Date: 21/07/2023 20:34:27
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 2056692
Subject: Megafauna compared with modern relatives.

https://www.boredpanda.com/digital-art-extinct-animals-size-comparison-roman-uchytel-part-3/?cexp_id=73753&cexp_var=71&_f=featured

Earlier comparisons at https://www.boredpanda.com/digital-art-animals-prehistoric-fauna-ancestors-past-present-roman-uchytel/

And https://www.boredpanda.com/digital-art-animals-prehistoric-fauna-ancestors-past-present-roman-uchytel-part-2/

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Date: 21/07/2023 20:52:40
From: Bubblecar
ID: 2056695
Subject: re: Megafauna compared with modern relatives.

Ta, interesting. The sarkastodon does look viciously sarcastic.

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Date: 22/07/2023 08:54:53
From: roughbarked
ID: 2056782
Subject: re: Megafauna compared with modern relatives.

Demon Duck /s
https://australian.museum/learn/australia-over-time/extinct-animals/dromornis-planei-bullockornis-planei/

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Date: 22/07/2023 09:07:19
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 2056786
Subject: re: Megafauna compared with modern relatives.

Off topic, but you may enjoy it.

Range of the six species of quoll.

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Date: 22/07/2023 09:10:08
From: roughbarked
ID: 2056787
Subject: re: Megafauna compared with modern relatives.

mollwollfumble said:


Off topic, but you may enjoy it.

Range of the six species of quoll.


Explains why I never see it.

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Date: 22/07/2023 09:11:00
From: roughbarked
ID: 2056788
Subject: re: Megafauna compared with modern relatives.

roughbarked said:


Demon Duck /s
https://australian.museum/learn/australia-over-time/extinct-animals/dromornis-planei-bullockornis-planei/

Dromornis planei is known only from Bullock Creek in the Northern Territory. Two other mihirung species belonging to the genus Ilbandornis have also been found at this fossil site.

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Date: 22/07/2023 09:12:24
From: roughbarked
ID: 2056789
Subject: re: Megafauna compared with modern relatives.

roughbarked said:


roughbarked said:

Demon Duck /s
https://australian.museum/learn/australia-over-time/extinct-animals/dromornis-planei-bullockornis-planei/

Dromornis planei is known only from Bullock Creek in the Northern Territory. Two other mihirung species belonging to the genus Ilbandornis have also been found at this fossil site.

https://eartharchives.org/articles/australia-s-demon-duck-of-doom/index.html

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg16622404-800-the-demon-duck-of-doom/

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