Ten of ancient animals that we never see – Word without borders

In the past, many organisms that exist on our planet, are larger animals than the ones we can find right now. One of the correspondents of BBC Earth made a list of the most amazing animals that lived in ancient times.

1. Egirokassida. The first animal that represents the considered rating is egirokassida – the fruit of love lobster and whale. This shrimp lived roughly 480 million years ago, and its length reached the mark of 2 meters. Egirokassida of mind was this alien creature. Scientists examining the remains of this animal, found that egirokassida had twin blades.

2. merostomes. merostomes – one of the largest arthropod – Its length is 2.5 meters. It was distributed in lakes and rivers 390 million years ago. The first was described merostomes 7 years ago, when Germany was found his claw, the length of which is equal to 46 cm.

3. arthropleura. even larger arthropods is arthropleura – giant millipedes length of 2.6 meters. These animals inhabit the earth 280-340 million years ago, and it is likely that they were giants of the enormous oxygen in Earth’s atmosphere at the time.

4. meganeura. In ancient times, many unusual animals were arthropods. It can be said about meganeura, whose remains were first found as early as 1880 in France. Meganeura were very similar to dragonflies, but the wingspan of these ancient animals reached more than half.

5. sarcosuchus Imperial. In 1997, the Niger group of paleontologists found the remains of an ancient crocodile jaws – sarcosuchus Imperial. All anything, but the length of his jaw was the size of a human. This animal had a weight of 8 tons with a length of 12 meters.

6. Metozavr. In the past, the fish were afraid not only of giant crocodiles and huge amphibians, which resembles salamanders. These are the animal is a six-foot metozavr, whose remains were found in India, North America, Poland and Germany.

7. megatherium. Almost no one knew that in ancient times there were even giant sloths, whose name megatherium. They were common in North America and different from other animals with a solid skeleton.

8. Fororakosovye (“terrible bird”). Who can imagine a bird rising three meters? And such was inhabited our planet about 2-60 million years ago. Fororakosovye, or simply “terrible bird”, could develop a running speed of 50 km / h and could easily swallow a small animal in one fell swoop.

9. Megalodon. And here is the size of Megalodon, ancient sharks, one can not imagine. It is assumed that Megalodon had a weight of 30 times the weight of the white shark.

10. titanoboa. about 60 million years ago the Earth was inhabited by snakes titanoboa length of about 14 meters. Scientists believe that a distant relative titanoboa boa.

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