Category: Prehistoric Creatures

Anhanguera Anhanguerawas a pterosaur, a type of flying reptile. It was not adinosaur, though it lived during the same period.Anhangueralived during the Early Cretaceous and resided in South America. The firstAnhanguerafossil was discovered in 1985. Anhanguera Facts Lived during the Early Cretaceous Period Lived in what is now known as South America and Australia Was []

Archelon Archelon is an extinct marine turtle from the Late Cretaceous, and is the largest turtle ever to have been documented, with the biggest specimen measuring 460 cm (15 ft) from head to tail, 400 cm (13 ft) from flipper to flipper, and 2,200 kg (4,900 lb) in weight. It is known only from the []

Megalodon Megalodon (Carcharocles megalodon), meaning big tooth, is an extinct species of shark that lived approximately 23 to 3.6 million years ago (mya), during the Early Miocene to the Pliocene. It was formerly thought to be a member of the family Lamnidae and a close relative of the great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias). However, it []

Cotylorhynchus Cotylorhynchusis an extinct genus of very largesynapsidsthat lived in the southern part of what is nowNorth Americaduring theEarly Permian period.It is the best known member of the synapsid cladeCaseidae, usually considered the largest terrestrial vertebrates of the Early Permian,though they were possibly aquatic. Cotylorhynchuswas a heavily built animal with a disproportionately small head and []

Pliosaurus Pliosaurus(meaning more lizard) is a genusofthalassophonean pliosauridknown from theKimmeridgianandTithonianstages (LateJurassic) ofEuropeandSouth America. Their diet would have includedfish,cephalopods, andmarine reptiles. This genus has contained many species in the past but recent reviews found only six to be valid, while the validity of two additional species awaits a petition to theICZN. Pliosaurus currently consists of thetype []

Sarcosuchuswas by far the biggest crocodile that ever lived, making modern crocs,caimans,and gators look like insignificant geckos by comparison. Below are 8 interesting Facts About Sarcosuchus. Sarcosuchus Is Also Known as the SuperCroc The nameSarcosuchusis Greek for flesh crocodile, but that apparently wasnt impressive enough for the producers at National Geographic. In 2001, this cable []

Prehistoric Animals While dinosaurs get all the attention, discover why prehistoric creatures like the terror bird and the Titanoboa are just as terrifying. For about 135 million years, dinosaurs were the undisputed rulers of the Earth. And they might still have been today if not for the cataclysmic comet that struck Earth some 65 million []

Sarcosuchus Sarcosuchus(meaning flesh crocodile) is a genus of crocodyliform and distant relative of living crocodylians that lived 112 million years ago. It dates from the early CretaceousPeriodof what is now Africa and South America and is one of the largest crocodile-like reptiles that ever lived. It was almost twice as long as the modern saltwater []

Quetzalcoatlus Quetzalcoatlus northropiis an azhdarchid pterosaur known from the LateCretaceousof North America (Maastrichtian stage) and one of the largest known flying animals of all time. It is a member of the family Azhdarchidae, a family of advanced toothless pterosaurs with unusually long, stiffened necks. Its name comes from the Mesoamerican feathered serpent god, Quetzalcoatl. When []