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Extinct Animal Questions
Topic Started: Nov 26 2013, 10:24 PM (193,379 Views)
54godamora
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which of these is the most powerful
short-faced bear,megatherium, or pachycephalosaurus?
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Posted Image Flish
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considering Megatherium is the size of an elephant, I'd probably go with it.
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DinoBear
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Megatherium, considering it dwarfs the other two.
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54godamora
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who believes that ground sloths have chain-mail like bones? i do!
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Zoo Tycooner FR
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#Lithopédion

Who can give me some animals (Not Dwarf Elephants) who had evolved to dwarf during the allopatric speciation on islands ?
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Pull my finger!

54godamora
Aug 1 2015, 11:22 AM
who believes that ground sloths have chain-mail like bones? i do!
Just what.

What even.


Where in God's name did you get this from?

Have you even SEEN a ground sloth bone?
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Admiral General Aladeen
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There must be some sort of explanation or more context for what he said...
Care to elaborate? xD
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Paleop
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the chainmail like bone things embedded into groundsloth skin
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Furka
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Aug 1 2015, 12:40 PM
Who can give me some animals (Not Dwarf Elephants) who had evolved to dwarf during the allopatric speciation on islands ?
IIRC Mediterranean islands also had dwarf hippos.
And then there's the Hazteg Island fauna, most of which was made by tiny replicas of mainland dinosaurs.
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54godamora
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wwb. i was just 8 when i first watched, and the walking with series is just extremely memorable due to my grandfather introducing me to this wonderful world that is prehistory before i could talk.

on topic: do you mean insular gigantism or insular dwarfism?
Edited by 54godamora, Aug 1 2015, 01:17 PM.
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Pull my finger!

Well first off, about the chain-mail sloths:

Admiral General Aladeen
 
Care to elaborate? xD
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Zoo Tycooner FR
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Furka
 
IIRC Mediterranean islands also had dwarf hippos.
And then there's the Hazteg Island fauna, most of which was made by tiny replicas of mainland dinosaurs.


Thanks :D

54godomora
 
on topic: do you mean insular gigantism or insular dwarfism?


Insular Dwarfism ;)
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54godamora
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relating to sloths, i just heard from wwb.

as for the insular dwarfism, i have only heard about Hateg's dinos and the pygmy elephants and mammoths,as far as my memory serves me. curse ADHD
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Furka
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Now that I think about it, Europasaurus should be another example, but I'm not sure.
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Yes , i confirm Europasaurus is another example

He has been identified as an example of insular dwarfism resulting from the isolation of a sauropod population on an island within the Lower Saxony basin
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