Did you know that people use to think that the platypus was a myth? Until someone found them. Makes you wonder what other "myths" might be lurking about.
Okay so if extinct animals count: Haast's eagle
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And if not, frogs. frogs are the best.
If we're going with extinct animals, we should probably include the Titanoboa, the longest and heaviest snake ever known to have existed. It lived approximately 60 million years ago, and is estimated to have reached lengths of 12.8 meters, or 42 feet. Here's a picture from the Smithsonian for size comparison:
Other than my cat? Owls and dogs. Oh, and ring tailed lemurs.
Did you know that people use to think that the platypus was a myth? Until someone found them. Makes you wonder what other "myths" might be lurking about.
They're real!
It took a long time to figure this out, but my favorite alive animal would have to be the black fox or an ermine (white-coated stoat).
It took a long time to figure this out, but my favorite alive animal would have to be the black fox or an ermine (white-coated stout).
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Black foxes are beautiful!
Black foxes are beautiful!
indeed
My favorite extinct mammal
The Giant Ground Sloth. It took me more than a year at my paleontology lab, to put back together a vertebral column of one of these big guys.
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Please elaborate
Please elaborate
I excavate and prepare fossils at a paleontology lab.
I find your lack of likes for Harpy Eagle disturbing.
I excavate and prepare fossils at a paleontology lab.
That was a known fact!
I excavate and prepare fossil <threads> at a paleontology lab.
I excavate and prepare fossils at a paleontology lab.
I have always dreamed of being a Paleontologist
I don't know, what's for dinner? lel
Wolves, birds and cats make me the happiest!
need more wild cat:
That tense moment just before they both pull out their swords and duel...
Don't think we've done this one yet:
The mantis shrimp has probably the most complex eyes in the animal kingdom; in addition, the smasher subgroup of mantis shrimp can deliver a punch with its forearms that has the same force as a .22 calibur bullet. In short, they're pretty fascinating animals. But don't take my word for it; listen to faux Morgan Freeman pontificate on the subject.
EDIT: Chose a different picture. The other one was too wide and was getting smushed quite a bit.
As far as extinct animals go, how about the Paraceratherium?
It was a type of hornless rhino, and probably the largest land mammal that ever existed.
Size comparison with a human and an African Elephant:
Don't think we've done this one yet:
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The mantis shrimp has probably the most complex eyes in the animal kingdom; in addition, the smasher subgroup of mantis shrimp can deliver a punch with its forearms that has the same force as a .22 calibur bullet. In short, they're pretty fascinating animals. But don't take my word for it; listen to faux Morgan Freeman pontificate on the subject.
EDIT: Chose a different picture. The other one was too wide and was getting smushed quite a bit.
That is completely amazing.
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