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sashayed:silvermoon424:poppypicklesticks:billybatsonandjameshowlettsbro:cosmicallycosmopolitan:billybatsonandjameshowlettsbro:james-winston:The Titanoboa, is a 48ft long snake dating from around 60-58million years ago. It had a rib cage 2ft wide, allowing it to eat whole crocodiles, and surrounding the ribcage were muscles so powerful that it could crush a rhino. Titanoboa was so big it couldn’t even spend long amounts of time on land, because the force of gravity acting on it would cause it to suffocate under its own weight.I’m so glad they aren’t aroundomg me too. I’m scared enough of 26 ft long anacondas. I’m so happy Megalodons, those giant sharks, aren’t alive eitherPraise natural selectionI remember watching Walking with Beasts or something similar, or some British tv show about evolutionThe subject was something like a 12 foot long water scorpionI was so startled by its sudden appearance and narration that I yelped: “12 fucking feet?!?! I’m fucking glad it’s extinct!” Dude, prehistory was home to some fucking TERRIFYING creatures. For some reason, everything back then was enormous and scary. Extinction doesn’t always have to be a bad thing!And Poppy, what you saw was an arthropod known as Pterygotus (it was actually featured in Walking With Monsters). Not only was it as big (or maybe even bigger) than your average human, it had a stinger the size of a lightbulb. REALLY glad that bugger isn’t around anymore.Also, Megalodon deserves to be mention again, because just hearing its name makes me want to never be submerged in water ever again.GOD, I HATE THIS POST. HOW DO WE EVEN KNOW THAT SHIT ISN’T STILL AROUND? LURKING? EVOLVING? WE DON’T. WE DON’T KNOW SHIT ABOUT SHIT DOWN THERE. THE OCEAN IS A PRIMEVAL HELLSCAPE NIGHTMARE AND WE ALL JUST DIP OUR STUPID FRAGILE UNPROTECTED FETUS BODIES AROUND THE EDGES OF IT LIKE THAT’S NORMAL. FUCK THE OCEAN.I LOVE MEGALADON AND TITANOBOA but I had never heard of Pterygotus! Another of my favorite terrifying long-extinct monsters is Andrewsarchus. It’s cute. -- source link
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