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r/Paleontology

326.1K members. The best post we have captured here reached 37.2K upvotes, which works out to 114 per 1,000 members.

114peak upvotes per 1,000 members
326.1Kmembers
37.2Kbest post
966most comments
100posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

75% 19%
Image 75% Gallery 19% Video 5% Link 1%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Meme 30 Discussion 20 Fossils 14 PaleoArt 13 Question 9 Other 8 Article 2 Paper 2 MOD APPROVED 1 PaleoNews 1

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

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↑ 37.2K 💬 383 image 2026

After two years my Phanerozoic leg sleeve is finally finished. I included a marine creature from every period. Thought you might like it

↑ 13.7K 💬 534 gallery 2026

This fossil chokes me up everytime

↑ 11.4K 💬 307 image 2025

80 million years old

↑ 10K 💬 220 image 2025

Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age officially announced

↑ 8.4K 💬 397 image 2025

Made a life size velociraptor sculpture for my science fair

↑ 7.2K 💬 221 gallery 2025

Intact Eryops Skull found in Texas!

↑ 6.6K 💬 101 image 2025

It's dangerous to be too tall

↑ 6.5K 💬 157 image 2025

Did dinosaurs had defensive displays to scare against predators like this one?

↑ 6.2K 💬 164 image 2024

It is sad though

↑ 6.1K 💬 255 image 2020

Communities its size

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/Paleontology, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.