Terrifying Extinct Creatures Animals

 Terrifying Extinct Creatures Animals

Terrifying Extinct Creatures Animals

From massive snakes to 110 sharks here are 10 terrifying animals you’ll be glad are extinct

Titanoboa 

Titanoboa means titanic boa and that is not an exaggeration this ancient serpent could reach lengths of 40 feet and weigh over a ton it lived in South America 58 million years ago in the Paleocene era making it slightly younger than the dinosaurs the swamp where it lived received twice as much rainfall as today’s Amazon now only were the trees larger but so were the animals it makes sense that there would be a predator to eat turtles that were twice the size of manhole covers and crocodiles over a dozen feet long the titanoboa looks like a modern-day boa constrictor but acting more like a water dwelling anaconda the thickest part of its body would have been as tall as a man’s waist it was also the largest snake ever to exist to give you a little more perspective on how massive this creature was it could swallow a crocodile whole it was at the top of the food chain and probably attacked its prey in a dramatic fashion using its powerful jaws to crush the windpipe for the titanoboa we would probably have been a delicious snack on its way to a better meal.

Camera Sara’s 

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Camera Sara’s means chambered horn which does not sound so bad even though it’s not really clear what it is the horn was actually a large shell inhabited by the largest cephalopod ever cephalopods includes octopus squid and cuttlefish these are all predators but cameras Paris was the top ocean predator during its time it lived in the middle Silurian period about 20 4.6 million years ago it’s shells the chamber horn was around 6 meters long tentacles grew from the base of the head much like a cuttlefish and it would have used those to seize its prey it’s hard to Wratten to speak would have bitten into the bodies of its prey capable of crunching straight through hard shells and armored exoskeletons within the beaks of modern cephalopods a toothed tongue is used to rasp out soft tissue from within the praise shell so it is not known for certain if camera saris had this feature scientists assume it did because the tentacles size and beak weren’t really scary enough its fossils have been found in mainland China Europe and North America so during its heyday there wasn’t a safe place to hide from this monster.

Cap Row Sutures 

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Ever wondered what a wingless dragon would look like look no further than copper sutures discovered in 2009 this Cretaceous period reptile could have been 3 to 6 metres long its name means boar crocodile and come from three sets of piece that resembled boars tusks all we have so far is the skull so things like size and overall looks can only be speculated however that speculation is pretty terrifying it has a bulky nose which suggests a horn or a growth of some kind that could have been used as a battering ram its jaws have notches in the bone to allow this creature to close its mouth otherwise its huge teeth would have forced it to keep its mouth open all the time I’m not sure which image is more frightening the only fossil of this creature has been found in africa despite the lack of knowledge about this creature the idea that thoroughly captured the public’s imagination and you can encounter copper stitches in the video game Ark survival evolved.

Arthropleura 

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Arthropleura whose name means jointed ribs is not the kind of animal a bug hater would want to encounter living 323 to 299 million years ago in the Carboniferous era it was a millipede a 7-foot long millipede this makes it the largest arthropod ever at the time it lived there was more oxygen in the atmosphere and larger amounts of precipitation and rain forests helping animals to get larger and larger because of its size it left deep track waves that have since fossilized which we can see today scientists have discovered it lived in eastern North America and modern-day Scotland luckily it was an herbivore most of the time but probably also ate insects and other invertebrates so unless you’re made of leafy green vegetables Arthur or oppose no threat to you unless it ran you over and even if you survive that the fact that so many legs crawled over you would be enough to fuel a thousand nightmare.

Palma no Scorpion 

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When we think of scorpions we think of an insect with an exoskeleton that can be fierce but is rather small well that wasn’t always the case enter the poll Manos Scorpius or the breathing scorpion like the arthropleura it lived in the giant rainforests of the Carboniferous era where everything was bigger and scarier this scorpion transitioned from an aquatic to a land creature taking up the burrowing lifestyle of its present-day descendents unlike its descendants the Palma no Scorpius could reach lengths of 70 centimeters no one is sure what this creature ate exactly but it isn’t much of a stretch to think it dine on other insects and tetrapods scientists steal space in guessing discs scorpions poison was very potent given its size fossils of the Pullman of scorpions have only been found in Scotland what the heck who knew that Scotland had so many scary bugs.

Argent Travis Magnificence 

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Six million years ago in present-day Argentina Argentine magnificence prowl disguise it is the largest flying bird ever discovered while its name points to Argentina it is possible it had a much larger range this ancient bird’s wings spent 23 to 30 feet this is twice as big as an albatross or the California condor because of its size scientists don’t think it flew in the traditional flapping fence it also couldn’t launch itself into the air through a running pick off scientists believe it used the same method albatrosses and hang gliders used today sloping ground and headwind once airborne these birds glided rather than flapping its wings what did something this large eat because it has been extinct for millennia it is hard to say but scientists believe in a carrion as well as small animals small when compared to an argent Thomas magnificence which would probably include us humans it has been hypothesized that when Arjun Thomas actively hunted this monster bird scooped up its prey and ate it without stopping.

Dana Suited 

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Dana searches is an extinct genus related to the alligator that lived 80 to 73 million years ago during the Late Cretaceous period the name translates a terrible crocodile and it certainly lived up to its name the first remains were discovered in North Carroll in the United States in the 1850s but the dinosaur was not named and described until 1909 Daniel sutures was far larger than any modern crocodile or alligator with the largest adults measuring 35 feet in total length however it looked fairly similar to its smaller descendant the present-day alligator daemon sutures was an apex predator and among the largest of its time it was probably capable of killing and eating large dinosaurs Hector T V da Silva and colleagues described hadrosaur bones bearing Dana sutures tooth marks from Mexico and similar science have been reported from Texas it may have also fed upon sea turtles fish and other aquatic and terrestrial prey.

Meg Alania Prisca 

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Meg Alania Prisco was a giant monitor lizard living on Australia between 4 million and 30,000 years ago this could mean that the first human inhabitants of Australia encountered this gigantic lizard no complete skeleton of Meg Alania has been found only fragments the first fragments were discovered in the 19th century by anatomist Richard Owen he estimated that this giant lizard grew to be 20 feet long it was nicknamed the Ripper because scientists believe it tore to its prey and ripped it apart however some controversy exists regarding this lizard scientists today say that the bones resemble another giant lizard species in fact many now refer to Meg Alenia as verrano’s Priscus and estimated length to be about 11 feet that’s still nothing to scoff at especially since Meg Alenia was most likely poisonous what’s more many people think Meg Alania might still live in some unexplored part of Australia’s bush because there are eyewitnesses who claim to have seen it as if Australia wasn’t already scary enough. 

The Ant Aladdin 

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Interestingly this creatures name means perfect peace it existed 37 to 27 million years ago in the late eocene to early alig OCE eras while some people have taken to calling these creatures killer pigs they are more like hippos than swine so how big was it about the size of a modern-day cow which is about 9 feet long and taller than a man Angela dogs are widely regarded as omnivores that eat plants and scavenged dead animals though it’s sometimes sub 1 this diet was live prey it’s bite strength was phenomenal scientists discovered a pile of a legacy camels that had been bitten in half skulls have been unearthed bearing evidence of head-butting machines with members of its own species somewhat confusingly this animal has lent its name to a whole family of similar megafauna to intelidox the Antal Adhan belongs to this family the reason why it gave its name to this megafauna is because the Angela Don was the first of its kind to be discovered.

The Megalodon 

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This enormous extinct shark species has become one of the most renowned prehistoric predators perhaps second only to the t-rex the biggest species of shark to have ever existed the Megalodon is generally thought to have looked similar to today’s great white however while a great white shark can grow to be 20 feet long and weigh over 7,000 pounds the Megalodon was estimated to be 60 feet in length weighing anywhere from safety to a 100 metric tons it’s teeth were so massive that when people begin finding fossilized Megalodon teeth they thought they were dragon tongues megalodons died off about 1.6 million years ago but some people like to wonder if it still wanders the ocean if it did die off when scientists believe it did this means that it often ate animals that are still around today like giant sea turtles porpoises and even whales its fossils have been found all around the world suggesting it had a wide range there is no direct evidence that the Megalodon still exists there are fake documentaries and fake footage everywhere the scientists are waiting to find either the carcass of the creature itself a carcass bearing its telltale bite mark or one of its teeth to wash ashore before they even consider the notion whenever a previously thought extinct animal is found like in the case of the megamouth shark people can be forgiven for letting their imaginations get away from them you just never know.