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Prehistoric Animal Art Thread! Anonymous
I just downloaded a bunch of prehistoric animal pictures by Carl Buell and decided to share them with /an/onymous. Mostly mammals, no dinosaurs.

The first pic is a Barbourofelis attacking Hipparion
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Rhynchotherium, a kind of prehistoric North American elephant.
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Smilodon attacks a Bison antiquus.
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Mammuthus columbi, the Columbian Mammoth.
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Nothrotheriops, a ground sloth. I think this is the sloth they had in Ice Age.
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A whole bunch of North American ground sloth species.
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Indohyus, the "whale cousin".
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Pakicetus, the oldest known whale ancestor
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Ambulocetus, a more advanced whale ancestor
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Acanthostega, our inner fish.
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Effigia is a weird triassic crocodile, not a dinosaur.
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Tylosaurus, also not a dinosaur.
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Pteranodon sternbergi, also also not a dinosaur.
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awesome
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>>207841
Shit, that looks like a giant rat!
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>>207864
Jesus Christ! I don't ever want to see what the rats around your place are like!
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Suddenly, andrewsarchus!
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so do they just take a wild guess as to what color these animals were?
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These kinds of threads are why I even come to /an/.

If I want to see cats, I'll just look out my fucking window.
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>>207908

Yep, just educated guesses. Colors are usually based on both environment, current species, and primitive species that humans have seen (ex: thylacine).
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win thread is win.
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What>>207927said.

Also, sometimes the colours are chosen for clarity's sake. I remember reading from Carl Buell's blog (or maybe his Flickr account) that he thought Indohyus (>>207839) would most likely have had a spotted or striped fur because of its native environment, but he gave it an even coloured coat to better show off the anatomy.
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I don't think they exist.
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Giant rats don't exist?
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>>208462
holy fuck god, that reminds me of the Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark about the people who get a chihuahua and it turns out to be a rat.

Who else read that?
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fuck yeah

/r/ moar ground sloths
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