Once upon a time, nature was truly hardcore (26 photos)

Human-sized insects, gigantic-sized reptiles and rodents with horns are just a few examples proving that once nature was "hardcore". Against this background, any of the current giants of the animal world will seem small and fragile! Nature subreddit Was Metal is dedicated to some of nature's most unusual creations, disappeared from the face of the earth.





1 The Best Preserved Mummified Nodosaurus specimen of a dinosaur ever discovered. He lived 110 million years ago



2. The tail of a dinosaur that lived 99 million years ago. Perfectly preserved, still covered in feathers



3. The only surviving head and skin of an extinct bird dodo. Stored at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History



4. Quetzalcoatl, the largest ever discovered pterosaurs and perhaps the largest flying animal. He had wingspan about 15.9 meters



5. The skull of the Nile crocodile next to the skull of a crocodile Thorbjarnarson. This is a giant species from the early Pleistocene that lived in Turkana Basin, Kenya



6. Bones of a giant monster - Argentinosaurus



7. Colony of giant crinoids (marine invertebrates) 195 million years old, 4 x 5 meters



8. Skull and antlers of an elk. This is an extinct species that lived in Ireland 10,000 years ago.



9. Animatronic Tyrannosaurus at the Natural History Museum in London



10. What would a Tyrannosaurus rex attack on a human look like?



11 Utahraptor Claws



12. The giant Arthropleura millipede (Arthropleura Millipede) is the largest known land invertebrate.



13. Ceratogaulus (horned ground squirrel) is the only rodent known to have developed horns.



14. Fossil of a sea lily that lived about 345 million years ago



15. Eremotherium, an extinct genus of giant sloths that lived 2.5 million - 11,000 years ago



16 Huge Utahraptor Skull, With Velociraptor Skull And Human Head For Scale



17. Barosaurus had a rather long neck. Illustration by John Conway



18. A 22-million-year-old termite whose last meal was preserved in amber



19. Triceratops femur (left) compared to elephant femur



20. Fossil of a giant fish over 40 million years old, found in Argentina



21. Parapuzosia Seppenradensis, the largest known ammonite, photographed in the late 1800s next to the person who described it paleontologist



22. Prehistoric Pauchiformes (Arachnida) found in amber



23. In the jaw of a spinosaurus



24. Thalassocnus Natans, Late Miocene water sloth from Peru and Chile. Illustration by Mark Witton



25. Melville Leviathan, an extinct genus of sperm whales. Skull 3 meters, upper teeth up to 36 cm long. It was an apex predator and competitor megalodon, ancient shark