They need to get on fricking sequencing the female genome already (because females in birds determine the offspring sex and contain a complete genome, unlike in mammals).
You can't ride them like Chocobos because unlike horses, these animals could rotate their heads 180°.
Can't put a muzzle in them either because those huge beaks were used as pneumatic tools. Getting hit by that would split your head open.
Imagine if these things were still alive and roamed around the wilderness like mountain lions or cougars. Imagine going on a hike through a grassy plain in Southeastern America and just seeing one of those bounding at you, closing in incredibly fast.
I think these things could've really countered early hominids and bullied us out of ever evolving intelligence further. They are still egg-laying large predators that breed at alarming rates thus can exploit easily our K selective population structure
Large mammals are just not capable to compete with large reptiles
Nightmares made real as far as potential human predators go. Probably wouldn’t take long until they’d be rendered endangered with how dangerous they’d be
>All the speed of an ostrich >The brutal -eat you while alive- predation of a pelican >The size of staircase >Beak like two sharpened bowling balls >The stealth of a bigfoot
Serious, these things would have been terror of legs, we are perfect prey size for the bigger ones.
>big but has hollow bones and thus would be btfo by a mammal in a fight >ground nester and thus probably btfo by having their eggs eaten as well
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>ground nester and thus probably btfo by having their eggs eaten as well
Actually true. Killing off young is a great way to drive a species to extinction
2 months ago
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>hollow bones
you say that like it means something
2 months ago
Anonymous
Hollow bones being fragile is midwit propaganda, they are reinforced with a honey comb structure from the inside and are actually much sturdier than solid ones of the same size
2 months ago
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>sturdier
Idk if there are actually any studies on this but I imagine they're a lot like concrete. Hard strong but relatively brittle. A broken hollow bone is basically a death sentence. >isn't that the same with any other animals broken bone?
Yes and no. Our bones heal pretty quick considering, and obviously modern medicine helps but even when wild animals bones get the chance to heal, they heal quick. That just isn't the case with any bird. I don't think any wild bird can recover from a broken bone and captive/domestics need a very, very long and intensive recovery period to the point that most vets would suggest euthanasia anyway.
That honeycomb structure would be hell for a body to heal.
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most wild animals cant recover from a broken bone, thats not really a point, because a fracture is whatever and it heals normally, but a full break needs to be set properly to heal properly, animals dont know what a splint is, so that cripples it for the rest of its life
and if something is hard enough to break those bone, it would be dead anyway, whatever situation it found itself in that broke those really hard bones was not a survivable one in the first place
also since this is a TERRESTRIAL birds, like ostriches and emus, and technically penguins, they wouldnt have hollow bones, they dont fly. the bones have to strong enough to withstand running and kicking your skull in
if rocks are better than spears, why would anyone ever go to the trouble of making a spear when you can just pick up a rock? if rocks were better than spears spears wouldnt exist you nitwit
Why do they wear the mask?
apparently theres quite a few remains
They need to get on fricking sequencing the female genome already (because females in birds determine the offspring sex and contain a complete genome, unlike in mammals).
>silent but deadly warriors
>starred in 1991 jurassic park
>still hates humans
Seriously what the FRICK is their problem?
It's not a story the Carnivorans would tell you.
they ate horses n stuff
You can't ride them like Chocobos because unlike horses, these animals could rotate their heads 180°.
Can't put a muzzle in them either because those huge beaks were used as pneumatic tools. Getting hit by that would split your head open.
Some shitty documentary tried to gaslight people into thinking that they were hunted into extinction by sabertooth tigers (they weren't)
sabertooth cats still contributed to their extinction
they have big feet it appears
Imagine if these things were still alive and roamed around the wilderness like mountain lions or cougars. Imagine going on a hike through a grassy plain in Southeastern America and just seeing one of those bounding at you, closing in incredibly fast.
Imagine the sex.
have a nice day
I think these things could've really countered early hominids and bullied us out of ever evolving intelligence further. They are still egg-laying large predators that breed at alarming rates thus can exploit easily our K selective population structure
Large mammals are just not capable to compete with large reptiles
>chucks a spear
Time for a barbeque boys!
ez lunchen
we won
Nightmares made real as far as potential human predators go. Probably wouldn’t take long until they’d be rendered endangered with how dangerous they’d be
Reminder that this thing lived until XVII century (Aepyornis)
Clone them
cant do much with a gene pool of one
I can.
You're telling me these things were around during the 30 years war? What happened to them?
africans
>All the speed of an ostrich
>The brutal -eat you while alive- predation of a pelican
>The size of staircase
>Beak like two sharpened bowling balls
>The stealth of a bigfoot
Serious, these things would have been terror of legs, we are perfect prey size for the bigger ones.
>Cool story, bro. Pass me the salt, will you?
Humans didn't even encounter them.
still got mogged by sabertooths
>still got mogged by sabert-ACK
>big but has hollow bones and thus would be btfo by a mammal in a fight
>ground nester and thus probably btfo by having their eggs eaten as well
>ground nester and thus probably btfo by having their eggs eaten as well
Actually true. Killing off young is a great way to drive a species to extinction
>hollow bones
you say that like it means something
Hollow bones being fragile is midwit propaganda, they are reinforced with a honey comb structure from the inside and are actually much sturdier than solid ones of the same size
>sturdier
Idk if there are actually any studies on this but I imagine they're a lot like concrete. Hard strong but relatively brittle. A broken hollow bone is basically a death sentence.
>isn't that the same with any other animals broken bone?
Yes and no. Our bones heal pretty quick considering, and obviously modern medicine helps but even when wild animals bones get the chance to heal, they heal quick. That just isn't the case with any bird. I don't think any wild bird can recover from a broken bone and captive/domestics need a very, very long and intensive recovery period to the point that most vets would suggest euthanasia anyway.
That honeycomb structure would be hell for a body to heal.
most wild animals cant recover from a broken bone, thats not really a point, because a fracture is whatever and it heals normally, but a full break needs to be set properly to heal properly, animals dont know what a splint is, so that cripples it for the rest of its life
and if something is hard enough to break those bone, it would be dead anyway, whatever situation it found itself in that broke those really hard bones was not a survivable one in the first place
also since this is a TERRESTRIAL birds, like ostriches and emus, and technically penguins, they wouldnt have hollow bones, they dont fly. the bones have to strong enough to withstand running and kicking your skull in
>The size of staircase
What did he mean by this
He's american
>no arms to defend themselves with
>relies entirely on speed
>no pack hunting
These things would get utterly brutalized by humans with basic spears
Pretty much everything was brutalized by humans learning how to throw things.
Rocks>spear
A good blow from a rock in the head is probably better than a spear stab
No it's not you moron
>sling
>better than most bows and early guns
> just a rock, string, and piece of leather
if rocks are better than spears, why would anyone ever go to the trouble of making a spear when you can just pick up a rock? if rocks were better than spears spears wouldnt exist you nitwit
Misread as 'the stealth of a bigot', wondered what you meant by this, re-read, felt stupid.
sex
If they were alive today, bird gen would be insufferable.