New animal just dropped.
Perucetus colossus, possibly bigger/heavier than the blue whale.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/biggest-animal-ever-scientists-say-theyve-discovered-a-massive-and-ancient-whale/ar-AA1eHbyo#image=1
New animal just dropped. Perucetus colossus, possibly bigger/heavier than the blue whale.
Fat nigga.
Am i the only one doubting this portrayal?
Apparently they only have parts of the spine around the middle, and 4 ribs. Yet they know how large the head is?
I know they have skeletons of close relatives, but that head is ridiculously small compared to the body.
>Yet they know how large the head is?
They don’t, the head is still waiting to be described
>I know they have skeletons of close relatives, but that head is ridiculously small compared to the body.
It’s an extremely generic Basilosaurus skull and is proportional to length, it’s just unusually bulky
Adorable.
Hello, big guy
Hii
Sup, you fat fuck.
fat fuck
Who you callin pinhead?
Smash
Looks familiar
Everyone knows bloop is a massive aquatic platypus.
Fat fuck (complimentary)
>Waiter! Waiter! More exaggerated reconstructions please!!!
>Lord, we need to consult your wisdom about creation, we fear that-
>Not now. I'm making big whale.
Paleontology is a pseudoscience at best
That pepe looks like Tommy Pickles
Paleontology is in fact a real science. Probably a good hundred rungs above anything with psychology or “studies” in its name on the realness ladder.
PaleoART however is absolutely not science and art contributes absolutely fucking nothing to society. If anything it harms it.
Would you put Gurney's art in the harmful category? I don't care either way, but I'd imagine it's gotten more than one kid interested in dinosaurs
NTA, but the difference between good and bad paleo art is bad paleo art is extremely speculative and tries to be different for the sake of being noticed while good paleo art sticks to what is probable and thus can be appreciated long after it has been considered outdated. Compare this.
With this.
This is so cool. They're like dragons. Wicked!
>STOP BEING CREATIVE! STOP HAVING FUN! BE STUPID LIKE ME, DUR HUR! WHA? YOU'RE SPECULATING? NO, HELP! HELP! YOU'RE HURTING MY RETARD BRAIN!
The West fell when pop culture convinced the entire population that "being smart = dummeh and cringe!"
shut up retard, go play with your plastic toys. shut up retard, go play with your plastic toys. shut up retard, go play with your plastic toys
Be creative but don’t imply your fantasy is fact. In a serious publication. Like this retarded fat lizard looking whale.
Autists Do Not Understand Social Context Or Moral Thought
>lizard looking whale
To be honest early whales looked kind of reptilian. Basilosaurus was even confused for a reptile.
>lizard looking whale
like what this anon said
that's the only believable part of it. The Basilosaurids look like reptiles. That's why they are called BasiloSAURS and not something like Basilotherium. Richard Owen wanted to rename them Zeuglodon when he showed that they were whales, but the name that's not how naming conventions work.
I doubt they looked so fucking retarded
Carl Buell is my favorite paleoartist but it seems like his site and blog are both gone, where did you get that pic
It likely wasn't like the original pic, but not like a Basilosaurus either. This animal is fat.
why do paleo artists insist on giving ancient whales distinct heads/necks/shoulders
as if being hydrodynamic hadn't evolved yet. even amphibious modern mammals that spend time on land like seals and otters are smooth tubes.
made a fixed version. now without the retarded barrel chest that would give it a bunch of drag in the water.
>t. Autist
Fake comment
Autists are the only ones who understand moral thought. Principle means autistic devotion to an ideal no matter the context, while normies would sell their minds and souls for a raise at work
most people can appreciate speculative paleoart for what it is, speculative paleo art. They aren't meant to represent scientific truth, they are meant to give a general idea of what the animal could possible have looked like and it's good to have a range of options from more probable to more speculative.
Only autists and poltards in bad faith lose their mind at inaccurate drawings.
This is more marketable than this.
This is awesome
I'll give it to you that unrealistic drawings that are differrnt for the sake of it might fool a lot of easily swayed NPCs who will take them for granted, but I still think those drawings are cool
This recreation is trying to capture the animal.
but this recreation is outright mythological in what it is showing.
There is a reason it is iconic.
It captures the chaos and fuels wanderlust.
You showcased not bad and good paleoart but diference between Fact driven and Art driven interpretations
What life with no predators do to a mf.
Paleoartists can’t even get their own memes right
These furfag zoomers are accidentally destroying what little trust in academia (aka smarter people) the amerifat israelitestian gutter class ever had. They aren’t rational thinkers so this drawing being retarded somehow disproves evolution and modern medicine in their tiny brains further hampered by xenoestrogens, heavy metal poisoning, and alcoholism.
Only those of us smart enough to know all speculative art is inherently false and doesn’t stop us from getting the measles vaccine or a useful education.
Kek multitasking related error
The last sentence was meant to end with “are immune to this bullshit accidental subversion”
meds
Least obsessed third-worlder
I did my own artist rendition how does it look
It looks friendly 🙂
Saved.
fat fuck
That's rude.
What does he eat?
Spinosaurusbros...
>implying it isn't a spinosaurid that survived the mass extinction
What is it with shit that comes back to the water from land just getting stupidly huge stupidly quick?
There's a reason they go back to the water
Superior oxygen intake
You go beyond megalodon size and the fish start struggling
how do f*shkeks even cope with this frequent mogging?
theyve accepted their role as food
They don't think about it
They don't think in general
With sharks, duh.
I like the top one, he looks friendly.
From top to bottom they are Shastasaurus, Shonisaurus and Cymbospondylus youngorum right?
Huge landmass for one to travel = larger creatures.
It happens on land too.
There's also the fact that both whales and ichtyosaurs went back to the water following mass extinctions that wiped out most competitors, though whales took some time before going to the sea.
Oxygen
Land chads are better at using oxygen
Even today the largest freshwater fish trend towards air breathing
then why do sturgeons always live on the lake bottom?
Once you're buoyant in the water, your size is no longer constrained by gravity. If elephants got any bigger they'd collapse under their own weight.
>If elephants got any bigger they'd collapse under their own weight
elephants could be substantially larger. The largest Mammals, Paleoloxodon and Paraceratherium, were probably about 24 tons at max, and sauropods with their superior avian-style lungs, bones, and cooling systems could get to 100 tons. But yes, eventually there reaches a point where land animals cannot support their enormous size on land.
>titanic fucking body
>miniscule head
No wonder it's extinct
My friend has a cat that's body grew big but the head stayed small like a kittens
you better have a photo of it
Your friend's cat is just fucking fat
Your friend's cat is gonna go extinct
Even if they downscale it, it's still arguably one of the largest animal in post-Mesozoic world before that blue krillsucker came into existence
Give it a week before it gets downsized
Whale bros... First Itchyosaurs and now this retard? I thought we were the biggest to ever live...
Seriously though this thing is fucking scary. I love weird prehistoric animals and this is perfectly horrifying image it with a human like face too.
It is a whale as well though
>a human like face too.
Fucking where it looks like a dog
Reminder you are posting on Wauf where users regularly claim that dogs look like humans
Damn bitch why you so big for
Yeah that thing is bullshit and going get way downsized. There is no way it could maintain that weight and size without being baleen filter feeders.
>300 tons
Pull the other one
THE BLOOP
THE BLOOP IS REAL
CAN WE GET MUCH DEEPER ?
>SO DEEP
>OooOOOOooooOOOoooo
CAN WE GET MUCH DEEPER ?
>SO DEEP
>OoOOOooooOooOOOooo
>UGH ACTUALLY THE BIGGEST THING EVER IS THE BLUE WHALE AND WE KNOW THIS FOR A FACT AND IF TOU ASSUME OTHERWISE YOU ARE A FUCKING IDIOT AND I WILL DISCREDIT YOU
So can we finally violently assault all the people who adamantly thought otherwise? Palaeontologists are indistinguishable from religious nut cases.
Fuck you, to any of you nutcases here. Fuck. You.
I always assumed big ass cephalopods could have existed since they wouldn’t fossilize well. There’s no way the ones alive today are the biggest.
Triassic kraken theory is autistic but it makes you think
You're the one getting needlessly aggressive.
How would something so big manage to survive? It would have to eat half the ocean just to live.
your mom manages just fine
Well, go fuck yourself with your bull shit assumptions.
“What if something bigger than the blue whale exist-“
“LOL IDIOT, IT WOULD HAVE TO CONSUME SO FUCKING MUCH HAHAHAHAHA”
“But some whales bulk eat over no-“
“LOOK AT THIS GUY. LOOK AT HIM AND LAUGH”
Go fuck yourself, honestly. Why is it so hard for people to entertain the possibility of things?
They suspect it scavenged off the sea floor.
There are fucktons of invertebrates living on the seafloor so it definitely could sustain itself
pre-human oceans were insane in population. Even after our severe overfishing and poaching of anything remotely tasty they're still packed with life, so just imagine an ocean untouched by industrialized harvesting.
Normies don't know that our current oceans are graveyards, almost devoid of life.
If were not for orcas we could see elephant seals evolving like this.
woah friend. Easy on the tuna.
I could take him
What could he even do?
Looking at him I'd likely avoid the tail,hands and teeth but his back is exposed. Which is perfect for lodging my fist in his blowhole if he has one. I win 10/10
He wants you to think thst th back is safe but then BOOM
Vestigial legs
In a fight, right?
up the ass, I'm sure
Patiently waiting for Percocetus Colossus
I'm glad I wasn't under him
funny
They where also writing a paper about that ichthyosaur jawbone that suposedly belonged to a 33m beast
he chonk
The Bloop?
What did it eat?
You could always ask your mom.
On a serious note, if the paper interpretation helds and pending the head, I have the suHispanicion that it may turn out be a benthic forager (it is one of the ideas suggested in the paper, too). Given the immense numbers and diversity of sand dollars and giant benthic foraminifera during the Eocene it not hard to see how a cetacean specializing on them could get huge.
>What did it eat?
Titan submersibles. Or at the very least the gooey goodness inside.
They're making up new creatures faster than Pokémon
The reason was published in Nature, which adds some weight to it.
Of course, pokemon tries to make as few of those as possible.
>we found part of a big spine
>must look like the god king of dune
>yeah
>flippers? absolutely not what kind of swimming animal needs fflippers lmfao
>hey looks like it had a blowhole
>SHRINKWRAP THE HEAD
>IT NEEDS LE HECKING FEATHERS AND A TRUNK AND ALSO POSSIBLY BE TRANS TO BE SCIENTIFICALLY ACCURATE
>SHRINKWRAP THE HEAD
Here you go, anon.
Beat me to it. I knew the blue whale would eventually be dethroned. That is, unless like so many other prehistoric creatures the estimate gets downsized with time.
This drawing is so weird
Why hands? Why legs?
whales at this time still had vestigial hind limbs, see basilosaurus
What about the hands?
Probably because they think it might’ve been a bottom feeder because of the super heavy skeleton, so in theory might’ve used it’s flippers to walk along the bottom. It might have had more normal looking flippers, but whale flippers are already just hands with the fingers connected by flesh so it’s not a stretch
This animal looks so retarded, what's with it's stupid face? Why does it have to be so big if it had a stupidly tiny head like that
This is 100% going to be downsized. Maybe it'll still beat the blue whale in terms of mass, but the one thing you can always bet on is the initial estimate is wildly off and favors hyping the discovery up.
This looks fucking retarded it obviously was not that big
It already kind of has been unofficially. The 340 tonne estimate is based on modern whales, which is pretty shoddy. It was almost definitely closer to the 80 tonne range
They used the most extreme bone/total weight ratio to get the high figure while the low figure is based on manatees. I'd be astonished if this jumbo dugong thing got over 100t which is already more than the biggest sperm whales.
It’s definitely huge, just probably not blue whale huge. That said there’s another giant predatory marine animal coming apparently, one that far exceeds Perucetus
>another giant predatory mammal
Which is?
No idea if it’s a mammal yet, could be another ichthyosaur
What a heckin' chonker
>no one checking quads
Why such tiny flippers and head for such a huge body?
Snakemaxxing
>not called Chonkocetus absoluteunitus
Fail
They could have used Nikocadus avocadus as well.
Jesus Christ, I hate sensationalism like this. The animal is a Basilosaurid there's absolutely zero chance it was anywhere near 340 tones.
LOL there is NO FUCKING WAY this thing is real. Someone cobbled some crazy shit together.
>Bröther, may I have some fish??
>You know that I am very scanty on fish bröther and my bulk will not otherwise survive the cooling seas
heh
They always make them look fat don't they?
If the blue whale is ever dethroned it shouldn't be by some stupid shit like this. No way, no how.
I TURNED MYSELF INTO A PICKLE
IM PICKLE WHALE
>find a vertebra
>reconstruct the whole animal
>supposed to be related to whales but build like a sea cow
Can't they at least wait to find the skull? Or are they too afraid of losing state aid if they don't bring out a new animal every week?
>Can't they at least wait to find the skull?
not necessary. does the vertebrum look like that of a whale to you? can you state which features tell you so?
>not necessary.
yes it is
>does the vertebrum look like that of a whale to you?
no
>can you state which features tell you so?
can you ?
picrel
Already BTFO
>Already BTF-
*click* *click* *click*
>AAAAACK!
>finds a bunch of ichthyosaur vertebra
>hmmm must’ve been the kraken
Luckily the skull was actually preserved, it’s just waiting to be described. Last I heard it was still waiting to be excavated
Why they fuck didn't they wait until the specimen was fully described to publish the paper?
Too exciting
What are you talking about they found the skull lol :^)