Literature | Animal Psychology
In ancient times, did such a powerful beast really exist? Nature has a law of operation, each civilization can not exist forever, when the limit comes, the power of nature will ruthlessly destroy the civilization at that time, leaving only a little trace for people to refer to and excavate.
Fortunately, with the help of modern technology, let's popularize 5 kinds of ancient beasts.
The fifth Titan Python
In 2014, an international team of researchers speculated based on fossil snake skeletons unearthed in northern Colombia that a giant snake that lived in the tropical region of South America 58 million years ago was the longest known snake, and the researchers named the giant snake Titan Python.
Titan Python
Titan Python is bigger than any python on Earth today, weighing about 1100 kilograms and more than 20 meters long. According to scientists, dinosaurs went extinct. Titan Python lost its heavens and earth, once evolved very large, and ruled the world for more than 1,000 years. Why did these pythons withdraw from the stage of evolutionary history? The researchers speculate that it may have been a drastically changing climate at the time that murdered and killed huge. At that time, the earth was getting hotter and hotter, and the overly large pythons were difficult to adapt to the hot climate. In hot weather, they lose energy too quickly and are more susceptible to disease. The media responded to the giant python's frightening headline, "It will eat the crocodile for breakfast."
The fourth fragile two-chambered dragon
Archaeologists have discovered a giant dinosaur called Fragile Diplodocus, a giant herbivorous dinosaur. It is the largest individual creature on Earth, with a body length of an astonishing 60 to 80 meters and a maximum weight of 220 metric tons.
Fragile diplodocus
Comparable to the heaviest blue whale today. Fragile diplodocus was excavated in 1877 by fossil collector Lucas, who shipped the specimen to paleontologist Edward Derinkopop in 1878. There was no good technique for preserving fossils, so unfortunately the vertebrae and femur of the fragile diplodocus were unknown.
Nowadays, only the descriptions and hand-drawn records of popular science at that time can be inferred from the information related to fragile diplodocus.
The third imperial crocodile
Monarch crocodiles are extinct crocodiles that lived in Cretaceous Africa and are one of the largest crocodiles that have ever lived.
When the monarch crocodile grows completely. It can reach the length of a bus, has 10.5 meters and weighs about 6000 kg.
Imperial crocodile
The bite force of the imperial crocodile is very large, making it difficult for prey to escape. Their main prey may be large animals versus smaller dinosaurs, and imperial crocodiles ambush in the water and drag their prey into the water before crushing and drowning to tear it apart.
Second place Leeds fish
The Leeds fish is an extinct giant thick-stemmed fish that lived between 165 million and 155 million years ago in the middle of the Jurassic Period.
Leeds fish
It is considered to be the largest teleost fish ever built.
Its eating habits were similar to those of the largest fish today. Whale sharks and basking sharks, which swim slowly through the upper water bodies of the ocean, suck in a mouthful of plankton-rich water, and then sift them out through a huge mesh plate at the back of their mouths.
Although paleontologists have found a few fossils of the liz fish, the actual size is still controversial, some believe that it is no more than ten meters, and some scholars believe that it can reach 16 meters and weigh 45 tons, and there is no conclusive conclusion.
The first place dragon
Remember the huge body in the first episode of the Jurassic, coming out of the water and swallowing the shark in one bite, that is, the dragon.
Dragons eat sharks
The length of the dragon can reach 17 meters, many people think that the dragon is a dinosaur, in fact, it is more correct to say that the dragon is an aquatic lizard, even if the dragon has become extinct, there are still some mysterious zoologists believe.
Canglong
Those crocodile-like sea snake sightings may be dragons that have survived to this day, and the water monsters of Maori legend are believed by some media to be dragons. However, after the Cretaceous extinction event 65 million years ago, there is no further scientific evidence that the dragon is still alive.