Thread 5039540

>so many amazing animals throughout the history of the world
>we ended up living with the lamest versions of them

>comparing hundres of millions of years of animal designs to the last few centuries

You're setting yourself up for failure.

>>5039547
retarded zoomer

>>5039540 (OP)
I personally think that African Clawed Frogs are pretty cool.

>tfw you realize you could've lived in a world with 3'6'' people everywhere
Homo sapiens shouldn't have been the ones to conquer the planet.
:(

>>5039540 (OP)
99% of everything is dead so the chances of anything alive being the coolest of its group are pretty slim

>>5039540 (OP)
It's because we just got out of an ice age
Warmer temps = more productivity = more organisms = more competition = more unique species to specialize into every available niche

The ice age and interglacial periods fucked things up by making entire places be underwater or under a mile of ice which wiped the slate clean in lots of places. For example the East coast of the USA ecosystem is only 10,000 years old. Florida used to have its own tegu species and giant capybaras. You're only just now starting to see things migrate back like armadillos and iguanids (fence lizards) coming up north.

>>5039540 (OP)
Blue whale is the biggest animal to ever exist and cetaceans overall are some of the most fascinating animals ever (aside from humans themselves).

>>5039704
bigger animals wouldve existed and we will never know because all the remains wouldve been destroyed at the bottom of the ocean

>>5039704
Blue whale is the lamest version of anything that ever existed underwater

>>5039620
Whew, them thighs are thicc.

>>5039704
Blue whale isn't the biggest. Recent species of sauropods from China have been confirmed to grow up to 120 feet long.

hmm

BIG

>>5039547
No, OP is correct, the cenozoic was a huge mistake. The Cretaceous extinction was probably the worst thing that EVER happened to Earth. Even the Permian wasn't as bad because it mostly wiped out sin-ass-piss (too bad it didn't get them all) and lead directly to the Dinosaurs.

>>5039698
We're still IN an ice age. We're currently in an interglacial and about to come out of it. In fact, it appears to already be beginning.

>>5039734
>Boring lizard with flippers
lame

>>5039540 (OP)
Because we ended up killing and hunting most of the remaining mega fauna and other animals to extinction

>>5040124
Ichthyosaurs are definitely the coolest and least appreciated of marine reptiles. Their basal relatives likely started some time in the Permian as small semi-aquatic reptiles and still were at the beginning of the Triassic.
In just 4 million years, those early ichthyosaurs evolved into forms like Cymbospondylus youngorum, which would've been about the size of a male sperm whale.

>>5039736
Blue whale will always be the biggest for the simple fact they reach 180+ tons. Even for large titanosaurs only reached about 70 to maybe 90 tons. (Patagotitan, the biggest and easily most complete was probably 76 tons)

>>5040124
>the coolest thing ever
>l-lame
retard

I'm actually happy we don't live at the times of t-rex.

>>5040425
triceratops legs typed this

>>5039540 (OP)
>so many amazing things around him and takes them all for granted
If you lived back then you'd say the same about those things too.

>>5039673
>be the top 1% whose ancestors survived all the mass extinctions and other disasters over millennia
>not the coolest and best forms
If the other ones were better they wouldn't be extinct.

>>5039540 (OP)
Cause after the flesh is put on they look lamer, your imagination just projects something cooler than what probably was.
Look at hippo skulls, then look at live hippos.

>>5039736
>we found half leg bone that looks vaguely like a sauropod (could be a tree) so we totally know that it was 600 miles tall and could breathe fire and had skin made of gold
fake and gay

>>5039540 (OP)
how's elementary school going?

>>5039540 (OP)
You're living in the same time as 700 pound Iron-toothed venomous Lizards, Ancient blind Arctic Sharks that could have seen the Revolutionary War, and Gentle giant mammals with what are essentially arms growing out of their faces which are capable of learning alongside us, and you're worried about the ancient ass fish with *eye bones?*

>>5039736
Height ≠ Size

>>5040814
lame

>>5040814
How could they see the Revolutionary War if they were blind?

>>5039637
reminder that there was a time where 7-8 foot european giants rocking long blond hair could have sailed to the shores meeting tiny brown monkey men half their heights. That is almost still true now btw.

>>5040833
they weren't blind at the time

>>5039540 (OP)

I like elephants. I think they're pretty cool.

>some Jew “expert” finds a fraction of a bone and invents a totally real animal around it
>”Woah, why did all the cool stuff live millions of years ago?”

>>5039540 (OP)
Modern life can be just as kino as the past.
https://youtu.be/zOf-uqoqrL4?si=sxg-0vieTc_pPJIG

>>5040865
Even among elephants, the coolest ones are extinct.

>>5041165
Things like the dwarf greek elephants were apparently around at the same time as ancient egypt.
I've also heard some things about Palaeoloxodon being used as war elephants in Asia. There's some descriptions of elephants taller than the ones that are alive today.
China also had a gharial offshoot (Hanyusuchus) that grew 20 ft long and only went extinct 500 years ago because of people killing them.

Basically people are to blame for killing everything and they would have killed more if they could. Cavemen didn't know shit about conservation.

>>5041165
Only Mammoths
African Elephants mog everything else in that clade

>>5041165
stawp saiyan "coolest", friend
makes you sound like a teenager

>>5041291
lolno

>>5040576
You say this as if the current ones aren’t here for only a limited time

>>5040892
>White Christian men discover and study the extraordinary history of creation
>Retard on the internet doubts it and backs that up with a picture of anime slop

>>5039540 (OP)
stupid braindead manchild loser. Live beings ain't supposed to look "cool". They are/were what they are/were
stupid kid
also many many many kinds of current times animals do look "cool"

>>5041440
>Live beings ain't supposed to look "cool".
Yes they are.

>>5041440
saars...

>>5041511
retard
>>5041545
what?

>>5041582
poo in loo

>>5039540 (OP)
Dunkleosteus was my favourite as a kid

yeah

Reminder than most megafauna died out around the same time humans arrived in the local areas. The Americas had a giant armadillo-anklyosaur at one point.

>>5042272
stupid homos

It is so..