Can we have a non-dino prehistoric animal thread? Please?

sure

>>2168282
No, only dinosaurs are allowed. Discussion is also limited to whether or not T. rex had feathers and nothing else.

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Is this thing fucking real?

>>2168369
it was, yes

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would have loved to see one of these fuckers alive

>>2168404
Wow, never seen a size comparison for these before.

I had no idea they were that big.

>>2168369
Yes, but it didn't look like that.

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>>2168404

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>>2168369
>>2168384
second

>>2168914
Thanks for reminding me of ray troll, he's one of my favorite artist

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I was always fascinated by the fossil apes. Whales are a close second.

>>2169051
Me on the left.

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posting some gorilla horses

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Here's a collection of 300 realistic photoshops of extinct prehistoric species:
http://prehistoric-fauna.com/gallery
Find one that you like, and post it in this thread.

>>2168914
Karpinsky has the right mindset

>>2168914

We will never know what it really looks like

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it's time

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>>2168360
nice meme

Are allowed to talk about archaeopteryx and other reptile/birds?

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>>2169051
same

>>2172566
Kekd and checkd

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mammoth's are my fav no dino prehistoric-animals

>>2168914
we really have no idea what it actualy might have looked like do we?
Just look at that shit
>bottom jaw
>upper jaw?
>tongue?
>extra row of theeth inside mouth?
>manta ray-thing?
>like a buzzsaw?
>rolled up?
>i dunno, on its fins maybe?
it's all over the place

>>2172566
Fucking terrifying.

>>2173085
He's a big guy

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Dromornis stirtoni - one of the largest birds in the history of the Earth. These birds belong to the order Anseriformes and were close relatives of modern ducks and geese. Lived in Australia, the Middle Miocene, about 15 million years ago. They were probably omnivorous.
1/2

Which was the best era and why was it Devon?

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>>2173592
2/2
Size comparison

>>2173216
For you.

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Take a search at "Australian Pleistocene fauna". I like this one (pic).

>>2169420
I fucking hate that rendition

>>2173085
>scenes from a football locker room

>>2173596
>giant carnivorous ducks that presumably had giant duck rape-penises
Goddammit, Australia.

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Thylaocoleo my number one best, he was really a drop bear

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>>2174348
best teeth

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>you will never ride him to battle

>>2174358
Man, I've been trying to piece together a coherent fantasy universe in my head where entire continents have been magically isolated for huge periods of time, until the barriers collapse causing a huge clash of epochs. A race of agressive goblin-esque creatures who come from a miocene type environment would fit great into the barbarian horde archetype, ravaging the countryside on entelodont mounts that like eating livestock and humans.

No idea what I'd do with it, but it's a fun thought experiment for when I can't sleep.

>>2172566
Holy shit, thats scary!

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>>2174626
he suerly looks like some type of "evil forces" mount, man i wish there would be place somwhere on the Earth, isloated from everything, where megafauna would survive till now

Am I the only one who thinks it looks cute

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Dimetrodon was actually more of a mammal type creature rather than a dinosaur. This guy made an interesting vid about it: https://youtu.be/aK5IgMJxcAk

>>2169422
>You came to the wrong neighborhood, motherfucker.

>>2174961
its so ugly, please stop

>>2169183
There's a theory that smilodon had massive lips that covered their canines, because the composition of their teeth required that or so.

>>2174992
New Dimetrodon is 100x cooler than the old one. The fin looked stupid as fuck and the spiked Lion-rat is a huge improvement.

>>2168282
I really like these threads

>>2168914
I bet that guy Karpinsky was the coolest kid in the block.

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>>2168369
yeah, but it didn't look like that

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Gorgonopsid primeval addition

>>2175140
>basing it on an animal with a pathology

>>2168443
>>2168404
Some recent fossils show that Placoderms could be stem jawed fish, which is pretty interesting.

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Permian fuck yeah.

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>>2168425
>>2168404
neh 10 meter Dunk is something of a legend like the 20 meter Liopleurodon mostly from old books never just siting each other as sourses 5-7 meters is the correct size a bit bigger then record great whites

>>2175843
>estimates based on coccosteus who grew up to 40 cm
Wew lad.

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>>2175847
yes Coccosteus and Dunkleosteus are assumed to have somewhat similar proportions. Better off basing if off Coccosteus then having a Dunkleo with 1 meter of head and 9 meters of body. Titanichthys is still a big guy

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>>2168282
armored Cambrian comb jellies anyone?

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>huge badass sea monster
>scientists name you dunkle

>>2169419
>Arf borf I am doggo

>>2175886
Pretty sure the dudes name was Dunkle, so it's just "Dunkle's Bone". Kinda lame for such a cool critter.

>>2175886
well, the scientist in question was named Dunkle.

>>2175842
What I really want to see is a speculative evolution art book/project set in a world where the end-permian extinction never happened.

>>2174350
Jesus, I can never get over just how fucking metal Thylacoleo's dentition was.
>Stab you in the neck or slash at your flank? Fuck that, I'll just bite your spine in half.

>>2174626
the opposite is more likely to occur
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_American_Interchange
when the americas were connected all the bizarre looking marsupials and 10 foot tall flightless birds got absolutely fucking destroyed

>>2176286
The megafauna on both sides of the continents pretty much disappeared at the same time though.
Giant Sloths, Glyptotheres and Megabirds died off along with American Pachyderms and the large Mammalian predators like Dire Wolves, Short-faced bears, American Lions, etc.
Something mroe drastic might have happened in the americas to warrant such an extinction, considering for example, in Europe, Cave Lions lasted until 2000 years ago while the American Lion was long gone by then.

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>>2176252
Ask and ye shall receive.

>>2176301
If the Permian extinction didn't happen though, archosaurs wouldn't have gotten the chance to dominate the Earth, at least not get to that point as quickly. Most diapsids before the extinction were like mammals during the mesozoic, small, rarely getting larger than 1 meter, hiding from the dominant species of the time.

>>2174626
/tg/ has a world building general

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by the way anyone know any good megafauna document? Also have a titanis

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pin head pete reporting in

>>2176298
Dire wolves were hardly bigger than our biggest modern wolves. It's weird they died off.
Moose, grizzly bears, bison, etc they survived. So did mule and white tail deer yet so many similar ungulates died off too. At least with shit like mammoths yeah they're fucking huge and I can understand through climate, hunting and shit they died off but it's the ones that are so similar to our current animals that confuse the shit out of me. Dire wolves being one of them.

>>2176506
I suspect the difference is that dire wolves weren't amenable to domestication in the same way as regular wolves and so cavemen would shank them on sight.

>>2176298
You're confusing two different extinction events. The Great American Interchange occurred about 2 million years ago and resulted in the fauna of North America migrating south en masse and driving many of the endemic species to extinction while only a relatively small number of species migrated the other way.

It was the extinctions at the end of the last ice age that claimed almost all the large animals in both Americas.

>>2175140
It also didn't exist. The retard who put out the theory based the entire argument on one horribly diseased specimen, despite the fact that we have literal hundreds of fucking Dimetrodon skeletons that don't have the features he pulled out of his ass.
He's basically synapsid David Peters.

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>>2178457
>synapsid David Peters

>>2178457
>synapsid David Peters
Jesus, anon. No need to be that harsh

>>2176506
I thought dire wolves were non-pack animals and thats the difference?

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C-can extant aminals play, too?

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>>2176449
Ancient birds were rad, to be honest.

>>2178788
birds are dinosaurs though.

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>>2174961
Thats way more extreme then other reconstructions.

>>2178457
>one horribly diseased specimen
This isn't true at all.
One specific species of dimetrodon (Dimetorodon giganhomogenes) has the spines curved at the edges making it unlikely they were covered by flesh.
No other species of dimetrodon shares this trait.
Treys video is only bullshit because he says all dimetrodons were like this when it was probably just this one specific species of dimetrodon.

>>2173596
imagine that jumping up to you and eating you

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Andrewsarchus has always been my favorite non-dino creature.
Just imagine a gigantic hoofed wolf-like creature preying on early elephants

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Do you think they might still exist? I hope they might but not at the same time.

>>2179645
They died because they couldnt walk and thus were too heavy for the trees.

>>2179695
Nah, more like they starved to death or were hunted by other animals or hominids.

I'm new to this board.

Is this shit real?

>>2169126
oh shit

>>2180338
What shit? The animals posted here?
Yes, they were real.

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>>2172566

Fasolasuchus- Late Triassic Argentina. Estimated at 8-10 meters. If the larger figure is correct, it would make this rauisuchid the largest known terrestrial predator, save theropods.

>>2180404
did you forgot pic?

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>>2180404
Forgot image

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Paraceratherium. Basically a prehistoric giant hornless rhino.

>>2178457
Oddly enough, I've heard Peters has recently taken a "look" at mammals. I can't remember all the details, and I'm not willing to give his site any hits to look for more, but I think he decided that tenrecs are basal whales somehow.

>That feel when thinking about all of the North American mega fauna and prehistoric fauna
>That feel when almost all of it died out 1000-2000 years after mankind reached North America
North American lions? Ded
Native North American horses? Ded
Native North American camels? Ded
Native North American cattles? Ded

>>2178788
couldn'y aussies pick something more respectable to get raped by?

>>2180428
>I think my giraffe is autistic

>>2181269
Injuns ruined everything.

>>2181793
But they are one with nature. How could they have been responsible for the extinctions?

>>2181542
>>2181793
>>2181890
>>2181892
go back to the board you came from.

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>>2168282

Do you think it's still alive somewhere out there?

>>2181793
More like south american megafauna were the ones who BTFO them.

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/tv/ here

So what are these things supposed to be?

Arachnids?
Crustaceans?
Insects?
Reptiles?

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>>2182600
Fucking disgusting that's what

>>2182600

The creature designers didn't model them to fit into any particular taxon. And if they did, they probably made one up.

>>2175865
That's pretty neat. Never heard of those before ;-;

>>2180407
Dude bout to get shit on

>>2169126
Where they equines though or a different species all together?

>>2168282
You would think this is impossible, but I'm starting to run out of prehistoric animals I don't know yet. I always see the same ones

What still fascinates me though, is how fucking huge animals were in the past. Like when you see prehistoric fish creatures, you assume they were the size of a modern day fish, but they were colossal in comparison.

>>2183074
that's what happens when you have the entirety of "before now" to pick from

>>2183074
The blue whale is the largest animal to ever live.

>>2183314
What are the odds of future paleontologists finding fossils from a blue whale?

>>2183352
same we have for finding ancient whale species

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>>2183314
I'm talking about average size. The blue whale is obviously an exception.

Case and point: this fucking thing flew.. in the sky.. like a bird

>>2181890
Injuns had an ancestral hunting tactic that was about luring / guiding herds to fall off cliffs.

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>>2181895
Forgettingwhere you are, friend?
>>>/tumblr/

>>2183592
Not that guy, but nothing is more cringeworthy than /pol/fags telling you to go to tumblr. This isn't your little secret circlejerk safehaven, faggot.

>>2183569
Is that a Quetzalcoatlus?

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>>2178774

Reminder that horseshoe crabs will be the last animals alive on earth, the Permian extinction did jack shit.

They're more closely related to fucking eurypterids than any extant order, that's how old they are.

>>2183754
>horseshoe crabs will be the last animals alive on earth
Those will be the tardigrades, though.

>>2168443
I'd like to put my penis in her vagina in the missionary position for the sole purpose of procreation, if you know what I mean. ;-)

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>>2183815
>"th-thank you anon, but fish don't have vaginas, we have cloacas instead..."

>>2183741
yessir

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>>2183074
>>2183991
>>2183569
This is another example.

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>>2184001
Cute little animal right? :^)

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>>2184004
>NOPE.png

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>>2184006

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>>2184008

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>>2184010
My gf sent me this. She found it on 9gag. I laughed. Fite me.

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>>2184010

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>>2184013

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>>2184015

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>>2184023

>>2184026
These birds look like they're laughing at something.

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>>2184033

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>>2184059

>>2184059
JUST

My great-grandmother is old enough to regret never seeing the last passenger pigeons. Her grandparents though? No fucks given.
>low buzzing in background
>ACH, HANS! ZE PIGEONEN KOMMEN
>everyone grabs their shotguns
>buzzing intensifies
>suddenly the sun blinks out of sight and night falls upon the land
>everyone fires into the sky as fast as possible
>dead pigeons and their shit start flying everywhere, smashing windows, scaring horses
>after 30 minutes they use up their ammo
>an hour after that the flock sees something shiny or whatever the fuck they like and goes off
>sun emerges
>FRAU MARIA
>JA
>WHY DO WE RETIRE TO THIS JOKE NATION
>VAS YOUR IDEA DARLING
My point is that if history teaches us anything, it's that we drove that shit extinct for a reason. Probably a bad reason. But still a reason.

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>>2184205
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ancient-dna-could-return-passenger-pigeons-to-the-sky/

>>2184012
Holy shit, kill it with fire!

>>2184328
City ordinances gonna freak!

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>>2184470
Deinotherium Giganteum?

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>>2184061
This is the source of that

>>2169126
Man, it would have been crazy to still have these around. Just imagine riding one and using it as an organic shovel or backhoe.

>>2182600
ANTS

>>2184990
It's a good thing they aren't. They were on the path to sentience: big brain plus upright motion plus hands. Horse-goblin wars are something we can do without.

>>2183352
not as good as you would think compared to other great whales. Blue whales very rarely beach themselves which would aid in fossilization and tend to stay in the open ocean rather then coastal waters, the open ocean is a very poor environment for any bones to survive long enough to become fossilized. There is a prehistoric whale Balaenoptera sibbaldii believed to be just as large as the blue whale but most believe its just a Blue whale that lived in the pliocene

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>>2183074
your probably just running into the same awesome-bro animals like Dunkleosteus, Spinosaurus and Therizinosaurus but for everyone of those there dozens of (less interesting) relitives behind them like Heterosteus, Sigilmassasaurus Tylocephalonyx

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>>2183026
The Chalicotheres (Gorilla horses) where members of Perissodactyla (odd toed ungulates) along with horses, tapirs and rhinos but in there own family outside of Equine family

>>2184852
This from Watchtower?

>>2184414
Peregine falcons gonna cheer.

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Your great-great-[a few more greats]-great-grandfather.

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>>2185403
>leptictidium
>not purgatorius

>>2185406
You're right, i was wrong. Purgatorius as the first primate already existed before Leptictidium.

>>2176286
Large birds got to north america though until humans arrived.

>>2184377
They already tried that

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>>2185441

>>2184981
that looks uncomfortable

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>>2184981
Ah yes, the majestic stork-lizard.

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>>2182600

All the cool animals are dead :(

>>2185163
Yeah, probably. Obviously it's impossible to know every single known animal that has ever lived. But I'm running out of cool ones.

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toxie

>>2185992
>humans
>orcas
>platypus
>ant colonies (or any colony for that matter, but I just really fucking love ants)
>tardigrade
>hippo
>blue whale
>bonobo
>porcupine
The list is neverending my fellow /an/onymous friend :)

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>>2186026
>cool animals
>doesn't include tunicates

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>>2186047
>cool
Fuck tunicates, they scare me shitless

>>2186026
For me
>Humans
>Orcas
>Ferrets
>Rhinos
>Bonobo
>Prehensile tailed porcupine
>Tardigrade
>Horse shoe crab
>Axolotl
>Dragonfly
>Tegu
>Platypus
>Opossum
>Jerboa
Plenty of cool animals

>>2186061
BENIS :DDD

>>2183604
Not any of those guys but
>cringewothy
>>>/reddit
>>>/tumblr/

>>2173674
A reminder that australia used to be covered in forests and woodlands and animals like this. A reminder aboriginals fucked everything up with early stone age tech cause they were too stupid and lazy to hunt normally.

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>>2179059
It would be like this

>>2169126
man i love these

>>2180407
fucking scary

>>2184008
what is this?

>>2186022
man, imagine seeing one of these irl

>>2186410
read the filename.

>>2186441
that doesn't fucking help me at all

>>2186441
Well according to google it's a Macrauchenia patachonica, but the nose seems off.

>>2186441
It's a land whale?

>>2186672
Tumblrina sp., the only known extant genus of terrestrial whale.

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Where's my platybelodon bros at?

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>>2184026
I fucking love what happens when birds get isolated on islands. See also the goddamn giant swans of Malta.

>>2186367
>>>/pol/

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>>2186687
I see your giant swan and raise you a giant Marabou stork (and hobbitses).

>>2183604
Take your own advice

>>2186890
Is he wrong?

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>>2186891
Giant, extinct versions of already creepy animals terrify me, and I love them. I remember reading about Megaladapis as a kid and seeing a drawing of a man-sized lemur standing upright, with those completely open, horrible lemur eyes, and it really scared the crap out of me. And then, twenty years later, I see modern reconstructions where it has a fucking trunk or prehensile upper lips, and I'm even more thankful it's dead.

>>2186891
Are those Abos?

>>2187023
Wrong continent and species.

>>2182600

Nargacuga's

>>2176506
IIRC Dire wolves were more specialized for hunting the ice age megafauna. When those started to die out, the dire wolf followed suit, being out-competed by the gray wolf, which was more generalist and could subsist on smaller prey.

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>>2186388
no, it would be like this

>>2188013
Some vore artist probably drew that while jerking off.

>>2169126
Oh, I remember reading about those when I was a kid. Funnily enough, I didn't consider them as weird as I do now.

>>2175865
Points for really obscure shit

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>>2185406

>>2186912
Pretty much yes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_megafauna
But it has been decided that non european natives all used to live in harmony with nature and have amazing culture so it's not encouraged to pursue unbiased research.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZbmywzGAVs

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Check out this badass

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>>2183754
You are like little baby
Watch this

>>2186367
In fairness, if I was stuck in prehistoric Australia I would set fire to everything too.

How do you learn more about prehistoric mammals? I used to learn about animals from documentaries but they never care about prehistoric mammals in documentaries, and when they do it's always something like Sabertooths.

I'm in the mood to learn more about horse ancestors right now.

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>>2189559
I think this may help. It's a bit old, but seems pretty accurate.
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/horses/horse_evol.html
Also, here's a Messel Horse for ya.

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>>2188550
tasty baby

>>2179383
Yeah, too bad nobody knows what they looked like below the neck.

>>2184026
Wait, what? Fuck is this?

>>2169420

This isn't even a thing anymore, just a misinterpretation.

>>2174961

Trey already admitted this is inaccurate now.

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>>2189897
Jamaican Ibis

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>>2189943
Also, here's some Japanese art of them.

>>2189943
>>2189950
...huh...
I have my doubts about the horny sheath on the manus, but the fact that a club-winged ibis once existed is pretty sick

>>2184059
Just extinct my shit up

>>2175838
Those things were in Dino Crisis 2, weren't they?

>>2190319
I think in DC2 the ones were called 'Inostransevia' or something.

>>2181892
>>2181890
>>2181793
>forgetting Europe used to have cool animals too before Homo sapiens killed them all

Snowniggers go home, this is Neanderthal territory.

>>2169126

It's a nuggalope!

>>2175865

Fucking beautiful

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>>2182600

>>2175859
imagine that shit taking a bite of your leg

>>2184328
They'll probably get their shit kicked in by modern corvids, pidgeons and gulls.

Sort of related question
would you fugg a prehistoric hominid qt?

>>2191430
Hell yeah, senpai.

>>2174961
>Trey

>>2191442
He's mostly decent. He's probably one of the few dinosaur related YouTubers who uploads consistently.

>>2184006
You know, I'm all for giving prehistoric life lips (T. Rex, Smilodon, etc), but this is just a step too far.

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>>2182600
They're staple removers.

>>2183815

This is a blue board, you freak

>>2175886
They had big fat lips.

>>2173596
What about dinorinis?

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>>2176462

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Let's not forget the dragons from straya

>>2184013
Fear my jowels

>>2184026
C-c-c-COMBO BREAKER

>>2184981
From spy kids right?

>>2185168
Why is the guy armour clad?

>>2186022
>hippobear.killmachine

>>2183784
i hope they manage to find a way off dying earth and seed the cosmos

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>>2186022
the color scheme reminds me of drowzee

>>2168369
>>2175636
>>2168384
What is the theorized function of this type of jaw structure? What advantages would it give over a normal jaw?

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>>2168404
>>2175843
>>2175859
>>2191046
I took this picture at the Smithsonian. The display stand stated that they could reach about 10m. Incredible seeing that shit in person. The head alone is the size of a fucking smartcar.

>>2173592
>>2173596
so basically a raptor with a beak, horrifying

>>2178774
>>2183754
Love these fuckers. Every summer I go down to Cape Cod MA and in late May you can see thousands of empty carapaces and post-spawning corpses washed up on the beaches. Some of them are enormous, reaching 2 feet in diameter.

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>>2184981

>>2185445
down syndrome bear?

>>2193704
>Bitch I will eat you with my bones

>>2193727
I mean, it's a sloth, but sure

>>2185445
>>2193750
Why the hell would a close relative of the sloth be a huge carnivorous predator? That's so weird.

>>2194097
South America was isolated for a long time.
I guess maybe it fit the "bear" ecological niche.
Except elephant sized.

It even survived the great american interchange, but later on died to climate/humans.

>>2194163
Thanks man.

>>2194097
Partly what >>2194163 said.
What we can tell about their dentition and shit suggests they were browsers, using their claws to pull branches down so they could eat leaves and shit, but like all "herbivorous" mammals it probably supplemented its diet with meat.

>>2173105
Reported roaming Siberia about a hundred years ago. Trappers who never read a book about mammoths described them to outsiders.

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>>2168282

So now you are telling me there were animals that weren't dinosaurs during the age of dinosaurs.

First they tell me dinosaurs existed before people. Then they tell me that mammoths and saber tooth tigers were nowhere near dinosaurs. Then people tell me that dinosaurs were actually birds.

All this goddam history about shit I've never seen.

Screw this shit. I am going back to Creationism. At least those teachers gave me good grades.

>>2172566
Could you imagine living in the same era as that thing?

>>2194640
The most charming post I've read all day from this site.

>>2194640
don't worry buddy, it's all a simulation anyways

>>2175886
Dunkel means dark in german it's a pretty badass name.

>>2195096
>dunkelosteus
>dark bone
>it's a fish named nigger dick
Not really making a strong case there, senpai.

>>2169417
>I'm the king of the world!

>>2195295
>Everything is penis related
Not really making a strong case for your heterosexuality.

>>2193717
Well frankly there's no fucking way that's accurate.

>>2168914
>>2168978
Good taste.

I don't understand peoples obsession with dinosaurs. There's almost nothing on or featuring other prehistoric animals.

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>>2168443

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>>2178774
Welcome to the club!

>>2169183
>prehistoric

>>2184013
>A prehistoric basset hound

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>still alive today

Are there any American channels that still give dinosaur and prehistoric animal documentaries? I get all my news online now because I can't find any. The Science Channel used to years ago but now they don't give stuff on animals anymore.

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>>2191866
Underrated post

>>2196003
>2016
>TV

Just look for Docs online,
BBC nature has a lot of god-tier ones.

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>>2174961
>drops dinosaur bones
Thats a dinosaur though

>>2195438
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_horseshoe_crab

24 inches nigga

>>2196001
>ehehehehehehheee

>>2194640
>during the age of dinosaurs
no

Are human ancestors considered animals? Would they go on /sci/ (/his/?) or /an/? Ones like Lucy and other older ancestors.

Anyway, it's so hard to find documentaries or even YouTuber stuff about prehistoric mammals. It's such a bummer. I find prehistoric mammals more interesting than dinosaurs but people only like their reptiles and dinosaurs. When it comes to mammals people only seem to care about large ones ones like mammoths, giant sloths, or saber tooth cats.

>>2198075
>Are human ancestors considered animals?
All humans are considered animals.

>>2193700
believe the thought is that it could/would be used to open up hard shells.

>>2194640
Hopefully joke post, but it's not really that hard to understand.

>>2198082

Yes, but you can't make human threads on /an/ and human stuff isn't zoology related.

Why does no one talk about these guys?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ediacaran_biota

>>2198511
because no one is secure if that guys were animals or not, by example most of them didn't had a bilateral symmetry

>>2191874
not him but
>not breaking any rules by expressing opinion
>board where naked animals are posted
>not using tomorrow

>>2198748
But that's what makes them cool.

>>2198748
But there are plenty of animals that don't have bilateral symmetry.

>>2198748
>most of them didn't had a bilateral symmetry
you do know that Bilateria is only one part of the animal kingdom, right?

>>2193528
underrated

>Tfw will not even ride a horse to battle

>>2198506
I think hominids is more /sci/ territory than /his/ or /an/. /his/ don't like to talk about prehistory and /an/ don't like to talk about human physiology.
The problem is that /sci/ are awful at discussing natural sciences, and they only want to talk about physics and maths.

>>2168404
Wasn't it confirmed that they had lips?

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can we have a fail thread for majestic animals?

>>2173216
For you

>>2169126

What's it called?

>>2199848
Wrong thread?

>>2185992
nah we still have mosquitos

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>>2199848
DIE

>>2175838
Why would it have exposed teeth like that?

What the fuck kind of animal doesn't keep its teeth moist?

>>2193530

Because it's fucking metal.

>>2201716
crocodile?

>>2193521
>Abbos used to live alongside this thing
Fuck that shit

>>2201494
Holy shit, it looks like it has googley eyes on after it got shot.