What is your favorite prehistory period or epoch, Veeky Forums? Cenozoic? Mesozoic? Paleozoic?

and there is less oxygen in the water now?

yes

because the fish are smaller

really makes you think

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

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.

>diffused oxygen is the same as the dihydrogenmonoxides.

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

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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Can we turn this into a paleoart thread?

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

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?

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

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.

>those dreamy eyes

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 case, a century and a half.

I grew up with a lot of outdated dinosaur books, show the outdated designs are burned into my mind

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I grew up with a lot of outdated dinosaur books, show the outdated designs are burned into my mind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

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.

>snorkels on top of their heads lmao

Delete this.

>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.

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

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

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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Fossil from my trip to Duluth.

Stop giving the trip attention you retard

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

>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.

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

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

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.

Isn't Tarbosaurus a Tyrannosaurid?

whoops, forgot image

>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.

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"

Trilobites. This is all.

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

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.
youtube.com/watch?v=slRa5ZYyLmE

This video should have been titled "Shipping into Tyrannosaurus"

Helenic Greeze... 8/

Lol DEEZ NUTZ

>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

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.

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.

>Protestants believe absolute nonsense
ftfy

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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?

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

youtube.com/watch?v=_KVFDfv6R2M

Are those whales shitting in that shark's mouth?

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

Deep sea creatures have hardly evolved since the prehistoric era.

The one with the dingosnores

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.

TRIGGERED

yeah

kill that upitty nigger

>posting the featherless biped version

disgusting

BEHEAD THOSE WHO CLAIM T-REX HAD FEATHERS

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

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.

Remember, dinosaurs still walk among us.

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

You don't get sarcasm,, do you?

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

RIP giant sea scorpion never forget

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

Maybe could be :/

That thing never existed, right? Right?

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

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I'm hopefully assisting with a megafauna dig in Nov

What kinda shovel you plan on using?

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

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.
the cambrian was a strange time...

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

>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.

looks like an Opabinia

Where at?

This pic is so comfy for some reason

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

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

Vintage paleoart?

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.

Not if you hold your breath.