate height for scale, which is SUPER useful thanks! There's a guy on Youtube, EDGE, who uses anime character silhouettes and it's a fun 'who's that pokemon' guessing game but with Jojo and Faye Valentine. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAaqNKI6oCjlgI4aRV1ciqg   
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Oct 25, 2021 23:35
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 On a related note, sauropod front feet were weird as hell. They walked on their toetips like a hoofed animal, but they lost all their outside claws aside from one on their "thumb", that stuck out of a horrifying flesh tube. 
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Oct 25, 2021 23:43
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Knormal posted:
I was happier not knowing about the sauropod flesh-tubes.
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