How's this for an ugly:

http://io9.com/this-one-ton-fish-is-...source=taboola

I think they are rather beautiful in an alien sort of way - and that article actually underestimates their weight as the largest can weigh 2.3 tons!

If you are interested I created a thread called 'real life sea monsters' on here and there are several posts on the mighty Mola.

Arctic Hadrosaur.

http://www.livescience.com/52263-duc...ur-alaska.html

http://www.livescience.com/52254-pho...ur-alaska.html

http://phenomena.nationalgeographic....ts-a-new-name/

It might have been a bit of an ugly duckling but good ol' Bungostegos was important because of that evolutionary move to creatures standing upright on all four legs.

Very true.

A shitload of links today.

But still my favourite story is more on the new evidence for battling Apatosaurs - just think of those multi-ton necks smashing into each other in a fight for dominance between the behemoths!

It must have been a truly awe-inspiring sight.

http://svpow.com/2015/09/20/fighting...an-engh-again/

https://svpow.files.wordpress.com/20...hroughweb1.jpg

Other links that some may find interesting (including the fact that the giant ripper lizard Megalania was still around when the aboriginal Australians arrived).

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-34340918

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...borigines.html

http://www.sciencerecorder.com/news/...ned-dinosaurs/

http://phys.org/news/2015-09-digital...urs-youve.html

http://pseudoplocephalus.blogspot.co...-hot-dogs.html

http://wanderingalbatross.deviantart...8363/Paleo-art

The brilliant Mark Witton's latest blogpost.

http://markwitton-com.blogspot.co.uk...evolution.html

His updated gallery.

http://www.markwitton.com/print-stor...ery/4588356870

An excellent article on Homo naledi.

https://twilightbeasts.wordpress.com...of-star-stuff/

Yet more of the fighting Apatosaurs.

http://svpow.com/2015/09/25/fighting...-bob-nicholls/

https://svpow.files.wordpress.com/20...cholls2015.jpg

This National Geographic documentary on Friday - 'World's Biggest Beasts' on Channel 5 was pretty good.

There was one error though Spinosaurus was certainly longer than rex but not as massive.

The 22 ton estimate seems to be from from an older paper - a more recent figure of 7 tons seems to be far more realistic (compared to 8.4 to 10 tons for rex).

Just look at the size comparison of the skeletons.

http://i.imgur.com/je6dzGe.jpg

*Edit.

I found that the old study that gives the 22 ton estimate has been widely discredited - 7 tons it is.

Apart from that it was entertaining with a lot of very recent research - the quad launch of giant Pterosaurs for example.

http://www.channel5.com/shows/worlds...biggest-beasts

There are also two documentaries on tonight which will no doubt delight Creationists.

Channel 4 on Homo naledi - 'First Humans: The Cave Discovery' at 8.00PM and 'The Two Million Year Old Boy' on More 4 at 9.00.

Yet more on fighting Apatosaurs.

http://svpow.com/2015/09/27/fighting...wesomedinoart/

The intriguing possibility of detecting the true colours of a wide range of fossilised animals.

http://phys.org/news/2015-09-pigment...t-animals.html

http://news.discovery.com/animals/fo...ors-150929.htm

http://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2015/s...l-colours.html

Why are we the only species of living human?

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150...es-still-alive

Plesiosaur robot mimic investigates hydrodynamic swimming efficiency.

https://www.newscientist.com/article...g-robot-mimic/

The dinosaurs of Ghost Ranch.

http://www.amnh.org/shelf-life/episo...of-ghost-ranch

New research on the extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs.

http://news.berkeley.edu/2015/10/01/...for-dinosaurs/

http://phys.org/news/2015-10-asteroi...dinosaurs.html

https://www.newscientist.com/article...off-dinosaurs/

http://www.sfgate.com/science/articl...at-6541725.php

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2...ruptions-study

http://www.latimes.com/science/scien...001-story.html

The most iconic battle of them all - Tyrannosaurus v Triceratops at the Smithsonian.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local...919_story.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/graphi...ing-of-a-trex/

http://www.washingtonpost.com/video/...205_video.html

http://www.npr.org/2015/10/01/444276...n-upright-pose

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smiths...ops-180956793/

Another load of links - it's been a busy few days for palaeontology.

http://www.oxfordamerican.org/magazi...astes-in-limbo

http://siberiantimes.com/science/oth...ously-thought/

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-...ors-180956791/

http://pseudoplocephalus.blogspot.co...essential.html

http://www.montana.edu/news/15769/la...lived-and-died

http://www.rapidreadytech.com/2015/0...-and-scanning/

http://www.thewesternstar.com/News/L...d-footprints/1

http://phys.org/news/2015-10-explore...ponse-big.html

Finally - what a pile of shit.

http://www.poozeum.com/

A couple of very interesting articles on Allosaur (and other theropod) feeding techniques and Phorusrhacid feeding dynamics and ecology - which if correct makes these massive birds even more formidable than before.

http://antediluviansalad.blogspot.co...an-falcon.html

http://antediluviansalad.blogspot.co...ew-theory.html

How the Sauropods evolved into the largest terrestrial animals ever to walk the earth.

http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/...so-big/6816224

http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/...o-live/6806006

Just the latest on the Tyrannosaurus rex design in the Saurian computer game.

http://saurian.maxmediacorp.com/?p=553

An interesting take on the famous saga of Piltdown Man.

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/...st-contention/

Yes, so many decent people were taken in by that vile and shameless fraud.

And now for some real hominin discoveries:

First Humans: The Cave Discovery
New species of human ancestor revealed in Channel 4 documentary
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/f...cave-discovery

Going back even further:

Ancient beaver-like mammal thrived after dinosaur extinction
This is a reconstruction of Kimbetopsalis simmonsae, a metre-long, plant-eating, rodent-like mammal boasting buck-toothed incisors like a beaver that lived just a few hundred thousand years after the dinosaurs went extinct.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/ki...mmal-1.3256783

Alas poor Eoanthropus, consigned to a small cardboard box in the vaults of the Natural History Museum.

Unfortunately he is often brought up by mouth-breathing Creationists as proof that all fossils are fakes.

Actually, they were on display for a while last year.

Yet another dig at Christians by this poster. He just can't help himself!

Not all creationists are Christians and not all Christians are creationists.

Very few Christians are Creationists - and that includes the Vatican.

Anyway a new species has been discovered of that oddball marine mammal group the Desmostylians.

http://www.livescience.com/52393-odd...nds-video.html

A couple of the best Mosasaur reconstructions I have seen to date. Both of the massive Tylosaurus pembinensis.

http://orig14.deviantart.net/dcc8/f/...cd-d9blb6u.jpg

http://img05.deviantart.net/05d2/i/2...52-d98n8kz.jpg

As you are a Creationist so I do wonder why you bother to read this thread as apparently every link in it is a blatant lie or a least misguided attempt to explain the 6000 year old earth.

Anyway for those of us actually interested in scientific facts a few more links.

http://extinctmonsters.net/2015/10/0...-rex-revealed/

https://dinosours.files.wordpress.co...x_workshop.jpg

http://www.eartharchives.org/article...he-gobi-desert

https://twilightbeasts.wordpress.com...f-the-steppes/

http://www.livescience.com/52398-anc...e-mammals.html

Finally a very nice reconstruction of one of the biggest Mosasaurs of them all -Mosasaurus maximus.

http://img03.deviantart.net/020c/i/2...da-d9b8odi.jpg

Another article from Mark Witton this time featuring his excellent illustrations - this time of sauropods.

http://markwitton-com.blogspot.co.uk...chiosaurs.html

Talking of sauropods a very rare Titanosaur braincase has been examined - of all the dinosaurs these behemoths were not exactly overburdened with grey matter.

http://phys.org/news/2015-10-rare-br...aur-brain.html

Finally how Giraffes got their long necks.

http://phenomena.nationalgeographic....ers-by-a-neck/

Well preserved mammoth skin found:

http://siberiantimes.com/science/cas...e-for-cloning/

Surely someone's going to clone a live one soon.