10 Terrifying Animals You're Glad Are Extinct
Every now and then researchers come across
skeletons of animals that we have never seen,
BECAUSE they went extinct thousands of years
ago!
These prehistoric animals have intrigued us
for decades now and the more we learn about
them, the more we are awestruck!
No people, this isn’t because of their magnificence
or beauty, we are talking about their terror!
So here we are with a list of animals so terrifying
that you will be actually glad you didn’t
have to face them in this life, thanks to
a phenomena called extinction!
Number 10.
Cameroceras
Lived in the Ordovician period, Cameroceras
was a giant orthoconic cephalopod.
Confusing names?
Well, what’s in the name people, just focus
on the fear part!
It was a giant ancestor of modern squids and
octopi.
It had a cone shaped shell and scary tentacles
that it used for catching fish and other sea
creatures which gave this mollusk a distinctive
look!
But why should we be scared of it?
It was a giant, anything reaching to 40 feet
in length is nothing less than a giant right?
But chill guys, it went extinct some 470 million
years ago, celebrations are on!
Number 9.
Phorusrhacid
Are you afraid of any birds in the present
day?
Yea, eagles and vultures do look scary but
what if we say that you’ll find them friendly
once we tell you about ‘terror birds’!
Phorusrhacid was a flightless bird but don’t
let that scare you any less because it was
a giant and could reach 10 feet in height.
Just wow!
To add to the fear quotient, these were carnivorous
beasts and weighed a ton!
Would you believe us if we told you that it
could probably run like the cheetah?
Thankfully they have been extinct for the
past 1.8 million years so we can walk in peace!
Number 8.
Titanoboa
Did the name elicit any thoughts?
Well, now if you break the name you get, titanic
boa and you don’t need us to tell you that
this creature will obviously be huge!
If we say that it was the largest, longest,
and heaviest snake ever discovered, will that
scare you?
Come on, with a length of 42 feet and a weight
of 2500 pounds, the snake is obviously a monster!
This beast lived on crocodiles and turtles
that shared space with it in current day South
America.
Be glad that it vanished 60 million years
ago, yippee!
Number 7.
Megalodon
When a shark’s name means ‘big tooth’
you have a valid reason to be scared of it,
right?
Well Megalodon does not disappoint you at
all because it really does have monstrous
teeth that were much bigger than that of the
Great White shark, the current sea terror!
The giant shark was 60 feet in length, hard
to imagine but fossils found are proof enough!
It was the largest and most powerful predator
to ever breathe on the planet, did that scare
you enough or should we say more?
Okay okay, the good news is that it went extinct
2.6 million years ago due to starvation in
cold climate.
Anybody ready to file a petition for permanent
cold temperatures after this?
Number 6.
Quetzalcoatlus
One of the largest known flying animals of
all time, Quetzalcoatlus belongs to the family
of advanced toothless pterosaurs with unusually
long, stiffened necks.
When you have a wingspan of 36 feet, you are
a giant of your own kind, not many like you
exist or have existed in the past!
Based on the wingspan it can be said that
they were much taller than humans and reached
a length of almost 10 feet.
Now you don’t expect such a huge beast to
fly at all, so this is obviously cool!
This fish feeding creature would have scared
your wits had it been around today but thankfully
it has vanished!
Number 5.
Helicoprion
Can you imagine a creature more dangerous
than the shark?
We know it is tough but Helicoprion will make
your water fears come true!
Only that it won’t because well, it is already
extinct!
This shark like holocephalid fish had a distinctive
feature of spirally arranged clusters of the
individuals' teeth, called "tooth whorls".
One look at that circular saw and you would
know that no fear is as big as that of this
fish!
Helicoprion is the largest known eugeneodont
with its length reaching close to 40 feet!
We see some fear gripping you!
Number 4.
Gigantopithecus
The largest known apes with a height of 9.8
feet and weighing around 1300 pounds are definitely
something to fear.
Come on, they were 3 to 4 times heavier than
modern day gorillas you see in zoos and jungle
safaris!
You don’t want to be anywhere near them,
for OBVIOUS reasons!
Who wants to be trampled under such beasty
feet?
Due to the fragmentary nature of its fossil
remains, its structure is not fully known
so we aren’t sure if it walked on all fours
or favored bipedal locomotion.
Does that even matter?
We should be just happy that such a giant
has left us alone!
Number 3.
Arthropleura
If we say that Arthropleura is a Greek word
that means jointed ribs, what would come to
your mind?
Exactly, millipede arthropods!
But this one is special because it is the
largest known land invertebrates of all time.
A millipede given this honor, can you believe
it?
We aren’t bluffing by any means; this bad
boy could reach a length of more than 7 feet,
trust us!
But when the moist climate began drying out,
reducing the rainforests of the Carboniferous,
these creepy creatures moved towards their
extinction.
Sorry for them but then we have one less terrifying
beast to deal with!
Number 2.
Deinosuchus
What emotions do alligators and crocodiles
churn in you?
It is fear, no discussion needed for it!
Those mighty animals can chomp off our limbs
and the best thing to do for your life is
to stay miles away from them.
They are already scary and when any of them
means a ‘terrible crocodile’ we’d rather
exist the planet than enter their area!
That’s what the word Deinosuchus means and
this one is indeed terrible because it easily
dwarfs the current terrors with its 35 feet
frame!
The most frightening fact is that they could
gobble a dinosaur in one go!
Aren’t we glad that they disappeared some
73 million years ago?
Number 1.
Spinosaurus
You only feared T-Rex and thought it to be
the ultimate dinosaur?
Dude, you insulted the Spinosaurus!
Dinosaurs were creatures to be truly feared
forgetting their types but this one deserves
a lot of extra fright!
It is among the largest of all known carnivorous
dinosaurs, so you know it is special!
It was about 49 feet in size and weighed about
20 tons, that isn’t modest in any way!
We all should be glad that we never had to
fight a duel with it, which had OBVIOUSLY
ended with our breaths!
Which of these prehistoric creatures terrified
you the most?
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