Favorite Ancient/Prehistoric Organism Thread

Maybe a Disturbance? (I’m marking my posts as jokes now because text)

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Hm yes, and also Romps and whatnot.

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Maybe the forum background creature?

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Maybe all creatures ever made in Spore…

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Including the… actually, let’s not talk about creatures with… that… shape…

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All means all, no exclusions.

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The doughnut creatures? Flummels?

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You mean like…

(mods, please don’t dock this. It isn’t my fault a donut organism is named after a U.S. President).

Talking about U.S. Presidents isn’t political so long as you don’t bring up anything they’ve done in office, on the campaign trail, or their prior career if applicable.

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There are also creatures from Ediacaran whose names would be censored here…

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Nectocaris is an ancient relative of squids.


Also, I’ve just realized how weird the word β€œsquid” sounds…

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There surely are much weirder species names out there… Is β€œsquirrel” weirder?

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I mean, squirrel is not as weird as squid to me… What do you think is weirder?

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Oyster maybe is a good guess?

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I found an image with crazy animal names.

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Okay the 6th one isn’t even true, there is no chicken in that turtle at all.

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Many turtles have long necks and webby patterns…

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Yeah. I don’t know, either. :person_shrugging:

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Guess all other names have been taken by that point…

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