I'm bored. Let's have a prehistoric critters thread!

[BreweryYardRat]

Recently, I've developed a fondness for the giant Carboniferous millipede Arthropleura.




And of course, the old favorites:

Liopleurodon:



Sarcosuchus (crocodile):


Helicoprion:


Spinosaurus:


The Short-Faced Bear:


Argentavis magnificens (iron sketch replica):

[LostInAnomie]

1. GODZILLA!

[Forkboy]

5. I like how you capitalized his name

Gives him that bad ass vibe :)

[Forkboy]

2. We already have the coolest "dinosaur" in our avatars

[BreweryYardRat]

3. Didja know they named a Triassic theropod after him?

Seriously, no shit.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gojirasaurus

[Forkboy]

4. Holy Radioactivity!

How cool is that? :)

[styersc]

6. Really don't know anything about prehistoric critters...

... but I just love those Geico Neandethal guys. And I love the music playing when the one Neanderthal is noticing the caveman sign at the airport, when he's on the mechanical sidewalk, carrying the tennis racquet bag.

[BreweryYardRat]

7. If you can find it, read L. Sprague de Camp's "The Gnarly Man."

An excellent story about a Neanderthal who made it to the modern era.

And Geico's cavemen look a little closer to Homo erectus than Homo neanderthalensis.

[pokerfan]

23. I'll have the roast duck with the mango salsa

(I think it's a squash racket on the moving sidewalk.)

Anyway, favorite prehistoric creatures. The cambrian explosion had some interesting ones but I prefer the far more recent Pleistocene epoch, especially in north america. The two million years ending about 10K years ago.

Ground Sloths
Dire Wolf
American Lion
Saber-tothed cats
Mastadons
Mammoths
Camels

[Left Is Write]

8. How about this one....

[BreweryYardRat]

9. You can never get anything taken seriously in the Lounge.

And yet I love it anyway.

[Left Is Write]

11. I took you seriously.

But my prehistoric critter knowledge is lacking, and I couldn't have come up with the kinds of cool pictures you did.

Which, by the way, were very cool.

[mainegreen]

10. Anomalocaris!

[BreweryYardRat]

12. Nifty.

I thought that it had five eyes, but obviously, I was mistaken. So what Cambrian critter had that particular fluke of evolution?

[mainegreen]

13. They're part of the Anomalocarid group, that sadly went extinct.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anomalocarid

[BreweryYardRat]

14. kick

[Solon]

15. Microraptor...

Body plan of Microraptor:



Meglalodon:

[BreweryYardRat]

16. Pic #3 is inaccurate.

Megalodon didn't evolve until the Miocene, long after mosasaurs went extinct.

[Solon]

17. Your right, of course, but I was short on time, and thought it was the best picture...

I could find on short notice, to be honest, Megalodon probably hunted these:



This is a Cetotherium, an extinct species of whale.

[eppur_se_muova]

18. Wiwaxia!

Isn't it adorable? :D

[BreweryYardRat]

20. The Pre-Cambrian/Cambrian was WEIRD.

'Nuff said.

[petronius]

19. Stromosaurus!

[BreweryYardRat]

21. See statement upthread about nothing getting taken seriously. N/T

[LeftyMom]

22. This is the first known cetaecean

Pakicetus:



Obviously, not so marine adapted, but he's got the teeth and ears of a whale. Amphibious examples such as Ambulocetus came next, then creatures what were more obviously whale-like in form.

[BreweryYardRat]

25. Pretty cool, thanks!

The only pictures of Pakicetus I've seen before now made him look much more like just a whale with legs.

Right click, save as.

[dropkickpa]

24. Archaeopteryx is a favorite from childhood