What is your favorite prehistory period or epoch, /his/? Cenozoic?

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I'm quite fascinated about the earliest period known to man on this planet of when organisms existed.

When G-d created the Garden of Eden, which was around 6000 years ago if I am not wrong.

Never heard of the shit you are talking about, sounds made up.

>>1755117
Go away.

GOTY: Cenozoic, Neogene period, Pliocenic era.

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What's your favorite pre-Triassic animal, /his/?

most of the holocene is prehistory

>>1755139
Pre-Triassic?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmqExrQU4Kg

>>1755554
the music is so inappropriate

makes it sound like a tribute video

>animals were bigger back in those days because there was more oxygen!
>but what about the fish?
>uhhhh.....

>>1755578
water has oxygen in it

>>1755585
and there is less oxygen in the water now?

>>1755588
yes

>>1755588
because the fish are smaller

really makes you think

>>1755588
course, aquatic animals don't utilize the oxygen atoms in the H2O molecule, they utilize the O2 that's diffused within the water which is directly tied to atmospheric oxygen concentrations in the upper layers

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>>1755102
Those are eras not periods or epochs OP. Mine would either be the Neogene or Quaternary (Pleistocene epoch), mostly because of the strange fauna/ flora of the period. Australian megafauna in the pic btw.

>>1755588
>diffused oxygen is the same as the dihydrogenmonoxides.

>>1755139
Ammonites desu.
My dad had a few echinoderm fosills as well.

>>1755554
>>1755569
Kekked hard at the music
It makes this superdimensional clawed sea roach seem like a true romantic miracle of nature.

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He's king for a reason

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>>1755102
Can we turn this into a paleoart thread?

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>>1755838
There's an old (19th century) drawing of a cave-family. It had something to do with Boston. Does anyone have it?

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>>1755845
I don't know how to find what you're asking for, but what the hell did you just post? Why is a deinonychus and ceratosaurus eating leaves and fruit with modern humans?

How does seeing the draconic theropods of your childhood now covered in primitive feathers?

>>1755824
>you will never a tropical European lagoon
Baryonyx till I die.

>>1755888
If you were actually into Dinosaurs outside of Jurassic Park, you'd know that nearly every serious paleontologist have believed that the most developed theropods had protofeathers at the very least for a long time.

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>those dreamy eyes

>>1755918
It still surprises the majority of people seeing them with protofeathers. And growing up, they did not for me, at least in the books I consumed as a kid, which, admittedly were already a decade or more old at the time.

I was just commenting on the change in our perception of dinosaurs over the decades. Or in >>1755838 case, a century and a half.

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>>1755888
I grew up with a lot of outdated dinosaur books, show the outdated designs are burned into my mind

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>>1755934
>>I grew up with a lot of outdated dinosaur books, show the outdated designs are burned into my mind

Same man, I had scores of second-hand books from the 50s and 60s on dinosaurs and the upright stance is pretty iconic for me, and the whole "sauropods have to stand in lakes to support their weight" thing.

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>>1755933
>>1755934
Fair enough. This is one of the illustrations from one of my fav. dino books growing up. Honestly the active, feathered look is a lot scarier and more attractive than the giant lizards they made dinosaurs out to be beforehand. Even though they didn't go along with feathers on the whole, I think that Walking With Dinosaurs really captured their energy well.

>>1755939
>snorkels on top of their heads lmao

Delete this.

>>1755940
>Walking With Dinosaurs really captured their energy well.

That series blew me away as a kid, especially the episode on prehistoric Antarctica/Australia/New Zealand

I live in New Zealand near where some of it was filmed and I'd love imagining actual dinosaurs living in the forest.

>>1755954
Do you think that dino was bullied by others in his clutch?

>>1755939
For some weird reason I always associate the T-Rex with 50's Americana

>>1755950
Ausfag here, the thought that dinosaurs could be living near me blew my mind too. Then I found out that the people who found those dinosaurs were using mining equipment to chip away at the walls of a cave that floods every afternoon. Not my cup of tea.
That giant newt though.

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>>1755139
Fossil from my trip to Duluth.

>>1755124
Stop giving the trip attention you retard

>>1755958
I think it bullied then ate the others and that is how it survived its hazardous infancy.

>>1755960
>For some weird reason I always associate the T-Rex with 50's Americana

Not even an American but I've felt similar, if not 50s specifically, because all the T-rex skeletons seemed to come out of the US to my knowledge. Then there's the Flintstones and the Cabazon dinosaur statues.

>>1755960
Because back then there were only four dinosaurs, T-Rex, Brontosaurus, Pteranodon and Triceratops.

>>1755984
I like to think that Tarbosaurus is just another variety of T-Rex.

>>1755962
Yeah, for the longest time I just assumed we missed out on dinosaurs but that made me realise otherwise. At least we still have from that time giant wetas and tuataras. I'd rather not have to deal with giant fishfrog monsters in my swimming hole.

>>1755992
Isn't Tarbosaurus a Tyrannosaurid?

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>>1756013
whoops, forgot image

>>1756013
>Isn't Tarbosaurus a Tyrannosaurid?
Ye. But considering the only basis for the fact they're considered different species is that Tarbosaurus is slightly smaller and found in Mongolia, it's not unreasonable to think they're the same species.

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I'm really fascinated by the ediacaran period, before the variance explosion, when the first multicellular life emerged. It's so cool seeing all these really simple lifeforms and trying to figure out what they were related to
It's so mysterious. An interesting theory about this era is that there may have been no predators, since the only multicellular life was so primitive (though I'm skeptical); this led to it being called "the garden of edicara"

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>>1755102

Trilobites. This is all.

>>1755866

Christians believe that in the Garden of Eden, no animals were carnivorous. All animals were strictly herbivorous.


I'm not even making this up... God, I wish I were trolling.

carbonifernous... just kind of freaky thinking of the world as a giant swamp/rainforest with ferns as tall as 100 ft trees and gigantic insects

>>1755569
>>1755732
What? Don't you feel forlorn when you think about their extinction? You cold-hearted monsters.
Also, welcome to the genre of "prehistoric animal tribute". Unfitting music is a requirement.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slRa5ZYyLmE

>>1756315
This video should have been titled "Shipping into Tyrannosaurus"

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Helenic Greeze... 8/

>>1755964
Lol DEEZ NUTZ

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>>1755102
>Pre-Hominid
So much weird animals. Life was basically experimenting and all of it was was.

>Hominid
Neolithic, its cool to think about humans exploring the globe and coming into contact with other hominids. Basically almost a preview of the Age of Exploration. And tons of strange megafauna

>>1756315
I shouldn't bee too harsh.

I made my fair share of shitty WMM videos when I was a kid

It's funny how much our knowledge about dinosaurs has changed over time and still does today. We grew up with some misconceptions about them but it's even worse for our parents.

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>>1755102
I really like the Cambrian period, the very start of life is very bizarre, where even the very air is foreign. Trilobites are disturbing, and so was everything else. Hard to imagine its the same planet.

Spongebob "Before Comedy" took the aesthetic very well.

>1756339
Wrong image sorry, i guess that it's from some relativily advanced pre-renaissance civilzation of S.América.

>>1756209
>Protestants believe absolute nonsense
ftfy

This thread made actually got me thinking, would we find modern day animals more fascinating if they had been extinct thousands or millions of years ago, while prehistoric animals would be alive now?

What are some of the strangest/most alien animals we have now?

>>1756437
A lot of animals are still extremely fascinanting, it's just so happens that most mamals and birds are bland as shit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExV4b77qfww

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KVFDfv6R2M

>>1755102
Are those whales shitting in that shark's mouth?

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>>1756437
A lot of the shit we find cool are:
>Big
There aren't that many big land animals out there

>Strange/unique
Its logical that if most animals were dinosaurs we'd find mammals interesting.
Although there's examples of prehistoric animals that were unique and one of a kind. Which probably meant they weren't the best at what they were trying to do. And when we find unique animals alive today we still like them.

>What are some of the strangest/most alien animals we have now?
Water Bear
Fairy Armadillo
Manned Wolf
Musk Deer
Babirusa
Platypus
Giraffe
Spider Crab
Emu/Ostrich

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>>1756437
Deep sea creatures have hardly evolved since the prehistoric era.

>>1756399
The Cambrian is the most alien looking time in earth history there as so many strange invertebrates existing at that time that dont exist in our time today. Also during the Cambrian there were giant purple forest of fungus on the land a truely alien world.

>>1755809
TRIGGERED

>>1755809
yeah

kill that upitty nigger

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>>1755812
>posting the featherless biped version

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>>1756596
disgusting

>>1756596
BEHEAD THOSE WHO CLAIM T-REX HAD FEATHERS

>>1756418
Hey bro. Please, can you tell of what period is it? It´s for a good cause.

>>1756596
Even if he did have feathers (as I recall, the T-Rex is actually one o the therapods where they haven't found evidence of feathers) they wouldn't have been like that.

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Remember, dinosaurs still walk among us.

>>1757207
Hey,me again. If you can't answer, not matter; Probably you were ocupped. I can wait until the 4:45 aprox. . Hidi hou :)

>>1757225

You don't get sarcasm,, do you?

>>1755554
Feels like a video someone made for a classmate who died in high-school

RIP giant sea scorpion never forget

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>>1757207>>1757225
Here again(Only writing this while waite your answer). Sorry me if i make a mistake, i'am some anssious (?) ... ja jaj a..

>>1756977
Maybe could be :/

>>1756352
That thing never existed, right? Right?

>>1757207
>>1757381
It's from the jurassic period. That's when Stegosaurus existed

>>1755714
I'm hopefully assisting with a megafauna dig in Nov

>>1757732
What kinda shovel you plan on using?

>>1756437
The deep sea is full of those come from sci-fi fiction

>>1757284
Well, more like the same family of cool 2 footed predators(raptors, rexes) include birds. All other dinosaur species have no heirs.
P.s.: they are trying to modify dormant genes in chickens to make a small pseudo-dinosaurs.
>>1757676
the cambrian was a strange time...

>>1758084
>the cambrian was a strange time...
What is that thing then?

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>>1756470
>There aren't that many big land animals out there
Cause humans drove them to extinction.

>strange
>giraffes
>spider crabs
>flightless birds
Not at all. Big flightless birds were everywhere before they were hunted to extinction.
Alien life is mostly deep-sea. So many glowy-glowy invertebrates and extremophiles. As for land animals I'd go for everything on Madagascar, Straya, and New Zealand.

>>1758097
looks like an Opabinia

>>1757732
Where at?

>>1755939
This pic is so comfy for some reason

>>1758509
Lancefield, Vic
In a swamp, so naturally it's been a wet year

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>>1758517
Nostalgia for your childhood maybe? I know I really loved pictures of dinosaurs in prehistoric swamps as a kid.

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>>1755838
Vintage paleoart?

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>>1756399
>>1756563
It's really weird to think of the landscape of earth being mostly barren before terrestrial life. The first colonizing plants of the Silurian always looked cool to me

Reminder that most fauna and animals back then millions of millions of years ago was because the oxygen levels of the atmosphere were much heavily pure with less nitrogen. Also if we were to go back in time we'd die trying to breathe it.

>>1758794
Not if you hold your breath.

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>>1758804

>>1758816
Om'gawsh, I've never had a fedora tipped my way...eeeee

>>1758826
cool

>>1756511
Why are you linking to /x/ of all places?

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>>1758826
>>1758804

DINOSARZ!!!!!!

>>1756127
Why does the ocean have to produce such weird looking organisms? I'm freaking out a bit imagining that thing crawling towards me

>>1758870
Prehistery don't exist

>>1759134
I don't follow. Do you mean the time of dinosaurs or just time before man started writing down history/building civilizations?

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>>1759166

>>1758924
Because all something has to do to live in the water is be capable of moving in water currents, things like skeletons or structured limbs are unnecessary underwater thats why there is so much tentacle shit in the water.

So yes anon literally anything is possible in the seas. There are lifeforms that look like sheets of algae in the ocean.

>>1759235
AND SHARKS!

>>1756511
>>1759134
Prehistorical archaeology is still a /his/torical science you dweeb.

>>1755102
Tertiary, especially following the evolution of hominids and whales.

>>1759632
history started 6000 years ago
it's right there in the bible
>>1759653
blasphemy

>>1759632
Ok, so >>>/sci/

>>1759676
So all of /his/ goes to >>>/sci/ then.

>>1759632
>/his/torical science

>science

>humanities

>>1759688
Nope.

>>1759693
Yep.
>>1759691
Where do archaeology and anthropology go then? Same academic family, you troglodyte.

>>1759696
>>>/sci/
>>>/pol/

>>1759696
>academic
>family
Puke.gif

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>>1759701
>>1759705

>>1759711
Checked

Help me with something /his/. There's this set of fossils they found I remember reading about as a kid, it's where an oviraptor and some other dinosaur got buried by a sand dune or something while they were fighting over a nest of eggs. Anyone know what I'm talking about?

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ayyy

>>1759696
Probably sci, but I don't really see the problem with posting about it on /his/, besides the fact that it obviously triggers autists.

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>>1759767
Do you remember another any detail about the oviraptor? :)

>>1758129
Humans have only driven a couple ungulates to extinction, the majority of megafauna died out because of lost of their food supply.

Moas were already screwed being in New Zealand which barely has any native ungulate life on it.

>>1756498
Its because the deep sea never changes so they stay the same. As they found a invertebrate that was supposed to have ceased to be after the Cambrian period in the deep ocean.

>>1760055
So all /his/ goes to /sc/i then.

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>7 feet millipedes
>2 feet dragonflies
>massive fucking trees that are still giving us energy today in the form of coal
Gotta be carboniferous.

>>1760912
What's /sc/?

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Continental drift and climate changes always had me.

>Permian–Triassic extinction event
It would be amazing to see what species went extinct which we never even found any evidence of. We don't even know what caused it exactly.

>>1759696
>Where do archaeology and anthropology go then?
Not him, but paleontology looks at lifeforms, or traces of them, in deep time. Most often at time scales where mineral replacement of many fossil elements has taken place and the surrounding sediment has been well consolidated and lithified. There is the tiniest sliver of crossover between prehistoric archaeology paleoarchaology and the very most recent paleontology but for the most part, other than superficial similarities, the academic foundations, techniques and conclusions are very different.

>>1761036
My dick was prophesied. That's what happened.

>>1761038
I'm on that superficial ish.

>>1759696
Chocolatedyke

>>1755102
Early plant life fascinates me
This is called Cooksonia, one of the first vascular plants in existence. Cropped up in the Silurian

>>1761297
Aka imagination

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>>1761297
>>1761301
whoops

>>1761302
See? This it's a drawing of what a "plant" may have looked like in PREhistory... >>>/ic/

>>1755845
I actually owned the book that had that image in it. My YEC grandma gave me it.

>>1755578
when you think your headcannon trumps reality.

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I always thought utahraptor's where some of the most badass creatures

>>1755102
Was the Meg the largest and greatest apex predator of all time?

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>>1762022

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Relevant to this thread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UK-3rlwyKxI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsAgrflbY90

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oCqSqY7FiI

>>1756033
Or in the same genus, ala Homo neanderthalenis and Homo sapiens

>>1760966
Posibly;...Thanks for the info.

Rodinia best supercontinent

Suck my dick Pannotiafags

>>1755102

Technically speaking that's not the Prehistory, as that period begins with the appearance of the Homo Sapiens.

>>1763163
Shouldn't it begin with Homo erectus, as they were the first to create art?

>>1763163
Prehistory is anything before the written word.

(And should probably be on >>>/sci/ - but meh, no specific rule about it.)

>>1759767
There's one with a velociraptor and protoceratops who were killed by a sand dune as they fought, and one of a mother oviraptor guarding her nest. You might be getting the two confused, as they're both from mongolia.

>>1761036
Even worse:

We will never find out what species lived in Antarctica because of the ice sheets.

>>1762092
Really cool bud. Good to see a pop science where the host really knows what they're talking about.

>>1756146
I was fascinated by those as a child.

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>>1756460

>>1764729

Me too, it blew my tiny infant mind that these creatures had been phenomenally successful for such an incredibly long time, and yet had been extinct for literally millions of years.

>>1760966
>7 feet millipedes
Honestly, milli/centi-pedes are nightmare fuel and very alien looking

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I remember when I watched Walking with Monsters when I was a kid. Gorgonopsid always stood out as the coolest creature. Basically a reptile version of a Lion or Sabre Tooth Tiger

>>1764881
>reptile

You know, it's very likely they had fur. I actually wish they were still around.

>>1759670
No it isn't lol. It's an interpretation based on adding up average generation times (so and so begat somebody who begat...)

>>1755102
11.000 bc - 4000 bc

>>1766982
>>1761323
>>1761270
>>1761052
>>1761044
Is this what it looks like when a schizophrenic (or some other severe mental illness) tries to shitpost?

>>1766990
How did you get that? Bottom 3 are all me btw

>>1766982
shit like this should be bannable

>>1766990
To clarify, by "bottom", I ( >>1767007 ) meant 70, 52, and 44.

>>1755102
Cretaceous period has the best dinos

>>1767007
Pure unbridled retardation with a dash of thought disorder thrown in.
kys

>>1767203
But I'm high functioning and i wasn't even

>>1755714
Roo in the background made me kek for some reason

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>>1757426
>RIP giant sea scorpion never forget

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The Pleistocene.

You have all these different branches of hominins at this time, and it's bizarre to think just how many of them lived at the same time, and just how close we are (geologically speaking) to a time when we would have much closer relatives than chimps.

We had:
Australopithecus sediba
Paranthropus robustus
Paranthropus boisei
Homo antecessor
Homo erectus
Homo ergaster
Homo gautengensis
Homo habilis
Homo naledi
Homo rudolfensis

all at the same time!

Ummm Earth is only 6000 years old! Where are you guys getting this information from???

>>1770491
Ironic shitposting is still shitposting.

>>1758924
>I'm freaking out a bit imagining that thing crawling towards me
The largest of those things were just around the size of a Frisbee.

>>1770462
Don't forget photosynthesis. Ish was crazy back then.

>>1756437
I think if we were like velociraptor descendents looking back on modern animals, we'd find brightly colored birds such as peacocks and canaries cool. Mammals with fur would be otherworldly, as well as evidence for warm-bloodedness. Elephants, hippos, giraffes, and rhinos would be cool. Lions would be out there. Many fish such as clownfish and anglerfish would look alien.

>>1756984
Giant Hippety-Hop Murder-Sparrows are far more spectacular to imagine than an edgy lizard who looks like a shaved ballsack.

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>ctrl+f ordovician
>ctrl+f devonian
>ctrl+f Hadean

shit taste

>>1772144
Oh wow, bivalves, fish, and volcanoes. So interesting.

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This is an in-depth account of the development of earth science from 1817 to the early 1840s. More focused on geology than palaeontology but it does discuss some of the most important fossil discoveries.

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HADEAN
A
D
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>>1755139
And still kicking