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Darwin’s ground sloths, exhibiting a diversity of lifestyles. All art by Mauricio Antón.

@TM9380 Just a small sample of what I’d include. I chose Brontomerus b/c it fulfills the giant dinosaur requirement while still being doable (it was the size of an African bush elephant).

Just wanted to be clear. As much as people disagree on overhunting vs climate change with regards to the Pleistocene megafaunal extinctions...does anyone still seriously consider the other two hypotheses, hyperdisease & Younger Dryas impact?

@zhejiang0pterus Sometimes there are illustrations w/ multiple species you may not expect to see doing their own thing in the same place (eg. gigantala pic). This is also something you can find in nat hist dioramas, tho you’d have to be lucky to find such a scene irl nature.

Long before the dodo was discovered on Mauritius, another large pigeon lived in the Kingdom of Tonga, Tongoenas burleyi. The hindlimb anatomy suggests it was one of the canopy-dwelling frugivorous pigeons, so unlike the dodo it could fly.

Hooray

What do we all think of the gigantelopes? I wouldn’t find it surprising if elephants & rhinos were long extinct by 50 my, but are antelope the best replacements?

In his 1988 book Predatory Dinosaurs of the World, Greg Paul includes a hypothetical skeletal of T. rex as a slower, graviportal animal, without the adaptations for speed it retained irl. This was the result.

Part 2 of fossil animals it would've sucked to be. This Ceratotherium neumayri was instantly killed by a pyroclastic flow in what is now Turkey 9.2 Ma.

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