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There's some gorgeous life in prehistory, and it's worthy of talking about. Got a favourite species? Favourite era in history? Anything evocative that brings up that primordial feeling one gets when pondering that ancient past like a forest or piece of music or a picture?

>> No.1176008

I ain't no historian brah I'm looking to the future.

>> No.1176014

>>1176008

To know where you're going, you must first know where you've been.

The nearest alien world is the one that was here before we were born.

>> No.1176406

This needs bumping.

>> No.1176410

Always been interested in that period in time where insects were HUGE due to abundance of oxygen, and basically prey on our ancestors

>> No.1176419

>>1176410
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carboniferous

>> No.1176428
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1176428

>>1176410

The Devonian, y'mean? Especially the Carboniferous period. Huge stuff then.

>> No.1176432
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1176432

Giant Orthocone. Picture is from some game or something, but I believe they were about that size.

>> No.1176451

>>1176428
WWM is fucking awesome

>> No.1176456

>>1176419
Awesome period. Devonian, Carboniferous and Permian are the best. Love me some ammonites, trilobites, lobe-finned fish, lung fish and awesome arthropods.

>> No.1176460
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1176460

Sup, Hallucigenia here.

Also, anyone have some badass prehistoric desktops?

>> No.1176465

super bump

>> No.1176468
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1176468

archaeopteryx is my favorit

it's one badass animal you don't want to fuck with

>> No.1176472

the first birds that was brave enough to develop wings and the ability to fly

>> No.1176476

>>1176001

ANOMALOCARES FUCK YEA

>> No.1176478
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1176478

Favorite era: Holocene
Favorite species: Homo sapiens

>> No.1176493

i used to like the dinosaurs

>> No.1176502

>>1176476

Oh yeah! Also pictured: Hallucigenia, Marella, and a species I can't remember the name of.

Anyone who can should buy Prehistoric Life: The Definitive Visual History Of Life On Earth by DK books. Best book I've got for images of this sort of thing.

>> No.1176515
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1176515

i'm not sure the Genus and species but this is my fav dinosaur

>> No.1176576

>>1176460
WHICH WAY IS UP

>> No.1176638

>>1176576

proof that first life came from space, no up or down

>> No.1176675

>>1176515
That monster looks like Malachai(sp) from a Castlevania game on the DS.

>> No.1176676

>>1176638

>implying bacteria have an up side

>> No.1176717
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1176717

I don't know why, but I think that these things are the fucking coolest.

>> No.1176741

>>1176515

inb4 thats cthulhu

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1176755

>>1176741

>> No.1176759

>>1176001

I love anomalocaris, so cuuuute! :3 I wanna catch one and feed it things to a-nom on.

>> No.1176805
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1176805

Rhino-saurus fuck yeah!

>> No.1176827

Any kind of Dromaeosaur. I'm obsessed with all of them. Such perfect elegant graceful yet efficient forms.

Terror birds are cool too. The cambrain explosion, PT extinction are both really exciting/interesting.

My favourite era is Jurassic/Cretaceous boundary- look up the world map. Shit bricks at all the tropical oceans and shallow seas. Beaches and rainforests everywhere with shallow lagoons and lakes.