Thread 5062023

It sucks to know everything cool went extinct.

>>5062023 (OP)
>lives with the largest animal ever
>literally 10-15 other hyperintelligent mammals of various niches and adaptation besides its own species.
>is a member of a species that literally bread wild animals and plants into unrecognizable forms for fun and profit.
>complains because own myopic self inflicted ignorance prevents it from seeing the wonder in the world around it
God damn humans are so fucking stupid at times

>>5062036
>the world is full of wonder because...it just is ok???
hylic post

>>5062023 (OP)
The worst ones are the ones that went extinct recently and could have been saved. Like pic related. And don't say humans didn't care about conservation back then, because buddhist monks saved the ginkgo tree from extinction.

>>5062050
>Being incapable of appreciating the wonder around it in the now
>Lashes out in spite when called out
You're brain is busted Anon. I'd go see someone about that.

>>5062023 (OP)
What most people don't realize is that many creatures that "went extinct" didn't. They just evolved into their present forms. A very large number of "extinctions" were just progression from one species, genus, family, etc. to another.

>>5062087
>uddhist monks saved the ginkgo tree
Not saying that the giga-chink crocs being exterminated was justified or anything but I think there's a bit of a difference between a tree that's useful for the human populace and big fuck may-as-well-be dragons that may take a kid or two.

>>5062167
it was a fucking gharial, if you lose to a gharial you deserve it

>>5062036
>lives with the largest animal ever
yeah I don't get why ancient is always equated with larger and bigger when we literally live with the biggest swimming hunk of meat in existence. also elephants and giraffes are nothing to sneeze at when it comes to land dwelling creatures

>>5062186
yeah lmao wtf just snap it's flimsy ass mouth. what can a gharlia even do?

>>5062186
>>5062208
Today I learnt false gharials eat people

>>5062207
because reptiles are cool, mammals are not

>>5062023 (OP)
>he said when whales, elephants, giraffes and tigers exist

>>5062207
Because blue whales are honestly kind of lame. They're underwater so a lot of the sense of scale is lost that way. Dinosaurs and even huge mammals were cool as hell. Imagine something the size of a literal house that can actually move. Elephants and giraffes are cool and all but they're relatively small at the end of the day.

>>5062311
You'll never convince me something as lame as a giraffe is as cool as these.

>>5062207
That still doesn't negate the point that nearly all the cool big animals are dead, with many only dying within the last 12,000 years.
>Blue Whales
Nobody ever sees or interacts with those because they're underwater their whole lives. The most you'll see of one is seeing one surface when you're out on a boat.
>elephants
Two endangered relicts of a clade almost entirely killed off by humans. I guess you can actually see them in zoos and such which is more than can be said for Whales, but they're just two genera when the Earth supported countless more genera of similarly sized Megafauna at almost any given point in the past 200 million years.

>>5062207
>Blue is the largest animal ever

Doubtful. The average blue is 24-26 meters, 90-110 tons. We just happen to know that exceptional individuals push 30 meters and 150-200 tons.
Yet we got a 24 meter shark and we know that from just one lucky vertebral column and a single 23 cm wide vertebrae from another specimen.
We got a blue whale sized ichthyosaur and a jaw fragment that suggest a bigger than blue whale sized specimen.
We even got sauropods that, even conservatively would size bigger than an average blue whale.
Each and every one of these specimens, even when using conservative estimates rival the average blue. Logically an exceptionally large individual of these species would likely rival or exceed the largest blues.

>>5062725
>Yet we got a 24 meter shark and we know that from just one lucky vertebral column and a single 23 cm wide vertebrae from another specimen
Megalodon might’ve been 4 or 5 metres shorter than those estimates suggested
>We got a blue whale sized ichthyosaur and a jaw fragment that suggest a bigger than blue whale sized specimen
>We even got sauropods that, even conservatively would size bigger than an average blue whale
All of which have been extremely fragmentary with massive room for error. It’s entirely possible that blue whales aren’t the largest ever, but to this day nothing we have found has actually proven to be larger than an average blue whale. Every time we think something might be larger like Perucetus or Amphicoelias fragillimus it proves to be a massive over estimate because the remains are fragmentary

>>5062023 (OP)
And most animals we think of as iconic now are nearing extinction.

>>5062087
>The island formerly supported the last remnant population of the flightless great auks, after the birds moved there from Geirfuglasker following a volcanic eruption in 1830. When the colony was discovered in 1835, almost fifty birds were counted. Museums, desiring the skins of the auk for preservation and display, quickly began collecting birds from the colony. The last pair, found incubating an egg, were killed there in June 1844, when Icelandic sailors Jón Brandsson and Sigurður Ísleifsson strangled the adults and Ketill Ketilsson accidentally cracked the last egg of the species with his boot during the struggle.

>>5062831
Its almost like cool animals are retardedly fragile and overspecialized

>>5062865
Cockroach supremacy.

>>5062844
Shit like this makes me fucking suicidal.

>>5062844
actually pure evil.

>>5062087
The worst part about Hanyusuchus is how recently it managed to go extinct while still barely leaving any trace.

You're spoiled, you don't appreciate you've got until it's gone.

Angler fish are crazy

Tigers are crazy

Whales are crazy

Giraffes are crazy

Anacondas are CRAZY

>>5062751
To be fair on Amphicolias fragillimus its still among the largest sauropods it just turned out to be from a Clade with a weird build.

>>5062023 (OP)
>BIG = GOOD
The largest animal ever known, the blue whale, exists concurrently with you.
You don't even get to say that whales are boring because you're posting an oversized sea turtle.