The history of the Earth spans about 4.5 billion years, during which countless creatures have appeared and gone extinct thanks to evolution. The only evidence we have that they existed is their remains, such as bones, teeth, and footprints, among other things. Many of them are shared on the ‘Nature Was Metal’ community, where curious minds gather to get a look at how different our planet was long before humans came into existence.
We can bet our dear Pandas are curious too, so we compiled a list of the most fascinating photos and illustrations of creatures that became extinct millions of years ago. Scroll down to check them out for yourself, and don’t forget to upvote the ones you can’t believe are real.
While you’re at it, make sure to check out a conversation with Dr. Jingmai O’Connor, associate curator of fossil reptiles, Bethany Burke, vertebrate paleontologist and CEO of BKBONES, and Mattison Shreero, paleontologist, geologist, and science communicator at Geosplore, who kindly agreed to tell us all about extinct creatures.
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#1 Blue Babe, A Mummified Bison Priscus (Museum Is In Alaska)
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#2 Suncor Nodosaur, One Of The Best Preserved Dinosaurs. It Even Has Some Pigmets Left
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#3 The Skull Of A Deinosuchus, Which As A Genus Are The Front-Runner To Be The Largest Known Crocodilian Of All Time
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#4 The Skull Of Torosaurus, A Late Cretaceous North American Ceratopsian
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#5 The Femur Of A Patagotitan, One Of The Biggest Dinosaurs Known To Have Existed, Next To A 1.75 M Tall Paleontologist
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#6 Xiphactinus, A Beautiful Specimen Of A Terrifying Sea Monster
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#7 Skeletal Mount Of Velociraptor Mongoliensis Next To A 27 Kg Greyhound (Photo By Mark Witton)
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#8 A Tylosaurus Hunting A Xiphactinus In A Long-Time Display At My Local Natural History Museum (The Academy Of Natural Sciences)
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#9 The Size Of A Sarcosuchus Mount
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#10 Dsungaripterus (Oc)
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#11 My Freshwater Stingray (Heliobatis Radians)
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#12 The Massive Skull Of Megachoerus, A Giant Entelodont
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#13 The Skull Of Megaladapis Aka The Koala Lemur Compared To The Gray Mouse Lemur
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#14 The Size Of The Skull And Horns Of A Bison Latifrons, The Giant Long-Horned Bison
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#15 “That’s Me” (Art By Everydaylouie)
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#16 Arthropleura, The Largest Known Arthropod To Ever Exist At An Estimated 2.5 Metres Long, Walks Slowly Along An Ancient Carboniferous Coastline Looking For Food (Render By Prehistorica_cm)
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#17 David Attenborough With A Titanosaur Femur
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#18 Constance Kite, A Fossil Preparator At Harvard Seen 60 Years Apart With The Kronosaurus She Helped Put Together; This Specimen Was Est At 34 Feet, Over 15 Tons
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#19 Torosaurus, The Largest Skulled Species Of Dinosaur With A Head Measuring Up To About 10 Feet Including A Massive Frill
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#20 Amphicyon Ingens, The Giant Bear-Dog. At 2.5m In Length And Weighing Over 550kgs, It Is One Of The Biggest Mammalian Land Carnivores Ever
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#21 Deinocheirus Juvenile (Oc)
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#22 Chalicotherium (Oc)
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#23 Purussaurus Is One Of The Largest Known Of The Giant Crocodilians, Perhaps Even Surpassing Sarcosuchus In Size. It Reigned Supreme In Central South America In The Miocene Period, 8 Million Years Ago
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#24 Introducing The Tyrannosaur Of The Arctic, Nanuqsaurus. It Prowled Around The Area Of Alaska And Lived During Maastrichtian Period
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#25 The Size Of A Pelagornis Sandersi, The Longest Winged Bird Ever Known
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#26 3 Pretty “Terror Birds” From South America
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#27 Comparison Of Theoretical Neanderthal Skeleton With Anatomically Modern Human. Ribcage And Pelvis , Is Twice As Big!
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#28 Very Early Description Of A Woolly Mammoth From 1805 Based On A Frozen Carcass Found In Siberian Permafrost
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#29 The Largest Wild Cat To Ever Exist, Sambir Lion
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#30 The Sheer Size Of The Dire Wolf
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#31 Shantungosaurus, The Largest Ornithischian And Largest Known Non-Sauropod Dinosaur, Compared To A Contemporary African Elephant
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#32 Smilodon Populator, Was Huge
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#33 The Head Of A Liopleurodon To Scale With The Artist Who Made It, Bob Nicholls
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#34 Megalodons Broke A Lot Of Their Own Teeth. May Teeth Have Been Broken By The Natural Environment Over The Last Few Million Years, But Many Were Broken By The Sharks Themselves Making It Difficult To Find One That Is Complete
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#35 Oh God
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#36 Capuchin Monkeys Using A Glyptodon’s Shell And Stones To Crack Nuts But The Giant Mammal Will Make Its Lack Of Appreciation Known (By Xtinctdesign)
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#37 To You, My Beloved Tikaalik
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#38 The Only Taxidermied Specimen Of Saddle-Backed Rodrigues Giant Tortoise (Cylindraspis Vosmaeri), Kept At The French National Museum Of Natural History
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#39 Kronosaurus (Oc)
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#40 Appreciation Post For The Denver Museum’s Daeodon Reconstruction. Still One Of The Best, With Only A Few Inaccuracies
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#41 The Actual Size Of Dilophosaurus From This Dinosaur Horror Short
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#42 Barinasuchus, The Largest Land Predator In South America From The Late Eocene To The Middle Miocene, A 21.4 Million Year Reign
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#43 The Walking Whales By Julio Lacerda
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#44 The Jaw Of Gigantopithecus Compared To That Of An Eastern Gorilla
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#45 The Sheer Size Of Megistotherium
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#46 Forgotten Extinct Animals: Bulldog Rat
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#47 A Leopard Seal Encounters The Hominin Paranthropus On The Coast Of South Africa During The Middle Pleistocene By Joschua Knüppe
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