Basil Posted February 6, 2009 Report Share Posted February 6, 2009 And an ugly one, too. Which, naturally, doesn't have to be extinct in your game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted February 6, 2009 Report Share Posted February 6, 2009 Re: Another "extinct" critter But how did they taste like? Edit: That is a really ugly fish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted February 6, 2009 Report Share Posted February 6, 2009 Re: Another "extinct" critter Crustacean, more like. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobGreenwade Posted February 6, 2009 Report Share Posted February 6, 2009 Re: Another "extinct" critter In another genre, this may call for a rethinking of the Osathri. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Celt Posted February 7, 2009 Report Share Posted February 7, 2009 Re: Another "extinct" critter But how did they taste like? It tastes spoo-ish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Psistrike Posted February 7, 2009 Report Share Posted February 7, 2009 Re: Another "extinct" critter Looks like a cross between a horseshoe crab and a lamprey due to the circular mouth to me. Would make a very unusual creature to face in either a fantasy setting or more likely a science fiction one. Especially if you took the image and said it wasn't to scale, the actual creature could be the size of a rhino. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CTaylor Posted February 7, 2009 Report Share Posted February 7, 2009 Re: Another "extinct" critter Did some Hanna Barbera guy draw that picture? What idiot thinks that giant, bulbous, muppet-like eyeballs fossilize? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted February 8, 2009 Report Share Posted February 8, 2009 Re: Another "extinct" critter Eyes fossilize very well, if they are of the compound variety. You can actually see them in the pics of the fossils. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
austenandrews Posted February 8, 2009 Report Share Posted February 8, 2009 Re: Another "extinct" critter Did some Hanna Barbera guy draw that picture? What idiot thinks that giant' date=' bulbous, muppet-like eyeballs fossilize?[/quote'] Scientists who study fossils? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadowcat1313 Posted February 8, 2009 Report Share Posted February 8, 2009 Re: Another "extinct" critter nah, looks more like something created by Sid and Marty Kroft Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Basil Posted February 9, 2009 Author Report Share Posted February 9, 2009 Re: Another "extinct" critter Sorry, but it was made by Mother Nature. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadowcat1313 Posted February 9, 2009 Report Share Posted February 9, 2009 Re: Another "extinct" critter is somebody who reconstructs dead computers for posterity called a Faxidermist? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CTaylor Posted February 9, 2009 Report Share Posted February 9, 2009 Re: Another "extinct" critter Soft tissue eyeballs do not fossilize, period. The only reason compound eyes do is because they are shelled in with exoskeleton (like an ant). This thing doesn't look like it has fossilized eyeballs, it looks like a freakin' muppet. I pity the artist that has to try to reproduce a squashed distorted, mangled image like that, but the picture is just ridiculous. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted February 9, 2009 Report Share Posted February 9, 2009 Re: Another "extinct" critter Doesn't look more ridiculous than many other reconstructed early animals to me. And I'd hazard good money on the artist either being or following the instructions of a creditable paleontologist. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bismark Posted February 10, 2009 Report Share Posted February 10, 2009 Re: Another "extinct" critter Working from the comment in the article about the original group of 'great appendage' critters becoming extinct in the Middle Cambrian, I imagine they are referring to the Anomalocarids (like Anomalocaris and Laggania), which are a very odd bunch, and whose ancestry is a matter of some dispute (http://www.paleos.com has a good discussion of this). This looks like a cross between an anomalocarid and a crustacean, so I am not surprised that palaeontologists are excited about it (I know I am... ). [bTW, GURPS Dinosaurs once described the 'trilobite-munching' Anomalocaris as having 'a mouth like a camera shutter and no known descendants' - but that book did come out in 1997 or thereabouts) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kristopher Posted February 10, 2009 Report Share Posted February 10, 2009 Re: Another "extinct" critter Anomalocaris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greywind Posted February 10, 2009 Report Share Posted February 10, 2009 Re: Another "extinct" critter Shrimp... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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