Who cares?

animals tend to evolve towards gigantism over long periods of time, so at any given point in earth’s history when tetrapods had shown up and the climate had been stable for a while, you absolutely find giant animals.

and remember, animals were actually still pretty giant until fairly recently on the geologic scale, a mere ten thousand years ago!

the reason there are very few giant animals around now is that we’re actually living in a post-apocolyptic world. 

SOMETHING happened ten thousand years ago to wipe almost all of the ice-age megafauna off the planet, and we’re still not sure what. (and no, it wasn’t us.) but the first animals to fall in a mass extinction events are always the giants, because they require so much food! and it takes them tens of millions of years to show up again after a mass die-off. but give it another twenty million years or so, and giant animals will appear once again!

until then, please take a moment to appreciate whales.

but lets not forget sergei prokudin-gorskiy, who developed a similar process in 1902, published in 1903 and then toured russia to take hundreds of color photographs:

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angel getting a phone and learning about internet trends was a horrible mistake 

“His favorite place is his bed.”

I HAVE BEEN CRYING FOR THE PAST 5 MINUTES OVER THESE FROGS I WOULD DIE FOR EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM IM NOT EVEN KIDDING I WOULD JUMP IN FRONT OF A TRAIN TO SAVE THEM THEY ARE ALL I LIVE FOR AND HONESTLY IF YOU DONT LIKE FROGS FUCK YOU ALL THEY DO IS SPLASH AROUND IN WATER AND SCREAM AND EAT MOSQUITOES THEY ARE SO FUCKING PRECIOUS YOU COLD PIECE OF SHIT 😭😭😭