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Nov 6 2016, 07:16 PM
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Zebras lived in the jurassic.
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Permian bears.
The references are out of control.
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Sphenodonts are actually highly derived pelycosaurian synapsids.
(wink wink, nudge nudge, ;D)
*internal screaming*
A few hundred thousand years prior to the P-T mass extinction, a sapient species of therapsids appeared; although they caused a significant amount of ecological damage, in their later years they managed to reverse a significant deal of it due to adoption of a highly environmentalist ideaology. Upon the species reaching high-tech status, they became aware that in a few millennia the combined forces of Pangea forming and the eventual eruption of what are now known as the Siberian traps would cause an extinction capable of killing them all off; as a result, several high-tech groups pursued a policy of space colonization, taking great care to leave as little a mark on the pristine void as possible.
After a few hundred years a colony on the dark side of the Moon had become well established, but disaster struck - a terrorist group unleashed a weaponized methanogenic archean into the oceans, causing mass deoxygenation and the collapse of oceanic ecosystems. Coupled with the unexpectedly early eruption of the Siberian Traps, all Earthly populations of the sophont were destroyed. The moonside group, now alone in the universe, decided to leave behind the Solar System and spread life across the universe, abandoning their colony on the dark side of the Moon.
Many millions of years later, nigh-unrecognizeable descendants of these therapsids returned to their home system to see that life had managed to recover on Earth and create myriad forms, including many that had not existed in the time of their presence - massive seafaring life and flying vertebrates, for instance. Looking down, they also noticed that the synapsids had not only reclaimed their former rule over Earth, but also had begun to produce another sapient species - far different in appearance, but just as intelligent. They decided to guide the progression of this species from afar, the end goal being to help them along in their advancement so that they might join them in the cosmos at some point. Never would they intervene in a war, but perhaps merely sporadically drop a reminder that there was always something more to learn, somewhere to expand.
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Nov 6 2016, 07:20 PM
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-Azdarchid pterosaurs were beginning to compete more seriously with birds towards the end of the Cretaceous and were starting to take back some previously-lost niches from them; given time, they may have relegated them to a far more obscure role in the global ecosystem. I feel a JohnFaa tongue lashing coming.
Flying ain't a niche yo.
Dinosaurs survived the K/Pg, but just couldn't compete with large mammals.
Bats evolved in the Cretaceous.
Rodents are multituberculates.
Ratites have a single origin, and rafted around the world.
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Nov 6 2016, 07:52 PM
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Myriapods are actually derived hexapods
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Quotes "Arthropod respiratory systems aren't really "inefficient", they're just better suited to their body size. It would be quite inefficient for a tiny creature that can easily get all the oxygen it needs through passive diffusion to have a respiratory system that wastes energy on muscles that pump air into sacs. (Hence why lungless salamanders, uniquely miniscule and hyperabundant tetrapods, have ditched their lungs in favor of breathing with their skin and buccal mucous membranes.) But large, active insects already use muscles to pump air in and out of their spiracles, and I don't see why their tracheae couldn't develop pseudo- lungs if other conditions pressured them to grow larger."-HangingTheif
"Considering the lifespans of modern non- insect arthropods (decade-old old millipedes, 50 year old tarantulas, 100+ year old lobsters) I wouldn't be surprised if Arthropleura had a lifespan exceeding that of a large testudine"-HangingTheif
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"He's the leader of the bunch You know his Coconut Gun is finally back to fire in spurts. His Coconut Gun Can make you smile If he shoots ya it's firing in spurts. His Coconut Gun Is bigger, faster, stronger too! He's the gun member of the Coconut Crew! HUH!
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"In Summary: Piss on Lovecraft's racist grave by making lewds of Cthulhu and Nyarlathotep.
Then eat arby's and embrace the void."-Kamineigh
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Nov 6 2016, 08:19 PM
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Nov 6 2016, 08:29 PM
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Nov 6 2016, 08:41 PM
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Nautilus are actually derived gastropods.
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Projects Punga: A terraformed world with no vertebrates Last one crawling: The last arthropod
ARTH-6810: A world without vertebrates (It's ded, but you can still read I guess)
Potential ideas- Swamp world: A world covered in lakes, with the largest being caspian sized. Nematozoic: After a mass extinction of ultimate proportions, a single species of nematode is the only surviving animal. Tri-devonian: A devonian like ecosystem with holocene species on three different continents.
Quotes "Arthropod respiratory systems aren't really "inefficient", they're just better suited to their body size. It would be quite inefficient for a tiny creature that can easily get all the oxygen it needs through passive diffusion to have a respiratory system that wastes energy on muscles that pump air into sacs. (Hence why lungless salamanders, uniquely miniscule and hyperabundant tetrapods, have ditched their lungs in favor of breathing with their skin and buccal mucous membranes.) But large, active insects already use muscles to pump air in and out of their spiracles, and I don't see why their tracheae couldn't develop pseudo- lungs if other conditions pressured them to grow larger."-HangingTheif
"Considering the lifespans of modern non- insect arthropods (decade-old old millipedes, 50 year old tarantulas, 100+ year old lobsters) I wouldn't be surprised if Arthropleura had a lifespan exceeding that of a large testudine"-HangingTheif
"Humans have a tribal mindset and it's not alien for tribes to war on each other. I mean, look at the atrocities chimpanzee tribes do to each other. Most of people's groupings and big conflicts in history are directly or obliquely manifestations of this tribal mindset."-Sceynyos-yis
"He's the leader of the bunch You know his Coconut Gun is finally back to fire in spurts. His Coconut Gun Can make you smile If he shoots ya it's firing in spurts. His Coconut Gun Is bigger, faster, stronger too! He's the gun member of the Coconut Crew! HUH!
C.G.! Coconut Gun! C.G.! Co-Coconut Gun! Shoot yourself with a Coconut Gun! HUH!"-Kamineigh
"RIP, rest in Peytoia."-Little
"In Summary: Piss on Lovecraft's racist grave by making lewds of Cthulhu and Nyarlathotep.
Then eat arby's and embrace the void."-Kamineigh
"Dougal Dixon rule 34."-Sayornis
Phylogeny of the arthropods and some related groups
In honor of the greatest clade of all time
More pictures
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All African countries can fit into Brazil
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Nov 6 2016, 08:50 PM
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David Peters is right about everything. Maybe this is something the older members know but I don't get this. Who's David Peters?
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Nov 6 2016, 08:53 PM
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Nov 6 2016, 08:57 PM
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Nov 6 2016, 08:58 PM
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-Remnants of Antarctica's pre-glaciation life remain within caverns deep below its surface.
-A lineage of sauropterygian reptiles developed a method of underwater breathing akin to the methods used by Fly River turtles, as well as an extreme atavism resulting in their infants being born with gills retained from embryonic stages. As a result, they migrated further into the deep sea than any other tetrapod lineage, no longer constrained by their ties to the surface, and became abyssal predators. They managed to survive the K-Pg extinction, and despite being heavily restricted as a result of competition with ceteans, a small clade still ekes out a living near hydrothermal vents.
-Monotremes fall outside of Mammalia proper, and are instead extremely derived tritylodontids.
-Any of the "surviving prehistoric group" hypotheses.
-Corvids are truly sapient, and have remained undetected by humankind as a result of their own planning - by pretending to be merely smart birds, they can avoid the persecution, investigation, coddling, and other riff-raff resulting from humans knowing of their true state.
As for David Peters, he's a paleontologist and curator of the site Reptile Evolution. He's pretty controversial as a result of his incredibly unorthodox methods of determining evidence, which has led to him creating a particularly obtuse family tree of Amniota, the Large Reptile Tree. He's particularly well-known/infamous for his theories on pterosaurs, which he claims are true lizards as opposed to archosaurs and were adorned with long tails and flamboyant crests.
He's rather nutty, but I don't truly understand the level of contempt that the paleontological community has for him - unless I missed something rather big (such as him being a rabid BANDit or something), he's just an isolated outlet of bizarre ideas with relatively little impact on the scientific community as a whole.
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Nov 6 2016, 09:11 PM
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-Remnants of Antarctica's pre-glaciation life remain within caverns deep below its surface.
-A lineage of sauropterygian reptiles developed a method of underwater breathing akin to the methods used by Fly River turtles, as well as an extreme atavism resulting in their infants being born with gills retained from embryonic stages. As a result, they migrated further into the deep sea than any other tetrapod lineage, no longer constrained by their ties to the surface, and became abyssal predators. They managed to survive the K-Pg extinction, and despite being heavily restricted as a result of competition with ceteans, a small clade still ekes out a living near hydrothermal vents.
-Monotremes fall outside of Mammalia proper, and are instead extremely derived tritylodontids.
-Any of the "surviving prehistoric group" hypotheses.
-Corvids are truly sapient, and have remained undetected by humankind as a result of their own planning - by pretending to be merely smart birds, they can avoid the persecution, investigation, coddling, and other riff-raff resulting from humans knowing of their true state.
As for David Peters, he's a paleontologist and curator of the site Reptile Evolution. He's pretty controversial as a result of his incredibly unorthodox methods of determining evidence, which has led to him creating a particularly obtuse family tree of Amniota. He's particularly well-known/infamous for his theories on pterosaurs, which he claims are true lizards as opposed to archosaurs and were adorned with long tails and flamboyant crests.
He's rather nutty, but I don't truly understand the level of contempt that the paleontological community has for him - unless I missed something rather big (such as him being a rabid BANDit or something), he's just an isolated outlet of bizarre ideas with relatively little impact on the scientific community as a whole. He also says that mammals are archosaurs.
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Projects Punga: A terraformed world with no vertebrates Last one crawling: The last arthropod
ARTH-6810: A world without vertebrates (It's ded, but you can still read I guess)
Potential ideas- Swamp world: A world covered in lakes, with the largest being caspian sized. Nematozoic: After a mass extinction of ultimate proportions, a single species of nematode is the only surviving animal. Tri-devonian: A devonian like ecosystem with holocene species on three different continents.
Quotes "Arthropod respiratory systems aren't really "inefficient", they're just better suited to their body size. It would be quite inefficient for a tiny creature that can easily get all the oxygen it needs through passive diffusion to have a respiratory system that wastes energy on muscles that pump air into sacs. (Hence why lungless salamanders, uniquely miniscule and hyperabundant tetrapods, have ditched their lungs in favor of breathing with their skin and buccal mucous membranes.) But large, active insects already use muscles to pump air in and out of their spiracles, and I don't see why their tracheae couldn't develop pseudo- lungs if other conditions pressured them to grow larger."-HangingTheif
"Considering the lifespans of modern non- insect arthropods (decade-old old millipedes, 50 year old tarantulas, 100+ year old lobsters) I wouldn't be surprised if Arthropleura had a lifespan exceeding that of a large testudine"-HangingTheif
"Humans have a tribal mindset and it's not alien for tribes to war on each other. I mean, look at the atrocities chimpanzee tribes do to each other. Most of people's groupings and big conflicts in history are directly or obliquely manifestations of this tribal mindset."-Sceynyos-yis
"He's the leader of the bunch You know his Coconut Gun is finally back to fire in spurts. His Coconut Gun Can make you smile If he shoots ya it's firing in spurts. His Coconut Gun Is bigger, faster, stronger too! He's the gun member of the Coconut Crew! HUH!
C.G.! Coconut Gun! C.G.! Co-Coconut Gun! Shoot yourself with a Coconut Gun! HUH!"-Kamineigh
"RIP, rest in Peytoia."-Little
"In Summary: Piss on Lovecraft's racist grave by making lewds of Cthulhu and Nyarlathotep.
Then eat arby's and embrace the void."-Kamineigh
"Dougal Dixon rule 34."-Sayornis
Phylogeny of the arthropods and some related groups
In honor of the greatest clade of all time
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"this is not a good documentary as i have learned 0 things about ditch fish"- Sheather
"I clicked on it, and it was beyond me. Furry robot dicks. Furry robot dicks as far as the eye can see"-Kam
"You don't need the dark to be spooky"- Johnfaa
"I now have an image of a Viking on the back of an unhappy manatee, slowly floating towards Northumberland"- monster You should slowly melt her icy heart with your boyish charms, then start going out with her in junior year of high school and eventually get married. Then, after twenty years in a happy marriage demand a divorce. She'll sit there, crying and asking you why you're leaving her, what has she done wrong. Then gently take her into your arms, as if to comfort her, and whisper in her ear "that's for making fun of my crocs."- Parasky
"And he is afraid to be raped by Dutch people, Which is racist"- Olympian
"What even happened? I never thought I'd be whistfully looking back on your trying to rape Ivan"-icthyander
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Nov 6 2016, 09:21 PM
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- Nov 6 2016, 08:53 PM
  He's the brilliant snicker mind behind these. Although his representations of prehistoric creatures are really inaccurate, I do think that the overall design of them is interesting and would look cool in a fantasy or alternate evolution setting.
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"I'm so antigay my lips are adapted to repel penis"~ Octo
"Sin is not real. It is a manmade concept to make us feel bad about things that are natural"- MrRepzion
"im not turned on by birds goddamnity"- Sheather
"But you could just row there, live in the wilderness and have sex with kakapos every day"- Hangin
"you leave the dolphins in the fridge for too long and they develop a culture"- Flisch
"DON'T GET ME WRONG, SOME OF MY BEST FRIENDS ARE HUMANS; BUT IF THEY'RE SO MUCH BETTER THAN US THEN WHY DO THEY NEED SKIN AMIRITE?"- Ivan
"Mike Wazowski: he Only has one eye he is incapable of winking because that requires a second and blinking is both eyes, Mike bwinks."- Malik Obama
"Kids love frog titties"- Lamna
"Other moral of this sad story: never forget how completely the tiny microorganisms living in your nose can betray you for no apparent reason. Trust no one"- Monster
"Sometimes in the name of science, you have to give cocain to a fish"- Ben Taub
"For the love of Darwin's fluffy beard, not the zebras again."- Beetleboy
"Fun fact: Whenever you learn something new, you are slowly approaching omniscience"- Flisch
"therefore, hell and heaven must both be filled with camels"- sphenodon
"this is not a good documentary as i have learned 0 things about ditch fish"- Sheather
"I clicked on it, and it was beyond me. Furry robot dicks. Furry robot dicks as far as the eye can see"-Kam
"You don't need the dark to be spooky"- Johnfaa
"I now have an image of a Viking on the back of an unhappy manatee, slowly floating towards Northumberland"- monster You should slowly melt her icy heart with your boyish charms, then start going out with her in junior year of high school and eventually get married. Then, after twenty years in a happy marriage demand a divorce. She'll sit there, crying and asking you why you're leaving her, what has she done wrong. Then gently take her into your arms, as if to comfort her, and whisper in her ear "that's for making fun of my crocs."- Parasky
"And he is afraid to be raped by Dutch people, Which is racist"- Olympian
"What even happened? I never thought I'd be whistfully looking back on your trying to rape Ivan"-icthyander
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Nov 6 2016, 09:26 PM
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A huntsman spider that wastes time on the internet because it has nothing better to do
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Lissamphibians are actually "degenerate" amniotes.
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Projects Punga: A terraformed world with no vertebrates Last one crawling: The last arthropod
ARTH-6810: A world without vertebrates (It's ded, but you can still read I guess)
Potential ideas- Swamp world: A world covered in lakes, with the largest being caspian sized. Nematozoic: After a mass extinction of ultimate proportions, a single species of nematode is the only surviving animal. Tri-devonian: A devonian like ecosystem with holocene species on three different continents.
Quotes "Arthropod respiratory systems aren't really "inefficient", they're just better suited to their body size. It would be quite inefficient for a tiny creature that can easily get all the oxygen it needs through passive diffusion to have a respiratory system that wastes energy on muscles that pump air into sacs. (Hence why lungless salamanders, uniquely miniscule and hyperabundant tetrapods, have ditched their lungs in favor of breathing with their skin and buccal mucous membranes.) But large, active insects already use muscles to pump air in and out of their spiracles, and I don't see why their tracheae couldn't develop pseudo- lungs if other conditions pressured them to grow larger."-HangingTheif
"Considering the lifespans of modern non- insect arthropods (decade-old old millipedes, 50 year old tarantulas, 100+ year old lobsters) I wouldn't be surprised if Arthropleura had a lifespan exceeding that of a large testudine"-HangingTheif
"Humans have a tribal mindset and it's not alien for tribes to war on each other. I mean, look at the atrocities chimpanzee tribes do to each other. Most of people's groupings and big conflicts in history are directly or obliquely manifestations of this tribal mindset."-Sceynyos-yis
"He's the leader of the bunch You know his Coconut Gun is finally back to fire in spurts. His Coconut Gun Can make you smile If he shoots ya it's firing in spurts. His Coconut Gun Is bigger, faster, stronger too! He's the gun member of the Coconut Crew! HUH!
C.G.! Coconut Gun! C.G.! Co-Coconut Gun! Shoot yourself with a Coconut Gun! HUH!"-Kamineigh
"RIP, rest in Peytoia."-Little
"In Summary: Piss on Lovecraft's racist grave by making lewds of Cthulhu and Nyarlathotep.
Then eat arby's and embrace the void."-Kamineigh
"Dougal Dixon rule 34."-Sayornis
Phylogeny of the arthropods and some related groups
In honor of the greatest clade of all time
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Nov 6 2016, 09:48 PM
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- Sphenodon
- Nov 6 2016, 08:58 PM
He's rather nutty, but I don't truly understand the level of contempt that the paleontological community has for him - unless I missed something rather big (such as him being a rabid BANDit or something), he's just an isolated outlet of bizarre ideas with relatively little impact on the scientific community as a whole. He's very prolific, very vocal, and very arrogant. While he only has a small pool of dedicated followers who are "on his side", his work has been used and trusted by people naive to how unscientific it is, including artists and just curious people who find his stuff on google. Someone at this year's SVP even used one of his diagrams in a presentation uncritically, and apparently hadn't realised there was any issue.
He believes himself to be some sort of Galileo, and that the rest of the palaeontology community is up in their ivory tower constantly trying to put him down and silence the truth that only he is uncovering. And he's not afraid to be a dick about it either.
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~Projects~
• Earth Without Earth; Like nothing on Earth...
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In the absence of proper data, speculate wildy.
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I'm sorry but in what alternative universe would thousands of zebras be sent back in time by some sort of illegal time travel group to change history and preparing them by making gigantic working animatronic allosaurs?
~Komodo, Zebra's sent back in time (4/1/13)
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