Quetzalcoatlus is cool dino, wish it was used more in vidya

>>715279019 (OP)
have there even been any good dino games since dino crisis?

>>715279019 (OP)
>basedentist really expect anyone to believe something that big really fly around 100 million years ago

>"My ancestor :)"

Quetzalcoatlus isn't a dinosaur.

>>715279019 (OP)
why the long face?

>>715279327
Air was lighter back then!

>>715279019 (OP)
That thing would be so hilariously front heavy it would never be able to leave the ground. Why does it have wings if it only "evolved" to walk?

>>715279327
more believable and has more evidence than sky daddy.

>>715279019 (OP)
not a dino
>>715279427
not his ancestor
>>715279753
flightless birds with wings exist today, they lost the ability to fly, but still kept the wings, if you wait a couple more million years their wings might turn back into arms or something similar

>>715279019 (OP)
>giant deformed monkey with bat wings and cartoonishly oversized pelican head
LMAO get the fuck out of here with your italian brainrot animals

>>715280818
So what did it evolve from then? Which flightless birds today walk around on 4 limbs?
>if you wait a couple more million years
How would you be able to ascertain this if you didn't observe the last few million years?
All valid questions that I'm sure soience fags won't indulge me in.

Dinosaurs with feathers are and always will be FUCKING GAY and calling birds non avian dinosaurs is peak reddit

>>715281257
why would god make birds with wings that can't fly

>>715280341
>retarded soience enjoyer teen happily discredits all world religions while believing wholesale everything parroted to him by soience magazines

>>715281415
>why would god make birds with wings that can't fly
Just off the top of my head, penguins use their "wings" as flippers and ostriches use them for balance, just to name a few. Feel free to answer any of my questions though soience bro

looks way too heavy to fly

>>715281663
why would penguins have wings instead of fins like fish?

>>715279019 (OP)
she looks like she fucks human white men

>>715279019 (OP)
it's in fear&hunger as spooky burd

>>715281794
Have you never heard of flippers, retard bro?

>>715281257
>Which flightless birds today walk around on 4 limbs?
i'm giving you ONE pity (you) because i feel bad for you that you're like this, google bats and flying squirrels, don't reply because i'm closing this thread since you already ruined it

>>715282026
why would god make whales need to come up to get air every once in a while? other fish don't need to do this

>>715279427
Funny thing is that flying "dinosaurs" are actually not very closely related to birds. Not more than any other type of extinct reptile, to say the least. There are actually a lot of animals that look superficially similar but are arrived at that point by completely different means.

>>715282192
Why can't you answer any of my questions science bro? But you could've Jewgled that one in 5 seconds and realized that whales are NOT fish. Fucking retard.

>>715281257
All birds belong to a group of dinosaurs called theropods. The only dinosaurs that are extinct are those from other groups. Pterosaurs were not dinosaurs, but a distinct group of reptiles. Similarly, marine reptiles like ichthyosaurs were not dinosaurs.

>>715282185
>squirrels and bats are birds
These soience faggots are fucking retarded lol this one already peaced out after realizing how retarded he is

>>715282359
whales are fish

>>715282576
Whales are to fish as niggers are to humans.

>>715279019 (OP)
That is not a dino fucking retard

>>715279019 (OP)
I don't think it's possible for something like that to fly, aerodynamically speaking

>>715282978
it had jet engines

>>715282768
alright, I don't want to change your mind, I'm just curious, why do you think whales are not fish? What separates them from fish?

>pterosaurs are not dinos
>t-rex and hummingbirds are closely related
Modern science is so dumb

>>715283310
They have a penis

>>715283452
are post op trannies fish?

>>715283581
snippeti snabi :DDDDDDD

>>715283581
not enough feathers on those little things

>>715279480
The category of dinosaur is arbitrary bullshit. There's really no reason we haven't broadened the category to include all of avemetatarsalia

>>715283546
They will never be a fish.

>>715283752

>>715279019 (OP)
The mind-blowing fact is that it weighs around 250kg, less than the average American.

>>715283774
my friend tried arguing to me the other day when pandas go extinct theyll become dinosaurs, literally where tf did he get this idea

>>715279019 (OP)
>quetz
>dino

>>715279546
You see, you just outed yourself as a retard, even when being sarcastic. Lighter air would decrease the lift generated, making it even harder for big things to fly.

dinos arent real
nothing is real
god is not real
i am not real
i was born exactly at the time when video games appeared for no reason
i am the camera of this word with nerves and feelings
i am suffering but doing nothing will make me less suffer until time decides to make me suffer even more
if i die nothing or something will happen
i will feel all the 100 billion human pain in one single motion
i was punished because god is real not real

dinos arent real
nothing is real
god is not real
i am not real
i was born exactly at the time when video games appeared for no reason
i am the camera of this worLd with nerves and feelings
i am suffering but doing nothing will make me less suffer until time decides to make me suffer even more
if i die nothing or something will happen
i will feel all the 100 billion human pain in one single motion
i was punished because god is real not real

135429r1

>still no game set in the permian period

>>715279019 (OP)
We need religion to rein scientists back in and stop them from spouting stupid shit like this as fact.

why didnt they just fly on the quetzalcoatlus to mordor

>>715279019 (OP)
There's Path of Titans and The Isle. Games where you literally play as dinos and other prehistoric animals in huge PVP servers.
If you aren't playing any of those games That's your problem. They're been out for years now.

>>715284668
I think proto-mammal fleshbeasts make people uneasy.

>>715284985
Don't shill The Isle and it's shittier clone. You might fool someone into buying that dumpster fire.

>>715279019 (OP)
That fucking thing is more terrifying than any other dinosaur or animal in existence, glad it is extinct.

>>715283372
How does that not make sense inside your peanut sized brain? Pterosaurs evolved as early as the first dinosaurs. The are 200 million years separating the first dinos and pterosaurs and hummingbirds. Not shit birds are more closely related. Birds are still more closely related to pterosaurs than they are to other reptiels.

>>715285317
Why? I think they're cool, this is like a proto sabertooth

>>715281436
Don't all world religions effectively discredit each other?
They all claim to be the only correct one and only one can be true.
What makes you think whichever one you worship is special beyond delusion and my team tribalism?

>>715285330
The isle has a great atmosphere. It's worth checking out if all you want is to feel like a dinosaur just doing dinosaur shit.

>>715279019 (OP)
Would it eat people? I don't want to watch the skies for this thing

>>715282978
We are not talking about bees here anon.

>>715279019 (OP)
Dinosaur media was calcified in the 90s, not even the new jurassic park movies can break the mold.

>>715285590
When you download the isle on steam and play it, you're not even playing the latest version. You have to do some janky ass shit in the preferences menu of steam to play the EVRIMA version or something. The devs are THAT kind of incompetent and it's been like that for many years now. Don't shill the isle hear, I beg you.

>>715286035
Ok then play PoT. The devs haven't abandoned that one.

>>715279019 (OP)
if these were around they would be pet sluts and you know it

>>715281379
>Dinosaurs with feathers are and always will be FUCKING GAY
raptors with feathers are cool tho
>calling birds non avian dinosaurs is peak reddit
agreed

>>715284668
What about the early-triassic
you know, cambrian explosion 2.0 times

>>715280341
And who put said evidence there to begin with, dumbass. Glory be to God!

>>715283372
Pterosaurs literally means flying reptiles, so they aren't dinosaurs.

>>715285510
I like how MonHun based a monster on this thing and it gets the sickest armor design in the franchise

>>715286347
>mixed snake and lizard build
no wonder this nigga is extinct

>>715286347
whats the anomalucaris of the early triassic?

>>715279019 (OP)
One of these ate a black guy in the latest JW movie.

>>715283372
are you upset that whales aren't fish either?

>only a single vertebrae exists of this guy
What happened to this dude

>>715286508
They're VERY close to dinosaurs, though. Just like crocodiles are.

>>715286750
It is similar to bird vs reptiles.

>>715286608
in terms of most common probably lystrosaurus (which despite it's name was a synapsid)
they basically made up 95% of all land vertebrates during the early triassic

in terms of predators the most impressive ones in the triassic were probably the rauisuchia which were non-dinosaur archosaurs that were basically massive land crocodiles

This is the only evidence we have of the largest carnivorous land mammal to have ever lived

>>715286924
not very strong evidence for it even being a carnivore

>>715287312
Wow you figured all that out from a picture? I guess all their research was wrong then

>>715287425
look at the back row. teeth like that were for grinding down plants

>>715286898
Other reptiles are just cousins of birds, crocodiles, pterosaurs and non avian dinosaurs.
And if you go a bit further a plethora of other monsters show up in the branches. There were more reptile like creatires roaming the permian.

>>715285317
>>715285317
>so monstrous even depicting them "just like real animals" still makes them look uncanny
>surprisingly diverse variety
>lived in the most metal era of life, half of it was everything hunting each other in a massive desert
>depicting them with fur comes out more natural and at the same time naked synapsids are just as plausible because, unlike archosaurs, fur is not basal to their family and can be lost easily (feathers being basal and impossible to lose for dinosaurs is bullshit redditors actually believe)
embrace the paleozoic, white man

>>715287923
the true big desert was not permian it was early triassic, it's what caused the permian to end
permian was relatively temperate, parts of it had glaciation at the poles after all

If it quacks like a duck it's probably a duck.
If the pterosaurs were such an active and dominant branch of animals and they overlap dinosaurs, then it likely evolved from the same animals the dinosaurs did. Evolution works like that.

>>715287540
Most carnivores have molars, brainlet bro

>>715280818
>not his ancestor
that's the joke you retard

>>715279162
No, only cheap clones.

>>715286924
Is that one of those giant pigs?

>>715281663
How about emus then, which essentially have vestigial wings? Did god just do it for a laugh?

>>715288251
well yeah but that doesn't make them dinosaurs, the same way you're not a cat

>>715281730
Hollow bones and airsacks within their bodies. Modern birds have the same adaptation

>>715284668
>>715285317
So that's where Disney found the inspiration for the Sequel aliens.

>>715285510
I think they're cool too but I think they have less widespread appeal because they're more monstrous looking to most people. However it should be noted that they don't get featured in media nearly as much as dinosaurs.

Dimetrodon at least gets some love but that's largely because most people mistakenly thought it was a dinosaur for a while. It has fairly familiar looking features not dissimilar from large modern reptiles which might help. Of course, it should also be noted that paleo art makes it look dinosaur-like and paleo art can be heavily biased. For all we know it may have looked more like a giant rat with a sail on its back than a reptile.

>>715288579
Yeah but you do not know that for sure because we don't know from which animal the pterosaurs have evolved from and you certainly don't know where dinosaurs started.
As seen in your image.

>>715285317
They never had a "hit" like dinosaurs had.

>>715288775
Not SMASHED enough.

>>715288519
not really, Andrewsarchus was related to entelodonts somewhat but it was a very archaic artyodactyl from the paleogene (aka mammal triassic), much more closer to whales
also since that skull is the only thing we have of it nobody fucking knows what it looked like. it may have been like in WWB just as it may have been a giant fat balding pige like OP

>>715283307
Why did he do it bros?

Are feathers a chink psyop?

>>715288579
Actually you are more of a cat than pterosaurs are dinosaurs. You are more of a cat than a stegosaur was an allosaurus. Mammals went through one heck of a bottleneck.

>>715289094
there is one, just needs it's time to shine

>>715279162
The Isle.

>>715289287
she
And like a typical woman she got jealous of a more successful woman and so had to smash her eggs in a fit of rage

>>715289408
What the fuck are you smoking? You think mammals only started radiating in the cenozoic?

>>715289483
that looks like red xii

>>715289737
>what is a bottleneck

>>715289271
Really cool animals.

>>715289608
I saw a chinese securiy cam video of a woman killing someone else's baby randomly on the street. What a strange primal femoid behavior.

>>715289408
eh, primates split off really early from other mammals, current estimate for the split is 80 million years so at the very least which is about how long ago the split between stegosaurus and allosaurus was so you're about as much a cat as an allosaurus was a stegosaurus

In the end dinosaurs won because they have the power of black cock.

>>715289892
Dinosaurs went through a pretty bad bottleneck during the late triassic too though

>>715289396
no but i unironically think paleoschizo may be onto something about chinese fossils
think about it logically, why wouldn't the most notorious cheaters in the world at everything not slime their way into the graces of the scientific communities of the world by faking incredible scientific discoveries? especially one where the researchers are always starving for funds and money, can't agree on even the most fundamental things and tend to make bullshit papers not only for recognition and money, but even just for spite?
also, i can get behind liaoling having some very high quality fossil beds, but shit like yutyrannus having feathers sounds fishy when you think about it. alongside that, they have a notorious forgery problem and even top chinese paleontologist admitted their museums are flooded with that shit. some of those fakes are laughable, some surely not so much

Dinosaurs wouldn't have survived the ice age anyway. Mammals would take over and end up doninating the server anyway.

>>715289396
It is an overcorrection against pop culture dinosaurs

>>715290307
if they had feathers they might have lol

>>715286579

show it

>>715289483
I was going to say that looked like red XIII and his parents

>>715289236
can't wait for toadlines to get so SLAMMED they revert back to amphibian forms and get born with fucking gills and caudal fins

>>715290157
or have you considered this, Chinese fossil beds are only being excavated right now with modern techniques which allow for the preservation of delicate structures such as feather and skin imprints

meanwhile most european and american fossil beds were excavated during the 19th and early 20th century when they were still using friggin dynamite to blast fossils from the rocks and paleontology was barely a science

So it makes sense that fossil beds that are excavated right now would preserve more detailed fossils and China is currently in possession both of relatively virgin fossil beds AND the funding to excavate them

while there are probably a bunch of forgeries in it, most of the revolutionary fossils in Chinese paleontology have been intensely studied by western paleontologists, so either the Chinese are capable of making fakes which can't be detected as fake by the foremost western paleontologists, or else they're probably legit

>>715290307
>primate toes typed this post

>>715282945
>uncutfags as soon as mom goes to work

I wish /v/ liked Path of Titans.

>>715290625
they would have hardly found feathers because american fossil beds don't have the same quality as german and chinese lagerstatte, which are the one of the only sediments that are able to preserve feathers clearly

>>715290424
The problem was that you can't lay eggs on the floor in permafrost. It generates a shitton of problems for such large animals. Problems that simply wouldn't be fixable in such short time span.
Actually, it's one of the reasons why large dinosaurs were always on the move.

>>715291043
huh i was trolling but actually that's pretty insightful
so long for dinosaur spec evo

>>715290590
>god was the OG Skeemer
holy shit...

>>715290307
the big thing would have been how well dinosaurs adapted to grasses dominating, which was coming either way, angiosperms would have taken over the world even if not for the K-Pg extinction, they are just ridiculously more adaptable than other plants due to the insect symbiotic procreation

mammals were also better suited to take advantage of fruits than small dinosaurs so it's fairly likely that mammals would have started growing bigger, even if locked out of true apex carnivorous roles

that said bigger dinosaurs would have been more than capable of adapting to colder temperatures

>>715291154
wait i take it back you stupid nigger, how about this now?

>>715291043
Why didn't they just incubate them?

>>715283043
>flew across the world for one last fuck
>died alone on a beach
If he was real, I would go back in time just to give him a proper funeral. He earned it.

>>715291351
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIfI1Al1jFQ

>>715279019 (OP)
This thing is fake as fuck, let's be honest here. Show me something in nature that looks like this shit. It makes no sense whatsoever. You have to go to the abyssal trenches to find things this bizarre, and even then it's not as clearly wrong as this creature. I'm sure it never looked like this, and if by chance nature did make such a stupid creature, it wouldn't fly. Seriously, how could anyone think that natural selection would create something to fly and that at the same time looks like that, LOL. It's like you took a bat, enlarged it 1000 times, and gave it the most disproportionate and dysfunctional head possible for no reason. WTF, people are so gullible. This shit never existed, it's pure fantasy from someone who reconstructed fossils like a drunk retard.

>is pure utter kino in your path

>>715291043
mammals were also starting to become a major problem for the k-strategist dinosaurs near the end of the cretaceous already, it's why late cretaceous sauropods had to go to extremely distant locations to lay their eggs, even in flat out volcanic areas

that said several large theropods were nest builders, including tyrannosaurids and given that any ice age onset would have been fairly slow, I could have seen elaborate nesting structures solving the permafrost issue, not to mention at no point in modern earth's history has the entire planet been exposed to permafrost, so Africa, most of Asia and South America would have always been hospitable for dinosaurs

for possible polar dinosaurs an interesting adaptation I could have seen happen, which actually has several modern day avians use that, would have been strategic molting where they start producing excessive feathers and molting them immediately right before laying their eggs, to provide their nests with plenty of insulation material

And yes, polar dinosaurs would have feathers, of that I'm almost certain

>>715290440
He's probably referring to the Odogaron set

I actually loved the flying sections and believe the faggots that got filtered so damn hard they claimed it was shit never figured out how to use LT/RT to significantly improve turn radius.

>>715291748
Rare turok anon.

>>715291597
>mammals were also starting to become a major problem for the k-strategist dinosaurs near the end of the cretaceous already,
Imagine getting murked by a mammal.

>>715291503
Enter, the giant horse with a big thick meaty neck that it uses to slap the shit out of other horses with big necks.

>>715291748
sick game

>>715283310
they make milk and have vaginas

>>715291939
and here's a giraffe drinking water in case you've never seen it

>>715292208

>>715279019 (OP)
>Quetzalcoatlus
yea they're kino

>>715292325
>munch munch munch munch

>>715291248
Large dinos can't sit in eggs.

>>715291939
>>715292208
>>715292325
The giraffe is a thousand times more proportional than that creature. And even the giraffe needs a complex system of valves for the blood to actually circulate properly and reach its head.
That bizarre pterosaur never existed. That's not the kind of thing you see being created by nature, it's the kind of thing you see being created by human creativity.
If it existed, it wasn't like the way we reconstructed it. Unfortunately, we'll never know.

>>715291839
>>715291939
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbKM5oe5Nfs
Evolution deserved so much more than what it got. Two whole fucking hours of cut dialog that explained what the fuck was going on, cut dinosaurs/enemies out the ass, levels and ai lobotomized to squeeze what they had onto three different consoles.

>>715292450
Dad got me Dinotopia and pic related for my birthday as a kid. I weep for children stuck with shitty digital art. Pic related also managed to squeeze in art of cavewoman in fur bikinis; spoiled me so damn good.

>>715292705
Nature goes full retard all the time. Just look at this horrifying mutant beast.

>>715292705
You literally see all the proportions that make birds and bats aerodynamic in pterosaurs.
We had faked dinosaurs, these ones aren't faked.

>>715291863
I think even without the K-Pg extinction several mammal lineages would have still evolved to some degree, mostly due to them benefiting far better off of the inevitable spread of angiosperms and their symbiotic insects

first being the rodents, now while the Cretaceous already had rodent-like mammals, true rodents would have been able to exploit the angiosperms exceedingly well, and also would have formed a major issue for dinosaur eggs, I could genuinely see dedicated egg-eating rodents, combined with perennial angiosperms and grasslands replacing all other undergrowth be a slow but inevitable decline for the sauropods, perennial trees would have forced them into massive migrations, but they were also exceedingly poorly equipped to handle grasses
the combined pressure of this with their eggs being raided might have seen the largest land animals be brought down by some of the smallest

another group of mammals I could easily see evolve would be the bats, they managed to gain their niche despite competing against the one dinosaur that did not go extinct, in the birds, and birds themselves were already well on their way to displacing pterosaurs completely from smaller niches
As such the existence of non-avian dinosaurs wouldn't have impeded them much

And finally, the primates, which would have been one of the prime mammal beneficiaries of the spread of angiosperms and particularly, fruits
there already is a severe lack of arboreal non-avian dinosaurs in the cretaceous so it's yet another example of a group that would not have had too much competition

Carnivorians obviously would not have existed in their apex predator forms, but given just how many mustelid-shaped mammals we keep finding, it's reasonable to assume that mustelids or something similar to them would have evolved especially if rodents spread far themselves

>>715292964
holy shit is that real?

>>715290631
>PriMATE
Imagine being so horny you call yourself SEX

>>715293180
t. HOMO sapien

>>715283310
Technically nothing. You cannot evolve out of a category. All non-invertebrate land animals are fish. Lizards? Fish. Horses? Fish. Humans? Fish. Even the ones that went back into the water are fish. Whales? Fish. Hippos? Fish. Manatees? Fish. When an owl catches and eat a mouse, that's a fish eating a fish.

Pic related are all fish too.

>the coolest thing to ever walk on earth is already extinct
>and it wasn't even that long ago, we barely missed it
not fair...

>>715279019 (OP)
honestly it's hard to believe that this thing had the muscle mass needed for a takeoff

>>715293938
stupid name
>smile-o-don

>>715286901
My ancestor :)

>>715285332
Like all the dinosaurs, it never existed, so sleep easy, anon.

>>715293890
whales arent fish.....

>>715279019 (OP)
Flying reptile =/= dinosaur
They were cold-blooded; dinosaurs were warm-blooded
Modern day birds descended from the raptor-type species of dinos such as deinonychus or velociraptor.

>>715279162
>good
You can't use that word. If you use that word, there has never been any game (including dino crisis) that fits your criteria.

>but that would mean dino crisis wasn't a good game
It objectively wasn't. It sold poorly, it had only a brief lifetime in arcades, and it wasn't a cultural sensation nor meaningful addition to the collection of games that form the milieu of gaming.

>>715281436
No one actually believes in religion, no one. It's just something your parents told you to make you behave.
It's like Santa Claus; you don't believe in a magical bearded man watching over you from a mythical realm deciding to hand out lasting punishments or rewards based on the actions of a child, do you?

>>715294407
Every single mammal, reptile, and bird is a fish. A lobe-finned fish, to be exact.

>>715294130
no bully

>>715293938
I'm much more angry that the Amerindians killed off this bad boy. Amerindians killed off more mega fauna than anyone else. I would've killed to taste glyptodon or giant ground sloth meat.

Hell, the horse is native to North America and the Amerindians killed them all off without taming them and had to have horses brought to them by Europeans.

>>715293890
My autism always thought it was odd how aquatic reptiles didn't have a catch-all term like dinosaur or pterosaur

>>715294929
because ichthyosaurs aren't really closely related to other marine reptiles

>>715294407
>>715294702
>whales are big fish
>whales aren't fish!!
>whales are big fish

>>715294929
I'm about to ruin your day: plesiosaur ("Nessie") and mosasaur weren't dinosaurs. They were cold-blooded aquatic reptiles. They're more closely related to modern-day reptiles.

>>715295297
I didn't call them dinosaur, and saur means reptile.

>>715291503
>Show me something in nature that looks like this shit

>>715294885
were they killed by humans? I thought it was just a case of environmental change and competition

>>715295297
mosasaurus was literally a lizard, the biggest lizard to ever exist, it's modern day relatives are the monitor lizards

>>715294493
Again, we can't actually rule out pterosaurs as not being dinosaurs. We don't know where dinosaurs started.
Look at this chart >>715288579

>>715295591
The cultive of corn alone destroyed entire ecosystems

>>715295761
They were cold-blooded. Much like aquatic reptiles, they're more closely related to modern-day reptiles. They did not have feathers.

>>715295783
it was worth it

>>715294885
Don't forget Australian abos killed a shit load of mega fauna and also the Maori killed the moa. Everyone gives whitey shit for being destructive but all the cool shit was killed by the inferiors. Also gotta give the negro props for not killing all of Africa's wildlife.

>>715295591
Yes, glytopdonts were made extinct by humans eating them. Amerindians killed the big bastards for food. They were extinct within like 1,000 years of the Amerindians arriving in the area, but it likely didn't even take that long. Judging by how fast the Maori killed the Moa, it probably only took ~300 years.

>>715295591
nah, just like cave lions in europe that went extinct at about the same time they were already on their way out

>>715295783
You can actually find teosinte, the ancestor to corn, out in the wild in Central America. Corn cultivation was crazy.

>>715293938
If I got attacked by one, I would have two parallel thoughts:
>oh shit a saber-toothed tiger, they are so bad ass
and
>ah shit its got my neck

>>715296218
At least we still have the cassowary. The only creature to make Steve Irwin run in the opposite direction.

>>715296369
Guess what killed cave lions? Hint: it wasn't climate change. Climate change is the gayest fake bullshit ever.

>>715279162

Peter Jackson’s King Kong

>>715296114
No my bro. Pterosaurs evolved endothermy. Because birds did too. They had to. You can't flap your wings on cold blood.

>>715281436
>haha you're just as retarded and easily duped as i am! that means i win!
Why do christcucks always go for this argument? lol

>>715279019 (OP)
it feels kinda sad how much cool shit died out before we were born.

>>715296431
Yes, but cassowaries aren't good eating. The moa and elephant birds would've been incredible food sources.

>>715292705
The size is the only thing weird about it imo. If it were the size of a chicken I don't think you'd think it is as weird either. Pelicans are weird looking and they have about the same proportions of neck, beak, and body. I bet the recreated proportions may be a little off (maybe a shorter neck, maybe longer feet, etc.), but I doubt its significantly different than what they made.

I wish the paraceratherium made it to today. Rhinos and giraffes are gay and just don't cut it.

>>715294885
You cant cru about them killing it and then say you wanted to try their meat same as them lmao

>>715297438

>>715297570
Eurasians are notorious for domesticating anything that wasn't a predator. Or, at least taming them in the cases of the Asian Elephants.

>>715297570
There's a difference between killing something for food sustainably and unsustainably.

It's in Jurassic World Evolution 2, it can escape and eat people.

Did you guys knew the people behind the wirewolves are trying to bring back the giant moa?

Why did he do it?

>>715298182
>wirewolves

>>715297261
imagine the thanksgiving dinners

>>715298281
>he doesn't know about the wirewolves

>>715298182
They want to bring a lot of theseus species

>>715298240
He wanted a repeat of the permian extinction

>>715298240
God (the big alien controling our server) had to do it because, let's be real, dinosaurs spent 200 million years doing nothing.

>>715298240
so, when is the next mass extinction coming?

>>715294579
Santa is real though and his existence is easily proven, I've met him myself. Maybe you were too naughty so he never visited you.

>>715298881
Its already happening.

>>715298881
read >>715299086

>>715281257
We observe can the last few million years. We have a fossil record. That's how we know this weird ass thing even existed in the first place. Some nigga found it's bones.
It's extinct, so obviously it's a failed species. All he's saying is flightless birds exist today, so we know they can exist. And if this thing contined to evolve and was still around today, it might not even have wings anymore. Just like whales don't have legs anymore, but still have hip bones.

>>715298881
Technically we're going through one currently. Humans have killed off so many species over the past 50k years that we're heading towards mass extinction event territory.

>>715298881
Hopefully soon. Things are getting really fucking gay.

>>715299435
Extinct =/= failed species. Things can go extinct for a whole host of reasons. There's nothing you can do about climate change other than evolve, which is what most animals did. If your entire species evolves to adapt to a colder climate, and the species you originated from no longer exists, that's not really something being a failed species.

>>715290157
Good, now extend that skepticism to the rest of them. The original dinosaur boom in the 1800s was the exact same kind of charlatanism and mustache twirling prospectors trying to make a buck.

>>715282294
>Not more than any other type of extinct reptile, to say the least.
Incorrect. They're a sister clade to dinosaurs, they're closer to them than other groups including all extant (not extinct) ones. Then come crocodilians, then squamates (lizards/snakes), then turtles (although where turtles go exactly is contested), then finally mammals, then amphibians, then bony fish, then cartilaginous fish, and then we start arriving at other chordates which start getting unrecognizable.

In short, a pterosaur is closer to a bird than to other reptiles, but they're closer to you than to a frog, and an eel is closer to all of us than to a shark.

>>715299742
Right. The whole climate can change and if it changes too fast and you don't evolve, you die. That's nature. Extinct is probably a better word to use than failed. My point is, it didn't continue to evlove and it's genetic line ended. So we don't know what it might have looked like today if had kept evolving.

>>715282294
Why do people keep saying uuh everything evolves into crabs? How else would these animals evolve?

>>715300229
there are more different things evolving into crocodiles than into crabs

>>715289508
>Kickstarted a shitty "Play as X animal" survival game subgenre.
>All fall into the same awful game design pitfalls like forcing players to grow for IRL hours as artificial time sinks.
>All feature the same fundamental problems like clanfags abusing mixpacking/megapacking tactics.
>Leaving players with the two equally shitty options of playing officials to get assfucked by clanfags, or playing unofficials to get assfucked by rules and discord mods powertripping on said rules.
>Isle has been in early access for so long (A literal fucking decade now) it cycled in an entire new playerbase who are still optimistic enough to think the game is going somewhere.
The Isle was the worst shit to ever happen to dinosaur games. Dinofags have zero standards beyond getting to play as an obscure glupshittosaur. Because of that all these games get away with barely being actual games and showing zero signs of improvement over the course of entire years. I once wanted a game where I could play as a dinosaur, but all these games have made me gone back to wanting to shoot the stupid things with a shotgun.

>>715291575
I can still hear the screams of the Leaellynasaura as it get it's spine broken

I never played Path of Titans but been thinking to because it looks fun as fuck.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMigoWF3kZ0&ab_channel=yellowtones
I got sold watching videos like this one.

>>715290157
Even if all the fossils were fake, it dose'nt mean evolution is. Fossils are just what we construct pur understanding of the past on. If there were fake fossils, it would just mean that understanding is wrong.
How many different breeds of dogs are there? And they all share a common ancestors, the wolf. There's plenty of species of both plants and animals what we have modified through selective breeding. That same process, over the period of millions of years, is evolution. You can literally observe the mechanism.
And even if you were to prove evolution wrong, that wouldn't prove that a god did it. Or that it was your particular brand of God that you happen to already belive in, before you even attempt to observe and understand the world around you.

>>715298240
He just kept moving forward.

>>715291575
Shame the "sequel" is so shit. You can visibly see the decline of the BBC and Britain as a whole by how superior the 1999 Walking With Dinosaurs is when compared to the 2025 Walking With Dinosaurs.

>>715293890
>think they are all super predators
>in reality if they were still around they would all be prey animals for Orcas and Sperm Whales

>>715291575
>>715301446
This was the coolest fucking shit ever back in 1999.

>>715279162
Im looking forward for athanasia, its a survival horror with imsim elements and dinosaurs
It has a demo
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1761910/Athanasia/
>Inb4 shill
Yeah I shill imsims a lot, what about it

>>715279019 (OP)
This is one of those bullshit dinosaurs extrapolated from a rib fragment or single vertebrae isn't it?

OH FU-

>>715301446
They made a documentary and included a fat trans "Online Dinosaur Enthusiast" who had more interview time (saying literally nothing of value, "omg this is so cool") than the actual researchers because they needed someone diverse and all the actual researchers at the site they were covering were straight and white. NuBBC is beyond a joke, it's just fucking depressing at this point.

>>715291575
I always wanted to visit the south of Chile to see where they filmed those scenes with those big trees

>>715279019 (OP)
>Flying reptile
Not a dinosaur
>Reptile in the ocean
Not a dinosaur

>>715301919
from what I remember the holotype consists of just an arm, not even complete
everything else is extrapolated from a smaller subspecies

>>715300229
>How else would these animals evolve?
Beetles.
There are more types of beetle than any other animal.

>>715284668
We're not allowed to talk about the Permian period because the earth was twelve degrees hotter than it is now, and it undercuts the IF THE WORLD GETS ONE DEGREE HOTTER ALL LIFE GOES EXTINCT myth.

>>715282294
that ninth one looks ridiculous

>>715282978
Ahh yes cause surely you ha e an aerodynamic engineering degree and know exactly what you are talking about

>>715279019 (OP)
That's not a dinosaur

>>715303517
How do you know he doesn't Ha E An aerodynamic engineering degree?

Hi santa can i have one immersive sim dino game where you play as a mercenary stuck on a jurassic park island and you have to find secret info to sell to rich ppl and make friends and escape. But also there’s a second campaign where you play as a raptor and kill mercenaries and survive. And there’s also a pvp mode like natural selection or avp

>>715288520
NTA but I looked it up quick and found that they use their "wings" for temperature regulation and for balance while running about. You could have looked that up very quickly and saved having to ask the question,but of course you knew that..

>>715303426
>IF THE WORLD GETS ONE DEGREE HOTTER ALL LIFE GOES EXTINCT
Youre being a reductionist

Raptors were basically just chickens.

>>715298881
Tomorrow

>>715304065
Luckily bigger raptors were found, like the Utahraptor

>Thread talking about dinosaurs
>Pictures used are not dinosaurs

>>715303867
Yes.
Anyone who carries on about climate change, where we're at fault for leaving our lights on and eating meat and the only cure is we pay more taxes, rather than Environmentalism where we can see the corporations actively destroying the land and can solve it by destroying the active parties does not deserve a legitimate argument.

They destroy the actual attempt to fix the world because they spend all their time trying to get people to believe them, when that time and effort could be better spent on doing things like flying explosive drones into every single Japanese whaling vessel and sinking them, and drowning the whalers.
THAT would do more to help the planet than trying to convince Cletus Yesteryear to believe in climate change.
While you point to ice core drilling, I point to companies actively dumping chemicals into rivers.
While you cry about cow farts, I point to the massive amounts of garbage in the ocean provably put there by South East Asia.

You should be lucky I'm only reducing the climate change argument, rather than the climate change activists.

>>715279327
>>715280341
both more believable than us being able to live peacefully with muslims and negros

>>715279162
the telltale Jurassic Park game is actually a good time

>>715304641
Based final solution believer

I like ARK but it would be a better game if you could level size on dinosaurs

>>715279019 (OP)
Imagine that thing shitting midair and destroying some guy's house.

>>715304641
Whalers aren't actually an issue. Whales are actually doing better than a lot of fish are because the Chinese are doing pic related. They have a massive fishing fleet that scrapes the sea floor and not only decimates, but obliterates ecosystems. They straight up fish entire ecosystems into extinction and then move on. They're starting to annihilate the fish off the coast of South America and Africa now.

>>715305208
I don't care who is doing what so long as people finally agree that the correct response is to drown them.

>>715290741
>mutilated dicklet attempts to feel better for his knife-rape

>>715305443
The Japanese actually care about conservation because they're honorary Aryans. Sure, they eat whales, but so do the Norwegians and Faroese.

You wouldn't kill the Faroese, would you?

>>715304641
most environmental activism is green washing.
I remember reading a statistic about how even if everyone leaves the sink open while brushing their teeth and has daily 1 hour long showers, they'd still waste a fraction of the water companies waste for completely unnecessary things.
they always want to pass the responsibility to us.

>>715306148
Most environmental activism these days is a thinly veiled call for Socialism. They want more government control of businesses rather than deregulating the nuclear industry so it can be profitable. Sure, safety standards for nuclear absolutely need to exist, but there's no reason building a new power planet should take 15 years when we can build them to the highest level of safety standards in 16 months.

In ARK they are pretty big and can be equipped with a platform saddle that you can build on.
Having your base be a series of tiny houses on a flock of these things was an interesting experience. It ain't much but it was cool.

Can someone make a new Primal Rage game please? And a port of the originals with a completed version of 2. It is probably stupid easy to emulate, but it'd be nice to bring attention back to it because of how awesome it is.
>>715305208
>They're starting to annihilate the fish off the coast of South America and Africa now.
Oh, is that why they are trying to move into African territories? I found that rather strange.

>>715307574
They're moving into African territories for their natural resources, yes. It's not just the fish, but the oil and minerals too.

>>715305208
>>715307747
we should drive the chinese to extinction

>>715291503

>>715308169

>>715298881
we're literally in one and terrifyingly it's the first mass extinction since the Great Dying where insects are going extinct
humanity is literally more damaging to insect populations than an asteroid strike

>>715304065
if you've ever been around chickens then a group of supersized roosters with teeth and hands that coordinate their attacks should terrify you

Roosters are absolutely vicious creatures, I've seen the aftermath of what happened to a marten that got stuck in a corner with one and there was barely anything left, rooster eviscerated it and then the chickens ate it

>>715284137
>Confusing atomic weight with air pressure
How embarrassing.

>>715308408
does the skin under their beaks get itchy?

>>715308408
Smelly dumb Pelican scum

>>715308815
yes and this is how they scratch it

>>715283310
Whales are mammals my friend, they have lungs and need to come out for air every 3-2 hours, if they don't they drown, orcas hunt and kill blue whales by tiring them and blocking their blowhole so they can't breach for air

>>715308408
i can't decide if big birds are cute or terrifying

>>715309083
mammals are fish

>>715309083
>>715293890

>>715309083
look we fire explosive harpoons into whales
orcas are basically water humans
which is course, why orcas and whalers cooperated throughout history

>>715308528
Looking from this angle you can see how the quetz can sustain flight, but its still kinda bullshit on how they can take flight in the first place.

>>715295586
That bill is an elegant way to cool off you ignorant nigger

>>715309282
Basically the massive difference between pterosaurs and birds is that unlike birds, pterosaurs can use all 4 limbs to launch themselves

so they can use their immensely powerful flight muscles as part of the launch, which birds can't do, which is the primary limiting factor of birds in terms of what size they can become

pterosaur wings are also vastly better at soaring than birds which again helps with this: they can use up 90% of their flight energy purely on the launch and takeoff, then soar for the rest of the flight

>>715295586
Nature's version of tower cooler...quite literally

>>715279480

You're the kind of no fun allowed type that says the plesiosaur isn't a dino.

Well nuts to that. He's my favorite, and I'm calling him a damn dinosaur.

>>715309119
It depends on if you're small enough to be on the menu for them or not.

>>715289483
>just needs it's time to shine
he did
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHWBcJz50kk

>>715309119
I remember a webm posted of some zoo workers making one spit up a gosling and it looked guilty afterwards

>>715309819
plesiosaur isn't a dino

>>715310491

I say he is. Nuts to science.

>>715304065
Utahraptor was an absolute unit. Velociraptors were kickables.

>>715279019 (OP)
Honestly asking but how did that thing fly? How was it able to get off the ground?

>>715310862
The wings were bigger than they look.

>>715310862
Basically lizardbirds are way better than birdbirds at getting off the ground
>>715309759
Though naturally they aren't actually going to fly with the kind of maneuverability that a small bird does

>>715279019 (OP)
>lust provoking image

>>715310852
yeah the utahraptor is terrifyingly large really
it's like a carnivorous horse

>>715310862
it took off like a bat instead of like a bird

>>715279019 (OP)
She's in Dungeon Crawler Carl The Gate of the Feral Gods

>>715311479
Imagine running into one of those in the wild.
>it's like a carnivorous horse
Now I'm imagining horses chasing people down and eating them. What a nightmare.

>>715310949
>>715311268
>>715311667
Whats the estimated altitude it could climb too from ground level? I imagine they had to live in mountains like condors just to get free lift?

>>715311878
Usually, yes.

Thoughts?

>>715311268
>Though naturally they aren't actually going to fly with the kind of maneuverability that a small bird does
oh obviously, that's the big downside that pterosaurs had and why birds rapidly outcompeted them at smaller and arboreal niches

so during the Cretaceous you kinda had a stratification where all the bigger flying creatures were pterosaurs and all the smaller flying creatures were birds and that divide worked pretty well

until the asteroid hit and wiped out all big things that weren't crocodiles

>>715279019 (OP)
It looks so retarded I bet it's entirely made up

>>715298970
>Santa showed himself to him
Look at Mr.Goody Twoshoes I bet you got to save Christmas that night two.

>>715312543
See >>715303182 and kill yourself

>>715312084
Had this on my PSP. I thought it kinda sucked tee bee haytch

>>715312616
>t. seething paleoscammer

>>715312543
Middle is just their souls

>>715282294
Birds are also not closely related to any other creature you think of when you think of "dino".
Birds are a clade that is 120 million years old.
By contrast, mammals have a clade called Boreoeutheria that groups together both whales and humans.
Humans are more closely related to whales than a bird is to T-Rex.

>>715311878
during the cretaceous they would fly around the European archipelago predating on the dinos that were shrunk by island dwarfism

>>715311878
see
>>715309759
they had superior launch ability due to being able to use their arms
They could also take off from water

the massive pterosaurs like quetzalcoatlus had a weird lifestyle that birds literally cannot do, where they hunted primarily on the ground as agile quadruped hunters, then took off and flew hundreds of miles away when the local prey was depleted
They could do this because they could use their flight muscles for takeoff and land locomotion

>>715308807
lighter air is lower density. It would produce less lift. And elements with higer atomic weight tend to have higher density too. So you're still wrong.

>>715313240
scary

>>715286672
>morrowind

>>715310852
>Shoot the Utahraptor, they all go extinct after a week of being shot on sight by redneck ranchers.
>Velociraptors breed like rats and survive by eating garbage/pets, become more annoying than urban coyotes.

>>715313468

>>715313380
and remember they were the size of giraffes but with beaks the size of a human, they absolutely would hunt, if not adult humans, children

I like how the reconstruction of T. rex has circled back to a rounder looking body with lips. I wish we had more depictions of it like this, I find it a lot scarier than the sharper one, it really sells how huge of an animal it was.

Same thing with how low its roars are now thought to be, imaging hearing this shit in VR in the middle of the night: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POW4lPJGGb0

>>715311479
>feathers
Enough. Retvrn.

>>715301917
Thanks for shilling this to me, I am very much interested in this an Compound NEVER EVER Fracture.

>>715309759
>>715313240
These creatures were basically dragons.

>>715313864
people have said that the T. Rex not roaring like they do in Jurassic park would make them lame
but then you have birds today make sounds like this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dcQO6Zb8Eg

Also a lot of T. Rex's sounds would be in infrasound which would just be terrifying as fuck, because infrasound messes with you

Also interestingly that despite being chonkier in looks, T. Rex these days is thought to be a lot faster than people thought in the 90's, also vastly smarter and perceptive, basically closest modern analogy to a T. Rex is a tiger or a polar bear, but larger than an elephant

>>715281436
bot post

>>715314237
I'm willing to bet at least some dragon myths came from people digging up fossilized pterosaur wings

>>715314339
>Days without a paleofag jerking off the cassowary: 0

How can his neck/back handle the weight of that beak?

>>715305208
>Hello, gaijin, I humbly request access to your waters, don't worry, it'll be for a short time and I promise I won't come back afterwards.

>>715314515
beaks are light

>>715314515
it was a lot lighter than it looks, beaks in general are super light for how durable they are, which is why birds have them

>>715314339
>because infrasound messes with you
Imagine playing a vidya where a T. rex chases you and when it roars it also rumbles the controller, which you don't really consciously notice at first until it starts rumbling without any sound coming out the speakers.

>>715314609
>gaijin
gwailo

>>715314695
the real scary thing is not a T. Rex roaring
predators only make noise if they see you as fellow predators or a threat, and want you to back the fuck off, a T. Rex that you can see and is making noise is not currently hunting you

The scary thing is that T. Rex seeing you, staring at you with it's massive eyes and then starting to move towards you, slow at first, conserving energy
Even scarier is if you're watching it through binoculars and it does that, because it's eyes were good enough to do so
Or worse the T. Rex somehow disappears from sight, it's the size of a small house and it managed to hide from you

After all, there's only one animal that doesn't roar when it sees a human: a polar bear

>>715314475
Holy shit, this. What the fuck is it with featherfags and their obsession with this stupid-looking Reddit bird that can only kill children and old people?

>>715279162
The dino hype was in the 90s, its largely stopped by now

>>715313610
I could do the same to an utahraptor

>>715279162
Depends, jurassic world evolution 1 & 2 are okay casual as fuck games you can get a few hours of fun out of.

>>715314475
>why would people be posting the lowest sound produced by a modern day dinosaur when talking about large dinosaur noises

gee I wonder anon, do you get upset when people talk about hypothetical smilodon noises and bring up lions?

>>715313864
What the fuck, thats worse than a roar. A roar you think wow big monster, but it makes sense in a way. That fucking thing just sounds like some space monsters.

>>715315350
No, but you sure do get upset whenever someone points out that you and your kind follow an NPC script.

>>715314515
That head is probably 25% bigger than it actually was.

>>715314339
Its really dumb, paleontologist are studying to understand prehistoric creatures, not to make "badass" movie monsters. They dont start their research with "does this make the t rex more badass?"

>>715300229
if you're an arthropod its pretty much peak design

>>715315481
it just happens to be that we keep finding out that "yes this hypercarnivorous apex predator was really fucking good at hunting things"
beause in retrospect, it makes zero sense for a carnivorous theropod to not have great eyesight

>>715315121
Featherfags desperately want accurate dinosaurs to be scary because they hate Jurassic Park and want to push the idea that accurate designs are better in every scenario, including horror. The best way to do that is to cherrypick the one flightless bird in the world that can kill people and go "See?!? Birds can be deadly too!". They also like to post that retarded pic of a seagull with a blood covered head after it just stuck it's head in a rotting whale carcass or something. Or those cringy photoshops of feathered raptors at night with eyeshine.

>>715315631
eagles are on like half of europe's imperial flags and crests
the idea that birds are lame is just something desperate JP fags try to make up

>>715315576
What gets me is when people see this as a failure. Like "haha, now science says dinosaurs were not badass". One of the main points of scientific research is that you change conclusion with data. Regardless, this roar
>>715313864
may not be "badass" but it sounds terrifying, like an out of space creature. So if you want the trex to be a monster, thats even scarier.

>>715315752
Nobody said birds are lame. The idea that all dinosaurs need to look and act exactly like modern birds is what's fucking lame.

>>715315121
Closest to a scary bird outside of "the bad omen ones".
Birds of prey builds are far from the classical dinosaurs outside of erroneous!pterosaurs.

>>715315891
>The idea that all dinosaurs need to look and act exactly like modern birds
who are you quoting with this

>>715315891
>The idea that all dinosaurs need to look and act exactly like modern birds is what's fucking lame.
people get mad when you so much as put feathers on a dromaeosaur

>>715279019 (OP)
this dino ruined Arks game balance and i shortly quit the game in part because of it.
>spend 12+ hours taming and training a max level dino of small/medium size
>some retard effortlessly swoops in on a quetz and picks it up then flys off and you never see it again

>>715316025
Those people are smart.

>>715315121
nigger what the fuck is a reddit bird

>>715315121
>some anons piss themselves at the thought of this pride parade turkey

>>715314339
It doesn't matter what birds sound like, unless you can also extrapolate anything useful from how giraffes or elephants look and sound vis-a-vis humans.
Birds are not a close analogue of giant theropods.

>>715279019 (OP)
Excuse me. That's Pterrorsaur, not a dinosaur. It's just not one of them because reasons.

>>715316390
it's better than "they roar because they do in jurassic park"

>>715316390
I mean, you can get a lot from the the fact that humans and giraffes both have a larynx though
theres useful information to be gathered from that in terms of basic most types of noise either can make

>birds are scarier than repti-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5Stg0bOXmU

>>715315752
Birds of prey have the power of flight, which makes them into awe inspiring predators. I don't know if you've realized it or not, but we culturally see nearly every flightless bird as a joke because they can't do the one thing birds are best known for.
>Ostriches burying their heads in sand.
>Dodos being the posterchild for evolutionary failures. (And insular flightless birds in general.)
>Penguins being seen more as cute waddling bowling pins than competent marine hunters.
>Don't even need to explain chickens and turkeys.
Big raptors don't fly, so putting feathers on them makes the general public see them as more akin to flightless birds than birds of prey. (Even with paleontology trying to push the idea of them being "Groundhawks".)

>>715283774
Taxony is retarded. Bears and seals are totally the same family, but rabbits aren't part of the rodent family just because they have an extra pair of rodent incisors.

>>715285317
>proto mammal
Fuck your zoomer lingo. Back in my day, they called them mammal like reptiles.

>>715312543
Publish or perish has been a disaster for a lot of fields.

>>715316683
birds are reptiles

>>715286901
Don't forget synapsids were considering 100% reptiles for decades and decades. It's relatively only recently that they started making a distinction between amniotes and reptiles.

>>715316958
Then dinosaurs are reptiles.

>>715317003
uhhh yes?

>>715285317
>>715316832
>proto mammal
Back in my day we called them niggers.

>>715317036
Scalechads, we win again.

>>715317003
Yes, yes they were.

>>715316708
And in the collective consciousness, the bird of prey "play style" erroneous went to the pterosaurs.

Feathered raptors would need a really good showing to break in the popular imagination.

>>715316986
reptiles are amniotes

>>715317184
But before like the 2010s there was no distinction between reptiles and amniotes. The reptile lineage began with a mutant amphibian that laid a leathery egg and no longer had to lay eggs in the water.

>>715286901
>Survive the closest thing our planet has had to a world ending apocolypse.
>Chill in the aftermath and become 95% of life on land.
>All while looking like a fat lizard pig with zero formidable features.
How the fuck did these smug fucks get away with it?

>>715283774
>>715316757
Yes, it's retarded to have dinosaur refer to birds too, or fish to humans. I oppose that. It's nonsensical nomenclature. (Fight me -- I will give you a fat pastebin if you really wanna know my reasons)
But in contrast to such an inclusionary, an exclusionary view (e.g. regarding rabbits NOT as rodents) makes sense, because rabbits are indeed the sister clade to all rodents. It's not like e.g. beavers are actually less closely related to mice than rabbits are.

>>715317295
Thus, synapsids were called "mammal like reptiles". Dimetrodon WAS considered a reptile, as well as lystrosaurus. That's why they named it that. Because the motherfucker that named it was sure it was a 'reptile'.

>>715317295
there is no distinction between reptiles and Amniotes. Amniotes is a group that includes reptiles

>>715317407
You really expect me to believe a rabbit has less in common with a guinea pig than a bear does with a seal or a weasel? Fuckin really? The whole thing seems like arbirtary bullshit. Like the distinction between tuatara and lizards too. A tuatara is so much more different from a lizard than a bear is from a seal, right? Except wait, no it fuckin' isn't.

>>715317501
There is a distinction now. Not all amniotes are considered reptiles, but before they were.

>>715315121
>"most dangerous bird in the world"
>2 reported kills

whats the most underrated old ass animal

>>715317553
Biology isn't about "having in common", it's purely about who descends from whom and how closely related they are.
Like, you wouldn't say your brother who is a giant basketball player redhead while you are a small swarthy haired manlet is LESS closely related to you than your great-uncle is who looks more like you, right?

>>715306534
Bingo

>>715317643
See >>715317318
Anything from before the dinosaurs.

I love this lil nigga even though he's probably a chink fabrication.

>>715306534
I heavily disagree with "le nuclear is harmless fags." Uranium EXTRACTION is fucking devastating
>t. lives in top of an uranium mine

>>715317553
when DNA sequencing became a thing it made more sense to organize species into monophyletic groups

>>715317891
what do they have to gain by making it up

>>715279019 (OP)
dinosaurs never existed. It was just fiction, like aliens and vampires. why? for making money, kek

>>715317643
Temnospondyl's, there was a 200 million year time span in Earth's history when amphibians completely ruled and became supersized. Mainly because the whole earth was moist as shit and the egg hadn't evolved yet.

>>715316885
this shit is retarded desu
there should be a mininum percentage of how much of a skeleton has been recovered to even begin to describe a new species

>>715317318
disaster taxon
also oxygen concentrations were super low and being descendant from burrowing animals they were well adapted to those conditions

they were minmaxed for surviving off of as little resources as possible, which works out when nearly everything dies
right up until the point the fact you survived lets ecosystems rebuild to the point you get predators again, at which point you get fucked and go extinct because you're minmaxed so hard for resource efficiency you have a slow metabolism without any defensive traits

>>715279327
>basedentist
What

>>715317553
Are you one of those people that get upset when you point out an apple tree has more in common with a rose bush than with a pine tree?

>>715318114
the moon is also a giant ping pong ball they put in the sky

>>715318227
basedentist but theres a filter

>>715318363
S.0.yentist lmao the filter is better than i remember

>>715317891
>your face when we were robbed of the timeline where there are like 4 winged birds

>>715318024
uranium extraction is pretty friggin harmless compared to large scale coal scraping like they do in Germany

Cool as shit

>>715318096
Funding?

>>715318497
well "coal fucking sucks" is probably the one thing literally anyone but coal companies can agree on
isn't there an enormous stretch of the united states that's been on fire for decades thanks to a coal mine blowing up

>>715318428
>Anon doesn't know that we're in that timeline but we just haven't gotten to that specific point yet.

>>715318539
the amount of funding paleontology receives is not nearly enough to pay for the amount of money that would go into faking the past 200 years of a massive scientific branch and burying all evidence to the contrary

>>715318539
anyone with the training and ability to become a paleontologist also has the ability to instead study geology and work for oil companies making 10x the money for 1/4th the effort

nobody in paleontology is in it for the money

>>715318428

>>715317641
It doesn't really have tough competition. There is a singular reported Ostrich kill and it reads like a slapstick comedy

>>715318662
And what if you start finding more and more feathered dinosaurs year after year? More than any other country?

>>715318821
Serina is awesome. A blast to read.

>>715318872
easily explained by "we have not dynamited our soil and destroyed our fossil records with 1800s paleontology techniques and haven't underwent a dinosaur bone bubble"

>>715319010
Convenient. It's foolish to believe that when we already have proof they've been forging their species.

>>715279019 (OP)
I could solo it

>>715318701
it's the same stupidity some people push with climate science, that scientists promote the climate change narrative just to get funding when meteorology and climatology would get funding whether climate change is real or not, or anthropogenic or not

>>715300684

>>715318978
Most of it is great but I still have significant issues with how the whole ice age civilization thing was handled, do not like deus ex machinas in my spec-evo

and not quite liking the new civilizations thing that's going on right now but at least that's kept to patreon

>>715279019 (OP)
kys furfag

>>715285317
>>715285510
Dino Crisis 2 had Inostrancevia.

>>715319124
yeah you're not going to post that proof but suuure anon

>>715319249
if anything there's more money in being an oil company stooge than in opposing them
which is course why nobody trusts any oil-company sponsored study because those people are in it for the money

>>715319556

>>715319619
BTFO

>>715319619
Delete this, science denying CHUD

>>715319619
>2001
kek

>>715319249
it's even funnier when people say "big green" is faking climate change
oh yeah these solar energy startups and 3 or so nuclear powerplants really are exerting a massive amount of influence on society unlike the poor downtrodden coal mining congolmerates and poor beaten Saudi oil businesses

>>715319556
The raped

>>715319619
The rapist

>>715319619
not him but the fact a chinese paleontologist was the one to provide final proof it was a forgery would suggest that not everyone in china is in on the whole forgery thing and there's plenty of trustworthy paleontologists
after all, it's kinda like having to consider every 1800's or early 1900's fossil to be fake because there were a lot more forgeries back then

>>715319619
>article from 2001
>shilled by a WESTERN outlet
>made to scam some rando collector
lol

>>715319878
They probably put him in a ditch and shot him.

>>715319619
raptorbros...not like this

>>715319619
Chinkbros... This isn't looking good...

>>715319619
>specimen was purchased by an artist who creates models of dinosaurs, though the creator of the fossil remains unknown

>>715319619
Interesting.

>>715319952
he's one of the foremost chinese paleontologists these days but nice try
piltdown man didn't make australopithecus a fake either

>>715320383
Ah, so he's offed the competition and stands alone with no forgeries but his own to be recognized.
Very clever, indeed.

>>715319389
To be honest "ice age" downplays it a bit and is also the reason why my reading of it is on a hiatus.
It's just too depressing that their planet (moon) is freezing over.

>>715320781
keep reading it, there's a massive amount of content that follows but be warned it's not handled the best

>>715313864
>0:28
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVmIVwRPm3c

A reminder researchers bullshit a lot of their work to justify their grants.

>>715319619
>2001
oh no no no, scaliebros...

Dinosaurs never existed

>>715316332
ive seen them kick a man, theyre brutal when they want to be

>>715279327
>>715318227
scientist, but gay

also I thought he meant that they constructed a model of the dinosaur based on a dentist's work reconstructing its jaw/teeth lol

>>715292075
what does whale milk taste like

>>715326520
whale milk

>>715292075
giwtwm

>>715285317
>>715284668
These are all skin-wrapped, btw.

>>715292075
I want a Sperm Whale bro so bad. They even like trying to communicate with random divers

>>715314925
>After all, there's only one animal that doesn't roar when it sees a human: a polar bear
Actually I know of many animals that don't roar when they see humans, for instance, sheep. :)

>>715317701
This is a good point, there's also convergent evolution to consider. Plenty of species that look similar or have similar elements that aren't really related to each other. They have different genes at work, but those genes were selected from similar evolutionary pressures.

>>715327827
They do though, it just sounds like
>BAAAAAA
and isn't very intimidating...

>>715313864
>>715321348
That actually sounds like a real animal.

>>715317318
>>715286901
??????????
They were THIS size? I thought they were big

Why are the only people drawing dinosaurs now furry troons. Like what did I miss

>>715328614
They varied, some could get larger than that, but most of the fossils we've got are of them when they were very young.

>>715317318
He is literally me.

>>715279019 (OP)
Date nigga huge. There's no way it could fly

>>715326520
Country crock

>>715285317
I bet they look more like hippos.

>>715327797
Tick-tack-tick-tick-tack = fuck off my water land nigger

>>715285317
100%. Especially Estemmenosuchus

>>715298281
RUDE!

>>715279162
Yes.

>>715329964
Meant for: >>715329816

>>715282359
>has fins
>swims
they're fish

>Dinosaurs look that way because..... They just do ok????

>>715305770
That's fucked, why do these niggers do that?

>>715330079
Baron from Dune vibes

>>715330135
>Nooo my heckin dolphinerinos!

>>715330135
it's dey culchea
there is no excuse, especially for countries like japan and norway that whale hunt with exceedingly efficient modern equipment, but they're civilized people and not nogs or abos so it's based or based
inuits and shit can get away with it because they hunt small numbers on shitty wooden boats for subsistence

>>715282192
God is the same as nature and evolution is the same as creation. think about it...