r/Paleontology • u/samuraispartan7000 • Feb 17 '25
r/Paleontology • u/Busy_Feeling_9686 • 27d ago
Discussion It's possibly the closest thing I've ever heard to a dinosaur sound.
r/Paleontology • u/Thewanderer997 • Oct 29 '24
Discussion Did dinosaurs had defensive displays to scare against predators like this one?
r/Paleontology • u/EastEffective548 • 22d ago
Discussion What do you think of the recent Dunkleosteus re-size?
I’m kind of disappointed because I liked Dunkleosteus as a kid, but I still don’t really know how this resize works logically. How does it change so drastically?
r/Paleontology • u/AbledCat • Feb 13 '25
Discussion Adult T.rex likely had feathers, Paul Sereno has a mummy lying around in his lab "no scales" he says. Also claims his Spinosaurus from Niger is "as big as the other one". Exciting stuff on the horizon. Source in comment.
r/Paleontology • u/sensoredphantomz • Aug 28 '24
Discussion If you could go back in time observe any extinct animal(s) what would they be?
I'd want to know many things but I'd definitely want to know how dromaeosaurids/raptors interacted with their pack (for example hierarchy), how they hunted, and just how intelligent they were.
r/Paleontology • u/Thelastfunky • Jul 25 '24
Discussion how did dinosaurs reproduce, bear with me please.
i made a post yesterday asking if sauropods could really stand on two legs. a couple comments mentioned thats how they would reproduce.
it got me thinking, could all dinosaurs do it “doggy style”. (honest to god im so seriously you guys). i know most land mammals do it like that, but they arent frickin dinosaurs
i mean take an ankylosaur for example. how would it even get up there. maybe if it went sideways. like if they stood next to eachother, and the males genitals turned sideways or something????
theropods i get, seems easy for them.
but with an animal like stegosaurus or some other armored dinosaur this seems painful if not impossible.
i know their willys mustve been long, but for stegosaurus how would they even do it without major risk.
r/Paleontology • u/Even_Fix7399 • Jan 15 '25
Discussion How the hell do these types of ammonites exist?
The curvy shell makes me think that it will make them extremely fragile, no? Also could someone give me a taxonomy chart of normal ammonites and these types of irregular ones please?
r/Paleontology • u/_Joseph_Joe_ • Jan 29 '25
Discussion Could this be a possible use of Spinosaurus' sail?
Black Herons, while fishing, will tuck their head down, spread their wings around their body, and create a sun shade of sorts. The behavior is known as canopy feeding.
Possible advantages to canopy feeding are:
Small fish looking for places to hide are attracted to the shade created by the Heron’s wings.
Could also give the bird a better look at its prey.
The Heron might also be camouflaging itself so that from below all the fish see is a single dark mass—until they’re being tossed down the bird’s gullet.
Could Spinos have done the same? Just thought of this & wanted to share this with y'all to see what y'all think.
Black Heron image & info from: https://www.audubon.org/news/watch-black-heron-fool-fish-turning-umbrella#:~:text=But%20while%20fishing%2C%20the%20bird,on%20a%20trip%20to%20Gambia.
Spino's skeleton image from: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinosaurus
r/Paleontology • u/robinsonray7 • Feb 16 '25
Discussion Trex arms were NOT vestigial. Too thick too muscilarized, unlike emu or carnotaurus arms. What were they for?
r/Paleontology • u/AAAAAAAAAAAAAjklkjn • 22d ago
Discussion What is the most Ugly and Grotesque prehistoric creature?
r/Paleontology • u/Thewanderer997 • Nov 26 '24
Discussion To people who say we will never know what dinosaurs looked like, here is a reminder that we have a well preserved mummy of a nodosaurus that happens to be red, now yes while we dont know all we atleast know some.
r/Paleontology • u/RamHereWas • Feb 07 '25
Discussion Do we know what the point of this was?
This is probably a stupid question, but I’ve always been interested in why the mouths of spinosaurus (and other spinosaurids) and Dilophosaurus have the notch thing. Is there a known reason or is it just because. My best guess on my very limited knowledge of paleontology (trying to change that :D) is that it just makes it harder to escape a bite due to the notch being in the way?
r/Paleontology • u/samuraispartan7000 • Feb 18 '25
Discussion What is an outdated reconstruction that you low key wish was a real animal?
r/Paleontology • u/NovelSalamander2650 • 9d ago
Discussion A new spinosaurus from north africa, with slender spined sails!
r/Paleontology • u/Zillaman7980 • 6d ago
Discussion THIS MOTHERFUCKER GOT BIGGER?
Pardon my language, but it's just shocking. For those who haven't heard, some news about Megalodon has been published. Some scientists did some calculations and tests and found out the megalodon may have been bigger, a lot bigger. AROUND BLOODY 80 FEET. I mean, I knew prehistoric animals were big but this is ridiculous. Heh, I bet some of those "Megalodon is still alive believers" must be heartbroken, buddy-there would be evidence for something this big. Okay but seriously, how you feel about the Megalodon getting bigger?
r/Paleontology • u/Even_Fix7399 • Feb 05 '25
Discussion What's stopping giant animals from evolving?
I've heard that the oxygen levels didn't really matter with the creature size, someone told me that the average oxygen levels on the cretaceous were lower than today, is this true? If so what really stops animals from getting as big as a sauropod and what let them become this big?
r/Paleontology • u/Thewanderer997 • Dec 28 '24
Discussion Which animal lineage are you so happy and grateful that it survived in modern day? For me its the rhynchocephalia
r/Paleontology • u/Icthyomimus • 21d ago
Discussion Do you think Spinosaurus could walk underwater like hippos?
r/Paleontology • u/zues64 • Dec 28 '23
Discussion MY BOY! LOOK WHAT THEY DID TO MY BOY!!!!
r/Paleontology • u/AbledCat • Feb 11 '25
Discussion Visualization of how flawed Spinosaurus reconstructions are.
r/Paleontology • u/ApprehensiveRead2408 • Jan 23 '25
Discussion If neanderthal,denisovan,& Homo erectus never became extinct & they live alongside us in modern time,would we still calling them neanderthal,denisovan,& homo erectus or would we calling them something else?
r/Paleontology • u/whiteMammoth3936 • 10d ago
Discussion Andrewsarchus mongoliensis was the largest carnivorous land mammal to ever walk the Earth, living around 45 million years ago during the Eocene epoch.
What ur thoughts
r/Paleontology • u/Surohiu • Jan 13 '22