Prehistoric animals

Prehistoric mammals By Nobu Tamura Prehistoric mammals are groups of mammals that became extinct before humans developed writing. 164…

Design and Illustration for Pleistocene (Ice Age) specimens and fossils, natural history museum signage.

Evolution of the manatee/sea cow and dugong. Artist is Julio Lacerda

Gigantopithecus was a genus of ape that existed from 1 to 5 million years ago in what is today the countries of China and India.

Paraceratherium Paraceratherium is an extinct genus of hornless rhinoceros, and one of the largest terrestrial mammals that has ever walked the Earth.

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Inostrancevia lived during the Late Permian period and was the largest of the gorgonopsid species. Inostrancevia's most striking feature was its long, saber-tooth-like canines. It had a total body length of around 3.5 m, a weight of 300 kg and a huge skull, which measured up to 60 cm in length. Inastroncevia was likely at the top of the food chain in Late Permian Russia, preying on the large herbivorous creatures it shared the land with.

Prehistoric Animals

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There were several species of Moa, of various sizes, all of which had become extinct by the mid 1400s. Here are three of them, top to bottom: Dinornis robustus, Emeus crassus and Anomalopteryx didiformis