Finally Home

[Geraldopithecus]

Finding this forum is like finally coming home! I was infected with fever for prehistoric life when i was a small boy visiting our Museum of Natural History in Vienna. The pictures of the great czechoslovakian painting magician Zdenek Burian influenced my imagination about the life long time ago. (Although science changed our view of the physique of prehistoric creatures). I collected a lot of plastic dinos and other primeval animals and books. The Tertiary emerged as my favourite era! I know: no dinosaurs... 
In short: i´m happy to be here and may find intersting and funny topics!

[Derek.McManus]

Welcome to the forum and I hope you have a great time here! I am sure that many other members will share your interests.

[Jose S.M.]

Welcome! I hope youtube enjoy te forum! 

[Halichoeres]

Welcome to the forum! We'll forgive you for preferring the Tertiary

[Lanthanotus]

Welcome to the DTF.... and well, just those avian dinosaurs in the Tertiary, but that's not the worst, I especially like the Starlux prehistoric birds

[stargatedalek]

Don't be silly, the tertiary had some of the best known and most interesting of all dinosaurs! My favorite dinosaur family didn't even appear until the late Eocene.

[DinoToyForum]

Welcome!

[Geraldopithecus]

Don't be silly, the tertiary had some of the best known and most interesting of all dinosaurs! My favorite dinosaur family didn't even appear until the late Eocene.

Hi stargatedalek!
Do you mean the birds? Please correct me when i´m wrong.

[RobinGoodfellow]

Welcome.
I love "Megafauna" too.
Unfortunately there aren't so many figures about that.
Here my collection:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/130140542@N03/albums/72157660163862768/page1
and
https://www.flickr.com/photos/130140542@N03/albums/72157659173738273
And about your "Megafauna"  collection?
Please, share with us..

[Jetoar]

Welcome to DTF new friend  .

I love too Megafauna and I have made some species of animals as Aurochs, Stephanorhinus and Pachycrocuta  .

[stargatedalek]

Don't be silly, the tertiary had some of the best known and most interesting of all dinosaurs! My favorite dinosaur family didn't even appear until the late Eocene.

Hi stargatedalek!
Do you mean the birds? Please correct me when i´m wrong.

Yup, I meant terror birds and auks (respectively).

[Geraldopithecus]

my own little pleistocene Museum


Mammuthus trogontherii molar

Mammuthus primigenius scapula

replica smilodon skull

[Lanthanotus]

Nice display, did you collect those mammoth fossils yourself? There's a dredging lake near my hometown where a friend of mine used to search for mammoth fossils and other Pleistocene remains. He even found a deciduous tooth of a baby mammoth once, a very rare find as I am told. Used to collect there too now and then, but what I found was mainly just fossil scrap material

[Geraldopithecus]

Don't be silly, the tertiary had some of the best known and most interesting of all dinosaurs! My favorite dinosaur family didn't even appear until the late Eocene.

Hi stargatedalek!
Do you mean the birds? Please correct me when i´m wrong.

Yup, I meant terror birds and auks (respectively).

auks are interesting... and cute! I once had the pleasure to visit a puffin colony in Norway and watch them from near.
There is a painting of Diatryma by Burian. When i first saw it i was fascinated by the powerful feet.

[Geraldopithecus]

Nice display, did you collect those mammoth fossils yourself? There's a dredging lake near my hometown where a friend of mine used to search for mammoth fossils and other Pleistocene remains. He even found a deciduous tooth of a baby mammoth once, a very rare find as I am told. Used to collect there too now and then, but what I found was mainly just fossil scrap material

the mammoth fossils i got from exhibitions. near my home there is a renatured recreational area with a small lake. originally it was a brick factory area. when they renatured it the diggers brought up plenty of Paratethys fossils - mainly shells. This was almost 30 years ago and you still can find some

[Everything_Dinosaur]

Welcome to the forum, I am sure you will discover lots of Cenozoic orientated topics to keep you enthused.