Will we ever get something this good again?

I think at the time there was a (rather spurious even then) estimate of 20 metres long. Then they made it 30 for no reason.

>The giant of the sky... has been BTFO. Incels on suicide watch.

There is a stage show that tours for this and it’s pretty awesome.

youtu.be/5q22act50Eg

this
I still consider them fantastic creatures,but the general public no longer admire them

feathers

The virgin dinosaur vs the chad mega squid

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He is old and already mated a lot of times. He is just past his prime and too tired from the journey. Best/worst part of that episode is how in the end some random youngster just swoop down and eat his corpse, starting from the his eye. It's such a nice, dark touch, the kind of stuffs you expect to happen with old animals irl.

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Reminder that the largest known creature that has ever existed in the history of our planet lives today.

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I prefer Prehistoric Planet desu

Our "science" channels decided to become shitty reality tv channels. And they wonder why people cut the cord

Just because we haven’t discovered it yet doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.
I have a hard time believing that the largest animal in Earth’s billion year history would just happen to evolve around our time.

hell yeah. I loved this because it made humanity feel so ephemeral

>Blue whales just evolved now

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yeah, say hello to your mom from me

dinosaurs weren't real

explain to me how a t-rex or a tricerotops mates

We dont know.

>I have a hard time believing that the largest animal in Earth’s billion year history would just happen to evolve around our time.

Why? According to the fossil record here have been organisms larger than about 5 metres for less than half of that time, anyway, and only things over 20 metres in length for maybe about 250 million years, a quarter of that time. Sure, some dinosaurs did get pretty massive during the Mesozoic, but no marine animals during the time reached the size of Holocene whales contemporary to us. I'd imagine its a metabolic issue, particularly to do with whales being mammals and thus necessarily endothermic, and also one of the richness in nutrients in a global marine ecosystem. Huge baleen whales, specifically rorquals, migrate thousands of miles to make sure they have replenishing food sources. Maybe that wasn't possible for ectothermic Mesozoic marine reptiles living more exclusively in tropical and equatorial regions, even in a time when global humidity and temperatures were higher.

same way any large land animal like an elephant or your mom does

To be fair stuffs like the Walking with series is rare even back then. IIRC the creators want to cash in the success of Jurassic Park and even approach ILM to do the special effect. It didn't happen due to their limited budget.

That being said they manage to make the first show a huge success, and so does the the sequels and spin-offs. It's a pretty successful TV franchise for a while. The last one is Walking with Monsters on 2005 (unless you count Prehistoric Park and Primeval too). They release a bunch of companion books and games too.

Who knows, maybe someday BBC or Netflix or whatever will try to cash in the general audience interest for nature shows (those "Planet" series are a huge success after all), we might get a Planet Earth style dinosaur show. With feathers of course.

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Blue whales are thought to have been around for about 2 million years.

The fossil record is woefully incomplete and leaves out several ecosystems.

meant for

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Monsters was so shit.
Instead of dedicating entire episodes to each time period they just crammed it all into 3 episodes. It was very obvious here that they didn't have nearly as much of a budget.

>Blue whales have been around longer than the entire Homo sapiens civilization
>Almost get exterminated by them
Brain and opposable thumb are so overpowered.

Relatively speaking, yes.
There have been plenty of large scale marine animals prior to the current era. Leedsicthys for example, some mosasaurids and there was one Icthyosaurid in the late Triassic that I can’t recall the name of that was as large as some current baleen whales. Hell, there could be larger whales that existed 10 or 20 million years ago that we haven’t discovered. Basilosaurus and Livyatan were quite large.
I’m just saying I think our perception is colouring our understanding of Earth’s natural history and there is so much life we haven’t discovered.

youtube.com/watch?v=4HKYkeAOQiE

>the roars and cries of the dinosaurs as the blast comes closer and closer

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You're right, and it would be foolish to deny the potential existence of larger extinct organisms. It's a possibility, but an unsubstantiated one. My point is there is nothing in our understanding of the evolution of life on Earth that might suggest it to be unreasonable that the largest animal to ever exist is contemporaneous with humans. That's entirely possible to, and, according to our current evidence, the partial truth. Anything else is speculation.

This hit when I was 8-9 years old. I had a good childhood but rarely get nostalgic. But holy shit, nothing takes me back like this. I still remember the narrators voice or the story of the allosaur

They actually explained this in their behind the scene documentary (you can look it up on youtube, by the way). While budget is obviously an issue (notice the repetitive scenes?), they also think that due to the simplistic/primitive nature of these creatures, there isn't much story to be told other than the usual kill or be killed drama between predator and prey. The story only got more developed once they reach the dimetrodon part, which IIRC is the longest segment or second longest next to the great permian extinction part.

Which narrator, mate? There is only one correct answer.

OH NO NO NO DINO BROS WE GOT TOO COCKY

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This. That show made my childhood great

Dinosaurs laid eggs, retards. So like a chicken, the female lays the egg and the male dinosaur just comes along and blows a load on them or something to fertilize them.

...

>Why have all of the dinosaur documentaries dried up?
because with modern science they've figured out about 50% of all dinosaurs were misidentified or hoaxes. And about 25% of the real dinosaurs there is heavy debate about what they actually were and how they looked.

>Jerking off over eggs
Were all dinos pedos?

Agreed, although the alternative is unsubstantiated, I personally would not go far as to definitively say that the blue whale is the biggest animal to ever live. There's also averages to consider, as the record blue whale was very much an outlier and the average blue whale is not nearly as obese.

w-what movie am this

Absolute bullshit.

Future is Wild

Thats not how amniotic eggs work, moron.

The ichthyosaurid you mean is probably either Shonisaurus or Shastasaurus.
Yeah, some marine reptiles did get massive, as have some ray-finned fish like Leedsichthys. My point is that they are kind of the exception that proves the rule. Most ichthyosaurs we have discovered didn't exceed 8 metres. Most pachycormid were shark-sized. Most mosasaurs, most pliosaurs and most plesiosaurs were, on average, smaller than baleen whales. The size bracket for the smallest to largest mosasaur, for example, is 1 metre (Dallasaurus) to 17 metres (Mosasaurus), whereas the size range for baleen whales is about 6 metres (Pygmy right whale) and 29 metres (blue whale). Now, the pygmy right whale is believed to be of the mostly-extinct lineage of cetotheres, so if we're just going with rorquals then the smallest is the common minke, which reaches 10 metres.
Obviously length isn't everything when considering the scale of an organism (look at oarfish, for example), but I do think that certain elements of mammalian biology have made especially easy for oceanic whales to get to massive in a way other groups of animal adapted to a marine lifestyle have more trouble with. That's not to say it's impossible we find a species of extinct whale that outdoes the blue whale, in fact that seems entirely within what I'm saying. The popular belief of giant marine reptiles appears, to me, to be slightly sensationalist, since most of them didn't get much larger than an orca. I also think, for conservation efforts, its important to remind people that some of the largest and most amazing animals that have ever lived are currently on the planet right now, and dwindling in number.

>I’m just saying I think our perception is colouring our understanding of Earth’s natural history and there is so much life we haven’t discovered.

Yeah, I agree with this.

its not user
Pachycephalosauria, for example has been known to been miss-identified as dozens of separate species before we understood its growth phase included a morph-period.

>characters that are literally you

Yes huh. Ive done it before. It works.

Horner has been called out on his bullshit for years with pachycephalosauria being the only one of his criticisms that haven't been outright dismissed.

Only in terms of mass. And being a sea creature makes it much less impressive. I think Sauropods are much more special since they were able to reach similar sized on land.

Yes. The meteor was God's way of eradicating those filthy degenerate creatures.

Yeah, fair point as well.

There's a documentary about it believe it or not

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>ctrl + f planet dinosaur
>0 results
you're fucking welcome, you cuckolded redditors
youtube.com/watch?v=AmV3Fc1sa7Q

lmao. I keep chickens, and this is not what happens. You're thinking of amphibians.

KENNY FUCKIN BRANAGH

>is 1 metre (Dallasaurus) to 17 metres (Mosasaurus), whereas the size range for baleen whales is about 6 metres (Pygmy right whale) and 29 metres (blue whale)
That's a false analogy. You'd have to compare a blue whale to something like pakicetus if you're going to use Dallasaurus and Mosasaurus.

literally

any modern CGI dinokino?

rip to some real ass niggas

Dinos are amphibians. They just have land gills.

All jokes aside, we have no idea how they fertilized their eggs. With their odd shapes, they could have easily evolved to reproduce in this manor for the convenience of reproduction.

Except its impossible to externally fertilize a hard shelled egg.

That's what I like to hear

Ok, fair point. But compare the 17 metre Mosasaurus hoffmanni with the very much contemporary 3-4 metre Halisaurus. Both the upper and lower bound are lower than the 29m blue and 10m minke.
But then, of course, there are many relatively small toothed cetaceans, so my argument isn't wholly watertight there. I suppose what I mean is that baleen whales, as a rule, are broadly the most uniformly massive group of marine tetrapods we know about, in that almost all of the species alive today are huge, especially relative to other modern animals.

Dinos had needle dicks and would inject their semen in that fashion.
Or maybe the semen soaks into the shell.

kind of surreal to see someone self-critique their argument on Yas Forums