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Published: 2018-04-04 01:03:28 +0000 UTC; Views: 1815; Favourites: 50; Downloads: 2
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Or Megalania prisca, whichever one, but the former sounds cooler, IMO.In the Pleistocene down under the great goanna has decapitated the carcass of a Diprotodon optatum (which it may or may not have killed), and drags its head away (no idea why, maybe more lizards are coming). In the background, Australian white ibis (Threskiornis molucca) feed on the wombat. I think this must be near water, given the ibis present. Yeah, there are no vultures in Australia, so I had to improvise for scavenging birds, and apparently these ibis are scavengers, so...... I linked the dots. Apparently they raid bins too, but you Aussies tell me.
The pattern on the lizard was inspired by that of various extant monitor lizards I googled. I'm sure it may have merely been uniform dappled green-brown like the Komodo dragon, but I wanted to be a little creative.
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I guess eagles, kites and corvids make good scavengers too? Odd how I never realised Australia lacks vultures...
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Yeah, I thought so too. But I dunno if eagles gather up in groups like that. Then again I know next to nothing about birbs.
Yeah, Australia is like Bizarro world zoologically speaking, like a flipping alternate dimension. That isolation seems to have prevented vultures from spreading....
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Wedge-tailed eagles seem to hunt in sort of packs sometimes so I guess it's realistic for a few to congregate around a Megalania kill. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xElYBE…
I think that if the carcass is big enough and there happen to be some individuals closeby it seems reasonable that they'd all just go for it. Remember those golden eagles from Planet Earth II? I guess that's a likely scenario. No massive swarms like vultures do of course.
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Holy shit, three eagles after a roo? Damn, I knew they would attack intruders from above, but this is a whole new level of badass. And when the roo went towards the cameraman and the eagles followed.. that would be scary AF. The most scared you could be of a birb, except for, perhaps a cassowary.
Oh, yes, I remember.Yeah, eagles have all those head feathers that vultures lack.
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I long thought that harris hawks were the only pack hunters, but I learned that sometimes other species' individuals just follow the example. I've read once there are sightings of white-tailed eagles hunting roedeer in group (mostly without succes) but I never found any sources for that.
And I don't think they just aren't that social. After all they're territorial.
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Yeah, I remember in TTAKD they caught a rabbit together. Poor bunny.
Agreed.
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Didn't see that one, but I got to know them as a kid in "Ultimate Killers" from the BBC where they caught one too. It was quite a good show for having such an alarmingly awesomebro titel.
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"The Truth About Killer Dinosaurs" Episode 2.
IMO Deadly 60 seems better.
There was that discovery Channel's "top 10 most extreme ancestors". i don't remember much , but it seems to awesomebro-ee
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNCzSw…
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I enjoyed that kind of shows a lot as a kid, but now I just can't stand them anymore. Trying wayyyy too hard to make something already interesting as badass-awesome-kewl as possible.
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Oh yes, I couldn't agree more. And "ancestors"? It's near impossible to prove if a fossil species was a direct ancestor of a modern one, and most of these certainly weren't.
The only worse thing I can think of is this:
www.cracked.com/article_16117_…
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Oh, that article. Yeah, that one is just... bleh.
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Like Smilodon with possums?!
FML, even Subboor Ahmad knew that Smilodon was a placental:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdMpH6…
^btw I call bullshit on a number of his points, and I can point out a number of points on which he's dishonest, but I'll do that later.
The point is - If a creationist has done better research than you have, something's seriously wrong.
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I had forgotten that happened with Smilodon according to the article.
The author probably mistook it for Thylacosmilus, I'm sure. It's the only way to explain this.
Yeah, basically.
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Yup, probably. Crap.
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OH YEAHSSS Lemme eat sommadat brainz n shiieet
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