Comments on: Prehistoric Oddities

By: sheryl

sheryl — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 20:36:58 +0000

I wish that some of them would come back!
Who knows what's still alive from the prehistoric time I'm very open minded about it.

By: sheryl

sheryl — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 20:34:23 +0000

Yes I'm a big fan of the prehistoric animals I drive people up the wall with it all.
I'm always on the look out for new animals!I'm trying to hunt down a new animal going by the name of prehistoric winged shark and I can't find it anywhere. ( I recorded off of sky)and still have it on sky plus .
I like the animals on this page that I'm going to print it up for kiddies .

By: robb

robb — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:49:12 +0000

prehistoric is a creepy era.
'nuff said.

By: Gaz

Gaz — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:33:01 +0000

You're forgetting the Megaloceros Giganteus which died out due to it's antlers being too big to fit through the trees once the ice-age had calmed down and the forests built up in density.

By: Janegael

Janegael — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 10:48:10 +0000

Christian trolls probably amuse me as much as they do God. He creates wonderful creatures and they call him a liar. Nice. Evolution is a miracle in itself and theologians who actually understand this stuff instead of spouting nastiness have no problem with it.

The Burgess Shale fossils at the top are a bit over five million years old. Opabinia was about 3 inches long - not much of a threat. Phorusrhacos the honking big bird here was the only one who could have hurt anyone. Too bad Moropus is shown without his skin. Dressed he looks like a delightful combination of a draft horse and a bear. I want one!

By: Flu-Bird

Flu-Bird — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:16:58 +0000

I suppose if i were that carniverous bird i would want to hide from any bioligists becuase they would be after mee all 24/7 and their dad gum trackin collar wouldnt be able to pick up good country/western music or any good music

By: GQ

GQ — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:48:26 +0000

Thank you for two cents worth idiots, now run along before your sky-father murders you for using technology.

"which may have been a mouth or an anus."

Man, you really don't want to get those two things mixed up.

By: Flu-Bird

Flu-Bird — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 06:05:17 +0000

The BIBLE calles them BEHEAMOUTH and LEVIATHAN

By: Flu-Bird

Flu-Bird — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 06:03:27 +0000

Those old movies and cartoons showing humans and dinasours were probibly true where else did they get the legends of DRAGONS?

By: Wesley

Wesley — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:26:04 +0000

There are no such things as dinosaurs and all that prehistoric stuff.All u who beleive in that is stupid and need your dang heads looked at cause ya'll are STUPID STUPID STUPID STUPID.GET A REAL LIFE.DUMMIES

By: Flu-Bird

Flu-Bird — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:51:28 +0000

To Hell BIBLE MOM is right EVOLUTION is a BIG FAT LIE and DARWIN didnt see any evedence of evolution at all and the facts that back in 1999 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC tried to claim this dino-bird model they made was the proof on birds evolving from dinasour it was later proven a fake and other evolutionary fruads like PILTDOWN MAN and NEBRASKA MAN and that goofy ape woman that this cracked urn DONALD JOHANSEN called LUCY was not at all a human-ape link just some rediculous fruad

By: Flu-Bird

Flu-Bird — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:06:45 +0000

Phorusrhacos what a big big birdie he was AND HE PROBIBLY ATE THE CAT AND DOG BOTH THEN HE WENT AND ET THE MOONBATS

By: vonskippy

vonskippy — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 22:47:26 +0000

@Bible Mom: Troll or nutjob? (not that there's much of a difference)

By: Going to Hell

Going to Hell — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 22:42:06 +0000

Bible Mom-
So animals that appear to be "freakazoids" were made by the devil?
Evolution is a lie?

Why don't Christians believe in evidence?

By: Bible Mom

Bible Mom — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 21:22:58 +0000

These are the devils handiwork.

Evolution is a lie.

Jesus doesn't make freakazoids.

Believe or go to hell.

By: Kristine B

Kristine B — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 19:32:48 +0000

What about Tully monsters??
http://www.museum.state.il.us/exhibits/symbols/fossil.html

By: VonSkippy

VonSkippy — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 05:16:10 +0000

It's all very ENTERTAINING, but to dig up a few fossil examples of a species and do a whole "looks like and lived like" profile is conjecture at best.

Palaeontology is one of those soft sciences that just bugs me with all the guesses being touted as known facts.

By: Johnny Cat

Johnny Cat — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 02:00:00 +0000

YES Yeargdribble! That's it!

@John Davis. You are spam.

By: Yeargdribble

Yeargdribble — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 01:30:18 +0000

Perhaps you're thinking of Anomalocaris.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anomalocaris

By: Johnny Cat

Johnny Cat — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 01:08:22 +0000

I think it's a scientific method of some kind.

Anyway, that first one wasn't the size of a shark, but I remember seeing an episode of Nova that had a large, similar creature that thrived in the mostly ocean world of the Pre-Cambrian (or maybe post), and it was something you wouldn't want swimming up on you, for sure.

By: WJColby

WJColby — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:56:46 +0000

Some of those early pictures of fossils, How do they figure out head and tail? That one with the lone trunklike face of the shrimp family looks completely backwards. How do they determine skin types, fur, 3D facial features? I'm not disbelieving the science, But sometimes I think alot of fantastic assumptions are shared as fact when they may not be.
It's more obvious in primate studies where a hip and thigh can tell you how they looked,what they ate and their complete family dynamics.LOL
So,seriously, how can they see what's up and down?:)

By: Dino

Dino — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:09:13 +0000

Saurs rock the Ages!!!!

... Beware.

By: Ajan

Ajan — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:56:21 +0000

wish they were around (in cages)

By: eni

eni — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:14:14 +0000

I agree, Hallucigenia "walking" on spikes doesn't make any sense.
This was a fascinating article. I loved it. Thanks!

By: Brachinus

Brachinus — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 14:49:15 +0000

FYI, your rendering of Hallucigenia is now generally regarded as being upside-down. Further research suggests the spiky "legs" were actually spikes on the back, and the squiggly bits were the creature's legs.

Stephen Jay Gould wrote about it a few years back: http://www.stephenjaygould.org/library/gould_reversal-hallucigenia.htm l

By: Ellisattack

Ellisattack — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 12:41:27 +0000

Its like God played Spore.

By: Kitti

Kitti — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 12:17:07 +0000

This is so weird...

I am spending my summer doing an internship studying conodonts trying to find the efilian-givetian boundry based on a certain type of conodont in the eastern US. And here I open my favorite website that I check daily before work, and there the little guys are! That just made my day!

By: Foreigner1

Foreigner1 — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 11:24:08 +0000

Say- How big were Opabinia and Hallucigenia...?
Are we talking inches or feet here...? I mean, dino's sometimes give me the creeps, but to think that something like Opabinia swam the oceans at a same size of a modern Great White shark.....?

...There goes my peaceful sleep.....