You get to bring back one prehistoric mammal - which is it?

[Taverner]

Could be the Smilodon, could be the hobbit people, or could be the Dire wolf.

As crazy as it sounds, I would love to domesticate the dire wolf.

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[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Bring back eohippus! The early ancestor of the horse.

That would be so cool!

[JoeyT]

2. Other

Either Andrewsarchus or Arctotherium

Andrewsarchus:




Arctotherium:

[Scruffy Rumbler]

3. I voted for another homo, please!

[Locut0s]

14. LOL jokes aside our world might be a better place if we had to share it with another species of...

"man kind". Racism and homophobia would look that much pettier. Course knowing our species we would probably have them all working for us as slaves

[Scruffy Rumbler]

35. I wonder what it would be like if we had another

highly evolved species on this planet. One to give us a run for our money...

[hifiguy]

42. We need Vulcans.

Desperately.

[Richard D]

4. Wooly Mammoth

[ornotna]

5. Other

Glyptodon. A relative of armadillos, it's the size of a VW beetle. Wouldn't you love to be awakened with that rattling around your garbage cans.

[Odin2005]

6. Wooly Mammoth.

[AsahinaKimi]

13. This!

[Odin2005]

21. AWWWW! I WANT ONE!

[harmonicon]

32. Oh my god! I think I had that exact stuffed animal!

It was that or something very much like it. I still remember the day I got it; we went to a children's museum, and then to visit my great grandmother in the nursing home (this must have been almost 30 years ago, because I wasn't very old when she died). I remember the ladies in the nursing home asking me about my stuffed toy and what it was.

[hifiguy]

43. The world needs more mammoths!

That's nearly as cute as a pony plushie!

[kwassa]

7. Chalicotherium

what else?

[csziggy]

10. I'll vote for that one!

[Odin2005]

22. That thing looks like a cross between a gorilla and a horse.

[Orrex]

8. Other

[ThoughtCriminal]

9. Checking...

http://www.abevigoda.com/

Yep - still alive.

[Orrex]

12. I know!

I thought about going for GHWB, but I figured that it might be too soon.

[kentauros]

11. "Other"

I'll let you guess which one I'm wanting

[BlancheSplanchnik]

19. rofl!

[hifiguy]

27. Where are the ogres, trolls and orcs

in this taxonomy?

The unclassified example is what happens when a cyclopean centaur is crossed with an alicorn Viz:

Cyclopean centaur:



Alicorn:



Hope this clears things up.

[kentauros]

31. Probably still in Middle Earth!

Either that, or you'll have to inquire with Gary Gygax for further info

And I guess this new development for the classification of the Cyclopean centaur comes from almost 1000 years in the future to be retroactively applied to an old graphical evolutionary tree.



Thanks for the reminder of Leela's centaur form. I need to capture a few more stills from that DVD

[Locut0s]

15. I would bring back the first "living" organism on the planet...

to solve one of the greatest questions left to biology, how did life get started.

[jmowreader]

16. Smilodon

We need something that will prey on NRA members.

[madinmaryland]

17. I don't know what the FUCK this is, but it certainly needs to be FREED RIGHT FUCKING NOW ...

[Brigid]

18. A smilodon.

It would make a great watch cat.

[Dash87]

20. Wooly Mammoth!

As an addendum (and because I wanted to use the word, "addendum&quot , the geek in me wishes that dragons actually existed.

[LynneSin]

23. How about the Firey-brand hardcore liberal who won't back down

I haven't seen any of them around in ages.

[mysuzuki2]

24. For scientific purposes I would like to bring back Morganucodon.

It was once of the earliest mammals - about 220 million years ago. It would be incredible to learn what the first mammals were like!

[geardaddy]

25. Other.

Megatherium

[Paladin]

26. Responsible Republican Politician. (nt)

[intaglio]

28. For me it's the Cretan Dwarf Mammoth

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammuthus_creticus

[hifiguy]

29. Now that is a wonderful oxymoron:

"dwarf mammoth."

[Wounded Bear]

33. IIRC, they existed in So Cal, too...

They've found fossil remains on the channel islands.

[dimbear]

30. European rhino (or woolly rhino). Or cave elk. Ripped from the walls at Lascaux. n/t

[pokerfan]

34. Doedicurus

Essentially a 2000 pound armadillo.

[Major Nikon]

36. Jesus

I win!

[Taverner]

37. On a dinosaur?

Granted, the dinosaur isn't a mammal but...

[hifiguy]

41. OK, Major N and Taverner.

That was the biggest LOL I've had in weeks.

Here are ponies for both of you. You can argue among yourselves about who gets which pony.

[eppur_se_muova]

38. Paraceratherium/Indricotherium/Baluchitherium

aka Walking Tank

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraceratherium

[Taverner]

39. Imagine if Hannibal had those when he tried to take Rome?

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

45. That thing was so huge it was scary

I'd love for science to find a way to bring that species back to life.

The giant short-faced bear was much larger than a modern grizzly. And the giant ground sloth would have been awesome to see.

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[datasuspect]

40. homo erectus

or Neanderthal man.

[alphafemale]

44. the one that tastes best