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A response team compromised of the most able individuals gaming has to offer, the initiative will defend the multiverse from imminent threats.

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Here I am on Bluesky, will still be on Twitter but in the likely event that piece of shit Muskrat destroys this app & shoves Adolf Trump down our throat I’m moving over here.

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@CorporalRex They are their last living descendants, our only remaining link to a Lost World, a world, that was the Age of the Dinosaurs.

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@MrFragilis Giant Lizard overhead

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Onto Ep3, Primeval’s first marine animal, the Mosasaur, Terror of the Thames. @MrFragilis had fun with this one, keeping some of its distinctive features on a more accurate base.

(Anatomy based on Mosasaurus hoffmannii, was tempted to do Tylo-Rex but AFAIK hoffmannii is bigger)

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Primeval Ep2 finished with everyone’s favourite giant Millipede Arthropleura (A. armata by @MrFragilis) the kind of bug that would stick to the kitchen at parties.

(Not much to keep from the base design cause it’s a Kaiju Scolopendra, very much Arthropleura in name only)

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@Paleonyx_Art I still think we need layers to the Aviaries, make them gigantic, especially with the Azhdarchid Pterosaurs.

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@Tom_Jurassic Tyrannosaurus can swim now, the Rebirth expansion is around the corner.

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@Hallsth_Eien Vector:

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@Cretaceous27738 Walking with Dinosaurs

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@TheEricGoldman If you’re reviving an old show that either ended or got cancelled, it has to be a standalone season with a clear beginning middle & end, a good jumping on point for new viewers.

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Primeval Ep2 finished with everyone’s favourite giant Millipede Arthropleura (A. armata by @MrFragilis) the kind of bug that would stick to the kitchen at parties.

(Not much to keep from the base design cause it’s a Kaiju Scolopendra, very much Arthropleura in name only)

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@ARGAtheropodfan Allosaurus probably was feathered, feathers are ancestral to Dinosauria, especially Theropods.

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@YutyTyrant Seriously! Is that what it’s called in Japan?

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The Primeval vibes were already strong, and now apparently the Japanese title for the film reads "The Anomaly on Oak Street"

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@RickRaptor105 @SouthApe Better example also in S4A, reusing the Deinonychus model in EP1 & depicting it alongside Spinosaurus, like yeah there probably was a Dromaeosaur that lived alongside Spinosaurus.

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@RickRaptor105 I guess if the Jurassic franchise decides to include Cenozoic fauna in the movies, then Phorusrhacids will make a comeback in paleo-media.

Just please, no more of that being outcompeted by mammals/playing second fiddle to Smilodon crap.

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@RickRaptor105 @MrFragilis @TheHodgeOfPodge I can’t remember, I think they were always just referred as “Spiders” or “Arachnids” in the fact files.

Stephen’s Scorpion line was probably a nod to Megarachne getting reclassified as a Eurypterid/Sea Scorpion.

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Onto Primeval Ep2, we have Protosulpuga carbonaria once again reconstructed by @MrFragilis infesting the London Underground.

(While I’m 99.9% sure the design in the show is meant to be Megarachne, I subscribe to what @TheHodgeOfPodge suggested in TGPS’s vid, it’s a Solifugid)

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Rounding out the first episode of Primeval, we have Scutosaurus karpinskii, brilliant done by @MrFragilis it’s not a Dinosaur & it won’t win Connor Temple the Nobel Prize.

(Definitely the design that needed the biggest overhaul, from the weird Turtle Elephant design)

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@RickRaptor105 @Titanlizard_Art True, but i think it’s also a case of the design at its core is just bad & ugly, same with the Spinosaurus & the Tree Creeper, they just look dumb cartoony & lack any verisimilitude.

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@Titanlizard_Art Getting rid of the stupid Mythosaur tusks & giving it the actual horns Kaprosuchus had helps, but god damn it still looks insanely ugly & cartoonified.

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Primeval Ep2 finished with everyone’s favourite giant Millipede Arthropleura (A. armata by @MrFragilis) the kind of bug that would stick to the kitchen at parties.

(Not much to keep from the base design cause it’s a Kaiju Scolopendra, very much Arthropleura in name only)

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Onto Primeval Ep2, we have Protosulpuga carbonaria once again reconstructed by @MrFragilis infesting the London Underground.

(While I’m 99.9% sure the design in the show is meant to be Megarachne, I subscribe to what @TheHodgeOfPodge suggested in TGPS’s vid, it’s a Solifugid)

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@YutyTyrant And Becker, don’t send Mr. & Mrs. Temple without soldier boy Cpt. Hillary Becker.

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@TheUnfunnyAnzu @ARuebenstahl In the Morrison you’ve got;
Tanycolagreus
Ornitholestes
Coelurus
Koparion
Stokesosaurus