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Nagi
>>76960
If every animal that ever existed on Earth all existed at the same time (in stable breeding populations, at that), the planet would be so overpopulated that they would all die off from starvation after having stripped the planet bare of vegetation, as well as disease due to overcrowding enabling the rampant spread of illness. The planet as a whole would have been turned into barren wasteland for trying to support far too much life at one time.
>>76938
Personally I'm skeptical of the idea that Behemoths = dinosaurs. The description must be taken literally to be able to describe it as a dinosaur, and at that level of literalism we get into things like the animal chewing, which all dinosaurs but Hadrosaurs were incapable of. There's also mention of a navel in the translation I'm reading, which is impossible in animals born from eggs.
Given that this all stems from early cultures that thought mythological beasts like dragons and winged horses and giants to be real, zoological animals (the Bible itself mentions them several times in later books), I wouldn't discount the idea of it being a dragon or some other giant mythological creature. After all, other cultures came to the same conclusions after viewing, oddly enough, dinosaur bones (which the Chinese attributed to dragons and still use in "dragon powders" for medicine, and which even Victorian England thought to be the bones of giants like Goliath for a time).
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