That's because all pop-culture wants to peddle is the same 5 or so dinosaur species from "mah childhood" for the most part.
A lot of people are unaware of how diverse crocodilians were at one point.
Some of them could possibly run you down like lion. ...Some things, I'm glad are extinct.
TIL : Modern animals existed in the past, and they were enormous ! Far from the kid-sized ones we have today.
So, even evolution is capable of downsizing huh.
The front ribs look like they still have the rudimentary shape of gill plates.Eryops
A big fat 10ft long salamander with needle teeth around it's maw and 3 pairs of backwards facing fangs on the roof of it's mouth.
outside of these dinosaurs, these animals all come after the meteor 🧐Man I wish these animals were still around. FUCK that goddamn meteor.
Well then where the fuck is Dunkleosteus? It was a predatory fish around as long as a great white shark, except its head was covered in armor, and instead of teeth it had sharp bone plates. Its skull alone is the stuff of nightmares. Yet has this badass ever appeared in a movie?
if in new haven one day ; definitely head to the Peabody and see this specimen(the photographed one!) with your own eyes; one of the coolest things about being around this uni edit; lol this has to be a poke go spot right?You'd think a turtle the size of a goddamn car would be more exciting to film makers. Only example of an Archelon I can remember in media was "Chased by Sea Monsters", which also had Dunkleosteus. But I feel like that doesn't really count.
EDIT: Oh wait, it also had a Pokemon.
This thing must have a serious drawback somewhere, because it looks like a winner on the killer atributes.A lot of people are unaware of how diverse crocodilians were at one point.
Some of them could possibly run you down like lion. ...Some things, I'm glad are extinct.
Yeah, I was hoping this thread was about giant ground sloths.
Probably it's inability to survive giant extinction level events.This thing must have a serious drawback somewhere, because it looks like a winner on the killer atributes.
Not evolution, humanity. Wherever we went we wiped out the megafauna in a few thousand years. The only ones to survive are in the ocean or Africa, where they learnt to deal with our shit.TIL : Modern animals existed in the past, and they were enormous ! Far from the kid-sized ones we have today.
So, even evolution is capable of downsizing huh.
What's reality doing ripping off Final Fantasy?The Demon Duck of Doom, aka Bullockornis. Might have been a hunter, might have been an herbivore there is debate
New Zealand had a species of eagle that was big enough to, and probably did on occasion, carry away human children.
It's really sad when you think about how many species existed and died long before we ever did and also so many that existed and we killed them. Fuck humans man.
Not all that dissimilar to the modern (and very, very endangered) Saiga:Pretty much any unique critter that existed after dinosaurs but before humans probably qualifies.
Of those not mentioned yet ITT...
Macrauchenia. Literally just a Star Wars alien with ears.
What's reality doing ripping off Final Fantasy?
Opabinia
Jaekelopterus
Here's a bonus!
Hallucegenia
They really do, in fact it's possible some of those organisms may of survived on some alien world, well theoretically anyway.Cambrian period really does look like concept art for extra-terrestrial life
Halszkaraptor was a dromaeosaur ("raptor" dinosaur) playing a duck
Titanaboa, although there have been movies with similar ideas like Anaconda, but those weren't big enough.
Gorgonops is cool looking too. IMO
LOLLooks like they'd make great additions to Dino Crisis reboot.
Looks like Jar Jar Binks' ancestor.