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bigger ancestral world; gigantic land , air and sea creatures evolving alongside early man
Topic Started: Sep 4 2010, 11:38 AM (734 Views)
Adman
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i had this thought for a long while now. what if the human race evolved alongside creatures of dinosaurian proportions? and if so, how will it affect us today? leave your responses below.
Projects and concepts that I have stewing around
Extended Pleistocene- An alternate future where man died out, and the megafauna would continue to thrive (may or may not include a bit about certain future sapients)
Inverted World- An alternate timeline where an asteroid hit during the Barremian, causing an extinction event before the Maastrichtian. Dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and notosuchians make it to the present, along with a host of other animals.
Badania- Alien planet that has life at a devonian stage of development, except it exists in the present day.
Ido- Alien world where hoppers (derived flightless ballonts) and mouthpart-legged beasts are prevalent.
Leto- Life on a moon orbiting a gas giant with an erratic orbit; experiences extremes of hot and cold.
The Park- ???
Deeper Impact- a world where the K-Pg extinction wipes out crocodilians, mammals, and birds; squamates, choristoderes, and turtles inherit the earth.
World of Equal Opportunity- alternate history where denisovans come across Beringia and interact with native fauna. Much of the Pleistocene fauna survives, and the modern humans that end up crossing into North America do not overhunt the existing animals. 10,000 years later, civilizations exist that are on par with European and Asian societies.
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They would probably kill us before we even have the chance to evolve.
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Sep 4 2010, 11:58 AM
They would probably kill us before we even have the chance to evolve.
i'm just sayin. how will it affect us today. will we have discovered flight earlier? would we have domesticated giant herbivores for battle, food, ETC
Projects and concepts that I have stewing around
Extended Pleistocene- An alternate future where man died out, and the megafauna would continue to thrive (may or may not include a bit about certain future sapients)
Inverted World- An alternate timeline where an asteroid hit during the Barremian, causing an extinction event before the Maastrichtian. Dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and notosuchians make it to the present, along with a host of other animals.
Badania- Alien planet that has life at a devonian stage of development, except it exists in the present day.
Ido- Alien world where hoppers (derived flightless ballonts) and mouthpart-legged beasts are prevalent.
Leto- Life on a moon orbiting a gas giant with an erratic orbit; experiences extremes of hot and cold.
The Park- ???
Deeper Impact- a world where the K-Pg extinction wipes out crocodilians, mammals, and birds; squamates, choristoderes, and turtles inherit the earth.
World of Equal Opportunity- alternate history where denisovans come across Beringia and interact with native fauna. Much of the Pleistocene fauna survives, and the modern humans that end up crossing into North America do not overhunt the existing animals. 10,000 years later, civilizations exist that are on par with European and Asian societies.
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Dude, dinosaurs and other giant animals kept us small. If something the size of dinosaurs ever evolved alongside us, you can bet we'll still be small mouse-sized primates. We're lucky enough to be considered megafauna.
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Hmm well human civilization would be isolated into compounds. We would probably be much more warlike due to the harsh nature of our surroundings. Each little safezone would probably be very different culturally from others. The only contact to each other would probably be traders who would probably look mre like an armoured company than a bunch of merchants.
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Actually it wasn't because of their size, but because of their significance within every ecosystem. The giants did not keep us from growing, rather, it was the small species that kept us small.

Listing something as dinosaurian proportion is not a good unit of measurement at all, we could go from the tiniest Microraptor, to the largest Argentinosaurus.

Had just the largest of sauropods persisted (it's an example, they would've been the first to go in any such case) mammals (or crocdilians) would've grown in size and ecological significance ;) Though I will say we wouldn't have evolved at all, even with small changes in the past the present would be significantly altered, so rather than being human, we'd be some sort of other mammalian intelligence



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i was talking about small sauroupod proportions.
Projects and concepts that I have stewing around
Extended Pleistocene- An alternate future where man died out, and the megafauna would continue to thrive (may or may not include a bit about certain future sapients)
Inverted World- An alternate timeline where an asteroid hit during the Barremian, causing an extinction event before the Maastrichtian. Dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and notosuchians make it to the present, along with a host of other animals.
Badania- Alien planet that has life at a devonian stage of development, except it exists in the present day.
Ido- Alien world where hoppers (derived flightless ballonts) and mouthpart-legged beasts are prevalent.
Leto- Life on a moon orbiting a gas giant with an erratic orbit; experiences extremes of hot and cold.
The Park- ???
Deeper Impact- a world where the K-Pg extinction wipes out crocodilians, mammals, and birds; squamates, choristoderes, and turtles inherit the earth.
World of Equal Opportunity- alternate history where denisovans come across Beringia and interact with native fauna. Much of the Pleistocene fauna survives, and the modern humans that end up crossing into North America do not overhunt the existing animals. 10,000 years later, civilizations exist that are on par with European and Asian societies.
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The smallest sauropods were island dwarfs about the size of mammoths so. . .
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no. i'm talking about mainland size small. and even then, that's pretty huge.
Projects and concepts that I have stewing around
Extended Pleistocene- An alternate future where man died out, and the megafauna would continue to thrive (may or may not include a bit about certain future sapients)
Inverted World- An alternate timeline where an asteroid hit during the Barremian, causing an extinction event before the Maastrichtian. Dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and notosuchians make it to the present, along with a host of other animals.
Badania- Alien planet that has life at a devonian stage of development, except it exists in the present day.
Ido- Alien world where hoppers (derived flightless ballonts) and mouthpart-legged beasts are prevalent.
Leto- Life on a moon orbiting a gas giant with an erratic orbit; experiences extremes of hot and cold.
The Park- ???
Deeper Impact- a world where the K-Pg extinction wipes out crocodilians, mammals, and birds; squamates, choristoderes, and turtles inherit the earth.
World of Equal Opportunity- alternate history where denisovans come across Beringia and interact with native fauna. Much of the Pleistocene fauna survives, and the modern humans that end up crossing into North America do not overhunt the existing animals. 10,000 years later, civilizations exist that are on par with European and Asian societies.
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How about giving an exact size? Because depending on the time and place even on the "mainland" you can have 12 meter long "dwarfs" like Dicraeosaurus or more than 30 meter long giants like Supersaurus.


And just in case you didn´t know, during the Pliocene our ancestors in our own time had to face some pretty big animals; think of Deinotherium which may have weighed over 10 tons and may have been over 5 meters tall.
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Honestly, if big animals were around not only it is still likely we would evolve, but we would make them extinct anyway
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Yeah... there is better chance of humans making large organisms extinct than large animals making humans extinct....
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