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Post by Talira Greycrest on Jun 18, 2021 6:01:25 GMT
This animal is a primitive baleen whale from Australia: Name: JanjucetusPronunciation: Jan-joo-see-tusMeaning of name: "Jan Ju whale", after the Victorian town of Jan Juc, near where its fossils were discovered.Species: J. hunderiSize: Uncertain due to a lack of fossils, but is estimated to have measured around 3.5 metres long.Family: Mammalodontidae.Diet: CarnivoreFirst fossils found: Known only from a single, almost-complete skull discovered near the Victorian town of Jan Juc sometime during the late 90s. Named by Erich Fitzgerald in 2006. Unlike modern baleen whales, Janjucetus had teeth and was a hunter rather than a filter-feeder.Lived: 25 million years ago during the Chattian stage of the Late Oligocene in the oceans of southeast Australia.
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Post by Tix Mascot on Jun 18, 2021 18:26:58 GMT
Not too different from modern whales or fish.
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Post by Talira Greycrest on Jun 19, 2021 5:50:54 GMT
A late-surviving terrestrial crocodile: Name: QuinkanaPronunciation: Quin-kah-nahMeaning of name: "Native spirit". Species: Q. fortirostrum, Q. babarra, Q. meboldi, Q. timaraSize: Depending on species, measured between 2 and 6 metres long. Largest species are thought to have weighed up to 1 metric tonne.Family: Mekosuchinae (a subfamily of Crocodylidae)Diet: CarnivoreFirst fossils found: Known from several specimens discovered in northern Australia (Queensland, Northern Territory). Q. fortirostrum named by Australian palaeontologist, Ralph E. Molnar in 1981. Q. timara named in 1994. Q. babarra named in 1996. Q. meboldi named in 1997.Lived: Depending on species, lived between 24 million years and 40,000 years ago from the Chattian stage of the Late Oligocene to the Chibanian stage of the Middle Pleistocene in what is now northern Australia. |
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Post by Joey12 on Jun 19, 2021 6:56:53 GMT
Little bigger than an elephant but looks like the start of one.
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Post by Tix Mascot on Jun 19, 2021 15:22:47 GMT
Looks scary to me and could probably outrun me, too, with those long legs.
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Post by Talira Greycrest on Jun 20, 2021 1:43:29 GMT
This animal is a giant early rabbit: Name: NuralagusPronunciation: Noor-ah-lay-gusMeaning of name: "Minorcan hare". Also known as the Minorcan giant rabbit.Species: N. rexSize: 90cm long and weighed up to 23kgs.Family: LeporidaeDiet: Herbivore. Fed on low-growing vegetation.First fossils found: Known from several partial specimens discovered on the island of Minorca. Named by J. Quintana, M. Köhler and S. Moyà-Solà in 2011.Lived: 5 to 3 million years ago from the Messinian stage of the Late Miocene through to the Piacenzian stage of the Late Pliocene on what is now the island of Minorca. |
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Post by Tix Mascot on Jun 20, 2021 14:12:36 GMT
Did it have a hard shield like turtles or does it just look that way?
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Post by Talira Greycrest on Jun 21, 2021 1:45:45 GMT
Did it have a hard shield like turtles or does it just look that way? No, it didn't have a shell. |
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Post by Joey12 on Jun 21, 2021 3:15:04 GMT
Wonder it it tasted like chicken? Guess we will never know that.
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Post by Talira Greycrest on Jun 21, 2021 5:51:26 GMT
Here we have something that looks like an extra-large guinea pig! Name: PhoberomysPronunciation: Foe-be-rom-misMeaning of name: "Fear mouse".Species: P. burmeisteri, P. pattersoni, P. insolitaSize: Depending on species, measured up to 3 metres long, 1.5 metres tall and weighing up to 700kgs.Family: Dinomyidae.Diet: Herbivore. Fed on low-growing vegetation.First fossils found: Known only from a small number of specimens, including one almost-complete skeleton, discovered in Brazil, Argentina, Peru and Venezuela. P. burmeisteri named in 1891. P. insolita named in 1940. P. pattersoni named in 1980.Lived: Depending on species, lived from 9 to 6.8 million years ago during the Tortonian and Messinian stages of the Late Miocene in what is now Venezuela, Argentina, Brazil and Peru.
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Post by Tix Mascot on Jun 21, 2021 17:11:36 GMT
Capybara is a modern animal, right?
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Post by Talira Greycrest on Jun 22, 2021 1:33:08 GMT
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Post by Talira Greycrest on Jun 22, 2021 4:59:21 GMT
The real-life bigfoot: Name: GigantopithecusPronunciation: Jy-gan-toe-pith-e-kusMeaning of name: "Giant ape".Species: G. blackiSize: Estimated to have stood around 3 metres tall and weighing up to 300kgs. It's likely that males were much larger than females.Family: Hominidae.Diet: Herbivore. Likely fed on both high and low-growing vegetation.First fossils found: Known only from a few mandibles and hundreds of teeth discovered in southern China. Named by German-Dutch palaeontologist, Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald in 1935.Lived: 2.6 million to 11,700 during the entire Pleistocene era in what is now southern China.
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Post by Joey12 on Jun 22, 2021 9:23:15 GMT
Hmm Big Foot.
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Post by Tix Mascot on Jun 22, 2021 14:49:10 GMT
Some crypto-zoologists suggest that bigfoot sightings can actually be of gigantopithecus that may have survived and managed to remain undiscovered.
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