The Late Cretaceous apex predator of South America, Giganotosaurus (pic taken at the Ultimate Dinosaurs exhibit at the DMNS, nearby humans for scale)
What is the bare minimum that a human needs to beat an Argentinosaurus (Late Cretaceous) in a fight?
A person finds themselves face to face with a 100 ton, 120 foot long, 60 foot tall lizard monster; an Argentinosaurus!
What does this poor schmuck need to win the fight that's about to go down?
Dinosaur starts 100 meters from the human. Dinosaur wants human dead. Human wants dinosaur dead. Fight only ends with one dead.
What is the bare minimum a human needs to beat one of the biggest dinosaurs (and land animals) ever in a battle? (weapons, vehicles, superpowers, whatever.) Human can be an expert at using the thing you give them, but can't be inhumanly good. No one can hit an Argentinosaurus in the eye with a slingshot or whatever.
One of the greatest marine predators to ever live!! Meet the mighty Mosasaurus! They ruled the ancient oceans of the late Cretaceous period π¨π
Nyctosaurus was a genus of pterosaur from the Late Cretaceous of North America with a crest longer than the rest of its body.
Gargantuavis, a large bird that lived with dinosaurs on Late Cretaceous islands, proving that birds could attain megafaunal status and flightlessness even with dinosaurs around (CREDIT: Jack Wood)
Nasutoceratops titusi was a Late Cretaceous ceratopsid from North America that had bull-like brow horns.
A Late Cretaceous true polar wander oscillation nature.com/articles/s4146β¦
The seller is calling this a Triceratops tooth from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of New Mexico. The identification is completely wrong. Triceratops comes from the Late Cretaceous of the Hell Creek/Lance Formations of the Western US and Canada. By the way, this is a rock.
Quetzalcoatlus Was A Pterosaur From The Late Cretaceous period of North America With Wingspan Up To 36ft.
Artist reconstruction of the massive, duck-faced croc, Stomatosuchus inermis, from the Late Cretaceous of Egypt. Art by Joshua Knuppe.
A Late Cretaceous true polar wander oscillation: less than 100 million years ago, the earth's crust rotated 12 degrees relative to the underlying mantle nature.com/articles/s4146β¦
Carnotaurus was a short-snouted Late Cretaceous theropod, and is known from a single well-preserved skeleton. It's one of the best-understood theropods from the Southern Hemisphere! reddit.com/gallery/niivzh
Late Cretaceous Tooth (Croc, mosasaur, other, ?) - Big Brook, NJ, Was mostly covered with sediment and almost got tossed out. reddit.com/gallery/odaff5
Perfectly preserved embryo inside an 80 M year old titanosaurian egg, late Jurassic/Cretaceous, found in Patagonia, Argentina
Late Cretaceous ornithocheirids!
Late Cretaceous Gondwana Ecological Niche.
I know Abelisaur and Megaraptors replaced the ecological niche of Carnosaur in Gondwana, I wonder which therapod group or any other predators filled the semi-aquatic niche that Spinosaur had?
Assumption and guess only please since there would be no direct answers.
Tylosaurus was a mosasaur, a large, predatory marine reptile closely related to modern monitor lizards and to snakes, from the Late Cretaceous.
Found near Berg (South-Limburg, the Netherlands), near marl and flint from the Late Cretaceous.
My diorama of Late Cretaceous Canada! Took me an hour or two to make, and I think it looks good!
Scientists have successfully reconstructed a 66 million-year-old shark that looked similar to modern-day manta rays, providing previously unknown insights into the morphology of cartilaginous fishes of the late Cretaceous. academictimes.com/bizarreβ¦
Pteranodon is a genus of pterosaur that included some of the largest known flying reptiles, with wingspans over 7 meters (23 feet). They lived during the late Cretaceous geological period of North America in present-day Kansas, Alabama, Nebraska, Wyoming, and South Dakota.
The Terrestrial Crocodyliform, Baurusuchus salgadoensis, Hunting Small Dinosaurs in Late Cretaceous Brazil.
Current extinction rate in European freshwater gastropods greatly exceeds that of the late Cretaceous mass extinction | Communications Earth & Environment nature.com/articles/s4324β¦
Fossil or no? Husband found this Im Edmonton, Alberta, near a late Cretaceous layer (near... not in the layer). The circle shapes go through and clearly seen on side but canβt see them on bottom. reddit.com/gallery/mjyrwt
An exposure of the late-Cretaceous Navesink formation in Monmouth County. This preserves a far shore marine environment around 70 million years ago.
This is Fukuivenator, an omnivorous theropod dinosaur that conversantly evolved 'raptor'-like characteristics like a big toe claw and the overall birdiness we associate with these dinosaurs. It lived in Late Cretaceous Japan. Art by Balint Benke reddit.com/gallery/mnm84h
Nanuqsaurus hoglundi was a tyrannosaurid that inhabited Alaska during the Late Cretaceous.
The Strange, Saw-Like Teeth of the Newly Described Mosasaur, Xenodens calminechari, from the Late Cretaceous of Morocco.
Citipati is a dinosaur that was discovered in the Djadokhta Formation of Ukhaa Tolgod in ΓmnΓΆgovi, Mongolia. ... Some interesting Citipati facts are that these dinosaurs were about 9 feet in length, weighed approximately 500 pounds and lived during the late Cretaceous period β about 86 to 71 mya
Simosuchus clarki - A herbivorous crocodilimorph from late Cretaceous. animalassic.blogspot.com/β¦
Ruby's were thought to have become extinct in the Late Cretaceous, around 66 million years ago, but were rediscovered in 1938 off the coast of South Africa.
π₯ The La Yesera Formation in Salta, Argentina. It consists of various layers of colourful deposits from the Late Cretaceous
This is Fukuivenator, an omnivorous theropod dinosaur that conversantly evolved 'raptor'-like characteristics like a big toe claw and the overall birdiness we associate with these dinosaurs. It lived in Late Cretaceous Japan. Art by Balint Benke
Mosasaur Jaw Section - Late Cretaceous, Maastrichtian, Oulad Abdoun Basin, Khouribga Province, Morocco
Dr Dean Lomax on Instagram: βCheck out this spectacular 95 million year old octopus with its ink sac preserved! π This incredible fossil comes from the Late Cretaceousβ¦β instagram.com/p/COYBobeJWβ¦
WITR itβs unlike anything Iβve ever found, my husband picked it up near where Iβve found late Cretaceous dino bones - in Edmonton, Alberta. Not sure if fossil but will ask there too. reddit.com/gallery/mjybax
PoV: You find yourself in Late Cretaceous Madagascar...
This is Fukuivenator, an omnivorous theropod dinosaur that conversantly evolved 'raptor'-like characteristics like a big toe claw and the overall birdiness we associate with these dinosaurs. It lived in Late Cretaceous Japan. Art by Balint Benke
Map I made mapping Non-Avian Dinosaur species and Pterosaurs from the Maastrichtian period of the very late Cretaceous. I'm new to the sub so any feedback would be great!
A friend of mine found this and he suspects it might be a Dinosaur bone. It belongs to the Late Cretaceous and was found in Southwestern Tunisia. What do you think ?
TIL of Gargantuavis, primitive flightless birds from the Late Cretaceous that were discovered in France and Spain. They grew to be about the size of cassowaries and lived alongside dinosaurs, including dromaeosaurid "raptors" and sauropods such as Ampelosaurus en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garβ¦
I printed a to-scale deinosuchus skull image (not mine) so that I could bask in its sheer size every day. 5' 9" human for scale. Fun Fact: while deinosuchus lived in the late cretaceous, many other giant crocodylomorphs have existed, some more recently such as Crocodylus thorbjarnarsoni.
New Species of Duck-Billed Dinosaur Unearthed in New Mexico, Dubbed Ornatops incantatus, the new dinosaur roamed Earth around 80 million years ago (Late Cretaceous epoch). It is a member of the hadrosaur subfamily saurolophinae.
Gargantuavis, a large bird that lived with dinosaurs on Late Cretaceous islands, proving that birds could attain megafaunal status and flightlessness even with dinosaurs around (CREDIT: Jack Wood)
