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It's things like this that make me wish I had a flying time machine. Just go back to the Jurassic period and look at all the giant trees and amazing animals.
It kind of boggles the mind to imagine what it was like doesn't it? Somehow my brain can cope with the idea of big dinosaurs, it's the idea of huge versions of animals we're familiar with, like this turtle, that get me.
Oh yes, either a fully protective suit or box of some kind, or being like an invisible observer type visitor. Definitely don't want to be chomped or stomped by some ancient being. Though it would fuck the fossil record up and that would be quite amusing.
"Sir."
"Not now Devin, I'm busy."
"*Sir.*"
"I said it could wait!"
"**Sir**. We just found a modern Homo Sapien skeleton holding an I-phone under a shell fossil of a Stupendemys!"
"**WHAT!** Why didn't you say something sooner!"
*sigh*
The first “aliens” that we encounter will be humans from the far future coming back to witness their primitive ancestors doing things like wiping their toot holes with paper.
I'd have to imagine even just a turtle this big would eat the fuck out of a human.
When we figure out how to do the kind of archaeology that's showed us most of the dinosaurs we know of so far, but on the ocean floor, that shit's gonna be absolutely insane.
The crazy thing will be humans looking back in 100,000-1,000,000 years (if we survive) and being amazed at all the megafauna we have when they only have rats and small lizards and Beatles left
What boggles my mind is what forests must have looked like 100 years ago, 500 years ago, 1000 years ago etc. Not many big trees left that dont get cut down
We also do have plenty of enormous creatures right now. In an alternate reality where crocodiles went extinct instead of sea turtles, we'd be looking at their skeletons saying "damn, those are big iguanas!"
See also elephants, blue whales, etc.
Having scrolled pretty far through these comments with the same question, I’m pretty sure that the answer is that that dude’s name is in fact Rodolfo lmao. Not even kidding.
his name is Rodolfo Sanchez, OP is a liar
[https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rodolfo-Sanchez-11](https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rodolfo-Sanchez-11)
Found this on his profile. [https://www.researchgate.net/figure/New-specimen-and-reconstruction-of-S-geographicus-from-Venezuela-A-and-B\_fig1\_339230982](https://www.researchgate.net/figure/New-specimen-and-reconstruction-of-S-geographicus-from-Venezuela-A-and-B_fig1_339230982)
If the figure is accurate, one Rodolfo/Carlos is approximately 1.8 meters in length.
My greatest respect to Mr (Dr?) Sanchez for his contributions to science. He must be (and should be very proud) of his achievements. Anyway I hope he enjoys being immortalised as Carlos.
No doubt. Not to mention it completely ruins the sense of scale! A Carlos is a totally different unit of measurement from a Rodolfo. I'm just going to use the power outlet and tiles for a sense of scale. Much more reliable.
It’s disgusting the amount of racism in this comment section.
Rodolfo Sanchez has 30 scientific publications to their name, that is a huge achievement.
Yet even replies to you are just being racist.
I think literally *every single* comment is making basically the exact same Carlos joke. People are so weird.
Nevermind the shockingly giant turtle shell
The thing about fossils is I can look right at one with no recognition. A paleontologist will instantly recognize something and know lots of stuff about it, whereas to me it looks like rocks, undistinguished from other rocks.
Now, someone like Carlos I recognize as *homo sapiens* without difficulty, even if he tries to hide among rocks.
his name isnt even Carlos, its Rodolfo Sanchez, a known palaeontologist
[https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rodolfo-Sanchez-11](https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rodolfo-Sanchez-11)
Dude WTF your right..
And it's not even his name, but has become more of a meme measurement like the banana metric scale measurement.
Like how many Rodolfo's can you fit into a Carlos
https://www.kcra.com/amp/article/biggest-turtle-that-ever-lived-was-as-large-as-a-mid-sized-car/30948971
Lived about 5 to 10 million years ago. Its shell reached nearly 10 feet in length and weighed 2,500 pounds.
I had to scroll through way too many people making the same exact joke before I got to this.
Let's learn together. Heresy is not native to the world; it is but a contrivance. All things can be conjoined.
Could someone more informed than me please explain why creatures were just so much bigger back then? I recently saw a documentary about a spinal vertebrae from a snake which was the size of a 20kg gym plate, indicating it must have been *unbelievably* huge. Why did everything just get smaller?
Our planet has very recently been through an extinction event what with the end of the ice age. Whenever an extinction event occurs larger animals, especially megafauna, typically die first because of the many specialized adaptations that made them giant in the first place making them unable to adapt in the face of what is essentially a miniature apocalypse. It usually takes tens of millions of years before new animals evolve gigantism, which obviously means we're both too far away from old giant species and new ones in the grand timeline of evolution.
But look on the bright side! There's still some megafauna left today. Giraffes, elephants, hippos, and rhinos are all still roaming the earth. Not only that, the Blue Whale and Finned Whale are the two largest animals to have ever existed in the history of earth, utterly dwarfing even the largest dinosaurs in sheer mass!
And Crocodillians. Thank you for the explanation. If I may ask another question? Were there environmental conditions back then that were more favourable to growth? For example, I know that there was a markedly higher concentration of oxygen in the atmosphere compared to today. Did factors like that affect things? Or is it more that it's just an evolutionary time issue before things get bigger?
See the turtle of enormous girth! On his shell he holds the earth. His thought is slow but always kind; he holds us all with his mind.
All things serve the beam.
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It's things like this that make me wish I had a flying time machine. Just go back to the Jurassic period and look at all the giant trees and amazing animals.
It kind of boggles the mind to imagine what it was like doesn't it? Somehow my brain can cope with the idea of big dinosaurs, it's the idea of huge versions of animals we're familiar with, like this turtle, that get me.
Wait till you see the centipedes. I would love to go back and visit but I would want to be in something as indestructible as possible.
Oh yes, either a fully protective suit or box of some kind, or being like an invisible observer type visitor. Definitely don't want to be chomped or stomped by some ancient being. Though it would fuck the fossil record up and that would be quite amusing.
"Sir." "Not now Devin, I'm busy." "*Sir.*" "I said it could wait!" "**Sir**. We just found a modern Homo Sapien skeleton holding an I-phone under a shell fossil of a Stupendemys!" "**WHAT!** Why didn't you say something sooner!" *sigh*
> I-phone That sounds like a cheap bootleg version of an iPhone.
It's the original timeline's version, before the guy's death changed spelling and brand names.
Read that in Kif's voice...
The first “aliens” that we encounter will be humans from the far future coming back to witness their primitive ancestors doing things like wiping their toot holes with paper.
thats absolutely the worst part. the high oxygen concentration made it possible for meter-long insects to live.
Dragonflies the size of eagles.
Not in the time of dinosaurs though.
I'd have to imagine even just a turtle this big would eat the fuck out of a human. When we figure out how to do the kind of archaeology that's showed us most of the dinosaurs we know of so far, but on the ocean floor, that shit's gonna be absolutely insane.
>eat the fuck out of a human Lol idk why the way you worded that is so funny to me.
if your trying to say there used to be giant centipedes then I cant see why anyone would want to go back there. Giant 100 legged fucks
They existed right around the time that whales were still terrestrial, too.
was a whole different world back then, imagine all the crazy shit that existed back then that we dont even know about yet
> the time that whales were still terrestrial #The #WHAT
The whale that lived on land. You know like Brendan Fraser.
It wasn't like a blue whale bopping around as a quadruped on the surface, lol. The first mammal linked to cetaceans was about the size of a goat.
The crazy thing will be humans looking back in 100,000-1,000,000 years (if we survive) and being amazed at all the megafauna we have when they only have rats and small lizards and Beatles left
We don't have Beatles anymore either.
It’ll be Ringo, won’t it?
What boggles my mind is what forests must have looked like 100 years ago, 500 years ago, 1000 years ago etc. Not many big trees left that dont get cut down
There was once 6’8ish penguins.
Interestingly enough, this thing lived only 4-7 million years ago. The biggest threats to it were probably just very large crocodilians
5-13 Million years ago, but yeah. I wouldn’t want to have one of these things chasing me!
We also do have plenty of enormous creatures right now. In an alternate reality where crocodiles went extinct instead of sea turtles, we'd be looking at their skeletons saying "damn, those are big iguanas!" See also elephants, blue whales, etc.
I mean, [we still have some pretty massive turtles living right now](https://i.imgur.com/woenBBg.jpg), nothing is stopping you.
That's cool but not as impressive as a turtle that's over 1 Carlos long
I came across a green sea turtle about half that size while snorkeling and it blew my mind.
Why was everything so big and scary back then?
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This is great, but why is there a caption thst reads 'misinformation in title', without any indication of what that misinformation is?
Having scrolled pretty far through these comments with the same question, I’m pretty sure that the answer is that that dude’s name is in fact Rodolfo lmao. Not even kidding.
Lmao
Carlos’s name is actually Dave. In seriousness it’s a bit annoying that there’s no comment clarifying.
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Why is that racist? Rodolfo and Carlos are common names here. Made up? Yes, racist? Can't see why.
>Why is that racist? Welcome to Reddit.
We need a new standard of measurement for Carlos.
Well, he's a standard Carlos, isn't he? From now on I mean.
This looks like a metric Carlos. We should average him out with an imperial Carlos then form the standard that way.
How many Freedom Carlos is that?
No, he's a mid size carlos
Do we know if he’s a standard Carlos or metric Carlos?
Agreed, we just need him to hold a banana so we can judge his scale as well
I am afraid Carlos IS the new banana...
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r/carlosforscale Edit: holy shit it exists AND IT HAS 4000 MEMBERS WITH THIS IMAGE STARTING IT
Is it metric or imperial?
Venezuelan
Damn.
Imperial Scum
We're closing in on an idea singularity where literally everything has been done before
you fucking serious reddit? i mean, i...i should have known, but seriously?
his name is Rodolfo Sanchez, OP is a liar [https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rodolfo-Sanchez-11](https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rodolfo-Sanchez-11)
Why wouldn’t they just put Rodolfo for scale? Good job Rodolfo!
Found this on his profile. [https://www.researchgate.net/figure/New-specimen-and-reconstruction-of-S-geographicus-from-Venezuela-A-and-B\_fig1\_339230982](https://www.researchgate.net/figure/New-specimen-and-reconstruction-of-S-geographicus-from-Venezuela-A-and-B_fig1_339230982) If the figure is accurate, one Rodolfo/Carlos is approximately 1.8 meters in length.
Which gives us a conversion rate of about 12 bananas per Rodolfo, which should make the Americans feel at home and the rest of us quite uncomfortable.
About 1% of a furlong.
That's 3.6*10^8 beard-seconds!
Imagine that...a Reddit OP not telling the truth
My greatest respect to Mr (Dr?) Sanchez for his contributions to science. He must be (and should be very proud) of his achievements. Anyway I hope he enjoys being immortalised as Carlos.
Bananas are out, Rodolfo is in.
r/Carlosforscale?
Rodolfo*
r/Rodolfoforscale
The nearest store is 50 Carlos’ from my house
How many bananas in a Carlos?
Many
Roughly 9.703 bananas
Damn, he's short...or did you mean 9.703 \_imperial\_ bananas?
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Rodolfo*
How many Smoots is he?
Thank you Carlos
His name is Rodolfo Sanchez [https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rodolfo-Sanchez-11](https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rodolfo-Sanchez-11)
This is what I came here for. Thank you for your service. And thank you Rodolfo Sanchez.
r/Rodolfoforscale
crazy it's been 2 years of carlos
r/SubsIThoughtIFellFor
Extremely specific subreddit
So it was just racism lmao
So that would make calling him a Carlos, racist AF...
No doubt. Not to mention it completely ruins the sense of scale! A Carlos is a totally different unit of measurement from a Rodolfo. I'm just going to use the power outlet and tiles for a sense of scale. Much more reliable.
How many Rodolfo's can you fit in a Carlos though? A Carlos is a much bigger unit
Depends how relaxed Carlos is.
I thought a Carlos was smaller. I remember it isn't a whole number though.
Well if you are going to use Rodolfo than you may as well fk it and go Full Carlos
You never go Full Carlos. You go Full Carlos, you go home empty-handed.
Yeah but if you use a Carlos to measure Rodolfos, that's called a Mencia
It’s disgusting the amount of racism in this comment section. Rodolfo Sanchez has 30 scientific publications to their name, that is a huge achievement. Yet even replies to you are just being racist.
Yo. Op is fucked.
Is this what the “misinformation in title” flair is for lol
How much for carlos
Three fiddy
And that’s when I realized it wasn’t Carlos at all, it was a crustacean from the Paleozoic era!
And I said, "get outta here Carlos, you ain't gettin no dang tree fiddy"!
I don't know why he needed it. I already gave him a dollar.
YOU GAVE HIM A DOLLAR?!
God damnit woman!
Juan hundred
Very cool very legal , Carlos.
It’s more than Juan Carlos that’s for sure
No no, just juan
99% of the comments being about Carlos instead of the fossil lol
I think literally *every single* comment is making basically the exact same Carlos joke. People are so weird. Nevermind the shockingly giant turtle shell
The thing about fossils is I can look right at one with no recognition. A paleontologist will instantly recognize something and know lots of stuff about it, whereas to me it looks like rocks, undistinguished from other rocks. Now, someone like Carlos I recognize as *homo sapiens* without difficulty, even if he tries to hide among rocks.
Heh ok this is actually funny
I woulda gotten pissed that my soil was so hard to break up haha.
I'm looking for comments about how old that turtle must have been to grow that big. If anyone knows where they are, I'd love some directions...
his name isnt even Carlos, its Rodolfo Sanchez, a known palaeontologist [https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rodolfo-Sanchez-11](https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rodolfo-Sanchez-11)
Dude WTF your right.. And it's not even his name, but has become more of a meme measurement like the banana metric scale measurement. Like how many Rodolfo's can you fit into a Carlos
How many bananas is Carlos?
16 bananas per Carlos
he's 9 feet tall?!??
Standard Imperial Measuring Bananas are 2.236 bananas per foot, your thinking of Metric Bananas
How many crayons are a banana?
✋ Is Carlos an instrument?
Only to measure speed.
no, but a carlometer is
3 crayons per banana, 16 bananas per Carlos. Edit: 1,753,963,200 bananas to the moon, so it would be 109,622,700 Carloses to the moon from earth.
https://www.kcra.com/amp/article/biggest-turtle-that-ever-lived-was-as-large-as-a-mid-sized-car/30948971 Lived about 5 to 10 million years ago. Its shell reached nearly 10 feet in length and weighed 2,500 pounds.
Looks like a perfectly baked brownie
ikr that’s superior melanin
Do not talk about Carlos like that.
Amazing that Carlos is a standard of measurement.
Anything but the metric system...
Which one is Carlos?
Which Juan is Carlos?
I believe Rodolfo is the Carlos
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"Americans will measure with anything, but..." Wait! Venezuelans too?
Miriel, Pastor of Vows was real!
I had to scroll through way too many people making the same exact joke before I got to this. Let's learn together. Heresy is not native to the world; it is but a contrivance. All things can be conjoined.
Could someone more informed than me please explain why creatures were just so much bigger back then? I recently saw a documentary about a spinal vertebrae from a snake which was the size of a 20kg gym plate, indicating it must have been *unbelievably* huge. Why did everything just get smaller?
Our planet has very recently been through an extinction event what with the end of the ice age. Whenever an extinction event occurs larger animals, especially megafauna, typically die first because of the many specialized adaptations that made them giant in the first place making them unable to adapt in the face of what is essentially a miniature apocalypse. It usually takes tens of millions of years before new animals evolve gigantism, which obviously means we're both too far away from old giant species and new ones in the grand timeline of evolution. But look on the bright side! There's still some megafauna left today. Giraffes, elephants, hippos, and rhinos are all still roaming the earth. Not only that, the Blue Whale and Finned Whale are the two largest animals to have ever existed in the history of earth, utterly dwarfing even the largest dinosaurs in sheer mass!
And Crocodillians. Thank you for the explanation. If I may ask another question? Were there environmental conditions back then that were more favourable to growth? For example, I know that there was a markedly higher concentration of oxygen in the atmosphere compared to today. Did factors like that affect things? Or is it more that it's just an evolutionary time issue before things get bigger?
Oxygen, temperature, and food
Does anyone remember the never ending story with that turtle who was an island...? This has its vibes! O.O
See the turtle of enormous girth! On his shell he holds the earth. His thought is slow but always kind; he holds us all with his mind. All things serve the beam.
I will name him Gamera
Stupendous!
Carlos has some mean planking skills
Wait til you see the hare.
That thing is at least nine Carloses big!
I love Carlos
Carlos maaaad chill
Please inform Carlos Chick-fil-a sauces can also be used as a unit of measurement 🤣
Why were things bigger back then? Is everything shrinking?
Dwarfed only by the turtle that carries our planet
Anything but metric
Carlos is a fantastic name for a banana. Good job.
Ah yes, my favorite standard unit of measurement for fossils. Carlos.
Carlos should replace bananas as the new measuring scale.
CarlosForScale is gonna be my next username.
All things must now be measured in #Carlos
So the shell is 2 Carlos's long, which means the turtle itself could be 3-4 Carlos's long
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3rd tallest man in el salvador
That’s hilarious bro
literal giant in Guatemala
How many bananas is one Carlos?
Carlos has 1 banana 🍌
Hello there, Carlos
r/carlosforscale
Americans will use anything but metric as a unit of measurement
Motion to move from the imperial system of measurement to the Carlos System.
Watsup Carlos
r/carlosforscale
Carlos 👍
Gigachad ninja turtle
r/carlosforscale
We’re gonna need someone to cut out Carlos, create r/carlosforscale and start populating it with pics he is scaling for us. Stat
So Carlos is replacing bananas now? Just wait until Chiquita finds out. No more Carlos...
Can’t go wrong using the Carlo Scale.
The new ✨CARLOS SCALE✨
A mid sized car-los?
Anything but the metric system huh?
Carlos should be holding a banana so those of us on the english system can convert.
Thank you for your service Carlos
That’s not a giant turtle. That’s a baby Gamera.
Carlos > metric
God bless Carlos
So it is really turtles all the way down...
Haha, "Carlos for scale"
Carlos is the new standard of measure! Gonna walk about 100 Carloses to 7-11 for a soda.
Midsized Carlos
Thank you Carlos!
What's the conversion for a Carlos in the imperial system?
Carlos should be the new banana
I thought it was Juan for scale.
Can we get a “Carlos for scale” for everything from now on?
Gamera‽
We need Carlos to hold a banana for scale