Rāmeśvara: Whalefish.
Prabhupāda: Oh, yes. Very big body.
Rāmeśvara: Some have become extinct.
Prabhupāda: Why they should be extinct?
Hṛdayānanda: No longer on the earth.
Rāmeśvara: No longer on this planet.
Prabhupāda: (too much noise) Not necessarily. They are within the ocean.
Hari-śauri: No, other animals.
Prabhupāda: What other animals?
Rāmeśvara: Those gigantic, they called them...
Hṛdayānanda: Brontasaurus.
Rāmeśvara: Tyrannasaurus. Gigantic animals, they say are meat-eaters.
Hṛdayānanda: Dinosaurus.
Hari-śauri: Tetrasaurus.
Prabhupāda: Another imagination. These are actual facts.(?)
Hari-śauri: They just made up different compositions of bones and then drew some outlines on them.
Prabhupāda: Yes. They are imagination.
Hari-śauri: But you said in Hawaii though that there are some animals that are as big as skyscrapers?
Prabhupāda: Yes, these are birds. It is far from this earth though. They travel from one planet to another.
Rāmeśvara: So these bones that they have found of these gigantic animals, they were all living underneath the water.
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Rāmeśvara: Not on the land.
Prabhupāda: Maybe. But the list is there: jalajā nava-lakṣāṇi. There are 900,000 different forms, and how many we have seen? There is information in the śāstra. Paśavas triṁśal-lakṣāṇi. Three million different types of animals.
Hari-śauri: We've seen a few hundred at most.
Prabhupāda: That's all. (laughs) That is also doubtful.
Rāmeśvara: Kṛṣṇa incarnates into every species of life. He can appear in any form.
Prabhupāda: Yes. Otherwise, why the form came? Janmādy asya yataḥ (SB 1.1.1). If we have to accept this sūtra, that everything emanates from Him, so unless Kṛṣṇa has got such similar form...?
Hari-śauri: That's one argument that always defeats the impersonalists. They can't explain how forms have come from something without form.
Prabhupāda: Impersonalists are neophytes. My Guru Mahārāja used to say, "With poor fund of knowledge." Their knowledge is imperfect.