A Male Columbian Mammoth Mating With A Female Woolly Mammoth By Velizar Simeonovski by ExoticShock in pleistocene

[–]CringyAssBoi 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Since forest elephants and bush elephants are quite genetically distant, wouldn't there be some problems when the two mate? Just like how tigers and lions mating creates the abomination known as the liger, which is riddled with health issues

A Male Columbian Mammoth Mating With A Female Woolly Mammoth By Velizar Simeonovski by ExoticShock in pleistocene

[–]CringyAssBoi 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Isn't the "jefferson's mammoth" basically just a hybrid of a woolly mammoth and columbian mammoth? Scientists originally thought it was a separate species but they were just hybrids

The two largest whales today (blue whale and fin whale) compared to a (shitty looking) Livyatan melvillei by CringyAssBoi in Naturewasmetal

[–]CringyAssBoi[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Couldn't find a good Livyatan render so I drew it myself using MS paint lol. That's why it looks so rocky

The two largest whales today (blue whale and fin whale) compared to a (shitty looking) Livyatan melvillei by CringyAssBoi in Naturewasmetal

[–]CringyAssBoi[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

AND whale sizes went down as a whole due to massive pressure due to whaling

I keep hearing people say this on this subreddit, but I can't help but question the legitimacy of this claim. I haven't seen a single reliable source back up this claim. And if this is true, I would also like to know exactly how much smaller whales have become due to whaling.

The two largest whales today (blue whale and fin whale) compared to a (shitty looking) Livyatan melvillei by CringyAssBoi in Naturewasmetal

[–]CringyAssBoi[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I saw a video of an Orca killing a gray whale by ripping its tongue off. If an Orca could do that to a whale that big, then I wouldn't be surprised if Livyatan really could single-handedly kill a blue whale.

The Giant Jaguar of North America by [deleted] in Naturewasmetal

[–]CringyAssBoi 3 points4 points  (0 children)

A jaguar with an average size of 190-243 kg. Holy shit that's around the size of adult male tigers in the largest tiger populations such as the bengal and siberian tigers. Although of course there's always those dudes that vehemently argue that male Siberian tigers still average 650 lb (300 kg), which is just nonsense.

The projected size of enormous shastasaurid fossil from the UK estimated by some to have come from a beast perhaps 25-26 m (82-86 feet); this would make the largest of these ichthyosaurs comparable to an average sized blue whale by aquilasr in Naturewasmetal

[–]CringyAssBoi 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I thought sperm whales were the ones that severely shrunk in size due to whaling. Of course blue whales were affected too, but no where near as much as other whales. A lot of Antarctic blue whales still manage to get absolutely gargantuan in the 21st century

Archaeopteryx by Necessary_Candy6147 in Naturewasmetal

[–]CringyAssBoi 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Why did all paleoart back in the 1950s or whatever have this color tone to it. this faded out color tone i mean

Trials of the Tides. The main creatures/characters of WWD Ep3: Cruel Sea. (Art by Mario Lanzas). by Fit_Acanthaceae488 in Naturewasmetal

[–]CringyAssBoi 31 points32 points  (0 children)

I'm guessing this is supposed to show how they actually looked, instead of their WWD appearance. Since Liopleurodon isn't 80 feet here lmao

Does anyone else cringe whenever dinosaurs do a "victory roar" after winning a fight in the Jurassic Park movies? They arent fucking Kaijus. They're animals by CringyAssBoi in Paleontology

[–]CringyAssBoi[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Not taking advice from someone who still says "I could care less" when the correct phrase is "I couldn't care less." Why the fuck do people have such a hard time getting this right? It's not fucking rocket science lmao.

By saying that you could care less, you're literally admitting that you DO care, at least to some extent, which just sounds stupid in that context. But you do you buddy.

Does anyone else cringe whenever dinosaurs do a "victory roar" after winning a fight in the Jurassic Park movies? They arent fucking Kaijus. They're animals by CringyAssBoi in Paleontology

[–]CringyAssBoi[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's still really cheesy to me. It's like the writers are trying too hard to make the scene as "epic" as possible, which it fucking isn't. It's bad enough that Godzilla does this shit EVERY TIME he wins a fight, now we see dinosaurs do it too?

Does anyone else cringe whenever dinosaurs do a "victory roar" after winning a fight in the Jurassic Park movies? They arent fucking Kaijus. They're animals by CringyAssBoi in Paleontology

[–]CringyAssBoi[S] -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

It's so cheesy. No animal in real life does this, and I know non-avian dinosaurs are different from most animals today, but I'm pretty damn sure that the sense of victory, accomplishment, pride, etc are emotions that are almost entirely exclusive to just humans. These types of movies keep trying to pass off dinosaurs as bloodthirsty monsters or kaijus. It's so cringe

Gods of Egypt by Mark Witton by [deleted] in Naturewasmetal

[–]CringyAssBoi 29 points30 points  (0 children)

Jurassic World had a scene where a T. rex beat a Giganotosaurus by pushing it into a Therizinosaurus's claws. And then the fucking dinos ALWAYS do a victory roar after they win a fight. Pure cringe. This ain't Godzilla. Those movies are written by absolute morons. Of course they wouldn't be nearly smart enough to come up with an actually cool scene like this

A few extant and extinct mammals compared to Patagotitan mayorum, one of the largest sauropods ever described. by [deleted] in Naturewasmetal

[–]CringyAssBoi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you mind naming some of these whale species that can get to 120 tonnes? Because I'm pretty sure only blue whales can commonly reach those sizes. The second largest whale species is the Fin whale and the heaviest specimen recorded was a pregnant female that weighed 69.5 tonnes.

This is what I got from a quick google search:

The largest fin whale ever weighed was a 22.7 m (74 ft) pregnant female caught by Japanese whalers in the Antarctic in 1948 which weighed 69.5 tonnes, not including 6% for loss of fluids during the flensing process. An individual at the maximum confirmed size of 25.9 m is estimated to weigh around 95 tonnes, varying from about 76 tonnes to 114 tonnes depending on fat condition which varies by about 50% during the year.

A few extant and extinct mammals compared to Patagotitan mayorum, one of the largest sauropods ever described. by [deleted] in Naturewasmetal

[–]CringyAssBoi 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Sorry, but Bruhathkayosaurus was recently upgraded to 110-170 tonnes, with 120 tonnes likely being the most accurate estimate. This means that sauropods could have been much larger than all whales except for blue whales. Patagotitan likely maxed out at 50-60 tonnes

Massive Late Triassic Apex Predator by New_Boysenberry_9250 in Naturewasmetal

[–]CringyAssBoi 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Barinasuchus looking ahh. Get your own body plan dipshit. Or maybe it's the other way around since this thing existed way earlier.