Obscure prehistoric animals

A classic, Deinotherium

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>>2108397
forgot pic

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>>2108381
My favorite dinosaur Linhenykus

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Atopodentatus
The freakiest tetrapod to ever live
Looks like the elite from Halo

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No one remembers Paraceratherium.

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Anomalocaris doesn't get enough love, none of the awesome Cambrian biota do.

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>>2109096
And they later evolve into these giant filter feeders in the Ordovician

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>>2109096
Japan loves them. Pic related. Book I found at Japanese bookstore. Cute and weird as fuck.

>>2108747
Wort wort wort

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>>2109097
It doesn't look like it ever lived on this planet

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Chalicotherium.
Half gorilla half horse

>>2109097
I want to see it move around

i somehow can´t imagine how this animal propelled itself through the water

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>>2109038
I remember when the first time i saw WWB the called it Indricotherium
Are Indricotherium and Paraceratherium the same animal or two species apart?

I have the obscure genre: Paleoparadoxia

>>2109096
That wonderful feel when you grew up with a cambrian explosion book, and have known about anomalocarids, trilobites, and opabinia as long as you've known dogs, cats, and parrots

>>2109096
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YsNRnZRgg8

This bizarre video was my introduction to the animal

>>2109276
This guy looks like he's on some Dugal Dixon shit.

>>2109366
If you didn't know about dogs and cats before you could understand the concept of a book you were abused as a child.

>>2109171
That is amazing

>>2109171
>Nips being weird
>weird
Pic one

>>2109766
K

>>2109363

Oh, I love desmostylians. Like ancient sea horses (its true, they're perissodactyls now)

>>2109373
y tho

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Epidexipteryx hui

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>>2110477
HUI HUI HUI HUI HUI HUI HUI

>>2109276
>If these things had continued evolving to the present day, we might be saying HORSED instead of BLACKED right now
feels bad man

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>>2109096
>>2109171

https://youtu.be/wApzxTXS-wM?t=25m8s

>>2110478

Wut?

>>2109171
that's really cute actually

>>2109363
Yeah, I think that they combined them into one genera, I remember being confused about them too

>>2109038
I do. It's one of my favorite animals of all time. Right up there with cool ass Brontotheres. Perisodactyla, not Artiodactyla OK.

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these things look like something out of Spore

>>2109038

Now miniscule in comparison to PALAEOLOXODON NAMADICUS

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>>2108381
>Chocobos were real

>>2108399
two questions
does it continue growing
does it hurt when they mate

>>2108747
What's it's common ancestor? How did it get a proto 3 jaw skull? Just how does that happen?

>>2108381
What did it eat?

>>2111197
Flesh, a lot of it. It would probably love your flesh too.

>>2111197

Meat.

>>2111191

Relationships uncertain.

It's not really "three jawed" as it has a split in the upper jaw filled with teeth, but it's certainly one of the freakist reptiles that has ever lived.

>>2111191
>What's it's common ancestor?
common with what?

>>2111785

I assume with whatever else is its closest relative

>>2108747
when I first saw this thing, I immediately thought of a flamingo

and that's what I still think of it
for me, it's a fucking reptilian flamingo

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Giant Pterosaurs aren't obscure, but I don't think most people are aware of how fucking creepy they'd be because they'd be spending a lot of time just walking around like lopsided Silent Hill abominations.

>>2112157
Not to mention that you'd shit yourself whenever you see these deaths from above in the sky

>>2112561
How could something like that fly?

>>2112574

lol what else could it have done?

>>2112574

Forelimb-based launching.

>>2110436

Cos 2009

>>2112574
Pterosaurs are entirely different from birds. Look how tiny proportionally it's body is.

They also basically had inflatable wings.

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>>2109373
I'm fucking dying

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>>2110530
>>2109171
based fucking japs, never in my life would I have thought i would see a mecha Anomalocaris


>>2110907
underrated, these things are massive

>>2110907
>>2114123
Well somebody post a picture of it or something.

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>>2114128
Its only bigger than the paraceratherium by a little bit but still pretty awesome

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>>2114128
>>2114133
One more pic

>>2109096
>Anomalocaris
>Obscure
neh mang

>>2112102
>>2111779
>>2111191
Thought to be a basal Sauropterygian e.i something a bit more primitive but related to Placodonts, Nothosaurs and the like

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>>2114123
that gif reminds me... fuckin Titanopterans

>>2114145
That thing looks bad ass

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>>2108381
that unnamed giant south African prosauropod... biggest biped... ever

>>2112157
Would they go after humans, do you think?

>>2114174
Of course