The great barracuda is a fierce looking predator that lives and hunts primarily alone. He is a curious fish, and is very common to the shallow waters in Florida. He is very distinct in his shape and body due to the elongated torpedo-like torso and very large mouth. He has extremely long and sharp teeth
The Irish Elk was the largest deer that ever lived. Its home was Eurasia, from Ireland into the lakes at Baikal, and it lived during the Pleistocen area. The last of the giant deer died out about 7 thousand years ago. Irish Elk The Irish Elk was not strictly Irish in nature, and lived in
The Velociraptor was a very fast moving biped dinosaur. It was a meat eater, who could, according to scientists, outrun anything it came near. The Velociraptor had over eighty very thin and sharp curved teeth, which were well over an inch long. Velociraptor Its neck was shaped like an s, curved forward and the arms
Allosaurus was a large carnivorous biped of the dinosaur era, which had a very large head, which was balanced only by his very long, very heavy tail. In what is now the United States, Allosaurus was the largest common predator dinosaur. It lived about 100 million years ago, in the Jurassic period of Earth, sharing
Ages ago in the spring time of the earth species that were unlike anything we know today wandered across the countries and owned everything they saw. Triceratops was one of those species. It lived in what is now Canada, Mexico and the United States. Triceratops Triceratops was an herbivore, which means that it liked plants
At the end of the last ice age, two different types of cats were living in the Midwest areas of the United States. The first was the old favorite, saber tooth tiger, whose real name was Smilodon. He had extremely large canine teeth which you usually think about with the sabertooth. Saber Tooth His canine
Megalodon was a dino shark. That is to say that Megalodon was an ancient shark who lived many thousands of years ago. Scientists can’t seem to agree on its size but it was determined that it would have been between 40 feet and 100 feet long, possibly even more. The smallest size they estimate it
At thirty feet long and fourteen feet tall the Stegosaurus is one of the most easily recognizable dinosaurs, particularly today, after the plethora of dino pictures. The Stegosaurus had a very unique row of plate, or ridges that rose from his back in two separate rows, and long spikes at the end of his tail.
The Giant Short Faced Bear is believed to be the largest bear that ever existed. It would have toad about 5 feet tall at the shoulder and been the proud possessor of the strongest most powerful jaws that had ever been seen. Giant Short Faced Bear Frightening to say the very least. IT would be
Dwarf elephants were prehistoric elephants, which lives in the Pleistocene period of history. They were members of a family of animals which had evolved to about a tenth of the size of elephants today they lived in many areas of the world including what are now called the Channel Islands of California. They are considered
Quetzalcoatlus (named for the Aztec feathered serpent god Quetzalcoatl) was a pterodactyloid pterosaur known from the Late Cretaceous of North America (Campanian–Maastrichtian stages, 84–65 ma), and one of the largest known flying animals of all time. It was a member of the Azhdarchidae, a group of advanced toothless pterosaurs.Discovery and species The first Quetzalcoatlus fossil
A mammoth is any of a number of an extinct genus ofproboscidean (of which the elephant remains), often with long curved tusks and, in northern species, a covering of long hair. They lived from the Pliocene epoch from 4.8 million years ago to around 3,500 years ago. The word mammoth comes from the Russian мамонт
Tyrannosaurus is a genus of tyrannosaurid theropod dinosaur. The species Tyrannosaurus rex, commonly abbreviated to T. rex, is one of the dinosaurs most often featured in popular culture around the world. It hails from what is now western North America. Some scientists consider Tarbosaurus bataar from Asia to represent a second species of Tyrannosaurus, while
The Newfoundland was a subspecies of the grey wolf, which is a predator with whom the cattlemen and ranchers still take issue today. The Newfoundland wolf lived on the island of Newfoundland which is off the east coast of Canada. The Newfoundland wolf was a large wolf which was said to be white, with a
Was a species of bear which was related to the brown bear or grizzly bear of modern times. It lived and ranged in Europe and went extinct about the end of the ice age, which ended about 20 thousand years ago. Fossils of the bear were found primarily in caves, which is where the bear
