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Favorite scene from “ocean” in Prehistoric Planet 2
if you think the ocean now is a scary fuck then you haven’t seen the scary fuck that is the prehistoric ocean
so im watching the history channel on youtube (i could tell you so much on short nosed bears rn) but i just finished watching this thing called the mosasaur and its your pretty basic mega water dinosaur, 50 feet long, eel tail, sonar, doesn’t chew its food etc, but then it got dark
these shits were top predators, no competition whatsoever…..except from themselves. the narrator was saying that even though there was nothing to oppose them, they somehow continued to evolve into like fifty 50 different species of this mega predator. And its really cool because it started as a three foot lizard and in just 6 million years it became “the ultimate success story of evolution”.
they had these weird funky teeth too. not only were they really big and strong like you’d expect but they had teeth in the roof of them mouth cuz they’d slide their dinner down their mouth like a conveyer belt. and since their so big you’d think wow how did no one see them? apparently sea creatures are frickin blind or something bc this megabeasty would just lie on the frickin bottom of the ocean and wait for something to swim up. then it would propel its ass up with this snaky tail and just boosh i ated you
but mosasaurs kept evolving even though they were literally the top predator. why is that?? that doesn’t happen in nature. turns out they were causing themselves to evolve. turns out they’re one of the only species (including humans) that naturally commits murder aka kills their own kind. they’ll bite each others heads until they can get a good grip then one of them snaps the neck. and they didn’t even eat the other guy. they did it. for. fun. (apparently they thrive on violence????)
and im over here going like wtf. but then it got worse. these scary ass motherfuckers began to go anywhere they pleased. they evolved even more and then moved into fresh water. like swamps and rivers. thats terrifying. NOTHING On eARth could stop them.
Nothing on Earth ;) aka enter the extinction comet
BUT then I learned that even the bigass dino killing comet didn’t even kill the thing. They literally had to starve to death because all of their prey died out. NOPE not them. THey didn’t die out because they’re like dinosaur gods or some shit. EVERYTHING DIED BUT THEM
Finally finished!! The plesio is definitely not accurate but I was too deep into it by the time it really started bothering me sooo brown plesiosaur, yay. The ammonites took me like 10 minutes each just to make their shells and it was certainly tedious... Yeah, they took up most of the drawing process. But is was really fun!! this is my first try at paleo art and not to pat myself on the back too hard but I think it turned out pretty well 😏. What do you think? anything I could do to improve?
think I might try to re create this scene from prehistoric planet. I think I'm going to stick to water lizards before I move on to land dinosaurs because land scenes are a lot more complicated.