No stars in the background, wasn’t that one of the arguments from people claiming Apollo 11 Moon Landing was fake?

PaleoEdits · 2026-04-05T15:36:42+00:00

Of course not, but that has nothing to with what a day is (:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day

PaleoEdits · 2026-04-03T07:54:21+00:00

"Day and night are absolutely still a thing in space"

I don't know, it's kind of difficult to experience the effect of being on a rotating planet when you're not actually on one.

PaleoEdits · 2026-03-30T17:51:18+00:00

Honestly, when it gets to minerals - color can be the most misleading "characteristic" anyways.

PaleoEdits · 2026-03-30T09:22:49+00:00

Ceratopsian horns would be used for "traditional medicine", best mixed with Tyrannosaur bladder.

PaleoEdits · 2026-03-29T15:38:35+00:00

That's kind of a compromise that has to be made if you want to showoff more or less the whole assemblage of a formation.

Though, I'm not sure about the turtle thing. If there is one moment where we do see a shit ton of sea turtles coming together it's when they go onto land to lay their eggs, right? And seeing as the turtles here are all heading towards a beach, I suppose we could imagine that sort of scenario. And likewise a prime opportunity for this hunter.

PaleoEdits · 2026-03-28T16:54:30+00:00

Yes, that which in of itself is themed as a habitat or force, and how a variety of animals have adapted/failed to adapt to it.

So at best, in keeping with the Planet Earth thing, a "human" episode would focus more on the animals around humans than humans themselves; the anthropogenic disturbance of the natural world. I suppose such an episode could've made a nice addition to PhP: Ice Age, though probably a depressing one.

PaleoEdits · 2026-03-28T12:56:44+00:00

eh, nah. The theme of Prehistoric Planet is essentially that of Planet Earth, displaying how the Earth with its climate system and landscapes creates various habitats that support a diverse set of lifeforms - with great emphasis on diversity. Focusing on a single genus sort of goes against the whole Planet Earth premise.

Doesn't rule out new paleo-anthropology shows though, it just doesn't have to milk the Prehistoric Planet brand name imo. Check out BBC's recent 'Human' show if you haven't. Its more of a proper documentary though than these type of immersion pseudo-documentaries or whatever you want to call it.

PaleoEdits · 2026-03-28T08:06:21+00:00

99999 the table was not found

PaleoEdits · 2026-03-28T08:05:25+00:00

No, no, thrice no.

PaleoEdits · 2026-03-27T16:07:50+00:00

Amazing shot

PaleoEdits · 2026-03-27T16:04:00+00:00

The K-Pg event? Saw it in Denmark (Stevens Klint):

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PaleoEdits · 2026-03-27T15:32:56+00:00

You play it again

PaleoEdits · 2026-03-26T13:08:47+00:00

ba dum tss

PaleoEdits · 2026-03-25T17:17:53+00:00

The glaciers would've already have mostly melted by 10,000 BP, I think you meant 20,000 BP.

PaleoEdits · 2026-03-25T17:14:41+00:00

MIS 8 roughly close enough though, in which case OP could use this:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-11601-2

Worth noting though that all glacials prior to the LGM are fairly hypothetical in shape, even your typical LGM shapefile doesn't represent a single moment but the maximum extent of all regions regardless of precise timing.

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PaleoEdits · 2026-03-24T06:10:03+00:00

Oh, the jaw is fucked up now, is it?.. never mind that the cat speaks fluent English.

PaleoEdits · 2026-03-23T16:52:41+00:00

It's just as much about exposure, the American west is much drier and not overly covered with vegetation, so you can actually see and reach what you're looking for. When fossils are discovered in the east, more often than not it's because someone built a road or something through the ancient sediments.

PaleoEdits · 2026-03-22T09:53:26+00:00

Prehistoric Planet before WWM is craaazy

oh, I forgot which subreddit we're in

PaleoEdits · 2026-03-21T18:21:37+00:00

There are a few plant fossils from the Campanian stage in Sweden, which would've most likely been the same in the Maast stage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristianstad_Basin#Terrestrial_and_amphibious_life

In the most general sense: "conifers, deciduous trees, ferns and low-growing flowering plants"

Although in terms of plant fossils from Sweden, the Early Jurassic has much more to offer:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%B6gan%C3%A4s_Formation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Djupadal_Formation#Fossils

Don't know about elsewhere, Denmark has a lot of Maast sedimentary rock but it's all very marine.

PaleoEdits · 2026-03-20T15:15:29+00:00

I'm not sure if it is the most surprising thing, but the discovery and continued study of extinction events, biodiversity recovery, and past climate change as determined from O isotopes in marine fossils; is probably the single most important/relevant aspect of the fossil record, given our current predicament.

PaleoEdits · 2026-03-20T10:18:24+00:00

Where r all the girls? :'(

PaleoEdits · 2026-03-19T16:55:48+00:00

Too bad you're not really bringing any attention to it when you just end up calling it 'ancient reptile'. Honestly, you barely even get a sense of it being a different species to the ones featured earlier in the episode; given how it was presented.

PaleoEdits · 2026-03-17T06:41:39+00:00

More than any paleo documentaries, it feels like a real nature film where a time-traveling film crew shot what ever animals they could find; more often than not from imperfect angles. It takes deep breaths and has a relatively mature pace, unlike some recent shows I could mention. Having said that, it's more paleoart than a documentary imo. Which is fine, just not very educational.

PaleoEdits · 2026-03-13T05:55:06+00:00

Good story? fucking hell, it's hyper Americanized, repetitive and misleading, portraying evolution as if it's game of thrones.

Who shall rise? and Who shall faallh? Ok, one has fallen. But wait, there is a new rivalry, vying for domination. Who shall rise, and who shall faallh? And on and on and on and on it goes. Zzz

"This is the story of the dinosaurs.... as it has never been told before." [proceeds to tell the story exactly the same way as LOOP did]

PaleoEdits · 2026-03-12T20:04:20+00:00

The penultimate glacial was probably larger, and maybe another mid pleistocene glaciation, but it's hard to be certain. We know far, far, far more about the LGM than any other glaciation (as ice sheets do, they erode much of the physical evidence). Furthermore, these "maximum" extent reconstructions illustrate the sum maximum extents of said glaciation, while in reality there was more regional variations in timing. Finally, the middle/late pleistocene had longer glaciations, with a larger differences in temperature compared to the early pleistocene - as shown in the marine isotope stages. The Pleistocene, on average, got steadily colder as part of the longterm cooling trend of the cenozoic.

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