Counting down the top 11 scariest prehistoric animals of all time. Dunkleosteus, Smilodon, Megalodon...

2021年8月3日 · From 16 million years ago to about 2 million years ago, 50-foot-long creatures (that’s triple the size of scary-enough great white sharks today) preyed on whales, apparently biting off their fins...

2019年6月8日 · Today, there are very few mammals that can easily kill a human—but that wasn't the case millions of years ago. These ten beasts are among the deadliest prehistoric mammals.

2015年2月19日 · To think that dinosaurs are the only scary inhabitants of our prehistoric past would be a big, big mistake. From ocean-dwellers far bigger than great whites to sky-dwellers bigger than giraffes to an elephant-sized sloth, here are ten of the scariest — and most fascinating — prehistoric creatures…

2024年12月8日 · Here is a list of the top 10 dangerous prehistoric animals that are extinct. T-Rex skeleton dinosaur. Image by Soltice Hannan via Unsplash. The world has been home to a plethora of dangerous creatures that were so scary even the mere thought of crossing paths with them would seem terrifying.

2015年2月19日 · While dinosaurs get all the attention, discover why prehistoric creatures like the terror bird and the Titanoboa are just as terrifying. From the SuperCroc to the creature that made the great white look like a goldfish...

2023年9月28日 · Here are seven fearsome prehistoric predators, some of which could have swallowed a human in a single gulp. 1. Giant Sea Scorpion. When? Paleozoic Era (541 to 252 million years ago) Where? Fossils have been discovered all over, including Iowa. How big? Up to 2.5 metres long.

2016年10月31日 · These days, the scariest marsupials are…we guess, opossums? But back in the good old days of the Upper Miocene (~five million years ago), that title went to Thylacosmilus. These ferocious predators look like saber-tooth cats, but actually belonged to an extinct group called sparassodonts, closely related to the marsupials alive today.

Who hasn’t heard of a Tyrannosaurus rex or a velociraptor thanks to movies like Jurassic Park? When we think of dinosaurs, we almost all think of a very small subset of these giant creatures from history. But perhaps more interesting are those which are far less familiar to us all.

2024年11月6日 · Instead, these animals could crush bone, were the apex predators of their environments, and feared little making them more ferocious than most dinosaurs. Here are eight of the scariest prehistoric creatures that were not dinosaurs.