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Taverner

(55,476 posts) Thu Dec 27, 2012, 09:33 PM Dec 2012

You get to bring back one prehistoric mammal - which is it? [View all]

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.

9 votes, 0 passes \| Time left: Unlimited
	Dire Wolf Baby!
	2 (22%)
	Smilodon aka Saber Toothed Cat
	2 (22%)
	Hobbit Simian
	0 (0%)
	Other Simian
	0 (0%)
	Other Homo
	1 (11%)
	Other...
	4 (44%)
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You get to bring back one prehistoric mammal - which is it? [View all] Taverner Dec 2012 OP

Bring back eohippus! The early ancestor of the horse. CaliforniaPeggy Dec 2012 #1

Other JoeyT Dec 2012 #2

I voted for another homo, please! Scruffy Rumbler Dec 2012 #3

LOL jokes aside our world might be a better place if we had to share it with another species of... Locut0s Dec 2012 #14

I wonder what it would be like if we had another Scruffy Rumbler Dec 2012 #35

We need Vulcans. hifiguy Dec 2012 #42

Wooly Mammoth Richard D Dec 2012 #4

Other ornotna Dec 2012 #5

Wooly Mammoth. Odin2005 Dec 2012 #6

This! AsahinaKimi Dec 2012 #13

AWWWW! I WANT ONE! Odin2005 Dec 2012 #21

Oh my god! I think I had that exact stuffed animal! harmonicon Dec 2012 #32

The world needs more mammoths! hifiguy Dec 2012 #43

Chalicotherium kwassa Dec 2012 #7

I'll vote for that one! csziggy Dec 2012 #10

That thing looks like a cross between a gorilla and a horse. Odin2005 Dec 2012 #22

Other Orrex Dec 2012 #8

Checking... ThoughtCriminal Dec 2012 #9

I know! Orrex Dec 2012 #12

"Other" kentauros Dec 2012 #11

rofl! BlancheSplanchnik Dec 2012 #19

Where are the ogres, trolls and orcs hifiguy Dec 2012 #27

Probably still in Middle Earth! kentauros Dec 2012 #31

I would bring back the first "living" organism on the planet... Locut0s Dec 2012 #15

Smilodon jmowreader Dec 2012 #16

I don't know what the FUCK this is, but it certainly needs to be FREED RIGHT FUCKING NOW ... madinmaryland Dec 2012 #17

A smilodon. Brigid Dec 2012 #18

Wooly Mammoth! Dash87 Dec 2012 #20

How about the Firey-brand hardcore liberal who won't back down LynneSin Dec 2012 #23

For scientific purposes I would like to bring back Morganucodon. mysuzuki2 Dec 2012 #24

Other. geardaddy Dec 2012 #25

Responsible Republican Politician. (nt) Paladin Dec 2012 #26

For me it's the Cretan Dwarf Mammoth intaglio Dec 2012 #28

Now that is a wonderful oxymoron: hifiguy Dec 2012 #29

IIRC, they existed in So Cal, too... Wounded Bear Dec 2012 #33

European rhino (or woolly rhino). Or cave elk. Ripped from the walls at Lascaux. n/t dimbear Dec 2012 #30

Doedicurus pokerfan Dec 2012 #34

Jesus Major Nikon Dec 2012 #36

On a dinosaur? Taverner Dec 2012 #37

OK, Major N and Taverner. hifiguy Dec 2012 #41

Paraceratherium/Indricotherium/Baluchitherium eppur_se_muova Dec 2012 #38

Imagine if Hannibal had those when he tried to take Rome? Taverner Dec 2012 #39

That thing was so huge it was scary aint_no_life_nowhere Dec 2012 #45

homo erectus datasuspect Dec 2012 #40

the one that tastes best alphafemale Dec 2012 #44