UM-Bot Posted April 16, 2018 #1 Share Posted April 16, 2018 A new study has revealed that a devastating event may have been responsible for the dinosaurs' dominance. https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/317285/mass-extinction-triggered-age-of-the-dinosaurs 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Not A Rockstar Posted April 16, 2018 #2 Share Posted April 16, 2018 This really makes you wonder what came before them and what the world was like, what lived then, if anything. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Podo Posted April 16, 2018 #3 Share Posted April 16, 2018 59 minutes ago, Not A Rockstar said: This really makes you wonder what came before them and what the world was like, what lived then, if anything. Amphibians, mostly, as well as other reptiles and early proto-mammals, the synapsids. https://www.livescience.com/43295-triassic-period.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triassic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permian 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Not A Rockstar Posted April 16, 2018 #4 Share Posted April 16, 2018 27 minutes ago, Podo said: Amphibians, mostly, as well as other reptiles and early proto-mammals, the synapsids. Thanks. That would make sense that acid would be devastating to amphibians and perhaps allow an advantage to repitles. Probabaly was also traumatic to the plant life, causing big changes in what dominated and where. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paperdyer Posted April 16, 2018 #5 Share Posted April 16, 2018 Let's see...We have acid rain from smog and other stuff, global warming- I mean climate change. All we need are the volcanoes to go crazy again, then star measuring your lizards daily! Can't think of a better reason to start pruning the reptile world awhile. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acute Posted April 16, 2018 #6 Share Posted April 16, 2018 2 minutes ago, paperdyer said: Let's see...We have acid rain from smog and other stuff, global warming- I mean climate change. All we need are the volcanoes to go crazy again, then start measuring your lizards daily! Can't think of a better reason to start pruning the reptile world awhile. Does this include our reptilian overlords, such as Presidents George W BushCroc and Barack Iguana, and Queen Lizard The Second? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paperdyer Posted April 16, 2018 #7 Share Posted April 16, 2018 7 minutes ago, acute said: Does this include our reptilian overlords, such as Presidents George W BushCroc and Barack Iguana, and Queen Lizard The Second? If they're your lizards, be my guest. You have odd names for your lizards. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Hammerclaw Posted April 16, 2018 #8 Share Posted April 16, 2018 A new study? There's nothing new about the Permian Extinction Event clearing the table and leading to the rise of the Age of Dinosaurs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carnoferox Posted April 17, 2018 #9 Share Posted April 17, 2018 20 minutes ago, Hammerclaw said: A new study? There's nothing new about the Permian Extinction Event clearing the table and leading to the rise of the Age of Dinosaurs. This new paper isn't about the Permian mass extinction, but rather a later and lesser extinction during the Carnian stage of the Late Triassic (c. 232 Ma). https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-03996-1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tatetopa Posted April 17, 2018 #10 Share Posted April 17, 2018 6 hours ago, Podo said: 7 hours ago, Not A Rockstar said: This really makes you wonder what came before them and what the world was like, what lived then, if anything. Amphibians, mostly, as well as other reptiles and early proto-mammals, the synapsids. https://www.livescience.com/43295-triassic-period.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triassic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permian There were great ages of marvelous creatures and an earth so different it would be hard to recognize. Well worth the reading. The famous sail-backed Dimetrodon comes from that time as well as some big scary, long, legged. fast running, proto-crocodiles (excuse me Carnoferox) . Dragon flies with a 2 foot wing span, 6ft long millipedes, sea scorpions and a lot more. Check it out. Like going to another planet almost. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaylemurph Posted April 17, 2018 #11 Share Posted April 17, 2018 24 minutes ago, Tatetopa said: There were great ages of marvelous creatures and an earth so different it would be hard to recognize. Well worth the reading. The famous sail-backed Dimetrodon comes from that time as well as some big scary, long, legged. fast running, proto-crocodiles (excuse me Carnoferox) . Dragon flies with a 2 foot wing span, 6ft long millipedes, sea scorpions and a lot more. Check it out. Like going to another planet almost. Look up Ediacaran Biota ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ediacaran_biota ) and then get freaked out by the fact Lovecraft seems to have been on to something nobody found out about til a few decades after he died. --Jaylemurph 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Not A Rockstar Posted April 17, 2018 #12 Share Posted April 17, 2018 21 minutes ago, jaylemurph said: Look up Ediacaran Biota ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ediacaran_biota ) and then get freaked out by the fact Lovecraft seems to have been on to something nobody found out about til a few decades after he died. --Jaylemurph No surprise to me, I think of some of our great sci fi writers as the prophets of our times Ray Bradbury used to transfix me with some of his tales. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carnoferox Posted April 17, 2018 #13 Share Posted April 17, 2018 1 hour ago, Tatetopa said: The famous sail-backed Dimetrodon comes from that time as well as some big scary, long, legged. fast running, proto-crocodiles (excuse me Carnoferox) . You referring to Postosuchus? If so, it was indeed a terrifying creature. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UFO_Monster Posted April 17, 2018 #14 Share Posted April 17, 2018 Extinctions typically lead to a massive loss of life, and opens the door for new species anyway. Doesn't really surprise me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tatetopa Posted April 17, 2018 #15 Share Posted April 17, 2018 One of my all time favorites is Tullimonstrum from Pennsylvanian era. A perfect candidate for the Loch Ness monster if they were about 20 times bigger: worm like body, weird neck/proboscis, aquatic, no need to surface to breathe. Read a couple of accounts of knights killing wurms, sounds like a big tulimomstrum. Just a little too little and too early. Now surmised to be a lamprey kin. And me a little too late. Somebody wrote a book about it already. Well, still the state fossil of Pennsylvania, not bad for a 300 year old jawless fish. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carnoferox Posted April 17, 2018 #16 Share Posted April 17, 2018 (edited) 1 hour ago, Tatetopa said: One of my all time favorites is Tullimonstrum from Pennsylvanian era. A perfect candidate for the Loch Ness monster if they were about 20 times bigger: worm like body, weird neck/proboscis, aquatic, no need to surface to breathe. Read a couple of accounts of knights killing wurms, sounds like a big tulimomstrum. Just a little too little and too early. Now surmised to be a lamprey kin. And me a little too late. Somebody wrote a book about it already. Well, still the state fossil of Pennsylvania, not bad for a 300 year old jawless fish. The vertebrate identity for Tullimonstrum has recently been questioned (see Sallan et al. 2017), so its affinities remain enigmatic as ever. It's just another one of the many Paleozoic oddities. Edited April 17, 2018 by Carnoferox 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissJatti Posted April 17, 2018 #17 Share Posted April 17, 2018 Dinosaurus had their shot, and nature selected them for extinction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paperdyer Posted April 17, 2018 #18 Share Posted April 17, 2018 Seeing that an asteroid "just missed" the Earth with very little advanced warning, we may be on borrowed time. So as Waspie's new picture tag says - Don't Worry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Essan Posted April 17, 2018 #19 Share Posted April 17, 2018 17 hours ago, jaylemurph said: Look up Ediacaran Biota ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ediacaran_biota ) and then get freaked out by the fact Lovecraft seems to have been on to something nobody found out about til a few decades after he died. --Jaylemurph Aye, but for an accident of circumstance, life on Earth could have evolved into perfectly normal creatures, rather than the utterly bizzare and unique monstrosities we have with 4 limbs and mouths in the heads! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tatetopa Posted April 18, 2018 #20 Share Posted April 18, 2018 22 hours ago, Tatetopa said: 300 year old jawless fish. Sorry 300 million year old I meant to say. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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