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Anonymous 6/29/2025, 5:48:15 AM No.5008871 [Report] >>5008907 >>5009797 >>5009815 >>5012443
paraceratherium herd.jpg md5: 5643dbba...
hello
I think this thing is cool
it's big
it's like an elephant horse
Anonymous 6/29/2025, 7:46:42 AM No.5008907 [Report]
>>5008871 (OP)
I want them back...
Anonymous 6/30/2025, 10:05:05 PM No.5009797 [Report] >>5012438
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>>5008871 (OP)
This is a dog horse
Anonymous 6/30/2025, 10:43:36 PM No.5009815 [Report] >>5009818 >>5009819 >>5009829 >>5009834 >>5011976
>>5008871 (OP)
They might've gotten as big as sauropods if they continued to evolve. What killed them off?
Anonymous 6/30/2025, 10:46:05 PM No.5009818 [Report]
>>5009815
Changing environment and climate
Anonymous 6/30/2025, 10:46:33 PM No.5009819 [Report]
>>5009815
Being too big
Anonymous 6/30/2025, 10:57:08 PM No.5009829 [Report]
>>5009815
elephants
Anonymous 6/30/2025, 11:11:26 PM No.5009834 [Report] >>5011958
>>5009815
Literally me
Anonymous 7/5/2025, 5:11:04 PM No.5011958 [Report]
>>5009834
Why did you kill them?
Anonymous 7/5/2025, 5:46:51 PM No.5011976 [Report] >>5012031 >>5012079
>>5009815
No they couldn't because they didn't have air sacs, light weight bones, and gestation also limits size.

I've heard they were at the theoretical limit of how big a mammal could get.
Anonymous 7/5/2025, 9:00:54 PM No.5012031 [Report] >>5012079
>>5011976
>I've heard they were at the theoretical limit of how big a mammal could get.
damn, I guess they lied to me about blue whales
Anonymous 7/5/2025, 9:06:49 PM No.5012035 [Report] >>5013004
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We lost so many weird mammals.
Anonymous 7/5/2025, 11:31:15 PM No.5012079 [Report]
>>5011976
Not just mammals, 15-20 tons is the size limit for non-sauropod hacked land animals. The largest paraceratheres, mammoths, and hadrosaurs all maxed out there. Theropods too if you believe certain Goliath scaling.
>>5012031
This nigga
Anonymous 7/6/2025, 8:31:24 PM No.5012379 [Report]
I'd love to carve some of their meat and cook it on a spit roast
Anonymous 7/6/2025, 11:06:00 PM No.5012438 [Report]
>>5009797
reading Aristotle today found this:
>The animal called "hyaena" is as large as a wolf with a mane like a horse[...] It will lie in wait for a man and chase him and will inveigle a dog within its reach by making a noise that resembles the retching noise of a man vomiting. It is exceedingly fond of putrefied flesh, and will burrow in a graveyard to gratify this propensity.
Anonymous 7/6/2025, 11:20:50 PM No.5012443 [Report] >>5012449 >>5014359
>>5008871 (OP)
Why don't fantasy settings use Paraceratherium or other Myocene animals? Imagine if in skyrim or lotr we got a horde of these bad boys going over the lplains, lifting up a dust cloud, carrying and army on their back.
Instead we get boring old pleistocene mammoths and dire wolves
Anonymous 7/6/2025, 11:38:05 PM No.5012449 [Report]
>>5012443
If I had money; I would pay a an artist nigga to render them for my Skyrim mod
But alas
Anonymous 7/8/2025, 12:37:35 AM No.5013004 [Report] >>5014363
>>5012035
What's weird about that? There's a bunch of stuff that looks close enough to that running around.
Anonymous 7/10/2025, 9:11:29 AM No.5014359 [Report]
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>>5012443
MTG had Indriks.
Anonymous 7/10/2025, 9:16:41 AM No.5014363 [Report] >>5014516
>>5013004
Because my pic related is an artiodactyl and ultimately what turned into cetaceans. I'd call that pretty weird.
Anonymous 7/10/2025, 6:01:22 PM No.5014516 [Report]
>>5014363
That is the opposite of losing a weird mammal, it's a normal mammal turning into a weird one.