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Paleobiology thread.

>> No.1562092
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opabinia up in this bitch!

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>>1562077

>> No.1562104

>>1562092

We also both have Hallucigenia in our images.

>> No.1562119
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My favourite.

>> No.1562138

>>1562119

... Get that Lovecraftian junk out of here. You're fooling no-one.

Something that always blows my mind is how small most Cambrian stuff is. Anomalocaris is a metre long, but Opabinia's only just shy of 10 cm.

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>>1562138

Forgot to add this

>> No.1562154

>>1562119

It is that flying Yuggoth-fungus creature. You are fooling no one.

>> No.1562196
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Hmm... How about an ancient, badass Hyena (from an extinct family known as Percrocutidae?

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

Specifically, the pictured species is Dinocrocuta gigantea.

(inb4 NOT OLD ENOUGH. Fuck you; I like mammals. It's not our fault we were late-comers to the party)

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>>1562196

I can appreciate it. I tend to prefer ancient sea-life and various plants (and fungi), myself.

Here's a prototaxite cross-section under a microscope. They were giant fungi that lived between 420-370 mya. Grew up to 8m high.

It's hard to imagine primitive landscapes. No grass, after all...

>> No.1562295

fuck yeah, i love paleopbiology

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sea life is fascinating, ancient or not. shit is intimidating though. and alien.

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I like foxes myself.

>> No.1562419
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This thread is now about foxes

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I liek foxs 2 :3

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Bumping for foxes

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NO MORE FOXES

>> No.1562671

>>1562665
FUCK YEAH MEGALODON

SHITS SO BIG IT CAN EAT A FUCKING TRUCK!!

>> No.1562687

>>1562665

Somehow, it always bothered me how a creature of marginal intelligence could be so large, powerful and deadly.

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amidoinitrite?