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37 Comparisons Of The Sizes Of Prehistoric Animal Ancestors And Their Modern Relatives By Roman Uchytel Interview With Artist

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Pro member Publish Not your original work? Add source Modern technology does not only let us enjoy the things that are in the present, but also things from the past. The software available, like Photoshop, helps us take a glimpse at what things looked like. Even though they still remain digital, they're pretty close to reality. Roman Uchytel uses technology for this very reason. He uses Photoshop to show us a glimpse of things that have passed and most likely will never come back. To be more specific, he recreates prehistoric extinct species of animals as best as he can using the information that he has. And it's fair to say that he's been doing a pretty good job at it; he even published a book which you can find here. For today's post, we show you only one of many of his series, where he compares the sizes of extinct species with their modern relatives and places them side by side. It's really surprising how some of the species were way bigger than you would've thought looking at their modern kin. So scroll on down and take a glimpse into the past! More info: twitter.com prehistoric-fauna.com Facebook Instagram This post may include affiliate links. #1 PrehistoricFauna Report Final score: 175points POST denzoren denzoren Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago If they moved just as slowly I'd love to see that. "Oh no, the giant slot is after me...got some time to get lunch and then start running". 120 120points reply View More Replies... View more comments Most of the animals shown here existed during the Pleistocene, otherwise known as Ice Age era, which lasted from around 2.58 million to 11m7 thousand years ago. As the term Ice Age signifies, it was a glacial period where most of the northern hemisphere was covered in, you guessed it, ice. The glaciations happened on and off in steady cycles which lasted from 41,000 to 100,000 years. #2 PrehistoricFauna Report Final score: 164points POST Ms.M. Ms.M. Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 1 year ago Did the Diprotodon poop enormous cubes, I wonder.... 118 118points reply View More Replies... View more comments #3 PrehistoricFauna Report Final score: 158points POST IguanaCircusGirl2000 IguanaCircusGirl2000 Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago It looks like the smaller shark told a great joke to the larger one.... 204 204points reply View More Replies... View more comments As you probably know by now, all of the ancestor species shown here are extinct. Almost all, if not all of these species went extinct in the so-called Quaternary period (2.58 million years before the present) in the Late Pleistocene. This period is marked by numerous megafaunal and other extinctions. This pulse extinction is characterized by the fact that there was a widespread absence of ecological successors, which caused a major shift in faunal habitats and relationships. #4 PrehistoricFauna Report Final score: 151points POST Stille20 Stille20 Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago It all done with perspective ;) 14 14points reply View More Replies... View more comments #5 PrehistoricFauna Report Final score: 146points POST Kookamunga Kookamunga Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago That giant guy could pick up a SUV and throw it. 62 62points reply View More Replies... View more comments Fact: life on Earth has suffered 5 major extinction events, and is going through one so-called Holocene extinction event right now. An extinction event is a widespread and rapid decrease in biodiversity. The greatest extinction event killed 90 to 96 per cent of all species. Scientists argue over the exact number of extinction events life has gone through, ranging from five to as many as twenty. The current extinction event is different from others because human activity plays a huge hand in it. #6 PrehistoricFauna Report Final score: 140points POST Mangaboi Mangaboi Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago The clouded leopard only goes up to a humans knees, so this is about the size of a lion. 60 60points reply View More Replies... View more comments #7 PrehistoricFauna Report Final score: 136points POST Stille20 Stille20 Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago I remember as a child being fascinated when I first saw a Capybara this is wild...it's like a giant Guinea pig 51 51points reply View More Replies... View more comments Let's hope you learned something new today. If you didn't, or if you're up to learn even more cool stuff, Bored Panda is here to help you satisfy this thirst for knowledge. Here's our latest edition of "Today I Learned" posts that our community loves. Too general, want to learn something more animal-centric? No problem. Want to know more about silly bird names that ornithologists came up with? Or perhaps you want to know what insects really look like when they're flying? Let's not end this post about extinct species with a sad note: here's a story about reappeared elephant shrew species that we thought went extinct 50 years ago. #8 PrehistoricFauna Report Final score: 132points POST kath morgan kath morgan Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago I wonder if it did the same cute pose as modern armadillos 26 26points reply View More Replies... View more comments #9 PrehistoricFauna Report Final score: 131points POST denzoren denzoren Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Just for information...the current bison is approximately 2.5m or 8feet tall...that other guy could wreck a bus and not even break a sweat. 87 87points reply View More Replies... View more comments Here's what Roman had to say about his hobby, background, and his love for prehistoric animals, among other things: "My wife and business partner Alexandra Antonova (Uchytel) and I came up with this idea together, for our children to know what the ancestors (or relatives) of the animals they see in the zoo looked like. I started studying Photoshop right after I graduated, and I tried different functions for fun. But the basis of everything is my artistic education and the vast amount of scientific literature about animals that I've read since I was a teenager or even kid." #10 PrehistoricFauna Report Final score: 127points POST R Carson R Carson Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Terrifying no matter what size. 81 81points reply View More Replies... View more comments #11 PrehistoricFauna Report Final score: 127points POST Mimi Mimi Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago I didn’t know anything could make an elephant look small... 54 54points reply View More Replies... View more comments Here's what set Roman on his path: "In early 2000, I worked as a designer on television. My hobby was extinct animals and dinosaurs. When "Walks with Monsters" came out, I was inspired, because no one had ever made such a film before. The thing is, I was educated as an artist, and I studied anatomy, so I decided to draw these animals for myself based on their skeletons. So the end result was put on a zoo forum and shown to other people. It turns out that I'm not the only one interested in this kind of reconstruction. Besides, when I was a kid, I had books about ancient animals with illustrations of Burian and Flerov. And the family lived near the zoo, so I practically grew up there." #12 PrehistoricFauna Report Final score: 125points POST denzoren denzoren Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago No ice age no fluff. 56 56points reply View More Replies... View more comments #13 PrehistoricFauna Report Final score: 122points POST SomeCrazyDogLover SomeCrazyDogLover Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Why does the extinct cheetah look like an annoyed older sibling XD 81 81points reply View More Replies... View more comments "My favorite animal is the one I'm drawing right now. So every time I get a new favorite. Can you imagine that ancient rodents were the size of a rhinoceros, and extinct rhinos led the life of giraffes and were the tallest animals in the world?!" #14 PrehistoricFauna Report Final score: 120points POST Jo Choto Jo Choto Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago So Asian elephants are relatively small, which would indicate that the mammoth was smaller than a modern day African elephant. Is that actually correct? 31 31points reply View More Replies... View more comments #15 PrehistoricFauna Report Final score: 117points POST Lil Prime Lil Prime Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Looks like the extinct ones saying DON'T YOU EVER TALK TO ME OR MY SON EVER AGAIN!!! 67 67points reply View More Replies... View more comments "My wife and business partner Alexandra Antonova (Uchytel) is a great writer. She has so many cool ideas. Now we're working on one idea-Prehistories (a series of prehistoric fairy tales). Now all we have to do is find a publisher." #16 PrehistoricFauna Report Final score: 116points POST Hannah Edwards Hannah Edwards Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Spectacled bears are some of the most adorable on the planet. 44 44points reply View More Replies... View more comments #17 PrehistoricFauna Report Final score: 116points POST ggus44 ggus44 Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago The extinct one looks more like a giant "anta" (south american tapir). 49 49points reply View More Replies... View more comments #18 PrehistoricFauna Report Final score: 114points POST ggus44 ggus44 Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Looks like it was 1/3 zebra :) 40 40points reply View More Replies... View more comments #19 PrehistoricFauna Report Final score: 114points POST Stille20 Stille20 Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago That would be terrifying.. Ostriches are terrifying 53 53points reply View More Replies... View more comments #20 PrehistoricFauna Report Final score: 114points POST allan dorfling allan dorfling Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Also Afrikaans. Seekoei 20 20points reply View More Replies... View more comments #21 PrehistoricFauna Report Final score: 111points POST denzoren denzoren Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Adapted to eating leaves that were high up in their habitat...incase anyone was wondering. 35 35points reply View More Replies... View more comments #22 PrehistoricFauna Report Final score: 111points POST Ms.M. Ms.M. Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 1 year ago They look so shocked! lol cute 46 46points reply View More Replies... View more comments #23 PrehistoricFauna Report Final score: 108points POST Juds Conne Juds Conne Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Both equally magnificent. So glad the Alaskan moose still exists. 41 41points reply View More Replies... View more comments #24 PrehistoricFauna Report Final score: 105points POST Elin Noller Elin Noller Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago jesus...boars are huge, this would be gigantic. 34 34points reply View More Replies... View more comments #25 PrehistoricFauna Report Final score: 103points POST R Carson R Carson Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Cute. 12 12points reply View more comments #26 PrehistoricFauna Report Final score: 102points POST R Carson R Carson Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago cuddly 21 21points reply View More Replies... View more comments #27 PrehistoricFauna Report Final score: 101points POST Joran Quinten Joran Quinten Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago A giant Nope Parrot 78 78points reply View More Replies... View more comments See Also on Bored Panda Woman Shows How "Harry Potter" Characters Were Supposed To Look According To Book Descriptions (35 Pics) 50 ‘Weird Facts’ About The World That Might Give You A Fresh Perspective #28 PrehistoricFauna Report Final score: 101points POST Helwin Helwin Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Aww the muzzle is so cute ! 34 34points reply View More Replies... View more comments #29 PrehistoricFauna Report Final score: 101points POST GSMountainWolf GSMountainWolf Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago I LOVE WOLVES!!,!,! 33 33points reply View More Replies... View more comments #30 PrehistoricFauna Report Final score: 99points POST Katie Lutesinger Katie Lutesinger Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago My local dinosaur museum has a prehistoric crocodile's skull on display, and the damn thing is the size of a smartcar! Thank goodness they're not around any more - modern crocodiles are scary enough! 52 52points reply View More Replies... View more comments #31 PrehistoricFauna Report Final score: 95points POST denzoren denzoren Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago 10/10 for cuteness and the ability to annihilate me instantly. 50 50points reply View More Replies... View more comments #32 PrehistoricFauna Report Final score: 93points POST Andrew Gibb Andrew Gibb Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago hare today, gone tomorrow 46 46points reply View More Replies... View more comments #33 PrehistoricFauna Report Final score: 91points POST R Carson R Carson Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Still cute. 16 16points reply View More Replies... View more comments #34 PrehistoricFauna Report Final score: 87points POST LadyGrimm LadyGrimm Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago I actually feel like this graphic undersells the size of Argentavis magnificens. They were known to have up to 27ft wingspans, roughly the same a small airplane. They preyed on animals the size of modern cows. 48 48points reply View More Replies... View more comments #35 PrehistoricFauna Report Final score: 82points POST Juds Conne Juds Conne Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Love hyenas, their lineage and modern characteristics, especially the perfection of their heads and muzzles. Same for the South American Jaguar and its ancestors ( pictured above). When something works so well, not much needs to change. 34 34points reply View More Replies... View more comments #36 PrehistoricFauna Report Final score: 78points POST Leigh C. Leigh C. Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Looks like the whale in Pinocchio 26 26points reply View More Replies... View more comments #37 PrehistoricFauna Report Final score: 71points POST Goth mouse (they/them) Goth mouse (they/them) Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago I wonder if the giant gelada grazed on grass like the modern one? 13 13points reply View More Replies... View more comments See Also on Bored Panda Overworked Employee Quits Because He Wasn't Getting A Fair Wage, Costs The Company $40 Million 40 Embarrassing Moments People Didn't Know Who They Were Talking To And Made A Fool Of Themselves Anyone can write on Bored Panda. Start writing! Follow Bored Panda on Google News! Follow us on Flipboard.com/@boredpanda! Add New Image Add Your Photo To This List Please use high-res photos without watermarks Upload Photo Ooops! Your image is too large, maximum file size is 8 MB. Not your original work? 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POST Burs Burs Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 1 year ago Great thread. It might have been nice to add a common factor to see the scale of the animals. Like a solute representing a human for example. (Not a banana for scale people…) 67 67points reply Nikki Sevven Nikki Sevven Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Not even an extinct giant banana for scale? 48 48points reply Load More Replies... Ozacoter Ozacoter Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 1 year ago (edited) Lol. I see a giant furry saber tooth banana now 9 9points reply Seán Baron Seán Baron Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Would that be the extinct giant cave banana? 3 3points reply Anyone-for-tea? Anyone-for-tea? Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago And a timeline at the bottom to see when they went extinct. 12 12points reply Ozacoter Ozacoter Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 1 year ago (edited) Most of the at the end of the ice age with spread of humans and their arrival to america and australia. 4 4points reply Ozacoter Ozacoter Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 1 year ago https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaternary_extinction 3 3points reply M O'Connell M O'Connell Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Even just a map-like scale down in the corner. For instance, I have no idea how big a spectacled bear is (I mean, I do now because I looked it up). 4 4points reply Marnie Marnie Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago I agree. I honestly don't have a great sense of the size of the modern varieties of a lot of these. 2 2points reply Marika Miettinen Marika Miettinen Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago I was hoping that there would be a banana for scale.. maybe a 170cm tall banana. 2 2points reply Mimi M Mimi M Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago I came to comment the same. 1 1point reply Mimi Mimi Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago This was super interesting! You should send out more of these articles, BoredPanda! 19 19points reply Jo Choto Jo Choto Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago This was really cool. Sad that it didn't get a lot of traffic. I was thinking about why animals have shrunk so much, and then I remembered reading an article in Discover magazine a couple of years ago about how creatures grown in carbon dioxide rich/lower oxygen atmospheres grow much bigger. I think back in the day, that was the earth's atmosphere and as oxygen levels have risen over millennia, the animal world has shrunk. So as we continue to churn out carbon dioxide with more people, and wipe down forest land, will we go back to that ancient atmosphere and end up with giant animals again? 11 11points reply Ozacoter Ozacoter Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 1 year ago Yes and no. There was a moment in time where oxigen levels were higher, allowing animals like insects to be big (like the Carboniferous). But its not the case here. Most of this animals got extinct as a combination of prehistoric human hunting and the end of the ice age. 11 11points reply Load More Replies... A Different Take A Different Take Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 5 months ago Having better weather when glaciers retreated would not have made any of these animals 100% die off. If they needed cold for some odd reason they could have simply gone north. There's still plenty of cold and snow in the vast Artic. Do you really think the small number of human hunters, who only had bows and spears not guns, could have wiped out 100% of every single large mammal? These beasts were very large and powerful. Humans were wimpy in comparison. That is not reasonable. Even with guns and a stated goal of wiping out all bison to starve the indians, hunters were unable to make bison extinct. Its not possible fewer men with shorter range, less powerful weapons, and less able to travel could have been able to wipe out 100% of everything. Animals would simply go somewhere farther away and pockets of population would survive and repopulate. The extinction of largest versions of animals fits perfectly with the global Flood account. Much easier to preserve smaller varieties. 0 0points reply Mongoose Jones Mongoose Jones Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago "it is theorized"... 0 0points reply Grumble O'Pug Grumble O'Pug Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago A high oxygen earth is a colder one, so size is an advantage. 3 3points reply Christina Uhlir Christina Uhlir Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago (edited) No, Jo, we are going to total extinction of all forms of life on this planet and homo sapiens will be the last to go; not fair. 1 1point reply memyselfandI memyselfandI Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago I was thinking about it too, it’s possible that one part of it was that predators would normally hunt the smallest of a group, so it pays to be big, but humans hunt the biggest of a group for trophies, so it pays to be small. Of course, there’s other conditions, but that might be one of them. 1 1point reply L. Scott Cleaves L. Scott Cleaves Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago How much does available food supply play a part in this? Probably a lot. 0 0points reply Prilsy Prilsy Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago I don't know but there was something on the news some days ago about how people had let their goldfish free in lakes and they grew enormously (much like the size of Koi), damaging the natural fauna. So perhaps they just adapt to their natural environment? -1 -1point reply Load More Comments POST Burs Burs Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 1 year ago Great thread. It might have been nice to add a common factor to see the scale of the animals. Like a solute representing a human for example. (Not a banana for scale people…) 67 67points reply Nikki Sevven Nikki Sevven Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Not even an extinct giant banana for scale? 48 48points reply Load More Replies... Ozacoter Ozacoter Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 1 year ago (edited) Lol. I see a giant furry saber tooth banana now 9 9points reply Seán Baron Seán Baron Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Would that be the extinct giant cave banana? 3 3points reply Anyone-for-tea? Anyone-for-tea? Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago And a timeline at the bottom to see when they went extinct. 12 12points reply Ozacoter Ozacoter Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 1 year ago (edited) Most of the at the end of the ice age with spread of humans and their arrival to america and australia. 4 4points reply Ozacoter Ozacoter Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 1 year ago https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaternary_extinction 3 3points reply M O'Connell M O'Connell Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Even just a map-like scale down in the corner. For instance, I have no idea how big a spectacled bear is (I mean, I do now because I looked it up). 4 4points reply Marnie Marnie Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago I agree. I honestly don't have a great sense of the size of the modern varieties of a lot of these. 2 2points reply Marika Miettinen Marika Miettinen Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago I was hoping that there would be a banana for scale.. maybe a 170cm tall banana. 2 2points reply Mimi M Mimi M Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago I came to comment the same. 1 1point reply Mimi Mimi Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago This was super interesting! You should send out more of these articles, BoredPanda! 19 19points reply Jo Choto Jo Choto Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago This was really cool. Sad that it didn't get a lot of traffic. I was thinking about why animals have shrunk so much, and then I remembered reading an article in Discover magazine a couple of years ago about how creatures grown in carbon dioxide rich/lower oxygen atmospheres grow much bigger. I think back in the day, that was the earth's atmosphere and as oxygen levels have risen over millennia, the animal world has shrunk. So as we continue to churn out carbon dioxide with more people, and wipe down forest land, will we go back to that ancient atmosphere and end up with giant animals again? 11 11points reply Ozacoter Ozacoter Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 1 year ago Yes and no. There was a moment in time where oxigen levels were higher, allowing animals like insects to be big (like the Carboniferous). But its not the case here. Most of this animals got extinct as a combination of prehistoric human hunting and the end of the ice age. 11 11points reply Load More Replies... A Different Take A Different Take Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 5 months ago Having better weather when glaciers retreated would not have made any of these animals 100% die off. If they needed cold for some odd reason they could have simply gone north. There's still plenty of cold and snow in the vast Artic. Do you really think the small number of human hunters, who only had bows and spears not guns, could have wiped out 100% of every single large mammal? These beasts were very large and powerful. Humans were wimpy in comparison. That is not reasonable. Even with guns and a stated goal of wiping out all bison to starve the indians, hunters were unable to make bison extinct. Its not possible fewer men with shorter range, less powerful weapons, and less able to travel could have been able to wipe out 100% of everything. Animals would simply go somewhere farther away and pockets of population would survive and repopulate. The extinction of largest versions of animals fits perfectly with the global Flood account. Much easier to preserve smaller varieties. 0 0points reply Mongoose Jones Mongoose Jones Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago "it is theorized"... 0 0points reply Grumble O'Pug Grumble O'Pug Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago A high oxygen earth is a colder one, so size is an advantage. 3 3points reply Christina Uhlir Christina Uhlir Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago (edited) No, Jo, we are going to total extinction of all forms of life on this planet and homo sapiens will be the last to go; not fair. 1 1point reply memyselfandI memyselfandI Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago I was thinking about it too, it’s possible that one part of it was that predators would normally hunt the smallest of a group, so it pays to be big, but humans hunt the biggest of a group for trophies, so it pays to be small. Of course, there’s other conditions, but that might be one of them. 1 1point reply L. Scott Cleaves L. Scott Cleaves Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago How much does available food supply play a part in this? Probably a lot. 0 0points reply Prilsy Prilsy Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago I don't know but there was something on the news some days ago about how people had let their goldfish free in lakes and they grew enormously (much like the size of Koi), damaging the natural fauna. So perhaps they just adapt to their natural environment? -1 -1point reply Load More Comments Popular on Bored Panda I Used AI To See What These 23 Popular Cartoon Characters Would Look Like In Real Life 30 Y.O. 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