Best megafauna

>>2435517
Also: if you could bring any of the species back (so it would be like they never disappeared again), would you? which ones?

Forgot the name but I've become really fond of those knuckle walking ungulates with long necks.

Probably because we don't have anything like that today besides apes and anteaters. They were very bizarre.

And giant sloths. I know there was smaller ones but megatherium was fucking huge.

>>2435517
>we
Give me definitive proof that humans caused the last great extinction.

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>people think we drove these fuckers to extinction with spears
How actually guillable

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>>2435530
>>2435532
>Lying on the internet

>>2435550
Daily reminder that abos killed off the best megafauna.

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>>2435517
Columbian Mammoth. Always Columbian Mammoth.

>>2435551
>>2435519
Wrong. Best Megafauna was in North America and that was Indians and Caucasians.

>>2435554
>wrong, anon, no one likes diprotodons
Y'all niggas fake

>>2435689
I'm not saying marsupial versions of everything isn't neat. By the way you're also forgetting giant birds. But North America had the best Pleistocene megafauna OF ALL TIME.

>>2435517
>blaming cave men for climate shift driven mass extinctions
Why does this sound familiar.

>>2435888
>Blaming climate change for killing off literally every large animal on the planet that had already survived multiple warming and cooling events without incident and died at different times on different continents that exactly matches the times when humans entered those continents
Getting real tired of humans lying to cover up their blunders.

>>2435893
Not all Neanderthals

Woolly mammoths were frozen over in Russia if a climate shift can freeze mammoths it can freeze anything.

>>2435522
Knuckle walking ungulates?

Chalicotherium?

>>2435906
The fucking weather didn't kill off every living thing on every continent at different times in history that just happen to coincide with the times humans entered that continent. This is the specialest form of special pleading.

And by special I mean retarded.

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>>2435522
>>2435925
Yeah that's almost certainly what he's talking about, but that's not Pleistocene. I mean, if we're including all the Cenozoic, then fucking Brontotheres, Uintatheres and Intricotherium a best.

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>>2435925
Yeah, that.
>>2435965
Missed the pleistocene part. Mastodons lived until the end of that, right?
They a cute and it's nuts how distantly related they are from elephants and mammoths.

>"Jurassic Park" movie with megafauna
>final boss is a vicious ground sloth called the mapinguari

>>2436046
>>2435965
Ancylotherium was in the same family as the chalicotheres but did not knuckle walk. There is also the Nestoritherium which did knuckle walk. Both of these genera made it into at least the early Pleistocene and could have been killed off by humans.

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>>2436128
Could they have walked on the sides of their hands like ground sloths are sometimes depicted as or is knuckle walking more convenient? I'm having trouble finding some good skeleton references. Shame there doesn't seem to be too much about them.

They look so top heavy and most reconstructions give them such scrawny arms. I would have thought them to have more robust skeletons as well.

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>>2436153
Posting more for the hell of it.

Hulitherium which may or may not be the marsupials equvilent of giant pandas.

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Marsupial lion. Marsupial predators churn out some interesting things, like how similar thylacines were to canines.

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Gigantopithecus, the real Kong.

>>2436173
I wonder how smart they were.

>>2437293
so smart, they didn't survive mass extinction

>>2435554
Aren't "Indians" Caucasian?

>>2435553
We actually have these in Africa. Why do retards choose shit we already have today like mammoths (elephants) and "Sabre tooths" (big cats). The best shit to bring back would be fantastic creatures whoa ilk don't exist in the world today like Megatherium. Same reason megalodon is an overrated pleb creature. We literally have megs swimming around our oceans today albeit they're only 50% as big.

>>2436066
This would be extremely lame and gay.

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>>2437340
You dumb nigger. North America had FOUR elephant species. FOUR. Africa at it's most diverse had like 3ish max if you include Deinotherium which went extinct like a million years ago.

>You can only have one elephant
YOU DISGUST ME.

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>>2435554
>he doesn't want terrestrial crocodiles

>>2437337
No, they're descendants of mongoloids that migrated from Asia.

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I love the straight-tusked elephants.

>>2435880
South America had marsupial versions of everything too.

>>2437451
If you were elected world prime minister of which animal we as a race choose to no-questions-asked bring back into existence, I'd assassinate you in a fucking heartbeat.

>>2435532
>guillable
how do you guill?
iow gtfo you illiterate.

>>2437331
They are on the Moon laughing at us.

>>2437331
white genocide is real and good but we're plenty smart

>>2437513
Holy shit that thing is about to crush Molyneux.

>>2437513
The world had so many Elephants and humans destroyed all but two.

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>>2435965
Indricotherium is a really good one. Largest land mammal.

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>>2437921
Not anymore.

>>2437966
Oh shit.

>>2437921
I want a giant rhino-horse.

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>>2437867
I really like the shovel tuskers myself. What's your favorite /an/?

>>2438113
>Zoobooks

>>2438113
Hard to say. I really like Columbian Mammoths. But Cuvieronius are neat, kinda weird though. Maybe Deinotherium.

>>2438307
Yeah, Zoobooks bitch. Got a fucking problem? I'll slap your shit so hard you'll die, faggot bitch.

>>2436153
holy shit could they use spears?

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>>2435517
Mega kangaroo, everytime.

Heres a smaller one from nowadays, to give you an idea

>>2438766
rad

>>2438764
i'd get fucked by kanga roo

>>2438113
me bottom right

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Every terro bird

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>>2439831
Such a shame that they are gone.

>>2439833
Even if they didn't die on their own they would have died when humans arrived. It had no chance to survive until modern time.

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Biggest flying birb and man-eating eagle.

>>2439888
I mean animals like wolves, bears, jaguars, mountain lions, alligators, etc survived just fine in the Americas.

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You are staring at a mummified megatherium skin, found in 1895 in a Patagonian cave.

>>2441053
eh, the picture says it's a mylodon, but that's close enough.

>>2441053
The fur looks soft. Is it undercoat? I imagined they would feel very coarse, almost plastic.