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Mother nature never ceases to amaze us. It’s a source of life for awe-inspiring creatures, from delicate to humongous, and everything in between. However, some of the latter might seem delicate, too, compared to the living things that have gone extinct.
Bugs the size of a human, reptiles of ginormous proportions, and rodents with horns—these are just a few examples proving that “Nature Was Metal” back in the day. That’s why there’s an entire subreddit, under this exact name, dedicated to some of nature’s most extraordinary creations that have vanished from the face of the earth.
Today we’ve listed a bunch of them for you to get acquainted with. Whether you find them atrocious or absolutely fascinating, they show the name of the subreddit is definitely not baseless. Scroll down to marvel at the beauties and the beasts and click here for our previous post about them.
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#1
This Is The Best-Preserved Dinosaur Specimen Ever Unearthed. This Mummified Nodosaur’s Bones Remain Covered By Intact Skin And Armor — 110 Million Years After The Creature’s Death
Ozymandias73 2 years ago
Looks like Godzilla from this POV. Side Note: Googled Nodsaurus and they resemble Anklyosaurs (my favorite dino!) Difference is "Nodos" have a tapered tail where "Anks" have a bone club on the end. TIL!
MrsFettesVette 2 years ago
That's what I was thinking too, ty for the information. I learned something today!
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HelluvaHedgehogAlien 2 years ago
But, but… everyone knows that dinosaurs are big parrots with colorful feathers and fluffy sweaters!
Feathered Dinosaur 2 years ago
Feathers came much later, T Rex for example lived until 65 million years ago
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HellCat 2 years ago
Wow, imagine touching something like this, something that existed long before any ancestor you've ever had, before anything you've ever known.
Jeremy Crocker 2 years ago
Potentially older than the rocks you see every day. Let that sink in.
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Steve LeMessurier 2 years ago
Buddy of mine worked on the preservation and museum display of this, I got to see it before it was presented to the public....it's amazing
The Chocolate Gecko 2 years ago
Is it Sauropelta?! That's my favorite dinosaur! Suaropelta my beloved
Darian Starfrog 2 years ago
Best preserved Dino ever..they could even tell what colour he was.. Orange on top, tan belly. Cool!
The earliest forms of life—microbes—date back to roughly 3.7 billion years ago. They slowly transformed, presenting more and more complex organisms that eventually led to formation of the first animal species. You might be surprised to learn that sponges, also known as poriferans, are considered to be some of the first animals there are.
Most of the pictures on this list represent something slightly bigger and more threatening than sponges, though. Take dinosaurs, for instance. Scientists believe they lived roughly 245 to 66 million years ago, during the Mesozoic Era, and could weigh tens of tons each.
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#2
Tail Of A 99 Myo Dinosaur, The First One Ever Discovered. Perfectly Preserved, Still Covered In Feathers
BewilderedBanana 2 years ago
took me longer than i'm prepared to admit to see the tail... was focusing on the ant-like thing thinking it was the wrong image :D
Jeremy Crocker 2 years ago
That ant is a foot long... or maybe a centimeter, hard to tell without a jurassic banana.
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Jeremy Crocker 2 years ago
Put your finger over the bug, just about everything else is tail.
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Luna Crow 2 years ago
I seriously wonder how many dinosaurs had fur or feathers. Especially considering how many bird species evolved from them. Are we supposed to believe that the pterodactyls didn't have feathers?
norabest321 2 years ago
While pterodactyls did not use feathers to fly (their wings were membranes attached to their forearms so imagine something like a bat) they used their feathers for other reasons like possibly to attract mates like the birds of paradise do. It's actually really cool if you want to read: https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/20/world/pterosaur-feather-colors-scn/index.html
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aartdesigns 2 years ago
wonder what kind of microscopic ċŗäҏ got caught up in the resin too...
#3
The Only Preserved Head And Skin Of The Extinct Dodo Bird, Kept At The Oxford University Museum Of Natural History
JoNo 2 years ago
And why remove the body at all (if it wasn't eaten, that is)? More impressive than the head and skin of a dodo would be a whole dodo.
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HARRY KOPPERS 2 years ago
nothing accidental about it. sanctimonious jerk admin was clearing out what he (alone) considered worthless junk. who needs an old dusty stuffed bird, anyway?
Lord of the laserprinter. 2 years ago
Blackburn Museum had a complete one. And they threw it away only recently
The American Museum Of Natural History (AMNH) revealed that some dinosaurs weighed up to 80 tons and were roughly 120 feet long. To put things in perspective, try to imagine a dinosaur upright by the Leaning Tower of Pisa, being nearly two-thirds its height.
AMNH also pointed out that not all dinosaurs are extinct, though. Birds, also known as avian dinosaurs, actually share an ancestor with the non-avian ones, which makes them the last surviving group of the kind.
When it comes to non-avian dinosaurs, there are roughly 300 genera and 700 species that have been discovered and named. But these numbers are likely to go even higher, as scientists continue to find new fossils.
#4
Most Animals Used To Be A Lot Bigger
Jonny Man 2 years ago
Notice that the one for the crocodiles looks like Captain Hook!🐊 🏴☠️ 🐊 🧚
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Roger9er 2 years ago (edited)
Striking how the ancestor of the blue whale was a lot smaller than him, in contrary to other species
alwaysMispelled 2 years ago
The blue whale is thought to be the largest creature that has ever lived on the planet, kinda crazy that it's one that is alive today!
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TheElderNom 2 years ago
I've read that the giant sloth was responsible for spreading avocado seeds. Avocado seeds, like many other seeds, are designed to go through the digestive track and then sprout wherever they end up.
TriCutNinja 2 years ago
Not only that, after the giant ground sloth went extinct, the avocado tree was on the verge of extinction, but early humans started farming the tree, and now the tree thrives.
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Binky Melnik 2 years ago
I for one am glad I don’t live around anything called a “Hell Pig.” (I’m not counting my neighbor Calvin; he’s MUCH smaller than the one pictured here.)
EarthGrowl 2 years ago
Hell pig.. I doubt we would be eating THAT bacon! Nature seems to really like teeth, but the world seems to have calmed. LOL. Anyone imagine if aliens had visited Earth while these monstrous animals were lounging around? Maybe that's why the aliens have no intention of returning.
#5
A Barbary Lion, An Extinct Race, As Photographed In Algeria
martymcmatrix 2 years ago
The last picture of the last Barbary lion before the huntsman pulled the trigger of his rifle....I hate mankind! We do not deserve to tame, eat, kill anything that was before we were! We are even worse like any kind of cancer. As long as we keep on separating Bonobo babies from their mothers for the entertainment of the rich dumb-af-customers and as long we keep on slashing baby seals to death with wooden rods we DESERVE every single so called "tragedy" in the life of any human being. Children will die before their mothers. Family members have to take the decay of their loved ones. People have to stay alone, although some don't want to, anyway. We deserve tsunamis, earthquakes and sadly even the Kardashians, I'm afraid.
Weasel Wise 2 years ago
An extinct RACE of lion? Must be my American stupidity and poor education that thought the Linnaeus hierarchical system of classification used the word species....but I guess lions come in races now.
LolaThunderCat 2 years ago
Barbary lions are only extinct in the wild. There are still around 100 of them living in captivity
Edward Dubiel 2 years ago
To all the anti humanity people on here, always remember only humans can put out forest fires and forest fires are caused by lightning it's why smokey the bear says wild fires today because humans do cause those but deer and elk aren't putting them out we are
Thanks to paleontologists, we can get a better understanding of what creatures roaming the Earth millions of years ago looked like. They study the history of life based on fossils—rocks that contain remains of plants, animals, or other forms of life.
It takes 10,000 years for such preserved remains to become fossils. In their hardened layers, they provide scientists with information about the organism’s environment, living conditions, and other details.
#6
This Is Quetzalcoatlus Northropi. It Is The Largest Pterosaur Ever Discovered And Possibly The Largest Flying Animal Ever! It Had A Wingspan Of Around 15.9 Metres (59 Feet)
Rebelliousslug 2 years ago
Imagine seeing something with a 59 ft wingspan swooping in to pick you up for dinner. No thanks
Erica Gavlock 2 years ago
It would scoop you up with that long beak. That thing is huge. It's very pretty an terrifying. I would be so scared if that was still around
#7
The Numerous Hand Stencils Of Cueva De Las Manos, Argentina. The Hand Prints Of Many Different People Separated By Hundreds Or Thousands Of Years, Their Stories Lost To Time But Their Art Still Lingers For Us To See
Roger9er 2 years ago
Other lives, thousands of years ago, also people who had insecurities, fun, jealousy, infatuation...the same as we do now
Son of Philosoraptor 2 years ago
Ancient Sumerians used clay for letters and such, so they have survived thousands of years... People were just the same back then! People are people!
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Binky Melnik 2 years ago
What did they use for spray paint? Has that been figured out? It’s kinda disappointing to know that graffiti will always be around, yet it’s also comforting, too, because of things like this.
Unpopular opinions 2 years ago
They would put dyes in their mouths & spray it out, either directly or with a straw.
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Kevin the Manager 2 years ago
That's mine in the upper right. Made it with powdered sugar. Surprised it's still there, honestly...
#8
A Man Holding A Nile Crocodile Skull Next To The Skull Of The Fearsome Crocodylus Thorbjarnarsoni. A Giant Crocodile Species From The Early Pleistocene In The Turkana Basin, Kenya
Weasel Wise 2 years ago
Since the beginning of time, there's always been a solid reason to avoid dark waters.
Darian Starfrog 2 years ago
At first I was thinking..that's normal lol! Then I realise the 'rock' was the croc! Jeeez!
spiders.are.the.best 2 years ago
Imagine Florida but with prehistoric alligators....I still wouldn't move🐊
Some of the first fossils to be recognized as dinosaur remains date back to the 1830s. That’s when, according to the American paleontologist Mark Norell, people in the English countryside found what they believed to be giant extinct reptiles.
When it comes to the first person to study fossils, Georges Cuvier is often referred to as the founding father of paleontology. Back in the 19th century, he was a member of the faculty at the National Museum of Natural Sciences in Paris, which allowed him to access the most extensive collection of fossils available at the time.
#9
The Natural History Museum In London Outfitted Its Animatronic Tyrannosaurus Rex In A Colorful Christmas Sweater
S Schmidt 2 years ago
It's like his mum knitted that for him with her tiny dinosaur arms. Took her ages, but that's devotion for you.
SCamp 2 years ago
And he’s like ‘Mum! Do I have to?!’ And she’s like ‘Yes! If you’re out playing in the tar pits you need to rug up, young man!’
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HelluvaHedgehogAlien 2 years ago
A near-perfect recreation! Now just add some colorful fur and feathers :)
#10
The Giant Monster That Was Argentinosaurus
martymcmatrix 2 years ago
"Don't cry for me, Argentino. The truth is you were a Saurus. A really big one, but you extinct and we digged your bones out!"
Son of Philosoraptor 2 years ago
All these millions of years and our arms are the same. Big bone, two smaller bones, wrist and fingers.
N8 Lamphere 2 years ago (edited)
When you're digging that up how do you even know that's a bone? You'd have to dig up an awful lot of dirt to even realize the shape of a bone!
Guinevere89 2 years ago
I can only speak to this as an archaeologist and not a palaeontologist, but you get very well versed in dirt, rock, and bone. It's weird what you notice after a while. I once was digging a Bronze Age site where you could tell degrades bone fragments only by a slight tint of blue because of weird chemical reactions in the soil. These folks know some weird s**t and it's awesome!
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Tushar Roy Mukherjee 2 years ago
If I go to scientifically accurate Jurassic Park, first thing I'm making sure is that I'm steering clear of any Sauropod exhibit.
#11
Real Footage Of 4 Extinct Animals: Thylacine, Ivory-Billed Woodpecker, Baiji River Dolphin, And The Heath Hen
Sian Edwards 2 years ago
The thylacine footage is digitally colourised if I remember correctly. The footage was taken in 1933.
StrangeOne 2 years ago
I was looking up what animals are on the verge of becoming extinct. Sadly many have already gone extinct in last 20 years.
Telepathetic 2 years ago
I misread the caption labels and thought (For an instant !) the Upper Right was the Woodpecker
The images of remains on this list are just a tiny fraction of what’s been dug out in the past years. However, they show just how exceptional in size and other features the creatures were.
Some more examples of such fascinating excavations were presented in an article by Geology Science. In addition to the well-known T-rex, it also covered types of feathered dinosaurs and extinct fish, as well as human remains from millions of years ago.
#12
This Giant Crinoid Colony Is 195 Million Years Old From The Lower Jurassic Is 4 X 5 Meter And Is Now On Display At A Museum In Houston!
Svelk929 2 years ago
Probably so! Crinoids still exist today and they’re usually called sea lilies, I find them really cool looking tbh
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A B C the Third 2 years ago
Ancient wall tattoos were way better than the modern ones. (/jk, just in case)
Megan Lauhon 2 years ago
I've always wanted to add a criboid to my fossil collection. I also live in Houston, hmm........
aartdesigns 2 years ago
That was a labor of love to expose the fossil. You have any idea how many months, if not years, that must have taken?
#13
10,000 Year Old Skull And Antlers Of An Extinct Elk Found By Fishermen In Ireland
Max Fox 2 years ago
"Elk" = moose, not the American Wapiti. The species was not actually a moose either, but a different genus entirely. So the "Irish Elk" was neither Irish, nor was it an elk. The antlers are similar to those of a moose, that's it.
censorshipsucks 2 years ago
sorry I don't understand your point. The world "elk" is a really old english word, long predating the arrival of EU people in america?
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martymcmatrix 2 years ago
How long had they been fishing? I didn't know that elks can be caught by fishing in Ireland. Is this something that should be added to the next TIL-listing?
#14
Utahraptor Claws
Young Minami Kotaro 2 years ago (edited)
Judging by its name, Utahraptor been found in Utah.. So is there an Ohioraptor??
Thomas Bentley 2 years ago
Still alive, kicking, and ruling the world on the council of lizard people.
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censorshipsucks 2 years ago
"You get your first look at this "six foot turkey" as you enter a clearing. He moves like a bird, lightly, bobbing his head. And you keep still because you think that maybe his visual acuity is based on movement like T-Rex - he'll lose you if you don't move. But no, not Velociraptor. You stare at him, and he just stares right back. And that's when the attack comes. Not from the front, but from the side... from the other two raptors you didn't even know were there. Because Velociraptor's a pack hunter, you see, he uses coordinated attack patterns and he is out in force today. And he slashes at you with this....
White Sauce Hot Sauce 2 years ago
The raptors in Jurassic Park more closely resembled Utahraptors than the feathery velociraptors.
DonnerDinnerParty 2 years ago
You're right! The Jurassic Park raptors were based off of the Utahraptor
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If a picture is a medium used for capturing any kind of information, can these two be called claw media (aka. chlamydia)?
The Smithsonian Channel also covered the process of restoring an incredible 110-million-year-old fossil. Found in an oil sand mine, it turned out to be the remains of a 18-foot-long nodosaur—a nearly 3000-pound type of armored animal with spikes on its shoulders and a long tail.
#15
Arthropleura Millipede Is The Biggest Bug Known To Ever Live
Charlie Birkner 2 years ago
This. And I'm going to hazard a guess that it moves WAYYYY faster than a little one.
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A B C the Third 2 years ago
That's true. Arthropleura Millipedes are known to be very polite and always ring the bell before entering.
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Wolf Wolf 2 years ago
Mother Nature sure had a strange fetish for gigantism millions upon millions of years ago.
TotallyNOTaFox 2 years ago
It had more oxygen to work with in the atmosphere, so why not use it?
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Insects could grow to that size since oxygen levels were far higher than they are today. Plants were proliferating, and few species existed that could break down lignin. So plants fixed CO2, released oxygen, and the carbon remained stored in the lignin, instead of being released when the lignin is digested, as it is today, by assorted bacteria and fungi (many of those bacteria species are symbiotic with herbivores). That's also why there is so much coal from that period - the wood never rotted.
HelluvaHedgehogAlien 2 years ago
Ok I think I just proved beyond doubt that I am, in fact, an alien
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Mammoth Hut
Kninea Roberts 2 years ago
I'm reading this and the comments that follows and all I can think is I have found my people. People look at me like a weirdo when I try to talk about my books. 😂 They get glazed over look in their eyes
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Ece Cenker 2 years ago
I think this the same one, when put together: https://www.flickr.com/photos/whsieh78/31767447102
#17
An Incredibly Intact Crinoid Specimen Fossil Dating Back To About 345 Million Years Ago!
Ozymandias73 2 years ago
I was going to say the same thing. Aliens vibes going on strong with this one.
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Weasel Wise 2 years ago
Don't get me wrong, I love Giger's crazy art, but he's praised for being so out-there and creative and now I'm noticing he got a lot of his inspiration from extinct critters and then tweaked them a little bit.
Hiram's Friend 2 years ago
Think of the work involved in exposing this fossil. It didn't pop out of the rock looking like this.
AndyR 2 years ago
I saw a documentary about this... No way am I putting my face anywhere near it.
Chandra Torres 2 years ago
You shure it was a documentary, and not,.... a movie?? LOL 🤷🏻♀️
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Aha, a blasphemous entity from outer depths of the void of space, from whence the Old Ones arose! https://lovecraftianscience.wordpress.com/tag/crinoids/
PurpleUnicorn 2 years ago
I've never found a complete one but there are plenty of segment rings on the shale coasts near where I live.
The Cuckoo 2 years ago
This is a modern day Crinoid in case anyone is interested. https://www.sutori.com/en/item/this-is-a-crinoid-it-is-about-420-million-years-old-or-at-least-that-s-how-long
Not all animal remains are encapsulated in fossils, though. Some are often found perfectly preserved in other formations, such as amber, for instance. (Earth Archives have covered some pretty impressive examples of that, which you can find here.)
The colorful tree resin traps certain organisms, which become fully enclosed as it solidifies. Despite usually being smaller in size, pieces of amber conserve the remains of different species, in this way saving the information about them as well.
#18
What Being Attacked By A T-Rex Would Look Like
RamiRudolph 2 years ago
I know the past was in black and white because colors weren't invented yet, but I didn't think it had such bad graphics.
Roan The Demon Kitty 2 years ago
well, the graphics cards weren't very good back then.
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soro doeth 2 years ago (edited)
It seems like snapshots of a recreation video.It would be much more informative to watch that instead.Also,why did they recreated it in a shallow waters environment?
Darian Starfrog 2 years ago
Quick and easy, the perfect snack on the run! Humans! Try one today! 😏👍
Tushar Roy Mukherjee 2 years ago
The Juveniles would be far more likely to hunt lone Humans, and they're basically giant Velociraptors( JP ).
#19
The Giant Ground Sloth Eremotherium
Zoe Stanley 2 years ago
I think this is at Chicago's natural museum. I was there, and yeah. Terrifying beyond words.
Gabrielle braswell she/they 2 years ago
Hey that's at my local museum. I go there all the time 😄
martymcmatrix 2 years ago
Okay....but which species belongs to the skeleton above the "Giant Ground Sloth Eremotherium"? That's confusing....
#20
The Horned Gopher - The Only Known Rodent To Have Developed Horns
Darian Starfrog 2 years ago
Is this like when the put the thumbs on the head of the iguanadon for years?
Most fossilized remains are of beings that have been long gone for ages, be it dinosaurs or other creatures. However, some species of animals became extinct as recently as just a few years ago.
Some examples include the Spix’s macaw, also known as the blue macaw, featured in the animated movie ‘Rio’, the smooth handfish that used to roam the coastal waters of Tasmania, and splendid poison frog, a red-colored frog formerly found in Western Panama.
#21
The Massive Size Of A Utahraptor Skull, With A Velociraptor Skull And Human Head For Scale
Ephemeral Mochi 2 years ago
The length of an average human head from the menton (bottom of the chin) to the top of the head is 20.5 centimeters (Taken from the averages of 21.2 for males and 19.8 for females.) An average banana is usually between 7 and 8 inches long, which translates to being between 17.78 cm to 20.32 cm, the average coming out to be about 19.05 cm. So the average human head is about 1.45 centimeters longer than a banana, or one banana and 19/250th! (Yes, I am procrastinating very hard right now)
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Chez 2 years ago
Factoid: when Spielberg was making Jurassic Park he wanted the raptors to be big, but velociraptor was actually much smaller. Luckily for him they discovered Urahraptor while the movie was in production so the giant raptors in the movie are close to real life. Source: Raptor Red, by Robert T Bakker
aartdesigns 2 years ago
which one is the human head? and I assume the Utah-guy is the big one?
#22
Barosaurus Had Quite A Long Neck. Art By John Conway
alwaysMispelled 2 years ago
How tall were trees and s**t back then? What did this poor guy eat? He had to stand a whole football field away from his meal!!
Becky Samuel 2 years ago
They didn't use the neck to reach up. The current belief is that they used their neck to eat in a wide circle around their bodies to minimise energy usage. The neck didn't weigh as much as you might expect - the bones were hollow like a bird's and the muscles were small, the body and tail acted as a counterweight.
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22 Million Year Old Enhydro Methane Termite With Its Last Meal Preserved In Amber
White Paper Tsuru 2 years ago
Don't no one get no crazy ideas. We've all seen how that works out.
alwaysMispelled 2 years ago
How are there all these animals preserved in amber from prehistoric times? Was the whole world just covered in sticky blobby syrupy stuff? It's very cool I just don't get it
Auntriarch 2 years ago
It seeped out of trees, the insect walked on it and got stuck, the tree carried on seeping, insect was covered
Load More Replies... Chandra Torres 2 years ago
DAMN!! At first I thought it was a flea! Albeit a REALLY BIG ONE!! Dinosaur fleas! 😱
Kevin the Manager 2 years ago
"Enhydro Methane Termite?" Am I alone in my relief that these things are extinct?
Rapunzel With The Loced Hair 2 years ago
Please tell me this picture is magnified and that's not the termite's actual size
An astonishingly large number of nature’s creations are on the verge of extinction today. According to Animals Around The Globe, nearly 41,500 species are included in the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List, more than 16,000 of which are threatened with extinction.
For example, there are only 67 Javan rhinos in the entire world. The numbers of mountain gorillas and Asian elephants are dropping rapidly, and so are the ones of Atlantic blue tuna.
#24
Triceratops Femur (Left) vs. Elephant Femur
#25
Parapuzosia Seppenradensis, The Largest Known Ammonite, Photographed In The Late 1800s With The Paleontologist Who Described It
Fantastic Mr Fox 2 years ago
Apparently on display in Westphalian Museum of Natural History, Germany. Now land but then ocean.
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Amour Doctrina 2 years ago
Westphalian Museum of Natural History has a similarly sized specimen.
Shishal Asaurus 2 years ago
Considering how trashed it looks in the pic it probably ended up broken. Most likely from travel. Be cool to see that in person tho
#26
Prehistoric Spider-Like Arachnid Found Preserved In Amber
Erica Knapp 2 years ago
Lol thank you for my morning chuckle with this comment lol
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Chucky Cheezburger 2 years ago
Aw hell naw...It looks like the legs end in smaller legs...and legs on its butt too!
HelluvaHedgehogAlien 2 years ago
Prehistoric spider-like nope found preserved in amber (sorry spider)
The United States Geological Survey pointed out that some of the reasons for the unfortunate changes in such numbers are habitat loss and over-exploitation of wildlife for commercial purposes. Sadly, human activity has made the process of extinction way more rapid than it would have been naturally. Scientists believe that the 20th-century rate of animal species dying is a hundred times higher than it would have been without people’s interference.
#27
Fossil Of Giant 40+ Million Year Old Fish Found In Argentina
Apatheist Account2 2 years ago
Ill-tempered mutated sea-bass - but no frickin' laser!!
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Forty Seven Pandas 2 years ago
Always struggled to believe that story about Jonah getting swallowed by a "big fish"... but, yeah, I can picture it now.
#28
The Origin Of Teeth And Jaws Has Been Pushed Back To 436 Million Years Ago
#29
Nizar Ibrahim Between The Jaws Of Spinosaurus
EarthGrowl 2 years ago
Well now! That shows exactly what would happen if humans had lived along side dinosaurs. The Creation museum should take a look.. humans would be extinct!
Weasel Wise 2 years ago
Now then...god has given man dominion over all of his creatures so I'm sure humans could tame any dinosaur. I've read that góddàmn bible, I know what the truth is! 🤣
Load More Replies... There are, however, ways to help save the animals at risk. The Endangered Species Coalition pointed out some easy steps to do it, such as learning about the endangered species in your area or making your surroundings wildlife-friendly. It also emphasized the importance of recycling, cautious driving, and safe use of chemicals in your environment.
#30
In 1663, The Partial Fossilised Skeleton Of A Woolly Rhinoceros Was Discovered In Germany. This Is The “Magdeburg Unicorn”, One Of The Worst Fossil Reconstructions In Human History
Weasel Wise 2 years ago
A depressed unicorn that constantly drug its back end around like a dog with a poopy àss. Nature!
StrangeOne 2 years ago
Ever wonder if mother nature (or God) during those times was just couldn't decide what type of animal to make, and said f**k it, Frankensteined a bunch of parts together and hoped for the best?
martymcmatrix 2 years ago
But we invented the vacuum here. Go and ask Otto von Guericke!
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Basilosaurus, A Large, Toothed Whale Whose Serpentine Appearance Caused Scientists To Initially Believe It Was A Marine Reptile
Katey Doll 2 years ago
Whoever discovered this was either called Basil or a fan of Fawlty Towers.
#32
Til That Las Vegas, Nv Airport Has A Megalodon Fossil With All Original Teeth Found By One Person Who Dives For Them. I Was Walking Through The Airport And Saw The Massive Jaws
spiders.are.the.best 2 years ago
The Clearwater aquarium has one of these...or atleast had I haven't been in a while
MrsFettesVette 2 years ago
Huh. Its a lot flatter than I would have expected considering how the jaws of present day sharks have a strong curve in the top and bottom center. I'm imagining a shark with a flat face like a sharpei.
#33
Steller’s Sea Cow, An Enormous Creature Brought To Extinction By Humans, Compared To The Extant Dugong (Which Is About The Weight Of A Bison)
Charlie Birkner 2 years ago (edited)
from the (odd) perspective of this picture this creature is the size of an entire island.
Charlie Spring Fan 2 years ago
How it went extinct is because it tasted like a fine beef, and people ate it into extinction.
#34
Dinosaur Claws Were Actually Much Bigger When They Were Alive
#35
The Levyatan Was A Whale, An Apex Predator, And A Competitor Of The Megalodon. The Skull Is 3 Meters, The Largest Teeth Are 36 Cm Each - These Are The Largest Among Animals
Rinso the Red 2 years ago
Likely the spot for a "melon". And organ used by aquatic mammals for sonar
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Grudge-holding Treefrog 2 years ago
It looks like that doctor from the nightmare before Christmas
#36
The Last Known Tasmanian Tiger Photographed In 1933. They Are Now Extinct
Raven Sheridan 2 years ago (edited)
I lived in Tasmania for over a decade, and I knew someone who'd strongly disagree with them being extinct. They told me that they saw one and this person is not someone who lies.
Lynn Morello 2 years ago
There are a few Tas born people who claim to have seen living Tassie Tigers even today.
#37
Dromornis Leg Fossils Upon Excavation
#38
Thalassocnus Natans, An Aquatic Sloth From The Late Miocene Of Peru And Chile. Art By Mark Witton
#39
The Legendary "Fighting Dinosaurs" Fossil, Of Which A Velociraptor And Protoceratops Were Both Preserved In Mortal Combat
Apocalypse Whippet 2 years ago
The Flood, presumably, so most likely a mudslide or flash flood caught them.
Load More Replies... Grudge-holding Treefrog 2 years ago (edited)
This fossil led to the discovery that velociraptor punctured the trachea or jugular of their prey, causing them to suffocate or bleed out instead of slicing their prey apart. :) paleontology is the best!
#40
Dunkleosteus
HelluvaHedgehogAlien 2 years ago
They look like my elderly neighbors down the street… just missing a wool jacket and a cane
Load More Replies... censorshipsucks 2 years ago
I'm against this single tooth thing that's like a whole mouthful of katana. I want to complain to the manager, this "mister god" dude. nightmare fuel.
#41
Gorgosaurus Taken At The Royal Tyrrell Museum
Son of Philosoraptor 2 years ago
After animals die if they dry they shrink a bit and the head pulls back. That's why so many fossils look like that.
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Gorgosaurus is a genus of tyrannosaurid theropod dinosaur that lived in western North America during the Late Cretaceous Period, between about 76.6 and 75.1 million years ago. Fossil remains have been found in the Canadian province of Alberta and the U.S. state of Montana. Gorgosaurus lived several million years before T. rex, had a bony plate over its eyes and was slightly smaller than T. rex. An adult Gorgosaur was approximately 25 feet long and 10 feet tall at the hip.
#42
Enormous Paraceratherium Skull
#43
Triceratops Horridus Skull At The Morrison Natural History Museum, Co
M O'Connell 2 years ago
That skull is a casting of the original, and is contained within a HANDS-ON exhibit. Calm down.
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"Many People Believe The Velociraptors In The Jurassic Franchise Were Utahraptors, They're Not. They're Actually Deinonychus, They Were Huge And You Could Not Beat It In A Fist Fight" By Coolio_art
RamiRudolph 2 years ago
I could beat them in a fistfight. Because they're dead. I think I'm at least a better fighter than a corpse.
#45
Sinemys Gamera: An Extinct Turtle From Late Jurassic China
MrsFettesVette 2 years ago
Gamera is really neat! He is filled with turtle meat!
Load More Replies... HelluvaHedgehogAlien 2 years ago
SOOOOOO CUTE AND DERP TURTLE :) I’m in China now… maybe once upon a time a Gamera has swam right next to my spot now
Astrid Manthej 2 years ago
Does not look very extinct to me or when was that pic taken? Is it even a real photo?
#46
Diploceraspis.a Prehistoric Amphibian With A Boomerang Shaped Head
AtMostTheFabulist 2 years ago
It looks like a slug trying to eat a boomerang with eyes. And the boomerang is like "Whatever"
#47
Jimbacrinus Crinoid Fossils, 280 Million Years Old, Found In Western Australia, Gascoyne Region
censorshipsucks 2 years ago
https://lovecraftianscience.wordpress.com/tag/crinoids/
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#48
One Of The Largest Predators Of Late Miocene North America, Barbourofelis Fricki, Bow To The Superior Life Form. Art By Joschua Knüppe
#49
A Clash Of Allosaurus
#50
Seeing As Even Crocodilians Enjoy Butt-Scratches, Does That Mean All Archosaurs Like Dinosaurs And Pterosaurs Enjoyed It Aswell? (Mostly A Joke)
martymcmatrix 2 years ago
If this area is where the alligator butt is supposed to be, than he poops in reverse position! I think, this picture shows the cleaning of its wisdom tooth spine....
6th Fatui Harbinger, Scamouche 2 years ago
your face will be gone before that.
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The Pelvis Of The 440-Pound/200-Kg Giant Moa Showing Puncture Wounds From The Talons The Haast’s Eagle
#52
The Tooth Of A Liopleurodon. Discovered In England's Peterborough Area
joshua colucci 2 years ago
Did they find it on the way to candy mountain?
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Cartilaginous Fish Of The Late Paleozoic
Nicole Weymann 2 years ago
Upvote for that Stethacanthus fellow. That is one strange dorsal fin!
#54
A Smilodon Populator With A Pierced Skull Likely Due To A Innerspecific Killing (With The Skull Of Another Used To Match The Bite Marks)
censorshipsucks 2 years ago
we have a similar skull in SA, with an australopithecine with leopard fang holes in the skull
#55
It's Been Suggested That Spitting Cobras Evolved As A Response To Bipedal Hominins, As Their Ability To Spray Venom Up To 3 M Allowed Them To Neutralize A New Enemy That Could Attack At The Distance With Stick And Stones. Spitting Cobras Appear In The Fossil Record At About The Same Time As Hominins
Thomas Bentley 2 years ago
Who, the humans or the snakes? But, either way, I agree.
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The Largest Terrestrial Predator Since The K-T Extinction Event, Barinosuchus From Miocene South America
#57
Mandible Of The Giant Crocodilian 𝘋𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘰𝘴𝘶𝘤𝘩𝘶𝘴
spiders.are.the.best 2 years ago
This is right underneath the post about the other deinosuchus
#58
Spinosaurus Throughout The Decades
Spannermonkey 2 years ago
The author should clarify that it's the interpretation that evolved, not the critter.
Load More Replies... Grudge-holding Treefrog 2 years ago
I have models of them from the 2001 version to the modern one. It is really cool to see them all lined up and to see how our understanding of them has evolved
Gandalf the Pink 2 years ago
I don't know why they put the 2020 one in water, if anything it's been recently proven they were not aquatic animals as previously thought
#59
For Those Who Don’t Know, Earlier This Year, Scientists Found A New, So Far Undescribed Species Of Filter Feeding Shark From Deposits Of The Western Interior Seaway In 1975 From Morden, Manitoba. It Has Been Nicknames “Dave”
N Miller 2 years ago
It's been nicknamed Dave, because of course it has. Were the scientists British by any chance? I imagine it they'd been American it would have been nicknamed Steve...
Maehem 2 years ago
Manitoba is in the middle of Canada...so you're not far off.
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#60
Kelenken, The Ruler Of The Collón Curá Formation
#61
The Henodus Was A Placodont That Lived In The Late Triassic Period.the Name "Henodus" Translates To "One Thoot" In Greek
Jellicle bat (he/she/they) 2 years ago
It kinda has the shape of an apple. A not very round apple, but still.
#62
Gigantoraptor, The Largest Of The Oviraptorosaurs
#63
Deinosuchus, Arguably The Fiercest Predator North America Has Ever Known, Is Seen Here Lunging At An Albertosaurus In This Depiction. Deinosuchus Lived Between 75 Million And 82 Million Years Ago And Had Bodies At Least 33 Feet (10 Meters) Long, Easily Taking Down Any Animal Within Reach
Weasel Wise 2 years ago
I'd look exactly the same if a giant croc popped outta the water at me.
#64
This Is Cryolophosaurus, Early Jurassic Antarctica's "Cold-Crested Lizard." Take A Look At That Bizarre Crest On Its Head!
#65
Artist Working On A Life-Sized Bust Of Kaprosuchus, Sometimes Nicknamed The “Boar-Croc”
#66
Giant Insular Species In The Barn Owl Family Compared In Size To A House Cat
#67
Drepanosaurus Unguicaudatus, An Unusual Reptile Known For Its Prehensile Tail From The Late Norian Of Northern Italy. Art By Mark Witton
#68
A Smilodon Fatalis Captured By A Camera Trap
Cosmologist wannabe 2 years ago
why is called the smilodon? its obviously grumpy. it should be called grumpyfacodon Fatalis
#69
Neanderthal Hunters Discover A Peculiar Rock, A Fossilised Ammonite, Amongst The Vast Glaciers 125,000 Years Ago. Fantastic Art Piece By Mikhail Shekhanov
EarthGrowl 2 years ago
Pretty sure the legends of Dragons started when people found dino skulls. Must have been terrifying to imagine another living one lurking nearby.
#70
In The Break Of Dawn, A Group Of Neanderthal Standing Upon Their Cave Bear (Ursus Spelaeus) Kill Find Themselves The Target Of A Pride Of American Cave Lions (Panthera Leo Spelaea) !
M O'Connell 2 years ago
The North American Cave Lion is Panthera atrox. Panthera Leo Spelaea is the Eurasian Cave Lion. The author got their species mixed up.
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martin734 2 years ago (edited)
They look more like Cro Magnon than Neanderthal. The earliest hominid remains ever found in North America belonged to Homo Sapiens and not Homo Neanderthalensis. Though there has been some limited circumstantial evidence of earlier hominid species in modern day Mexico and the southern USA, the evidence is not conclusive and fiercely contested. Also Panthera Spelaea is the Eurasian lion. American Cave Lions were Panthera Atrox. Ursus Spelaea is not known to have ever existed in North America. If this encounter was supposed to be in North America the bear would almost certainly have been Arctodus Simus, the short-faced bear.
Fantastic Mr Fox 2 years ago
Don’t think they did. Found one article about some bones cracked in a way that could be done by humans, but seems scientist doubt very much it’s the case.
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The Last Moment For A Moa As It Is Attacked By A Haast’s Eagle
#72
Sauroposeidon Proteles Is One Of The Tallest Sauropods To Ever Live. A Mount Of The Holotype Of This Early Cretaceous Titan Was Made For The Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum Of Natural History And Was Installed In 2010
#73
Our Face From Our Recent Ancestors To Us
Elwood Schwartz (it/that) 2 years ago
They all are. It's called "acting."
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CaptainDinosaur 2 years ago
When I think of modern man, the first person that pops into my head is Michael Cera. Obviously.
#74
Spinosaurus
Gandalf the Pink 2 years ago
Once again, not an aquatic animal. That idea comes from a misunderstanding that they ate predominately fish and that their sail was used for swimming, but turns out that wasn't their main diet and the sail wouldn't be good for swimming.
#75
Megantereon-The Ancestor Of Smilodon
#76
Livyatan Melvillei “Playing” With Its Prey
#77
The Dragon From Down Under: A Massive Megalania Finds A Meal In The Form Of An Unlucky Genyornis
#78
The Fossil Species Of Incredible Crocodile Subfamily Osteolaeminae, Today Only Represented By Dwarf Crocodiles
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Randy Sanders 2 years ago
These are the best articles and lists on here. Educational, and without any agenda. Love it, well done.
Elita One 2 years ago
I can recognize so many of these just from playing ARK Survival Evolved lol
Unnamed Hooman 2 years ago
While dinosaurs were pretty big, I pictured ALL OF THEM to be the size of the Argentinosaurus as a kid. My biggest fear when I was a little kid with a vivid imagination was looking out the window and seeing a massive claw, and it turns out to just be a T-rex toe
HelluvaHedgehogAlien 2 years ago
This whole list makes me feel both fascinated and sad at the same time. All the extinct species due to humans, and the prehistoric dinos.
Freya the Wanderer 2 years ago
Nature still is metal! Take a closer look at some extant species, such as the blue whale, possibly the largest animal that has ever lived.
Julie Snelling 2 years ago
Why is this thread called "Nature was Metal"? Is it meant to be mental?
censorshipsucks 2 years ago
I prefer to not have these sorts of articles truncated, the ones that were cut off were still worth looking at...
Dan St John 2 years ago
I wonder what the next intelligent species will think of all the human kaka they find in a few hundred thousand years? Mankind is not going to last to much longer at the rate we are going.
Randy Sanders 2 years ago
These are the best articles and lists on here. Educational, and without any agenda. Love it, well done.
Elita One 2 years ago
I can recognize so many of these just from playing ARK Survival Evolved lol
Unnamed Hooman 2 years ago
While dinosaurs were pretty big, I pictured ALL OF THEM to be the size of the Argentinosaurus as a kid. My biggest fear when I was a little kid with a vivid imagination was looking out the window and seeing a massive claw, and it turns out to just be a T-rex toe
HelluvaHedgehogAlien 2 years ago
This whole list makes me feel both fascinated and sad at the same time. All the extinct species due to humans, and the prehistoric dinos.
Freya the Wanderer 2 years ago
Nature still is metal! Take a closer look at some extant species, such as the blue whale, possibly the largest animal that has ever lived.
Julie Snelling 2 years ago
Why is this thread called "Nature was Metal"? Is it meant to be mental?
censorshipsucks 2 years ago
I prefer to not have these sorts of articles truncated, the ones that were cut off were still worth looking at...
Dan St John 2 years ago
I wonder what the next intelligent species will think of all the human kaka they find in a few hundred thousand years? Mankind is not going to last to much longer at the rate we are going.
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