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The earth has experienced a total of 5 biological mass extinctions in the 4.5 billion years of history, and each biological mass extinction has eliminated 80% to 90% of the organisms, so the earth has had many strange creatures before that we have not seen, so today I will introduce you to some very peculiar and huge creatures that once lived on the earth.

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470 million years ago on Earth lived a creature called the "Horn stone", which is a creature that looks very much like a squid, but is not a squid, it is a kind of nautilus. With a body length of up to 9 meters, it is the largest mollusk we currently know. This guy went extinct probably 450 million years ago.

400 million years ago, there was a huge creature called the Thunder Scorpion, also known as the Brondo Scorpion, which is the largest scorpion known on Earth. At present, we have found only a small fossil of its broken leg, 10 centimeters long, according to which we speculate that the scorpion can be one meter long. Later, it found traces of its bite on some fossils of other animals, and it turned out that it may be more than one meter, and the longest may reach three meters. And it looks very similar to the scorpion today, except that it lives in water.

400 million years ago, there was also a huge creature called the fish, which had a body up to 6 meters long, weighed a ton, and had thick armor on the outside of the body. This fish actually has no vertebrae and is a bit like a mollusk. Its bite force is particularly strong, reaching 750 kg, mainly because at that time the creatures in the sea have hard shells, you do not have a super bite force, you can not bite them. This fish was at the top of the food chain in the ocean at the time, and it was also a hegemon in the whole ocean.

80 million years ago, at this time, the world's largest crocodile, called the crocodile, lived mainly in North America and Europe. Crocodiles and crocodiles now look almost exactly the same, that is, they are particularly large. The crocodile's body can be up to 16 meters long and weighs more than 15 tons, which can not only swim quickly in the water, but also run fast on land. It preyed mainly on large dinosaurs, as well as large turtles. Its bite force is more exaggerated than that of the fish just now, with a bite force of 8 tons, which is also the largest bite force we know on land.

68 million years ago, the dinosaurs may have been on the verge of extinction at this time, but at this time there was the largest flying animal on the earth, the Aeolian Pterosaurus, scientific name Kecharkoyater, its wingspan can reach 12 meters, it stands on the ground height like a giraffe, this Aeolian Pterodactyl mainly preyed on small dinosaurs, and some mammals.

60 million years ago, the dinosaurs were extinct at this time, but the largest python appeared on Earth, this python called the Titan Python, is not poisonous. In 2009, 28 fossils of the python were found in coal mines in Colombia, the longest of which was 15 meters long and had a body diameter of one meter, mainly preying on crocodiles.

48 million years ago, at this time, a particularly interesting animal appeared on the earth, this thing is called an anchovy beast, the body looks like a wolf, but it has 4 hooves, that is to say, he has a wolf body, but he has grown a herbivore leg, so it is the legendary sheep in wolf skin. Omnivorous animals. There are very few fossils of this guy, only two have been found so far, one of which is 80 centimeters long in the skull, and its body is 4 meters long by the skull.

30 million years ago, this time appeared the world's largest pig, the ancient giant pig, this pig mainly lived in Europe and Asia, the ancient giant pig and the current pig look very similar, but there is a little difference from the current pig, that is, it has two huge protrusions on its face. This animal is very cruel, omnivore, eating everything and eating each other.

25 million years ago, the largest bird on Earth appeared at this time, this bird is called the Sang's pseudo-toothed bird, with a wingspan of 7.4 meters. Only one set of fossils of this bird has been found worldwide, excavated in the ground during the construction of the waiting hall at the Carolina International Airport in the United States, and the excavated layer is 25 million years old, so it is suspected that it lived in that period. This bird has a very big feature, that is, its legs are particularly short, so it can not take off on the sea or on land, it can only jump off cliffs. The most different thing about this bird from today's birds is that its beak has countless teeth, but this is not really a tooth, because the bird does not need to chew, so this thing is called pseudo-teeth.

23 million years ago, this time on Earth, the most bite-oriented animal, the megalodon, was the largest known shark on Earth. It is very similar to the great white shark, with a body length of up to 20 meters and a weight of 100 tons, so it is larger than the average whale, and it mainly preys on whales. There are more than 100 teeth in the mouth that are 20 centimeters long, and it is estimated that this guy can bite force of 36 tons. The most frightening point is that no one knows whether this guy is extinct or not, and many biologists think that he is not extinct. At first I thought this guy might have gone extinct tens of millions of years ago, but new fossils are constantly being found in the ocean, and these fossils are getting younger and younger. The latest discovery was about 10,000 years ago, and some marine animals were bitten marks, with such a large tooth mark, it is suspected that this guy still lives in the deep sea, so now many movies are based on it.

18 million years ago, this time the largest bear on the earth appeared, called short-faced bear, short-faced bear and now brown bears look very similar, the face is relatively short, the forelimbs are particularly long, normal standing and people are almost the same height, but when walking on two feet, the height of the body can reach more than 3.7 meters, the weight is also more than a ton, probably around 10,000 years ago extinct.

3 million years ago, the largest tiger on Earth appeared, the saber-toothed tiger, and this guy probably went extinct about 10,000 years ago. The saber-toothed tiger is a close relative of the tiger, and it looks very similar to the tiger now, the difference is that its tail is particularly short, and then it has two particularly long canine teeth, which are 36 centimeters long. It is also the largest known cat on Earth , preying on large mammals such as mammoths , short-faced bears , and large otters. At present, the fossils of saber-toothed tigers are mainly found in the United States, and basically found in a pit, which is called the La Brea Asphalt Pit, which is the largest natural asphalt pit.

1.8 million years ago, the largest eagle on Earth appeared at this time, called the Haast Eagle. The Haast eagle actually went extinct very close to us, about 500 years ago, that is, in the 15th and 16th centuries, weighing 15 kilograms and reaching a wingspan of three meters.

1.5 million years ago, the largest terrestrial monitor lizard appeared on earth, called the ancient monitor lizard. This lizard lived in Australia and became extinct about 40,000 years ago. This lizard has not found a complete skeleton so far, mainly skulls, so it is not possible to fully determine its size, according to the proportion of the current lizard to calculate, it may be able to reach more than 9 meters on the body, weigh more than two tons, the limbs are very strong, full of sharp teeth, so it is very scary.

1 million years ago, the last creature we are going to introduce today, the great ape, three meters tall and weighing 550 kilograms, is the largest known primate and the largest known humanoid, it is of the genus Human. It mainly lived in China and India 1 million years ago, and in the soil layer of about 300,000 years ago, no fossils or traces of the existence of this giant ape have been found, so it is thought that it became extinct at that time. But whether there is extinction or not is not yet known. This giant ape is also the prototype of King Kong.

Having said all this, which prehistoric creature impressed you? Welcome to leave a comment, let's discuss which ancient creatures are far away.