This is a boring choice since there has been so much focus on the sarupods, but im gonna say Argentinasaurus.
Can you even comprehend its size? This thing had to eat every moment it was alive to facilitate its size. This thing was so big, it could knock over a T-Rex with its tail.
And this thing.. For everything to grow so supersize. Imagine how hot it must have been. Imagine the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The entire ecosystem on massive steroids.
I bet a human being would probably be sick from just trying to breathe the air. It would be so hot it would be unbearable. What else can explain the sheer size? 100 fucking tons. Elephants are between 4-7 Tons, and they spend all day eating too. It's completely ouragous. Gigantic doesn't describe these fucking things.
Could you explain to a layman, what is the connection between the content of the atmosphere and the size of such animals? Is it just that more CO2 means bigger plants which means bigger plant-eaters? 100 tons is just incomprehensibly huge for a land animal.. How did that thing support its own weight, let alone eat enough to survive?
I've always been a fan of Styracosaurs:
It's like the Super Shredder version of Triceratops.
Agreed.
Styracosaurus and Torosaurus >> Triceratops
I've always preferred the freaks in the dino families to their super common relatives. Spikes EVERYWHERE > regular frill.
He looks so evil, seriously.Just incredible.
Carnotaurus has always been my fav.
Yup.
He looks so evil, seriously.
He completely lacks elegance, but he's truly fucking scary.
For him, that's the same thing as Nanotyrannus.
Dracorex is also a juvenile Pachycephalosaurus.
Snakeneck
Apparently there aren't as much dinosaur species as we think there were:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQa11RMCeSI
Carnotaurus wasn't a bruiser like larger theropods, it was a sprinter that likely ran down prey like a modern day cheetah. Big arms would have been unnecessary weight for a dinosaur built for speed.But seriously, what were the arms even for?? They don't even look stable enough to help with mating or getting off the ground or anything! Unlike other large predators, once it fell, could it even get up??
But seriously, what were the arms even for?? They don't even look stable enough to help with mating or getting off the ground or anything! Unlike other large predators, once it fell, could it even get up??
Ok, give me a day or two to type up the OT. I'm gonna try and figure out how to do this since we're encompassing more than just dinosaurs. Dinos are my specialty.
Why not? They must have had more than enough musculature in their legs and the tail.But seriously, what were the arms even for?? They don't even look stable enough to help with mating or getting off the ground or anything! Unlike other large predators, once it fell, could it even get up??
Sweet!
TVtropes has some pretty nice useful notes pages on all kinds of different forms of prehistoric animals if you need some help.
Though they do lump the proto-mammals/stem-mammals (aka the Paleozoic non-mammalian synapsids like Dimetrodon) in with the non-dinosaurian reptiles which is more than a little irksome considering that synapsids didn't branch off from sauropsids and they even acknowledge this.
Despite this though, I remember most of the pages having good information and being pretty fun to read; I'd totally recommend using it as a guide, especially for non-dinosaurian prehistoric life.
Dinosaurs! A fun filled trip back in time.
Did anyone ever see this Fred Savage dinosaur video as a kid? It had the strangest tone, you couldn't replicate something like that today.
They're vestigial limbs. Once the Rex and the subspecies went bipedal, they no longer needed they're from legs and they shrunk over time.
Yas lol.NOT THE MAMA!
Spinosaurus. The only decent fossil of a spinosaurus was lost during WW2, which makes it even cooler. The museum holding it was right next door to the Nazi headquarters. Since then they've only found small pieces of them, nothing as complete as they had.
Spinosaurus. The only decent fossil of a spinosaurus was lost during WW2, which makes it even cooler. The museum holding it was right next door to the Nazi headquarters. Since then they've only found small pieces of them, nothing as complete as they had.
Didn't they just find some decent remains? The fossils (Shown in red, Berlin are orange) revealed some crazy stuff, especially the short legs, small pelvis, and flat feet.Neat. Such a shame stuff like that gets destroyed (of course, so much DID in WWII) but it stinks that they've barely found anything since.
Neat. Such a shame stuff like that gets destroyed (of course, so much DID in WWII) but it stinks that they've barely found anything since.
There are more complete specimens in the hands of private collectors, but these are equally inaccessible to science.
Here's something for the ankylosaurus lovers, an insanely well preserved fossil (the one they found in a tar sand mine years ago I believe):
Having to own full fossil skeletons would be neat, but too bad they couldn't also be researched in a sort of "you can keep these, but let us take a look at it too".
All of the Ankylosauria family.
Trust me, as someone who's actually see most of the Land Before Time sequels, you don't.I want this movie.
Here's something for the ankylosaurus lovers, an insanely well preserved fossil (the one they found in a tar sand mine years ago I believe):
Looks like some type of chaos tainted creature from a Warhammer 40k novel.
Trust me, as someone who's actually see most of the Land Before Time sequels, you don't.
Here's something for the ankylosaurus lovers, an insanely well preserved fossil (the one they found in a tar sand mine years ago I believe):
I've always been a fan of Styracosaurs:
It's like the Super Shredder version of Triceratops.
These are not animals that laypeople would just know about. With the latter, even I was like, "What the hell is that?" when I was playing FFXIII and had to look it up.