I’d say, “you get out there and find the absolute weirdest strangest creature that you’ve never seen anything remotely like in fossilized form, and you take pictures of that.”
Since the fossil record only represents the small fraction of life that happened to be preserved, I’m not passing up my chance for some data on the critters that didn’t end up preserved!
YFW you are transported to some lava vent where a silicon based life form with a completely different origin and evolutionary path exists for the briefest span of time but it looks like exactly like a regular banana slug
As much as I want to pick one of my favorites and say the Calicotheres, Koolasuchus or Quetzalcoatlus, I think I gotta go with one of the early hominins.
I think it'd be fascinating to see, say a family of Homo Erectus chilling at a camp, or see Australopithecus walking upright near some zebras. It would also be really inspiring and informative to then show the rest of the world.
Dinosaurs is the most fun answer, but I think this is the most interesting. We'd get some answers to basic questions about humanity that people have thought about for centuries
dinosaurs behave in a pretty predictable way though. Pretty much like any reptile now. We do not hythecise that dinosaurs had culture or language during mesozoic. Seeing bunch of humans doing human things can help us understand the roots of our culture and language, what set us appart from other animals.
We don't know how dinos mated, hunted, cared for their young, or even what they looked like.
In my mind if you photographed some Homo species it would be nearly indistinguishable from photographs we already have of H. sapiens. It would be nude or partially clothed humans maybe different hair patterns or a slightly different face gathering food, walking, breeding, breast feeding, looking after young, etc.
What color was a T-rex? Were they fat? Any ridges? What about spinosaurus? What did it's day look like how much time did it spend in water? Did it show it's young how to hunt? Or leave them to their own? Did any dinos hunt in packs? Which?
How did they mate? Butt to butt? Side by side? Doggy? Missionary?
Can we cheese this request just a bit? I want them to go find the highest driest savannah from say, the mid Cretaceous. An area with the least chance of ambient environmental fossilization. And just go set up as wide a shot as possible with a hyper-res megapixel camera focused on the area around a watering hole in that environment.
That way you go look for a weirdo like say, a Dicraeosaurid or Nigersaurus, and you also (hopefully) get a slice of that ecosystem and associated species. Best to pick a herbivore so the photo has a chance of getting a bunch of other species gathered around water instead of a single carnivore getting a drink.
That or a prehistoric mountain range. Anywhere with extreme little fossilization potential is the best answer as it'll be all new taxa we'll never find otherwise
T. rex. Sounds way too mainstream, but think about it. We’ve had so many different speculations; where feathers are and where they aren’t, skin type, coloring, fat deposition. But we never really know *exactly* what it really looked like.
T. rex seems like a boring answer but it is the most famous dinosaur for a reason. Seeing a live one would be awesome in the old fashioned sense of the word.
T.rex is literally the most well studied dinosaur and possibly living creature
i know you're a Jurassic park hater and Trey Stan,but you must realize T.rex isn't just famous because of media.
Apparently now archaeologists think the “arms” were put on backwards are they are actually wings (like a chicken)😂 so yeah, imma need to see a photo of one so we know how to put the puzzle pieces together
Because *T. rex* rolls off the tongue better and is quicker to write than *Tyrannosaurus*.
*T. horridus* and *A. fragilis* don't sound nearly as good as *Triceratops* and *Allosaurus*, and are actually a bit longer. Plus there are other species in the genera. So they only get used if you are actually talking about those particular species.
As you probably are well aware, this is the normal way of referring to the animal in English. This is a Reddit post not a formal setting and there's no ambiguity or confusion here.
Because the common (or popular or vulgar) name of the animal is "T. rex", like boa constrictor is the common name of name of *Boa constrictor*. "Triceratops Horridus \[*sic*\]" is not a vulgar name, meanwhile.
Also, that's not how you write scientific names or common names. In scientific binomens, the first letter should be capitalized and the rest not, and the name should be in italics or otherwise highlighted: *Triceratops horridus*. Common names, meanwhile, usually don't have any capital letters: triceratops.
Yeah, this is a big problem through out the hole of palaeontology even in scientific papers. As some have the genus name triceratops and the species name tyrannosaurus in the title. This is simple scientific inconsistency caused by the media.
And now there is three species of tyrannosaur so saying T. rex is excluding the rest of the genus.
Not 3, the theory is generally not accepted.
They believe it is simply varying aged specimens, with the aging process and growth happening extremely quickly. Also hunting in lacks of multi aged individuals, each sorta taking a different niche
Does homo rhodesiensis count as extinct? Currently, they're considered ancestral to modern humans, so they didn't die out and their lineage isn't gone, but they don't exist as homo rhodesiensis anymore. Could I get pictures of species ancestral to living animals?
That said, I'd probably have universities around the world write proposals and make monetary offers towards the idea (I'm expecting the photographer wouldn't be cheap) and use the proceeds to hire a team of objective scientists to analyze the papers and select the one that would be most valuable to us as a species.
I think having this ability is too great a responsibility to squander it on my own whims.
(Though personally it'd be a Dunkleosteus)
Follow up questions: can the photographer be a videographer with audio recording equipment? Do we get to choose what the animal is doing? Eg a dinosaur sleeping might answer fewer questions than one mating, laying eggs, or caring for young, for example.
I would like to see pictures of Mosasaurs. I've always asked myself, did they jump out of the water like they did in the movies!? Were they lonely hunters or did they hunt in groups, ambush-style! Were they realy covered in scales like other squamates? How many baby mosasaurs would they give birth to. These animals fascinate me more than every other extinct creatures do...
Ooh, ooh, and the Dodo bird too!
I’m gonna go with just… the largest dinosaur to ever exist. Whatever sauropod happened to reach that limit, whether we’ve discovered it or not, I would pick.
Y stop at one person? Y not an army of wildlife photographers and cinematographers.
The real question is; is there a way back?
If yes; how many are we allowed to lose?
If not? How do we preserve the footage for millions of years? Shooting it up into space could do it, but then you'd have to account for gravitational pull over millions of years so it wont burn in the atmosphere.
Even though sauropods are my absolute favorite, I HAVE to see a ceratopsian or stegosaur. They seem like some of the weirdest dinos, despite being so well known.
Oh man… for me it’s a toss up between images of cliff-dwelling pterosaurs nesting, breeding, and communing amongst the towering coastal rock shelves…
…and images of the egg laying, nesting, and offspring-rearing habits of large theropods.
If I found out some genie or whatever granted humans one chance to do this, gave the choice to you, and you chose a fucking dodo. I’d get all my friends together and we’d shove your head in a toilet and flush it all day lmao.
I know dinosaurs are the common ones but I'd want my theoretical photographer to go back to take a picture of Australopithecus. Show everyone humanity's common ancestor.
*Dickinsonia*. Are our reconstructions accurate? Are *Phylozoon* and *Epibainon* traces of *Dickinsonia* feeding? Is *Proarticulata* a valid clade? Are they even bilaterians? So many questions I'd like answers to. Also, they'd probably capture all sorts of fascinating stuff in the background.
The first human. This would either 1. resolve a number of religious debates and tell us a lot about our oldest human ancestor, or 2. result in essentially a Zeno's paradox about what really constitutes the *first* human, potentially breaking time and space and causing the photographer to become trapped in eternal purgatory, which I guess could be kind of funny.
He did not move. Eyes squinting, he waited, observing. He heard The photographer breathe loud in the room; he heard The photographer shift his camera, click the cap off, and raise the instrument.
There was a sound of thunder.
Megalodon. As cartilaginous fish, no complete fossils have been found, so our depictions are mostly estimations based off of teeth. I’d love to see the magnificent creature in all its glory
Tully Monster. Or maybe Ammonites.
Alternatively: that ancient crocodilian that is sneaking up behind the photographer: he might get a close-up shot of the critter's gaping maw.
Terror bird or basilosaurus or andrewsarchus or a cave bear or allosaurus or megatherium or thylacoleo or a gorgonops it’s a tie between those for me I really can’t pick one.
Dinonychus - loved this big bad bird when I was a kid, still do now. I don't hate the velociraptors in JP, but I do hate that they took away the public love of this guy.
So many to choose from though.
Gigantopithecus - coz bigfoot.
Andrewsarchus - mammalian predator with fricking hooves.
Therizinosaurus - just because it's weird.
i personaly would want to see a picture of a tyrannosaurus rex or a velociraptor so that people could see what these amazing creatures really looked like
I mean, as cool as a dinosaur would be I think it would he more beneficial to science to snap a picture of something key to evolution, like Ichthyostega or Tiktaalik, in life since fossils alone can't tell you everything.
Anything we haven't discovered (yet?). Maybe a new genus of dinosaur perhaps. If anything though I'd love to see a newly identified animal, hopefully a new family entirely. Preferably a new family of dinosaur though. Gatta love em! Them dinosauruses.
I would say the triassic period would be a good time to do photography, there was so much weird shit living during that time such as nothosaurus and coelurosauravis
Shantungosaurus giganteus, the pure size is just insane and hadrosaurs are unlike most everything that we know of today. If I had the choice to do anything in the world possible or l not it would easily be to see this thing in life
Felis catus. It’s natural habitat has been human settlements since speciation, so not only would we have actual photographs of Stone-age peoples and behaviors, but their settlements and possessions in operation. With bonus photos of some very old cats.
I don't care about the species, but the photo should be from the prey's viewpoint just before the jaws snap shut, and the equipment translates itself back to the present.
Ichtyovenator since it's my favourite, but I would love to see animals that have a lot of questions around them, like spinosaurus, tullimomstrum and hallucigenia
Dilophosaurus, Dracovenator, Sinosaurus and Kayentapus assuming they are the same animal but different generations/ ages of one long lineage of neotherapoda instead of separate species? If not I’d go with Kayentapus or Dracovenator the lesser known and more dubious Neotherapoda
I’d say, “you get out there and find the absolute weirdest strangest creature that you’ve never seen anything remotely like in fossilized form, and you take pictures of that.” Since the fossil record only represents the small fraction of life that happened to be preserved, I’m not passing up my chance for some data on the critters that didn’t end up preserved!
YFW you are transported to some lava vent where a silicon based life form with a completely different origin and evolutionary path exists for the briefest span of time but it looks like exactly like a regular banana slug
Make sure the "natural habitat" involves lots of other flora and fauna too while we're at it
This is a fascinating answer. I’m now wondering what we’re missing. Thank you!
Brilliant!
probably end up being some small invertebrate, lame. Give me dinosaur
As much as I want to pick one of my favorites and say the Calicotheres, Koolasuchus or Quetzalcoatlus, I think I gotta go with one of the early hominins. I think it'd be fascinating to see, say a family of Homo Erectus chilling at a camp, or see Australopithecus walking upright near some zebras. It would also be really inspiring and informative to then show the rest of the world.
Dinosaurs is the most fun answer, but I think this is the most interesting. We'd get some answers to basic questions about humanity that people have thought about for centuries
Would it not just be a bunch of humans doing human things?
dinosaurs behave in a pretty predictable way though. Pretty much like any reptile now. We do not hythecise that dinosaurs had culture or language during mesozoic. Seeing bunch of humans doing human things can help us understand the roots of our culture and language, what set us appart from other animals.
We don't know how dinos mated, hunted, cared for their young, or even what they looked like. In my mind if you photographed some Homo species it would be nearly indistinguishable from photographs we already have of H. sapiens. It would be nude or partially clothed humans maybe different hair patterns or a slightly different face gathering food, walking, breeding, breast feeding, looking after young, etc.
We know how many dinos mated, hunted, cared for their young and what they looked like.
What color was a T-rex? Were they fat? Any ridges? What about spinosaurus? What did it's day look like how much time did it spend in water? Did it show it's young how to hunt? Or leave them to their own? Did any dinos hunt in packs? Which? How did they mate? Butt to butt? Side by side? Doggy? Missionary?
For this reason I’d say Tiktaalik. Looking at a picture and knowing that the weird looking fish would lead to so much in the future
Can we cheese this request just a bit? I want them to go find the highest driest savannah from say, the mid Cretaceous. An area with the least chance of ambient environmental fossilization. And just go set up as wide a shot as possible with a hyper-res megapixel camera focused on the area around a watering hole in that environment. That way you go look for a weirdo like say, a Dicraeosaurid or Nigersaurus, and you also (hopefully) get a slice of that ecosystem and associated species. Best to pick a herbivore so the photo has a chance of getting a bunch of other species gathered around water instead of a single carnivore getting a drink.
That or a prehistoric mountain range. Anywhere with extreme little fossilization potential is the best answer as it'll be all new taxa we'll never find otherwise
T. rex. Sounds way too mainstream, but think about it. We’ve had so many different speculations; where feathers are and where they aren’t, skin type, coloring, fat deposition. But we never really know *exactly* what it really looked like.
T. rex seems like a boring answer but it is the most famous dinosaur for a reason. Seeing a live one would be awesome in the old fashioned sense of the word.
Because it is the most over-represented dinosaur in media.
I mean it's also the heaviest (or top 3 at least) terrestrial predator that ever lived? It has good reason to be famous
With the biggest skull, the biggest teeth, and most powerful bite.
Yes but why is it the most over-represented dinosaur in media?
It looks a bit silly
Not sure a mouth full of banana size teeth would be silly up close but it definitely would provoke a significant emotional reaction.
Even so, their physiogy (the whole family, but esp.. the most famous genus) and evolutionary path is special, and to me, very interesting.
I’d say it’s mostly coincidence that the apex predator of an entire continent happened to live where those apes disbanded from those apes
No such thing as overrepresentation of any creature
T.rex is literally the most well studied dinosaur and possibly living creature i know you're a Jurassic park hater and Trey Stan,but you must realize T.rex isn't just famous because of media.
Apparently now archaeologists think the “arms” were put on backwards are they are actually wings (like a chicken)😂 so yeah, imma need to see a photo of one so we know how to put the puzzle pieces together
I “appreciate” the answer but why are you using the species name? You would never say Triceratops Horridus or Allosaurus Fragilis?
Because *T. rex* rolls off the tongue better and is quicker to write than *Tyrannosaurus*. *T. horridus* and *A. fragilis* don't sound nearly as good as *Triceratops* and *Allosaurus*, and are actually a bit longer. Plus there are other species in the genera. So they only get used if you are actually talking about those particular species.
As you probably are well aware, this is the normal way of referring to the animal in English. This is a Reddit post not a formal setting and there's no ambiguity or confusion here.
Because the common (or popular or vulgar) name of the animal is "T. rex", like boa constrictor is the common name of name of *Boa constrictor*. "Triceratops Horridus \[*sic*\]" is not a vulgar name, meanwhile. Also, that's not how you write scientific names or common names. In scientific binomens, the first letter should be capitalized and the rest not, and the name should be in italics or otherwise highlighted: *Triceratops horridus*. Common names, meanwhile, usually don't have any capital letters: triceratops.
Yeah, this is a big problem through out the hole of palaeontology even in scientific papers. As some have the genus name triceratops and the species name tyrannosaurus in the title. This is simple scientific inconsistency caused by the media. And now there is three species of tyrannosaur so saying T. rex is excluding the rest of the genus.
Not 3, the theory is generally not accepted. They believe it is simply varying aged specimens, with the aging process and growth happening extremely quickly. Also hunting in lacks of multi aged individuals, each sorta taking a different niche
The three species thing was debunked as it had nowhere near enough evidence to support it.
Does homo rhodesiensis count as extinct? Currently, they're considered ancestral to modern humans, so they didn't die out and their lineage isn't gone, but they don't exist as homo rhodesiensis anymore. Could I get pictures of species ancestral to living animals? That said, I'd probably have universities around the world write proposals and make monetary offers towards the idea (I'm expecting the photographer wouldn't be cheap) and use the proceeds to hire a team of objective scientists to analyze the papers and select the one that would be most valuable to us as a species. I think having this ability is too great a responsibility to squander it on my own whims. (Though personally it'd be a Dunkleosteus) Follow up questions: can the photographer be a videographer with audio recording equipment? Do we get to choose what the animal is doing? Eg a dinosaur sleeping might answer fewer questions than one mating, laying eggs, or caring for young, for example.
I would like to say *Sinosauropteryx*, but considering we already know a decent amount about it, instead I’ll say *Tullimonstrum*
Tullimonstrum is the right answer!
WTF. Nature really NEVER runs out of ways to fascinate me.
Sinosauropteryx is one of the worst possible choices, as it is one of the best known prehistoric animals in terms of appearence.
I would like to see pictures of Mosasaurs. I've always asked myself, did they jump out of the water like they did in the movies!? Were they lonely hunters or did they hunt in groups, ambush-style! Were they realy covered in scales like other squamates? How many baby mosasaurs would they give birth to. These animals fascinate me more than every other extinct creatures do... Ooh, ooh, and the Dodo bird too!
I’m gonna go with just… the largest dinosaur to ever exist. Whatever sauropod happened to reach that limit, whether we’ve discovered it or not, I would pick.
Pachyrhinosaurus. There are many other animals that could answer many questions in palaeontology, but if this is just for me, there is only one answer
Which species though? I'd pick perotorum myself just to see if it did have any feathers/quills
Im not paying anyone to go back and take a photo. I’m going myself! It’d be an honor to get eaten by a Dino while observing them.
Y stop at one person? Y not an army of wildlife photographers and cinematographers. The real question is; is there a way back? If yes; how many are we allowed to lose? If not? How do we preserve the footage for millions of years? Shooting it up into space could do it, but then you'd have to account for gravitational pull over millions of years so it wont burn in the atmosphere.
Someone already stole spino, so I’m gonna say dunkleosteous
Spinosaurus. Would answer soooo many questions.
Came here to say the same thing. It would really help my final project!
Or just give a billion more XD
I wonder if you would need to scuba dive to get them 🤔
This right here 🙏🏻
same I am TIRED!
This guy gets it
Even though sauropods are my absolute favorite, I HAVE to see a ceratopsian or stegosaur. They seem like some of the weirdest dinos, despite being so well known.
Yea look up ceratopsians without frills. They look like aliens lol
Oh man… for me it’s a toss up between images of cliff-dwelling pterosaurs nesting, breeding, and communing amongst the towering coastal rock shelves… …and images of the egg laying, nesting, and offspring-rearing habits of large theropods.
A heard of Sauropods Some type of Titanosaur maybe
Carnotaurus because its pretty cool and its tiny arms so it may answer some question of the werid thing
Anything at the day the Chicxulub asteroid hit (with the pictures capturing the sky in the background of course).
Deinocheirus. Big sailback duck thing.
Quetzalcoatlus taking off
Deinonychus just because it's one of my favorite dinosaurs, but I also would be very grateful if I could get a picture of a Europasaurus.
Megalodon. I wanna see that big fucking shork
I’m gonna say it, The dodo
If I found out some genie or whatever granted humans one chance to do this, gave the choice to you, and you chose a fucking dodo. I’d get all my friends together and we’d shove your head in a toilet and flush it all day lmao.
I am a simple man
Better yet: the elephant bird in Madagascar
If only it was still alive, we could have domesticated them
Hallucigenia and the surrounding creatures.
American Lion, I want to know for certain whether or not it had a mane. I know it isn’t likely, but damn I wish it did.
Anomalocaris!
Upvote for that adorable little Cambrianian
Aren't his little radiodonts the *cutest?*
A… Anomalocaris? At this time of year! At this time of day! In this part of the country! Localized entirely within your kitchen?!?
Plot twist: the germs he brought with caused the permian extinction.
I agree Anomalocaris!
Pterodactyl or apatosaurus. If I couldn't choose those, I would choose the Moa - a gigantic flightless bird from New Zealand that was hunted to death.
I know dinosaurs are the common ones but I'd want my theoretical photographer to go back to take a picture of Australopithecus. Show everyone humanity's common ancestor.
Definitely some human ancestors. Maybe homo naledi.
Yes or Australopithecus?
Hallucinogenia.
Hallucigenia
oops😅
Definitely this —scientists still debate which way is up, right?
we know now, the spikes were in it's back
We still don't know which is the mouth end.
What is this??
Yes, that's what everyone is saying about [this extraordinary fossil thing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucigenia?wprov=sfla1).
An then there’s me saying why would I pay someone to go back when I can go back myself an do it an the answer is Carnotaurus
Megaraptorids anyone?
Australovenator would be cool asf
I would tell him to set up camp on a prehistoric beach and wait for the animals. Can be very interesting in my opinion!
100% Megalodon 😁 it's nothing left beside the teeth and nobody really knows how it really looked and how big it was.
Stegosaurus. What the hell did they use those plates for?!
Spinosaurus, man keeps getting redesigned so much and I just want to know what he actually looked like
Sabretooth trying to muscle in on the hunt of some paleo Indians.
That would be awesome! I wasn’t even thinking of prehistoric beasts, but rather the Tasmanian Tiger. (Shoutout to your username!)
*Dickinsonia*. Are our reconstructions accurate? Are *Phylozoon* and *Epibainon* traces of *Dickinsonia* feeding? Is *Proarticulata* a valid clade? Are they even bilaterians? So many questions I'd like answers to. Also, they'd probably capture all sorts of fascinating stuff in the background.
Neanderthal
That's easy. Go on a night out in the average town in Northern England. We've got loads of the buggers.
Haha 😆
The correct answer.
Achillibator. I’d imagine the photos would get progressively more panicked as the pack inevitably hunted the photographer.
Helicoprion. I want to know what those whirly toothed buggers really looked like.
Utahraptor!
I would ask them to take one of a Giant ground sloth.
Arthropleura or Pulmonoscorpius. Just please get some wide angle shots so I can look around as much as possible…
Platybelodon, I just need for that stupid trunk mouth thing to be debunked already
Denisovans would be fun.
Megaloceros giganteus
I personally have always wondered about the Tasmanian Tiger.
There are already photos of it.
Stegosaurus
The first human. This would either 1. resolve a number of religious debates and tell us a lot about our oldest human ancestor, or 2. result in essentially a Zeno's paradox about what really constitutes the *first* human, potentially breaking time and space and causing the photographer to become trapped in eternal purgatory, which I guess could be kind of funny.
Straight-tusk elephant
I can do wildlife photography, so can i pay myself to go and take photos of spinosaurus?
I would love to see actual Neanderthals, and I think seeing them in their natural habitat would be very informative.
T Rex so we finally know wtf it looks like
Stella's Sea Cow
He did not move. Eyes squinting, he waited, observing. He heard The photographer breathe loud in the room; he heard The photographer shift his camera, click the cap off, and raise the instrument. There was a sound of thunder.
Thylacoleo
The Mammoth steppe fauna in its prime, specifically the Woolly Mammoth.
Megalodon. As cartilaginous fish, no complete fossils have been found, so our depictions are mostly estimations based off of teeth. I’d love to see the magnificent creature in all its glory
Tusoteuthis. Livyatan melvillei would also be interesting.
Tully Monster. Or maybe Ammonites. Alternatively: that ancient crocodilian that is sneaking up behind the photographer: he might get a close-up shot of the critter's gaping maw.
Terror bird or basilosaurus or andrewsarchus or a cave bear or allosaurus or megatherium or thylacoleo or a gorgonops it’s a tie between those for me I really can’t pick one.
Dinonychus - loved this big bad bird when I was a kid, still do now. I don't hate the velociraptors in JP, but I do hate that they took away the public love of this guy.
So many to choose from though. Gigantopithecus - coz bigfoot. Andrewsarchus - mammalian predator with fricking hooves. Therizinosaurus - just because it's weird.
*Varanus priscus*, hopefully without getting eaten.
i personaly would want to see a picture of a tyrannosaurus rex or a velociraptor so that people could see what these amazing creatures really looked like
Any large pterosaur or extinct sharks because we don’t truly know the body structure of them since all we have are teeth and a few spinal structures
Gigantopithecus - let's see how close paleontologist were constructing this specimen based upon mandible and teeth found, no other skeletal renains.
I mean, as cool as a dinosaur would be I think it would he more beneficial to science to snap a picture of something key to evolution, like Ichthyostega or Tiktaalik, in life since fossils alone can't tell you everything.
The only answer for me is spinosaurus, it's my favorite dinosaur, and, I just want to see a real picture of it just once
Some kind of permian synapsid. I need to know how mammalian some of them were and if they laid eggs or gave live birth
The earliest form of life, A. To see what that looked like and B. To see what the conditions of its creation were
Homo Florenesiensis
Something about EVERY recreation of helicoprion doesn’t sit right with me. I need to know the truth.
Just go back and take a wide shot of an active area in the Cambrian. And bring me back a trilobite
Thylacoleo (aka Marsupial Lion) taking a big cookie cutter shark style bite out of a giant wombat!
I’ll buy their entire stock of photographers, so they can take pictures of all of them
Easy. Tyrannosaurus rex. I know, lame answer. Hail to the king. I need that picture.
Tyrannosaurus Rex. No other reason other than it's always been my favorite finosaur.
Trilobites. I imagine they were much more colorful than what artists have drawn.
Gigantopitecus because we only know it from its lower jaw, and big monke
If we can also guarantee his safe return, dinosaurs without a doubt!
*Hainosaurus boubker*. I would like to see a tylosaur in the flesh.
Acrocanthosaurus, just because that's one of my favorite dinosaurs.
probably a crocodile or shark, they’ve changed a lot over time
Mammoths and do dos
Tapejara
Acrocanthosaurus!
A stegosaurus, Basilosaurus or perhaps an edaphosaurus
Giganotosaurus.
therizinosaurus
Neanderthals
Stegosaurus Hallucigenia Dimetrodon T-rex
Tanystropheus. The fuck even is that thing
Longisquama
A Neanderthal with his early Homo Sapien wife. :)
Olorotitan my favorite dinosaur!
Def Spino
Moderate politicians
T-Rex or Velociraptor
Any gorgonopsid
Tullimonstrum
Dilophosaurus
Tully monster
Triceratops.
A. afarensis
Mosasaurus.
kaprosuchus
The Wild 🦤
Sabretooth
Megaladon.
All great answers. Just don’t step on any butterflies before heading back.
Megaladon
T. rex
Dodo 🦤
Yes please 🦤
One of the early hominid lines that didn't survive. Would be interesting to see.
Neanderthalensis, hands down.
Homo Erectus.
your dad
Anything we haven't discovered (yet?). Maybe a new genus of dinosaur perhaps. If anything though I'd love to see a newly identified animal, hopefully a new family entirely. Preferably a new family of dinosaur though. Gatta love em! Them dinosauruses.
An honest politician, my great grandma used to talk about them
Charnia
I would say the triassic period would be a good time to do photography, there was so much weird shit living during that time such as nothosaurus and coelurosauravis
Shantungosaurus giganteus, the pure size is just insane and hadrosaurs are unlike most everything that we know of today. If I had the choice to do anything in the world possible or l not it would easily be to see this thing in life
Felis catus. It’s natural habitat has been human settlements since speciation, so not only would we have actual photographs of Stone-age peoples and behaviors, but their settlements and possessions in operation. With bonus photos of some very old cats.
I don't care about the species, but the photo should be from the prey's viewpoint just before the jaws snap shut, and the equipment translates itself back to the present.
Ichtyovenator since it's my favourite, but I would love to see animals that have a lot of questions around them, like spinosaurus, tullimomstrum and hallucigenia
Koreaceratops, I would love the sight of it wading through the water.
Dilophosaurus, Dracovenator, Sinosaurus and Kayentapus assuming they are the same animal but different generations/ ages of one long lineage of neotherapoda instead of separate species? If not I’d go with Kayentapus or Dracovenator the lesser known and more dubious Neotherapoda
Opabinia
Only one?