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Extinct Animal Questions
Topic Started: Nov 26 2013, 10:24 PM (193,256 Views)
stargatedalek
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I'm not slow! That's just my moe!

54godamora
Oct 19 2016, 06:32 PM
was there any animal- not counting early humans that could take on a glyptodont? note: the counter to mentioned animal can be from any time era
Terror birds and jaguar both actually preyed on them so there's an obvious starting point.

Also please stop.
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54godamora
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what if said glyptodont was the size of a bison?

also, I suck at this stuff since my knowledge pool when it comes to difficult prehistory questions is poor, so cut me some slack.
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54godamora
Oct 19 2016, 06:44 PM
what if said glyptodont was the size of a bison?
Terror birds would still probably be able to hunt them and so might a large Jaguar (especially a large one of the Pleistocene NA or SA subspecies), tapirs aren't exactly tiny and Jaguars are able to kill them.

A large croc or alligator would also be able to.
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Fireplume
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Snok Snok Snerson

Thylacosmilids too likely took at least young individuals.
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heliosphoros
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Thylacosmilids basically had the most overpowered saberteeth of all time; like in most sparassodonts, they grew throughout their lifetime or at least for a good chunk of it, and had a "tusk-like" structure to boot.

If anything could kill at least occasionally a glyptodont, it would be a thylacosmilid.
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54godamora
Oct 19 2016, 06:44 PM
also, I suck at this stuff since my knowledge pool when it comes to difficult prehistory questions is poor, so cut me some slack.
Yes, we've heard your reasoning multiple times, but this still isn't the place to ask completely speculative questions regarding a fanfiction.
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54godamora
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I know but where else would I turn to?
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CyborgIguana
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I don't know, just not here.
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54godamora
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ok here's a rational question: what direction did carnotaurus horns face? ive seen the face forward or to the sides. which is it?
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Out from the sides and angled upwards
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54godamora
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can I get an image on that: both skeleton and fleshed out?
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Formerly Dilophoraptor

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Assuming they encountered (which I don't know if it happened), I think large bears could have taken on Glyptodonts too.
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Yes, on both continents
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Chaos Theory

What'd be some good ways to teach kids how to tell actual fossils and casts/replicas apart from each other?
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