C.K. Burch's Blog, page 73
December 22, 2015
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Female Miniatures
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The Titanoboa, is a 48ft long snake dating from around 60-58million years ago. It had a rib cage 2ft wide, allowing it to eat whole crocodiles, and surrounding the ribcage were muscles so powerful that it could crush a rhino. Titanoboa was so big it couldn’t even spend long amounts of time on land, because the force of gravity acting on it would cause it to suffocate under its own weight.
I’m so glad they aren’t around
omg me too. I’m scared enough of 26 ft long anacondas. I’m so happy Megalodons, those giant sharks, aren’t alive either
Praise natural selection
I remember watching Walking with Beasts or something similar, or some British tv show about evolution
The subject was something like a 12 foot long water scorpion
I was so startled by its sudden appearance and narration that I yelped: “12 fucking feet?!?! I’m fucking glad it’s extinct!”
Dude, prehistory was home to some fucking TERRIFYING creatures. For some reason, everything back then was enormous and scary. Extinction doesn’t always have to be a bad thing!
And Poppy, what you saw was an arthropod known as Pterygotus (it was actually featured in Walking With Monsters). Not only was it as big (or maybe even bigger) than your average human, it had a stinger the size of a lightbulb. REALLY glad that bugger isn’t around anymore.
Also, Megalodon deserves to be mention again, because just hearing its name makes me want to never be submerged in water ever again.
GOD, I HATE THIS POST. HOW DO WE EVEN KNOW THAT SHIT ISN’T STILL AROUND? LURKING? EVOLVING? WE DON’T. WE DON’T KNOW SHIT ABOUT SHIT DOWN THERE. THE OCEAN IS A PRIMEVAL HELLSCAPE NIGHTMARE AND WE ALL JUST DIP OUR STUPID FRAGILE UNPROTECTED FETUS BODIES AROUND THE EDGES OF IT LIKE THAT’S NORMAL. FUCK THE OCEAN.
this is so relevant to my interests
It wasn’t just the predators. North Carolina was once home to giant ground sloths…
THAT IS A GODDAMNED LEAF-EATING SLOTH.
We’ve got a skeleton of one of these fuckers at the museum downtown, and man, just being NEAR it is unsettling.
DON’T FORGET PREHISTORIC WHALES, SOME OF THOSE FUCKERS WERE TERRIFYING
AMBULOCETUS WAS AMPHIBIOUS AND PRETTY BADASS
BASILOSAURUS WAS THIS GIANT REPTILIAN CETACEAN THAT PROBABLY SWAM LIKE A DUMB EEL BECAUSE OF ITS TINY FLUKES BUT THIS FUCKER WAS 60 FEET LONG AND AT THE TOP OF THE MARINE FOOD CHAIN
AND THEN THERE’S MY FAVORITE, ZYGOPHYSETER, WHICH WAS THIS HUGE EARLY SPERM WHALE THAT ATE SHARKS AND OTHER WHALES
IT WAS NOTHING BUT TEETH
The reason why the animals in the prehistoric times were so big was because there was much more oxygen in the atmosphere if I recall correctly. Because there was so much oxygen and so few carbon gasses, life on earth was able to grow to terrifying lengths and heights, don’t forget how giant the bugs were.
I have never seen so much prime nope in a single post
Also important to note that megalodon is theorized to still be alive,possibly living in the darkest depths of the ocean. They haven’t found signs of its extinction
^Its not a very popular theory. Possible, but unlikely, it would have had to evolve to live in the dark–so large eyes or no eyes, bioluminescence, and a less dense body: also, animals of that size require large amounts of food, of which there is little in the deep sea, so he probably evolved into a much smaller shark.
But let me introduce you to some other greats.
Behold the giant prehistoric elk of Ireland
And then there’s the giant armadillo, which prehistoric humans may have used to make rudimentary shelters according to some researchers
And the dire wolf wasn’t actually all that big compared to our wolves
And horses have actually…gotten a lot bigger. A lot.
Ye Olde Sea Turtle
Annnnnnd crocodiles (this isn’t even the biggest one, i kid you not)
Australia had giant marsupials. Picture huge fucking wombats and kangaroos.
I love Australia’s giant marsupials! There’s an underground cave in south Australia that contains a super rich expanse of really well preserved fossils that paint a very clear picture of various species that lived and how they evolved. There were some kickass animals back then, other giant mammals too like this nifty giant dingo type thing who was at one point the top predator who ate all the marsupials.
New Zealand had (until quite recently actually, humans lived with it) a giant flightless bird that could get as big as a house. It was called the Moa and was hunted out of extinction.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moa
Ugh this post makes me so happy
Reblogging for reference
Four Reasons Dress Codes Exist
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some more black and white reasons to worship Al Williamson.
Williamson did most of the art for the Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi Marvel adaptations and in my head a lot of how I remember those movies is given over to Williamson’s depictions.
Also, look at that fucking Blade Runner art.
