#Procoptodon

[chaobunnyarts]

31 days of pastel paleo critters (9-16)!

9. Waimanu 10. Procoptodon 11. Glyptodon 12. Dimetrodon 13. Simbakubwa 14. Drepanosaurus 15. Ichthyosaurus 16. Pygmy Mammoth

#paleontology #prehistoric creatures #Waimanu #Procoptodon #Glyptodon #Dimetrodon #Simbakubwa #Drepanosaurus #Ichthyosaurus #Pygmy Mammoth #mammoth

[makairodonx]

Sketches of the iconic Australian animals that were part of the Pleistocene Megafuana, from top to bottom: Procoptodon goliath, Megalania prisca, Diprotodon opatum and Thylacoleo carnifex.

#paleoart #paleontology #pleistocene #pleistocene megafauna #diprotodon #megalania #procoptodon #thylacoleo #australia #cenozoic #cenozoic life

[dry-gold]

Palorchestes, a cenozoic weird-faced marsupial Pelagornis, a cenozoic pseudotoothed birds Phascolonus, a cenozoic giant wombat Phoeniconotius, a cenozoic buff flamingo Platypterygius, a cretaceous icthyosaur Procoptodon, a cenozoic short-faced kangaroo

#palaeoblr #australian fossil alphabet thing #megafauna #Palorchestes #Pelagornis #Phascolonus #Phoeniconotius #Platypterygius #Procoptodon

[fenyrinn]

I forgot to upload inktobers

Sorry! heres everything ive drawn

Day 8, 9, 10, and 11

"Toad", "bounce", "fortune", "wander"

#artists on tumblr #artwork #digital artist #fenyrinn #illustration #inktober #paleoart #beelzebufo #procoptodon #ceratosaurus #stegosaurus #guanlong #traditional drawing #traditional illustration #traditional art #traditional sketch

[godzilla-and-aang-monsters]

Kenglensvinyu

Altura: 190 metros (Posicion bipeda)

Longitud: 475 metros

Peso: 175,500 toneladas

Primer Avistamiento: San Petersburgo [Tierra: Teratoverso]

Guarida: Urales [Tierra: Teratoverso] Ductos de Wu Long [Avatarverso]

Controles: Tierra Control [Puño del retumbar, Zarpazo, Excavacion, Patada sismica] Fuego Control [Eructo Inflamable]

Aspecto: Raz (Era del Hielo) + Jabali + Ñu azul + astas de muntiaco (forma de los colmillos)

Aliados:

Humanos: Aang, Katara, Soka, Iroh, Zuko

Kaijus y otras bestias: Skar king, Shimu

Enemigos:

Humanos: Ozai y Azula, Aang, Katara, Soka, Iroh, Zuko

Kaijus y otras bestias: King Ghidorah, Gigan, Megalon, King Kong, Godzilla

#avatar aang #avatar: the last airbender #avatarverse #kaiju #kaiju oc #blue sky #ice age #kenglensvenyu #raz #ice age the continental drift #procoptodon #wild boar #blue wildebeest #muntjac

[ananteatermaybe]

The moment Charlie's Angels started to jump the shark.

#wikipedia #kangaroo #procoptodon #you don't impress me much

[nutspider]

fuck procoptodon

#my art #prehistory crap #dromornis #diprotodon #procoptodon #I'm gonna draw a full body procoptodon one day because it's full on the worst mammal ever I think

[lost0rthrus]

Look at this big fella, this is Procoptodon Goliah, the Giant short-faced kangaroo, the whopper hopper. And these guys were WEIRD.

They lived around the Pleistocene Epoch, which ranges from 11,700 to 2,580,000 years ago, and were the last members of it's short faced family. Recent evidence suggests like that of the larger marsupials in Australia, these guys went extinct more naturally rather than just obliterated by people and fires, mostly shifting climates around that time contributed, despite humans arriving to the continent around the same time. But here's some points as to why these guys were so weird. Their skulls, teeth, and over all anatomy make them more similar to a monkey than a normal kangaroo.

They specialized more in eating salt bushes, grasses, and some leaves. And boy did they drink water to counteract all that salt! These guys had eyes more front and center like that of primates, chins, and their arms were longer and more robust than that of it's smaller cousins, meaning they most likely were more of a hands on kangaroo.

Also, did I mention these guys were most likely too big to hop? That's right. Recent studies lean more towards the idea that these guys lumbered around bipedal style.

On one big toe.

These guys also were likely too massive to use their tail traditionally to balance like modern kangaroos, but rather used it as a third leg to push on the ground and reach up with their human like rotating arms to reach leaves and other green goodies.

So yeah. Imagine a giant walking monkey kangaroo that could punch you to your ancestors. This nightmare Easter bunny was truly one of the coolest animals of the late pleistocene.

#animals #science #paleo #ice age #pleistocene #procoptodon #monkey kangaroo #australia #weird #facts #now you know #short-faced kangaroo

[flaredonut]

We're living in a less dangerous version of the prehistory and i can prove it! Any modern animal you can think of has a bigger pleistocene version. ANY of them

What if there were a saturday morning show taking place in the cavemen era and EVERY animal they encounter was one of these ancient giant beasts

(Also don't need to point out that Plesiadapis was a primate and not a squirrel/rodent, i know, it's just for fun)

#Prehistoric #Extinct #Fox #Red panda #Raccoon #Procoptodon #Swan #Concept

[indoraptorgirlwind]

Pancho the procoptodon

#Pancho the procoptodon #Procoptodon #Kit's pets #Ark

[cryptid-quest]

Cryptid of the Day: Kuperree

Description: Almost every animal has a giant, extinct cousin, and the kangaroo is no exception. 26,000 years ago, there was the Procoptodon, which stood 6.6 feet tall and weighed, at most, 530 pounds. Early Australians told stories of Kuperree, giant kangaroos, which many assume is folk memory of these giants, though this is still up in the air.

#cryptid #cryptids #cryptozoology #cryptid of the day #kuperree

[gallusrostromegalus]

Given the sheer environmental clusterfuck that is IRL Australia, how much worse is it in TPOFATGIF Australia?

Well for starters, These fucking things are still around:

(Macropus titan and Procoptodon goliah and Dave, who decided to teleport to the shadow realm rather than exist near either of these beasts)

Timing of the introduction of humans and dogs to Australia was a bit different and came at a much wetter period in time, so the massive wildfires that humans sparked had far less impact and today most of Australia is still covered in dense tropical forest and lush tall grass prairie, which is filled with charming anachronistic megafauna like these fucking things:

(Dave has elected to remove himself from all planes of existence, but you will recognize the 3-meter-tall Marcopus at the bottom left for scale)

Along with an enormous host of horrible scuttling things, extremely venomous snakes, spiders and sea life, not to mention the weird shit happening over in Plants and Fungi, because Australia is God's Alt account where the creepy stuff is posted.

Modern Australian humans are much the same, in terms of fondness for curse words and dubious sandwich spreads, but the national languages of Australia are English and Unified Pama-Nyungan after the Indigenous Grammatical Conference and Fire of 1810, in which the written standard of the Northern Australian languages was decided with spirited rhetoric and a bit of arson.

Steve Irwin is alive, well, and having a *Fucking Magical* time of it.

#TPOFATGIF #The Power Of Friendship (And This Gun I Found!) #Yugioh #Yugioh fanfic #They do a fantastic business in Extreme Safaris

[sunnyfalloutblog]

Wasteland creatures of FO:QLD

Bloodleech. Stay away from the water

Cane hopper. Poison-spitting mutated cane toad that eats everything. Some have developed a taste for radioactive gunk turning them into glowing variants

Goanna. Like a skinny gecko

Firefly. Bloatfly sized, breathes fire

Ibis. Flightless, garbage-eating birds. Tough but edible

Bunyip. One of the largest and toughest creatures, has features of crocodiles and turtles with massive claws and teeth. Extremely territorial

Radspider. Just no

Procoptodon. Re-evolved megafauna kangaroo. Like a FO76 giant sloth

Auroch. 2 headed cow with a large hump near the neck and patchy white fur. It's basically a brahmin. Used for food, less efficient pack animal than dromedaries. Milk is slightly sour, more savoury than cows.

Giant rat. It's a giant rat

Dromedary. Two headed camel. Relatively unmutated aside from second head, still has fur and no vestigial limbs. Common choice of pack animal due to low needs compared to auroch

#fallout #fallout au #fallout queensland #fallout australia

[blubushie]

Might be a niche question, but: favorite prehistoric mammal/dinosaur/other type of animal? Asking because I recently learned about the marsupial lion (thylacoleo) and giant short-faced kangaroo (procoptodon), both of which lived in Australia (which is probably easy to guess, tbh)

Favourite dinosaur? Utahraptor. Neat fucker. Love me some megaraptors. Unless Megalania counts as a dinosaur, then it's Megalania. Or unless crocs count as dinosaurs, and then it's Quinkana. Quinkana is actually really fucking neat because it went extinct ~40,000 years ago and people first arrived ~50,000 years ago, which means that for about 10,000 years humans lived in Australia alongside a terrestrial crocodile a little taller than a grizzly bear AT THE SHOULDERS.

Favourite prehistoric mammal? Thylacoleo.

But favourite prehistoric animal in general? Wonambi naracoortensis. This species, a giant constrictor unrelated to Australian pythons, exceeded lengths of 6m and is thought (as suggested by its genus name, which translates to "Rainbow Serpent" in the language of the local Aboriginal people where the first fossil was found) to be the origin of the Rainbow Serpent (or, at the least, the origin for the description of her appearance as a shimmering, iridescent serpent).

It's very interesting to me to think that Ngalmudj chose Wonambi naracoortensis as her visage when she first made contact with humans as they stepped foot into the Dreaming.

#blu whos #i have no idea what to tag this as

[makairodonx]

Marsupial Leopard with Prey : Thylacoleo carniflex with its prey, a Procoptodon joey

By the way, I consider T.carniflex more as a sort of “marsupial leopard” than a “marsupial lion” because its morphology and ecology has more in common with leopards than lions.

#cenozoic life #cenozoic #thylacoleo #kookaburra #paleontology #paleoart

[dailyunsolvedmysteries]

Phantom Kangaroo

The Phantom Kangaroo is a strange out-of-place marsupial that has been reported in many places. It basically looks like a normal kangaroo except for some reports of giant kangaroos.  

During the tornado of 1899 in Richmond, Wisconsin, a woman saw a kangaroo leaping across her backyard. In 1934, a giant kangaroo supposedly killed and ate police dogs in Hamburg, Tennessee. In 1958, Charles Wetzel saw a kangaroo chasing dogs near his cabin home in the Platte River near Grand Island Nebraska.

Leonard Ciagi and Michael Byrne (two policemen) saw a kangaroo in an alley in 1974. The animal escaped by kicking Ciagi in the legs when he tried to handcuff the kangaroo. In 1978, in Waukesha, Wisconsin, two men took a blurry picture of a kangaroo they saw in a bush. In 1981, Ray Ault, was tending to his sheep flock when a huge kangaroo came bounding past. In 1999, a woman named Lois Eckhardt saw a big animal jump by cows on her farm in Wellman, Iowa. In 2000, there were 4 sightings of a 6-foot kangaroo eating leaves in Lewisham, London.

Some sightings do fit the description of an extinct type of giant short-faced kangaroo called Procoptodon. These animals were herbivores and lived in groups. There is really no explanation for kangaroos eating police dogs though unless it is a surviving Ekaltadeta, a predatory fanged kangaroo that lived in Australia over 10 million years ago. But killing the police dogs is possible for a herbivorous kangaroo if the kangaroo had received rabies or had been attempting to defend itself.

Though kangaroos and wallabies outside of Australia is not unheard of, Isle of Man has been home to hundreds of wild wallabies ever since a pair escaped in the 1970s

#Phantom Kangaroo #Cryptoids #cryptid creatures #creatures #myths