Dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures

[Gilfryd]

More SUE -

Reminds me of my dog with a chew toy.

[Immortan Jonesy]

First evidence of dinocancer 

A re-analysis of a shin bone belonging to a horned dinosaur from the Cretaceous period has revealed signs of a malignant tumour, in what's considered a first for dinosaur palaeontology.

https://twitter.com/PeterBergin/status/1291008839660318722

[Gr33n M4n]

Longisquama

This creature was what has been called a diapsid. The diapsids were a reptilian subclass which eventually would evolve into the most important reptile subclass. But it began as a small group of climbing and gliding reptiles. The diapsids lived in forests located on the supercontinent Pangea during the Triassic period. Thus, Pangea was the place Longisquama would have called home.

[Immortan Jonesy]

Longisquama

This creature was what has been called a diapsid. The diapsids were a reptilian subclass which eventually would evolve into the most important reptile subclass. But it began as a small group of climbing and gliding reptiles. The diapsids lived in forests located on the supercontinent Pangea during the Triassic period. Thus, Pangea was the place Longisquama would have called home.

Aww the good old days when nature was drunk 



▶Hallucigenia



▶Amargasaurus

[Gr33n M4n]

The Archaeopteryx, sometimes known as the first bird, is what scientists believe is the most primitive bird to have ever existed. The creature lived during the late Jurassic Period in a southern region of present-day Germany, at a time when Europe was nothing but an archipelago of islands.

[Immortan Jonesy]

Considered one of the largest, if not the largest, carnivorous dinosaurs of all time (between 15 and 16 meters), Spinosaurus aegyptiacus has a rich history of discovery, destruction in World War II, new discoveries and studies. Until reaching what we know today about the animal. He was an aquatic theropod, with amphibian life habits.



"Here we present unambiguous evidence for an aquatic propulsive structure in a dinosaur, the giant theropod Spinosaurus aegyptiacus. This dinosaur has a tail with an unexpected and unique shape that consists of extremely tall neural spines and elongate chevrons, which forms a large, flexible fin-like organ capable of extensive lateral excursion. Using a robotic flapping apparatus to measure undulatory forces in physical models of different tail shapes, we show that the tail shape of Spinosaurus produces greater thrust and efficiency in water than the tail shapes of terrestrial dinosaurs and that these measures of performance are more comparable to those of extant aquatic vertebrates that use vertically expanded tails to generate forward propulsion while swimming.

These results are consistent with the suite of adaptations for an aquatic lifestyle and piscivorous diet that have previously been documented for Spinosaurus."

▶nature

Oh not to mention that Spino shared its habitat, in what is now Africa (when it was part of Pangea), with the also giant Carcharodontosaurus Saharicus 

[Gr33n M4n]

Meet Titanoboa,The 50-Foot Prehistoric Snake Of Nightmares


''Titanoboa was vaguely similar to modern-day constrictors, but only it was much larger. In fact, it is the largest species of snake that had ever lived on planet Earth. Titanoboa lived in South America during the Middle to Late Paleocene epoch, around 60 – 56 million years ago, a 5-million-year period immediately following the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event.''

''Much like Megalodon, Titanoboa was a solitary hunter, as it was large enough to hunt prey on its own. It only got together with other members of its kind during mating season.''

[Local Trouble]

[Gr33n M4n]

Joe Rogan has talked about this before with Graham Hancock. The idea that our species is much older than we think, and that we are suffering from amnesia. I personally believe that there's some truth to it.

[Local Trouble]

 

[Gr33n M4n]

I don't understand

[Local Trouble]

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/no-there-wasnt-an-advanced-civilization-12-000-years-ago/

[Gr33n M4n]

Michael Shermer is a professional skeptic. And they want to be right no matter what. He has since been proven wrong on the 12,000 impact theory, and there's now evidence for the impact.

[Local Trouble]

I'm aware of the impact, but his point about the impact wiping out all traces of an older advanced civilization still stands:

First, no matter how devastating an extraterrestrial impact might be, are we to believe that after centuries of flourishing every last tool, potsherd, article of clothing, and, presumably from an advanced civilization, writing, metallurgy and other technologies—not to mention trash—was erased? Inconceivable.

[Immortan Jonesy]

Indeed. Also, Graham Hancock may be a well-known woo woo magician, but he is not an academic in any field of what he intends to misinform people (Archaeology, Anthropology, Paleontology). There's not peer review, nor evidence supporting his claims. Plus, he's well know for underestimating ancient non-western cultures by attributing their achievements to an imaginary lost civilization of, lets say, more western-looking people.

Oh and Joe Rogan loves to flirt with conspiracy and pseudosciences. He's like a serious Alex Jones