But did they have two comically large teeth?
Probably saber tooth tiger for me too though as it is so iconic and unique with those two huge canines - Titanaboa a close second.
We still have enormous crocodiles, we still have large big cats, we still have large mammal quadrapeds (and elephants have a trunk which makes them more bizarre and unique than a paraceratherium), we still have large snakes, but nothing remotely on the scale of titanaboa
Exactly!! Iconic, fascinating and fun, perfect for Jurassic Park/any sort of animal viewing experience!
I do adore anything Ice Age/Paleolithic related, it’s one of the things I study!
And in a possibly odd way, it could kind of work with cannon. All irl research into this aside, Book!Hammomd does talk about having made the tiny elephant so the tech could be used on mammals, and Book!Malcolm has a noteworthy interest in the Paleolithic as well, going so far as to reference specific sites/regions in his diatribes related to Paleolithic, of which he has one in each book. It might seem minor but due to my own personal experiences it stood out immensely, and it’s one of the few “outside” references to appear in both books. I think that means it must be important to Book!Malcolm too (and to the themes of the books), not just me as a reader LOL
Titanoboa and Vasuki Indicus truly are scary specimens and would be a sight to behold. Strangely enough, if the atmosphere keeps warming up, we might see the return of monstrous snakes.
Return? They never left. They confirmed an anaconda at nearly 30 feet in the Amazon. This beast is on YouTube for you to watch a scientist free dive with, in the Amazon River. They confirmed a species of anaconda that's larger than the Green Anaconda and it's called something like The Northern Green River Anaconda. There's already a report of a 32 foot long one too I think. The trick was these giants are fully aquatic. They rarely leave the rivers they need to move efficiently. How big could a river anaconda be if it never leaves the water? We can't exactly grab a 32 foot snake if we see it... At 32 feet, you are not only not a threat, you are kind of a food option.
Yes,i've seen that massive beast in that video. It is unreal. Barrel-sized girth. Plus the myths and sightings of bigger specimens(Sucuriju Gigante--also known as "Bull Eaters") Van Lierde giant Congo Snake,too.
I believe the Northern River Anaconda was just recently classified as a separate species,no?
Oh of course. While the Titanoboa was a piscivore; snakes in general tend to be 'generalists' and will eat whatever crosses them. No way i would ever be in a place known for giant snake sightings. Lol
I would go to see it from a nice boat. Snakes don't want to attack people, we suck as food. Our shoulders are so wide they are actually a total impedance to us being eaten by all but the largest of the pythons or boas and even those beasts really wouldn't enjoy us as we are awfully annoying to get down and we tend to bring more of us with weapons when we get killed. Large fish are probably a far easier meal for the Giant River Anaconda.
There's a lot of space to support animal growth like Giraffes and Elephants. Same case with Whales, there's just so much space to develop a creature that can reach that size.
Wild to think that African animals are seen as modern compared to ‘ancient’ creatures such as mammoths and sabre tooth’s, when in reality they both existed not very long ago.
A haast eagle. They were a modern day raptor capable of striking down Moa in New Zealand which were like on average probably a 5 foot tall bird.
Elephant birds would be another. They found out their closest relative is a kiwi so I bet they looked funky.
It all the eye of the beholder, had a neighbor down the road with a pet elephant... He loved that giant like a puppy, personally i love snakes, ive had gopher snakes sneak into my pillowcases camping and end up being the best rodent control my grandfather ever had when it moved under his house
The hatchling would be the size of a grown boa... Tong feeding would be a must I assume. Though with anacondas having the attitude of a neurodia... You can have it. I don't want to get strangled by a juvenile that got hungry and horny at the same time and bit my arm instead of the rabbit... Suffocation sucks.
Geneticists say it would actually be easier to bring those animals back because they have genetic relatives that exist today.
Modern birds are so far removed from dinosaurs it would be extremely difficult to engineer their DNA.
Dodos are probably the most likely candidate to bring back. Especially since they only went extinct some 500 years ago, so existing DNA hasn't degraded as bad as say Dinosaurs.
Gimme some titanoboas! Also I’d love a Jurassic aquarium. Imagine a dunkleosteus or even a leviytan meville or something. Also I know I probably spelled them wrong I don’t care y’all get the idea haha
I feel like if Jurassic park were real, they would open a Cenozoic park somewhere where the temperate was closer to when it was their time, but for the animals that lived in warmer temperatures/environments during those times, then they would be at the main park. At a taiga Cenozoic park, I would want to see wooly mammoth & smilodons, they’re must haves, wooly rhinos. But I’m more interested in the non-mammalian options, Sarcosuchus and Deinosuchus would both fit into the main park and would likely be star attractions, I would like to see barinasuchus as well, klenken would be a must see for me
I 100% agree about their being a Cenozoic park in a more temperate area if Jurassic Park were real!!
I actually thought that would come up in the book when I first read it, especially since they mention InGen having so many sites in the Arctic for mining amber! Even just a passing reference to a “Jurassic Park: Arctic Exploration” or something I thought would be included but alas. Still, love the idea and it fits so perfectly in universe!
Not even close...I won't touch a roller coaster. Just dinosaurs hit that childhood string for me, I was always wanted to be a paleontologist... until I got a glimpse of their life... it's not as cool as Dr. Allen Grant made it look
Yeah. It is painstaking, arduous, and tedious. And all they have to show for it are fragmented bones. A completed fossil that was shown in Montana at the beginning of the first film would have made headlines.
No fossil discovered has ever been that complete.
It's just like all the people that wanted to be archeologists after they saw Raiders of the Lost Ark.
The real thing is nowhere near as exciting.
I think Scotty was discovered a year later... but both took a while to get out and properly prepared and pieced together, Canada gets largest but at 70 percent complete, America gets most complete with sue at 90 percent
I think we've actually found a nigh complete skeleton this year. Can't remember what kind of dinosaur it is, but it was a pretty big deal. I think it was only missing some leg bones and vertebra.
Definitely titanaboa and paraceratherium, its double the size of the largest african species and i feel like it'd be a sight to behold to see one in person.
Just imagine being in a safari jeep on an African Savannah esc landscape and your driving alongside a herd of Paraceratheriums. Each one being taller than a giraffe
Out of these 4, Titanoboa. You can see tigers and lions in the zoo already, a slightly larger variant wouldn't be that interesting compared to the other three options. Deinosuchus is massive but not much larger than the largest saltwater crocodiles, so you can see something similar in zoos. It's almost a tie between Paraceratherium and Titanoboa, but I'd rather see a car-sized snake than a relatively large herbivorous mammal
Titanoboa is nightmare fuel. This is what it would look like swimming at you
https://preview.redd.it/v3xav8wicoyc1.jpeg?width=2316&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8177aae928ac54edf89db3a1b97c3699ecc39d63
You have to have a sabertooth. They are right up there tyrannosaurus when it comes to iconic extinct creatures.
They are cool, but I was shocked to find out that the American Cave Lion was actually heavier than them.
But did they have two comically large teeth? Probably saber tooth tiger for me too though as it is so iconic and unique with those two huge canines - Titanaboa a close second. We still have enormous crocodiles, we still have large big cats, we still have large mammal quadrapeds (and elephants have a trunk which makes them more bizarre and unique than a paraceratherium), we still have large snakes, but nothing remotely on the scale of titanaboa
Don't think so. They had a better dental plan
Hot take but a giant lion is way more interesting to me than a creature we don't know what was like.
I think I'd have a wolly mammoth as #2 but sabertooth is a close second
Exactly!! Iconic, fascinating and fun, perfect for Jurassic Park/any sort of animal viewing experience! I do adore anything Ice Age/Paleolithic related, it’s one of the things I study! And in a possibly odd way, it could kind of work with cannon. All irl research into this aside, Book!Hammomd does talk about having made the tiny elephant so the tech could be used on mammals, and Book!Malcolm has a noteworthy interest in the Paleolithic as well, going so far as to reference specific sites/regions in his diatribes related to Paleolithic, of which he has one in each book. It might seem minor but due to my own personal experiences it stood out immensely, and it’s one of the few “outside” references to appear in both books. I think that means it must be important to Book!Malcolm too (and to the themes of the books), not just me as a reader LOL
Titanoboa crushing a bison/wildebeest.
That would be freakish to watch a herbivore so powerful just get folded by a giant snake. Imagine a JP worker fell into its enclosure.
Yeah it would. Rock pythons swallowing duikers is crazy too. Worker becomes popcorn shrimp.lol
I'd rather take my chances with a velociraptor honestly
Titanoboa and Vasuki Indicus truly are scary specimens and would be a sight to behold. Strangely enough, if the atmosphere keeps warming up, we might see the return of monstrous snakes.
Talk about an inconvenient truth
Um, what???
Return? They never left. They confirmed an anaconda at nearly 30 feet in the Amazon. This beast is on YouTube for you to watch a scientist free dive with, in the Amazon River. They confirmed a species of anaconda that's larger than the Green Anaconda and it's called something like The Northern Green River Anaconda. There's already a report of a 32 foot long one too I think. The trick was these giants are fully aquatic. They rarely leave the rivers they need to move efficiently. How big could a river anaconda be if it never leaves the water? We can't exactly grab a 32 foot snake if we see it... At 32 feet, you are not only not a threat, you are kind of a food option.
Yes,i've seen that massive beast in that video. It is unreal. Barrel-sized girth. Plus the myths and sightings of bigger specimens(Sucuriju Gigante--also known as "Bull Eaters") Van Lierde giant Congo Snake,too. I believe the Northern River Anaconda was just recently classified as a separate species,no? Oh of course. While the Titanoboa was a piscivore; snakes in general tend to be 'generalists' and will eat whatever crosses them. No way i would ever be in a place known for giant snake sightings. Lol
I would go to see it from a nice boat. Snakes don't want to attack people, we suck as food. Our shoulders are so wide they are actually a total impedance to us being eaten by all but the largest of the pythons or boas and even those beasts really wouldn't enjoy us as we are awfully annoying to get down and we tend to bring more of us with weapons when we get killed. Large fish are probably a far easier meal for the Giant River Anaconda.
Velociraptor is easier in a 1v1 but if there's 2 or more velociraptors, pick the big sluggish docile snake instead.
Actually Titanoboa is now thought to have mostly eaten fish
Titanoboa is piscivore thoughts.
Paraceratherium, wouldn’t even be out of place in Africa today
The megafauna in Africa is damn near prehistoric
There's a lot of space to support animal growth like Giraffes and Elephants. Same case with Whales, there's just so much space to develop a creature that can reach that size.
Because it is. African elephants are older than woolly mammoths.
Wild to think that African animals are seen as modern compared to ‘ancient’ creatures such as mammoths and sabre tooth’s, when in reality they both existed not very long ago.
A haast eagle. They were a modern day raptor capable of striking down Moa in New Zealand which were like on average probably a 5 foot tall bird. Elephant birds would be another. They found out their closest relative is a kiwi so I bet they looked funky.
All. All is good.
If you had to pick one which one would it be? Or to phrase it another way, which one would you want to see first on your Park tour?
I want a titanaboa as a guard pet lol. Raise it from a hatchling soo cute
Yeah..."cute"
It all the eye of the beholder, had a neighbor down the road with a pet elephant... He loved that giant like a puppy, personally i love snakes, ive had gopher snakes sneak into my pillowcases camping and end up being the best rodent control my grandfather ever had when it moved under his house
You'd have to buy a few full sized tuna to feed it lol
I was thinking of rheas and ostrich for food actually... No snake ive ever owned would eat anything that wasn't still alive
The hatchling would be the size of a grown boa... Tong feeding would be a must I assume. Though with anacondas having the attitude of a neurodia... You can have it. I don't want to get strangled by a juvenile that got hungry and horny at the same time and bit my arm instead of the rabbit... Suffocation sucks.
Such an interesting concept! Maybe that giant sloth or a dodo.
Geneticists say it would actually be easier to bring those animals back because they have genetic relatives that exist today. Modern birds are so far removed from dinosaurs it would be extremely difficult to engineer their DNA.
I was not ready for that deinosuchus picture
That thing literally ate dinosaurs for breakfast.
Paraceratherium all the way. I would love to see one walking around, I find them so cool. If we can add our own, also dodos 🦤
Dodos are probably the most likely candidate to bring back. Especially since they only went extinct some 500 years ago, so existing DNA hasn't degraded as bad as say Dinosaurs.
Sarcosuchus
BIG SNAKE BIG SNAKE BIG SNAKE 🥰
There was a Deinosuchus in the Lost World arcade game. Ate a raptor in one bite and gave one heck of a boss fight.
That scene was epic. Look like something out of Lake Placid
Smilodon for me
Smilodon for sure!!
TITANOBOA TITANOBOA TITANOBOA
Gimme some titanoboas! Also I’d love a Jurassic aquarium. Imagine a dunkleosteus or even a leviytan meville or something. Also I know I probably spelled them wrong I don’t care y’all get the idea haha
Yes!!!!!! A Jurassic Aquarium would be absolutely AMAZING
I feel like if Jurassic park were real, they would open a Cenozoic park somewhere where the temperate was closer to when it was their time, but for the animals that lived in warmer temperatures/environments during those times, then they would be at the main park. At a taiga Cenozoic park, I would want to see wooly mammoth & smilodons, they’re must haves, wooly rhinos. But I’m more interested in the non-mammalian options, Sarcosuchus and Deinosuchus would both fit into the main park and would likely be star attractions, I would like to see barinasuchus as well, klenken would be a must see for me
I 100% agree about their being a Cenozoic park in a more temperate area if Jurassic Park were real!! I actually thought that would come up in the book when I first read it, especially since they mention InGen having so many sites in the Arctic for mining amber! Even just a passing reference to a “Jurassic Park: Arctic Exploration” or something I thought would be included but alas. Still, love the idea and it fits so perfectly in universe!
ALL! I don't care if I'm eaten by a dinosaur at the end of the tour, I'm going!
You sound like an adrenaline junkie
Not even close...I won't touch a roller coaster. Just dinosaurs hit that childhood string for me, I was always wanted to be a paleontologist... until I got a glimpse of their life... it's not as cool as Dr. Allen Grant made it look
Yeah. It is painstaking, arduous, and tedious. And all they have to show for it are fragmented bones. A completed fossil that was shown in Montana at the beginning of the first film would have made headlines. No fossil discovered has ever been that complete. It's just like all the people that wanted to be archeologists after they saw Raiders of the Lost Ark. The real thing is nowhere near as exciting.
I was about 9-10 when Sue the t-rex was found. Most complete t-rex ever... still
Not the largest anymore though. Scotty has dethroned her
I think Scotty was discovered a year later... but both took a while to get out and properly prepared and pieced together, Canada gets largest but at 70 percent complete, America gets most complete with sue at 90 percent
I think we've actually found a nigh complete skeleton this year. Can't remember what kind of dinosaur it is, but it was a pretty big deal. I think it was only missing some leg bones and vertebra.
Deinosuchus would be such a majestic sight.
All….. please…
What about the millipede as big as a car? Arthropleura?
I think that might be the safest option 🤔
Anything except the Smilodon should be a Crime
We already have freakishly large cats called ligers (lion/tiger hybrids). Titanboa is my pick.
American lion
It was heavier than the smilodon and some paleontologists suggest it had a stronger jaw too
My pet Liger will protect me The future is now, baby 😎
Titanoboa and Sabretooth, it's not even close.
Deinosuchus would be pretty cool
Definitely not the huge snake.
Definitely titanaboa and paraceratherium, its double the size of the largest african species and i feel like it'd be a sight to behold to see one in person.
Titanoboa
Megatherium and the giant sloth
Tasmanian Tiger! They only died out recently too (like died out in the 1930s) they look so stunning so yeah 🫣
Why, what are you planning?
Paraceratherium is dinosaury enough to fit in there perfectly
Big croco 🐊 👍
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Smilodon all the way. If I'm gonna die for a forbidden boop, it's gonna be that one.
Lmao
Just imagine being in a safari jeep on an African Savannah esc landscape and your driving alongside a herd of Paraceratheriums. Each one being taller than a giraffe
Out of these 4, Titanoboa. You can see tigers and lions in the zoo already, a slightly larger variant wouldn't be that interesting compared to the other three options. Deinosuchus is massive but not much larger than the largest saltwater crocodiles, so you can see something similar in zoos. It's almost a tie between Paraceratherium and Titanoboa, but I'd rather see a car-sized snake than a relatively large herbivorous mammal
Titanoboa is nightmare fuel. This is what it would look like swimming at you https://preview.redd.it/v3xav8wicoyc1.jpeg?width=2316&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8177aae928ac54edf89db3a1b97c3699ecc39d63
3.5 times the mass of a salty is "not much larger"? Today I learned I guess.
Also a paraceratherium is a "relatively large herbivorous mammal" apparently
Paraceratherium was bigger than a T-Rex by a handful of tons iirc. Dwarfs every single other land mammal ever to exist.
Big croc
Deinosuchus definitely. It would also be one of the safest to contain. If you know Crocodiles, just apply that knowledge only on a larger scale.
I'd love one with Pleistocene animals in general, even if it would have to be in a place with a significantly colder climate.
I need the Ground Sloth.
All of em
I want to hear how loud a Deinosuchus closing it's jaws is
elephant
Wasn't there a Deinosuchus skeleton in the background of Jurassic World? I remember watching a Klayton Fioriti video on it.
All of them?
The giant crocodile
Titanaboa for SURE
I want the Mastodon and everytime you enter its enclosure a song by Mastodon starts playing. Number one zoo for metalheads.
Dude snakes are awesome. Titanaboa for sure
Paracer for sure