merswine:

saddinosaurfacts:

after last year’s successful trilobite plush KickStarter, the good people at Paleozoic Pals are at it again with an ammonoid.

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now, ammonoids are cute and all, but the real prize for me is the dunkleosteus stretch goal.

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people.
dunkleosteus.
plush toy.

all they need is $22,000. let’s make it happen, sdfers.

[i have nothing to do with The Paleontological Research Institution or KickStarter, I just really want more dunkleosteus plush toys in the world.]

i’m reblogging cause we ALL need that dunkleosteus

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swimmingferret:

chyna-r:

silenthill:

chyna-r:

silenthill:

imagine a crocodile with horse-like legs… unstoppable… i would love to ride one o’ those into battle

are you..high 

….carry on 

Fun fact these ‘crocodile cousins’ with ‘horse-like legs’ existed and was known as a ‘sabre-toothed cat in armour’ due to it’s speed out of water and long fangs. There was the ‘DogCroc’ ( Araripesuchus wegeneri) and ‘BoarCroc’ (Kaprosuchus). The DogCroc (featured above) was only around the size of a small dog, with its skull easily fitting into the palm of someones hand. It lived during the Lower Cretaceous-Upper Cretaceous period;


*Comparison of a DogCroc’s skull to a Sarcosuchus skull. (Sarcosuchus is the largest known crocodile species and was large enough it could even prey upon a T-Rex and could weigh up to ten tonnes and be over forty feet long.)

However the BoarCroc (Kaprosuchus) was twenty-foot long and could gallop across land and preyed upon dinosaurs.



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