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Post by vincent on Apr 25, 2020 22:47:46 GMT 10
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Post by dennisw on Apr 26, 2020 11:24:18 GMT 10
There have been many dangerous periods and many more recently, I think I might have found Germany particularly dangerous 80 years ago and with the sabre rattling going on in the Mid-East there may be more dangers to come.
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Post by johannes on Apr 29, 2020 2:16:31 GMT 10
As Denny said, our own species Pan diabolusHomo sapiens is far more dangerous than any species of spinosaur. As far as humans are concerned, giant piscivores are just a source of blubber. The megaherbivores are the ones who kill. People are killed by hippos, not by sea elephants; among the giant animals, Lurdussaurus would have been the greatest danger to humans in middle K Africa. Built like a tank, low center of gravity, wide track and - unlike theropods - heaviliy muscled, not an airsac system on legs. The entelodont croc, Kaprosuchus, also looks dangerous. As for the small animals, highly venomous snakes hadn't evolved yet, and too little is known about Kem Kem Mammals to decide which one was venomous or not.
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Post by Ian Thomas on Apr 30, 2020 22:20:50 GMT 10
Just walking along when hit by meteorite. Show you're not safe anywhere ... 💥
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Post by dennisw on May 1, 2020 10:35:41 GMT 10
Yet originally the French Academy of Sciences ruled that meteors were a myth, "rocks do not fall from the sky". That theory was silenced a couple of years later when a meteor storm hit Southern France doing a great deal of damage.
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Post by Ian Thomas on May 1, 2020 22:45:04 GMT 10
Pays not to argue with Authority ...
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Post by johannes on May 4, 2020 23:51:33 GMT 10
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Post by vincent on May 13, 2020 9:20:57 GMT 10
I nominate this place as the most dangerous today:
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Post by dennisw on May 13, 2020 16:35:40 GMT 10
We have a similar island in Bass Straight where the predominant animal on the island are the Tiger Snakes but the strange thing about them is that most seem to have lost their distinctive stripes that give them their name. The predominant colour is now black tiger snakes have a reputation for aggression and potent venom as well as fangs substantially longer than other species, they are actually a species of cobra.
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Post by johannes on May 27, 2020 21:46:59 GMT 10
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Post by saggitarius on May 28, 2020 9:06:48 GMT 10
Not penguins. The Bass Strait islands are the major breeding grounds for the Short-tailed Shearwaters or Mutton Birds, as they are generally called in these parts. They breed in thousands of burrows and the chicks make a tasty meal for the black tiger snakes. Mutton Birds are still legally harvested by Tasmanians and extreme care must be made when shoving one's arm down a hole that you do not grab a snake.
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Post by johannes on Aug 11, 2020 3:12:00 GMT 10
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Post by Ian Thomas on Aug 11, 2020 6:35:44 GMT 10
A giant swan could possibly be considered dangerous at the Botanic Gardens, if you weren't forthcoming with bread slices & etc  |
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Post by johannes on Feb 24, 2021 1:59:31 GMT 10
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Post by johannes on Mar 15, 2021 23:50:58 GMT 10
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Post by johannes on Jun 1, 2022 20:39:52 GMT 10
On the other hand, mammals (with the exception of Ichthyoconodon) and dino-birds are notably absent from Kem-Kem, so something there might have killed small, warm-blooded animals...
If Ichthyoconodon was capable of active powered flight - and I think this is the most parsimonous explanation for the presence of a weasel-sized mammal in marine sediments without any signs of transportation* - it might have been a virtual incubator for germs, like modern bats are...
* there are alternative explanations, but they are a bit to convoluted to survive Ockhams razor:
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