Giant real animals from our past (& present)

cure · Post by **cure** » Sun Jan 18, 2009 2:22 am

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090118/sc ... 0118041452

We could use use an oversized one for the Sea of Sorrows . . . .

Rotipher of the FoS · Sun Jan 18, 2009 12:40 pm

Sounds like it'd make a better hazard than a monster, IMO.

cure · Post by **cure** » Wed Feb 04, 2009 1:16 pm

Titanoboa, the 45 ft, 1 ton, all consuming snake

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/scien ... 45910.html

cure · Post by **cure** » Tue Mar 17, 2009 11:02 am

Sea monster identified as having an unprecedently vicious bite:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090316/sc_ ... seamonster

Rotipher of the FoS · Post by **Rotipher of the FoS** » Wed Mar 18, 2009 8:26 am

Wow, serious jaw-power! Either that thing ate nothing but turtles and ammonites -- shells and all -- or somebody dropped a decimal point when they calculated the bite force.

cure · Post by **cure** » Mon Sep 14, 2009 4:19 am

Man-eating eagle: http://www.independent.co.uk/environmen ... 86867.html

Griselda · Post by **Griselda** » Tue Sep 15, 2009 10:24 pm

Nightmare fodder:

http://io9.com/5359538/evolutionary-thr ... discovered

Rotipher of the FoS · Post by **Rotipher of the FoS** » Fri Sep 18, 2009 8:33 pm

Griselda wrote:Nightmare fodder

Eh. Creepy, but not that bad. Sounds like the snake had been able to make use of the limb, and had managed to survive in the wild OK.

Now, if it had been a throwback to a somewhat more recent ancestor, it might have sported a flipper rather than a lizard leg. That would be the closest we'd ever come to getting a look at a living mosasaur...

Ail · Post by **Ail** » Sat Sep 19, 2009 12:26 pm

Back reading through this whole thread made me realize there are lots of people in these forums that have a rather-more-than-average understanding of biology, in some cases professional knowledge, really.

I'd actually be interested in knowing if there's a higher than average population of biologists around. It would be groovy if that turned out to be the case, as I would immediately consider to which point this could be considered some 'Mordenheim effect' or so.

As for me, thought I like many things, Biology has seldom been one of them.

cure · Post by **cure** » Tue Oct 27, 2009 11:02 pm

Fossilised skull of 'sea monster' pliosaur found on Dorset coast:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/ ... rset-coast

PS I'm not a biologist, although I am fond of the subject.

cure · Post by **cure** » Sat Jun 05, 2010 3:30 pm

15 more horrors to savour: http://listverse.com/2010/03/30/15-terr ... -monsters/

cure · Post by **cure** » Wed Jun 30, 2010 2:22 pm

Super-sized killer whale: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/ ... 0-14-27-14

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