Exploring Prehistoric Life
This list is just a small selection of monstrous or weird-looking creatures from ancient times, most of which are little known to the public.
Prehistory had no shortage of terrifying monsters, with everything from the more well-known Raptors and Rexes to super rats and three-eyed shrimp.
Daeodon is a genus of entelodont artiodactyl that inhabited North America between 29 and 19 million years ago during the late Oligocene...
Meet Sarcosuchus, the 10-Ton Prehistoric Crocodile.
Ammonoids are a group of marine mollusc animals in the subclass Ammonoidea of the class Cephalopoda.
Ichthyosaurs belong to the order known as Ichthyosauria or Ichthyopterygia (‘fish flippers’ – a designation introduced by Sir Richard Owen in 1840, although the term is now used more for the parent clade of the Ichthyosauria)....
Tylosaurus was a mosasaur, a large, predatory marine lizard closely related to modern monitor lizards and to snakes.
Hatzegopteryx is a genus of azhdarchid pterosaur found in the late Maastrichtian deposits of the Densuș Ciula Formation, outcropping in Transylvania, Romania.
The hunt for the ancestors of living birds began with a specimen of Archaeopteryx, the first known bird, discovered in the early 1860s.