r/pics • u/15minutesofshame • 1d ago
Absolutely mental diorama of sharks attacking a dinosaur in the National Museum in Prague
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u/dekuweku 1d ago
It looks like it's a scene of sharks eating a dead dino sinking down into the ocean.
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u/15minutesofshame 1d ago
I think that’s actually what the display said. They had a fossilized bone with some teeth markings. Still quite a thing to behold upon entering the room.
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u/minitaba 1d ago
Dinorama*
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u/Tocean 1d ago
This museum has a ton of other cool dioramas around too. I really enjoyed exploring the place.
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u/Llama_of_the_bahamas 1d ago
“We’ve had a taste of dinosaur, and we decided hey, dinosaur tastes good!”
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u/mbod 1d ago
We will construct a series of breathing apparatus with kelp. We will be able to trap certain amounts of oxygen. Its not going to be days at a time, an hour, hour 45. No problem.
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u/Maleficent-Rate-4631 1d ago
That will give us enough time to figure out where you live, go back to the sea, get more oxygen and then stalk you.
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u/RoguePlanet2 1d ago
Literally, tasted like chicken. Birds are direct descendants of dinosaurs IIRC.
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u/Ultimategrid 1d ago
Birds literally are dinosaurs. Just small ones.
Though a big dinosaur probably wouldn’t have tasted like chicken, but more like mammalian counterparts.
Ostrich for example tastes almost indistinguishably like beef. So it’s likely the bigger herbivorous dinosaurs would have also tasted similarly to herbivorous mammals.
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u/TheRappingSquid 1d ago
I don't think dinosaurs had beaks, at least not therapods
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u/Ultimategrid 1d ago
Well birds are theropods, and they have beaks. There’s also oviraptor, struthiomimus, and plenty of other toothless theropods with beaks.
And although most theropods had teeth instead of beaks, some did develop cornified skin on their snouts which is the same way a beak is formed. Though theropods used it for armor.
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u/AmphibianParticular2 1d ago
I've been there last month, very cool. Burianosaurus augustai is the only dinosaur, of which fossil was found in Czech republic. During it's time, middle Europe was under the sea, and the fossil bears marks of shark teeth, that's the reason for the diorama. It's named after Zdeněk Burian, my favorite paleoarrist, (he also illustrated Verne books and such) and Mr. Augusta, czech paleonthologist, who he often cooperated with.
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u/Mondeun 1d ago
To be fair, sharks are older than most dinosaurs. It's quite conceivable for this to happen BUT I agree, the display is quite something!
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u/Bridalhat 1d ago
It’s good because it reminds us that some things we know and love were there that long ago.
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u/SamaraNessa 1d ago
I was there last week and have to point out that this picture doesn’t show that the dinosaurs eyes are open and rolled back. It really made me laugh.
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u/curiousklaus 1d ago
The blatant over-dramatization made me think of the movie „Fierce Creatures“.
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u/Pu239U235 1d ago
Great Whites will get together and feast on floating whale carcasses. They gorge themselves and get kinda "drunk" and even swimming upside down. Then they all mate. Wish I could find the video of this happening, it's hilarious and was entirely theoretical until recently.
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u/curiousklaus 1d ago
I used the wrong word there, since it seems to be accurate. I just imagined the museums curator at a meeting demanding more dramatic dioramas to attract more visitors, hence the reference to the movie.
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u/solarnoise 1d ago
This is exactly what I think the sharks (plural) will do to me whenever I'm more than waist deep in the ocean.
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u/Peter_deT 1d ago
They can get you in much less water than waist-deep. Six inches is enough if they are really hungry.
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u/divismaul 1d ago
Now we know the truth, it was a sharknado that wiped out the dinosaurs! I knew it!
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u/cannibalism_is_vegan 1d ago
Kind of reminds me of the giant squid and sperm whale diorama at AMNH in New York
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u/Empyrealist 1d ago
That museum is awesome. Highly recommend checking it out if you are in Praha (Prague)
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u/AwwhHex53 10h ago
If I saw this at 5 years old I would’ve lost my shit. Dinosaurs and sharks were all I thought about back then
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u/NeedsMoreMinerals 1d ago
What are you talking about? Air sharks were a thing. I saw it on The History channel
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u/nicekid81 1d ago
Obviously. No one’s ever seen the historical documentary called “Sharknado” and its sequels?
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u/15minutesofshame 1d ago
Well, I don't know anything about air sharks but I did see a documentary about sharks with lasers on their heads once
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u/fishmanprime 1d ago
You usually hear about the how old the shark is, but it's cool to see an actual representation of what it means for them to have 'walked' the earth alongside dinosaurs.
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u/ProfessionalCoat8512 1d ago
They just need to add the Megladon coming down from the ceiling with a gaping mouth to swallows it whole.
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u/SnooRecipes8382 1d ago
I wonder if they found one of those sharks' teeth in one of that dino's bones and came up with this scene haha
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u/Accurate-Page-2900 1d ago
I think some small children might find this upsetting. Why have this on exhibit?
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u/Pachirisu_Party 1d ago
They were there. They know how it went down.