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Post by Infinity Blade on Oct 30, 2015 6:48:19 GMT 5
Here's another animal I've discovered.  This beast appears to have been a humongous fossorial creature. The powerful neck and large teeth were the primary digging tools and would have been used to dig massive holes. Once a deep enough hole has been dug, the small, yet very powerful forelimbs with extremely thick cortical bone could have clawed at the sides of the hole, creating more room for its massive body. The beefy tail powered its large, powerful hindlimbs for digging its way underground. CT scans of the brain case reveal an extremely developed olfactory bulb, indicating a hyper sense of smell used to locate underground roots and tubers (although the eyes were small and gave this animal poor eyesight). This animal is known from rock sediments formed ~68 million years before the Holocene, but a few specimens have been found in Holocene strata as well, indicating this animal survived for an unusually long period of time and was thus extremely successful. We've analyzed this creature again. It was heterodont, had a blatant erect gait, and appears to have been endothermic judging from analyses of its bones. Clearly, this creature was a mammal. |
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Post by Venomous Dragon on Oct 30, 2015 15:26:28 GMT 5
Here's another animal I've discovered. This beast appears to have been a humongous fossorial creature. The powerful neck and large teeth were the primary digging tools and would have been used to dig massive holes. Once a deep enough hole has been dug, the small, yet very powerful forelimbs with extremely thick cortical bone could have clawed at the sides of the hole, creating more room for its massive body. The beefy tail powered its large, powerful hindlimbs for digging its way underground. CT scans of the brain case reveal an extremely developed olfactory bulb, indicating a hyper sense of smell used to locate underground roots and tubers (although the eyes were small and gave this animal poor eyesight). This animal is known from rock sediments formed ~68 million years before the Holocene, but a few specimens have been found in Holocene strata as well, indicating this animal survived for an unusually long period of time and was thus extremely successful. We've analyzed this creature again. It was heterodont, had a blatant erect gait, and appears to have been endothermic judging from analyses of its bones. Clearly, this creature was a mammal. upon finding primitive video technologies depicting this creature we now know it could shoot fire balls from its mouth and had a strong symbiotic relationship with small mostly hairless apes, seeing as this specimen lacks horns we believe it to be female.  |
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Post by Cross on Nov 3, 2015 8:23:07 GMT 5
Kinda off topic, but did anyone here remember to greet theropod a happy birthday? He turned 19 last Saturday. |
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Post by creature386 on Nov 5, 2015 23:24:50 GMT 5
^Me and Ausar did so on Carnivora.
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Post by theropod on Nov 6, 2015 1:48:30 GMT 5
^Oh thanks guys! I seem to have missed that entirely, I’m not on CF that much these days.
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Post by Infinity Blade on Dec 28, 2015 0:26:31 GMT 5
 It appears to be a giant aquatic animal. The upper teeth were missing. The skull also has a huge empty basin that would have created drag when it swam underwater. What horrible design; why it evolved such a cranial morphology is absolutely beyond me. |
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Post by theropod on Dec 28, 2015 2:58:56 GMT 5
^Our proposed function of this basin is that it was used to carry large prey, or possibly juveniles that were not able to swim by themselves yet.
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Post by Infinity Blade on Dec 28, 2015 17:04:29 GMT 5
My team and I also couldn't find its eye sockets. So not only would the basin have created drag when not carrying prey or immobile juveniles, but it seems to have had little, if any eyesight! Can you say evolutionary failure?!
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Post by theropod on Dec 28, 2015 18:46:28 GMT 5
Or possibly the basin was part of an extremely advanced olfactory apparatus, and the creature lived in murky waters where sight would have been useless?
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Post by Cross on Jan 5, 2016 10:50:19 GMT 5
It is also possible that the basin was the base of a fleshy, muscular proboscis since the animal appears to be morphologically analogous to modern Elephant seals. The animal would thus have likely gone up to the beach in large groups and would have had territorial and courtship fights for mating rights.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2016 9:16:29 GMT 5
 we found this in jamaica we believe it fed on a very specific type of plant |
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Post by creature386 on Jan 6, 2016 20:53:05 GMT 5
Its lack of joints within the limbs is amazing. Probably slept standing and was extremely inflexible. It must have been toxic or so in exchange. Or predators simply died from its ugliness.
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Post by Infinity Blade on Jan 7, 2016 0:58:00 GMT 5
It looks as if the head is in the pelvic region. Must have been a creature that deduced random, baseless conclusions from situations perpetuated by its environment. In other words, it must have been pretty dumb.
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Post by An Goldish Jade on Mar 6, 2016 9:48:31 GMT 5
When threatened, it will raise its mane, making it looks much bigger, and while the structure of the limb, is poorly suited for agility, but it have hands very well suited for grip onto objects, so it would be interesting as well as necessary to have further information on its habitat, as well as behavior.
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Post by Infinity Blade on Apr 6, 2016 0:18:04 GMT 5
 I found the remains of this new extinct animal. It was missing every one of its limb elements, though. I also found it with these strange fibrous imprints surrounding its skeleton. I infer that this animal had filamentous integument. |
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