Imagine if this creatures is still living now in our planet, would you go hiking in the forest or swim in sea?
1. Carbonemys
The name Carbonemys means “carbon turtle”. It was a carnivore the size of a Volkswagen. Its head was bigger than a football and its beak razor sharp which made it easy to slice through other animals with ease.
2. Arthropleura
The Arthropleura was a giant millipede that was the size of a car. It could be found mostly in carboniferous forests but was mostly vegetarian and fed on rotting matter.
Scorpions have existed in different forms for over 400 million years and were the true definition of badass because they could grow large. Like really massive. The Brontoscorpio had a lightbulb size stinger and was a meter long. It was a sea scorpion but with gills and was one of the first animals to crawl out of the sea!
This is another giant scorpion. It grew to the size of the Brontoscorpio but with a smaller stinger and every bit as voracious. The Plumonoscorpius was terrestrial.
7. Cameroceras
8. Kaprosuchus
9. Titanboa
2. Arthropleura
The Arthropleura was a giant millipede that was the size of a car. It could be found mostly in carboniferous forests but was mostly vegetarian and fed on rotting matter.
3. Brontoscorpio
Scorpions have existed in different forms for over 400 million years and were the true definition of badass because they could grow large. Like really massive. The Brontoscorpio had a lightbulb size stinger and was a meter long. It was a sea scorpion but with gills and was one of the first animals to crawl out of the sea!
4. Jaekelopterus
The Jaekelopterus makes the Brontoscorpio look like a small puppy. It was the size of a crocodile and with an appetite to match. The Jaekelopterus ravaged sea scorpions, ammonites, ancient fish…. Basically, anything in its wake was on the menu. It was in fact one of the largest scorpions in history.
5. Anomalocaris
Anomalocaris means “abnormal shrimp”, which is creepy on its own. It’s the smallest on this list but don’t be fooled- it grew to the size of an arm! It was also the largest of the anomalocarids species.
6. Pulmonoscorpius
7. Cameroceras
The Cameroceras was the ancient ancestor of octopi and squids. It had a 12 meter shell that made it move slower but it was powerful enough to take down ancient predatory fish and sea scorpions.
8. Kaprosuchus
The Kaprosuchus is an all terrain animal. Its name means “boar crocodile’ due to its long teeth. This six meter long killing machine could do what a crocodile can do but better. It could wait in water and attack but could also run on land. No luck for any living thing whether on land or sea. It even killed dinosaurs.
9. Titanboa
These days snakes are comparatively small. The green anaconda is the largest so far and the reticulated python is the longest. Those are babies compared to the Titanboa. It measured over 12 meters lengthwise and was the size of a T Rex. It ate mostly giant crocodiles and turtles and lived right after the extinction of dinosaurs but ruled the earth just like they did.
10. Livyatan Melvillei
The Livyatan got its name from the biblical monster, the one God had to kill. (It’s also in ‘Moby Dick’.) Its teeth were a foot long, grew larger than the megalodon and hunted anything in its wake. It ate beaked whales, baleen whales, porpoises, dolphins, sea turtles, sharks, seabirds and seals.
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