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Im your host Ayman Hasan and welcome back to another video here at most amazing top
10.
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our new channel that weve recently started called Top 10 Beyond the Screen.
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if urban legends and scary stories arent your thing but youre a movie and tv show fiend
then here you go.
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Speaking of has anyone seen The Meg?
Ruby Rose Jason Statham massive shark.
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This is the top 10 Scary Creatures More Terrifying Than The Megalodon.
J - Starting us off with number 10 is the Helicoprion, also known as the spiral mouthed
killer.
Terrorizing the seas nearly 300 million years ago, and thank God for that… the Helicoprion
was a bizarre species of shark that had one of the craziest sets of teeth in natural history.
It’s unusual feature of teeth has been a huge debate in the scientific community, and
it’s easy to see why.
The only fossils that have been found of this animal contain sets of spiraled teeth, and
scientists are still trying to figure out just how they would have possibly fit into
the shark’s mouth.
What they do know is that, like many modern sharks, the Helicoprion most likely had to
replace their teeth pretty often.
Many images online show the terrifying shark with a buzz-saw mouth, but some scientists
believe that the tooth-spiral may have actually been located inside the shark’s throat.
Gross.
I don’t care where those teeth are located, all I know is I don’t want them anywhere
near me.
A- Coming in at number 9 is the Mosasaurus.
Honey if you thought the megalodon was big you aint seen nothing yet.
The Mosasaurus was a prehistoric marine reptile that grew upto 60 ft in length.
Now the max possible length of a meg was 60 ft but that was the biggest of the big.
Most mosasaurs reached at least 55 56 ft.
So both are pretty much the same size too.
It existed during the late Cretaceous period nearly 70 to 66 million years ago.
The name itself means lizard of the Meuse River and it was dubbed as one of the most
dangerous animals in the water during the Cretaceous period.
Like these things did not come to mess around.
They lived near the ocean surface and ate mostly fish turtles other smaller mosasaurs
and they didnt like to dive too deep into the water.
The mosasaurus itself looks sort of like a gigantic emphasis on gigantic crocodile that
just had fins.
If you want a good indication of what this creature looked like you can see it very clearly
in Jurassic World in the scene where the people are watching the water and the mosasaurus
leaps out and eats a great white shark.
And that was probably just a light snack before lunch.
J- At number 8 we have the Jaekelopterus.
What’s worse than a scorpion?
A sea scorpion… that’s bigger than you.
This creature was known to be a predator nearly 400 million years ago and was probably willing
to eat anything smaller than itself.
Rumour has it- that included members of its own species.
This creepy crawler grew to over eight feet long….
I’m 5’7, so let’s put that into perspective.
Arthropod is a group of species that include insects, lobsters, and crabs.
This guy is the largest discovered species of the whole group.
They also had huge spiked claws that could kill a fish with ease.
Experts believe that they would ambush their prey with their claws before tearing the meal
apart….
There’s an image I didn’t need in my head.
A- Filling our number 7 slot is the Quetzalcoatlus (Quetzal-co-atlus).
Yeah dont worry even when i saw that word i was like now how on earth do you say that.
But anyway this beast was a pterosaur from the Late Cretaceous period and it is one of
the largest known flying animals of our world.
Thats a heavy title to carry.
Think of this creature as as pterodactyl on steroids.
Their wingspan was known to reach anywhere between 40-52 ft wide and its minimum wingspan
was 36ft.
The Quetzelcoatlus also had a very long sharp pointed beak and they would mostly eat like
any modern day skimmer.
Even though at their size they could probably kill anything that they may have been roaming
around with at the time lets be real.
Theyd catch a lot of fish during flight while skimming the waves and they didnt actually
have any teeth.
Other people speculate they didnt skim at all and in fact ate like scavengers.
Theres not a significant amount known on the species but one things for sure.
If that thing is 15x bigger than i am you can get your ass you wont find me anywhere
near it.
J- Now at number 6 is the Titanoboa.
If the movie Anaconda scared you… you might want to skip this one.
As simple as it gets, Titanoboa is the largest snake that ever existed.
I’m speaking in past tense because yes they are extinct and yes I am happy about it.
This massive snake grew to more than 40 feet long and could weigh up to 2,500lbs.
To help put things in perspective, that’s almost as much as a grown giraffe weighs.
HUGE.
Similar to the Anaconda, they can fit their entire prey into their mouth with just one
swallow.
And i'm not talking about little mice, I’m talking deers, jaguars, and even humans.
Apparently this terrifying creature appeared not long after the dinosaurs went extinct;
I guess the world needed a new top predator.
I think I’d actually prefer having a dinosaur around.
A- Coming in at number 5 is Liopleurodon (lie-a-pluro-don).
Now this creature is another carnivorous marine reptile and it is a type of plesiosaur.
The name liopleurodon itself means smooth-sided teeth.
They lived during the Callovian stage of the middle Jurassic period and was literally the
apex predator in the sea near Europe at that time.
The largest one ever recorded was a bit over 33 ft long, whereas the average size of them
is somewhere between 16 and 23 ft.
They also weighed a ton im talking 2000-4000 pounds.
Their teeth were around 7cm long and the animal itself was mainly found near England and France.
The beast had 4 strong paddle like limbs which made it very good at accelerating especially
after whatever prey it wanted.
If something that big and that fast came after me in the water I would just let it take me
honestly.
There would be no point in me even attempting to swim away.
The liopleurodon would probably laugh at me in that scenario.
Like i myself would be a joke.
J- At number 4 is Megatherium.
When we think of sloths we probably think of cute cuddly animals that sleep all day
and mind their own business.
A sloth isn’t exactly the first thing that comes to my mind when I think of deadly monsters.
But, the Megatherium was more like a modern sloth, in giant size.
Not only was it giant, but it was known to be angry.
It behaved like a sloth, sort of looked like a bear, and was about the size of an elephant.
And no, I’m not exaggerating..
It was huge.
Unlike an elephant though, this giant sloth also had giant claws and could stand on its
hind legs to appear even bigger to other animals.
This is one sloth I have no interest in petting, and turns out I wouldn’t be able to anyways
because they went extinct over 10’000 years ago.
A- Filling our number 3 slot is the Thalattoarchon (tha-la-toe-archen).
Now this was a type of ichthyosaur and it was alive near Western America during the
Middle Triassic era and it was known to be the oldest known marine reptile that was also
an apex predator.
Funnily enough we have all our information about this creature from one single holotype
the FMNH PR 3032 that was found in 2010.
So this is a pretty recent discovery go science.
The total length of a thalattoarchon is around 28-30 ft and it was actually one of the first
marine predators that was able to eat prey as big as itself.
Their teeth had two edges that could both cut through prey so either way whatever its
eating is getting torn to shreds big time.
I wish i could say more about how it lived and how it ate but not enough is known about
the animal for me to do so.
I mean it was only formally described in 2013 so..
Give me 5 years and ill come back to this with more info.
J- Now at number 2 is Scolopendra Gigantea, also known as my biggest fear.
If you are deathly afraid of centipedes like me, then this one will make you cringe.
It’s the largest centipede in the world, growing to a whopping 26cm, also known as
10 inches.
They’ve been found in the central of South America.
Super thankful right now that I live in Canada.
Not only is it huge, long, and creepy, but to top it off it has modified jaws on his
head which can trap and deliver venom to its prey.
Its usual prey is mice, lizards, and frogs… but if you happen to get bit by one of them,
it can cause severe swelling and fever.
Their venom is toxic to humans!
The fact that this one isn’t extinct is a complete nightmare for me.
A- And finally at number 1 is The Livyatan.
Now this big boy is actually an extinct genus of sperm whale and it got its name from the
sea monster Leviathan.
Go figure.
It was mostly found near Peru and South America and it was around during the Tortonian stage
of the Miocene epoch which was 9-8 million years ago.
It was a hyper predatory sperm whale and was lowkey actually no not even lowkey it was
a highkey apex predator.
It grew to around 44-57 ft long again nearly the size of a Megalodon and the tallest tooth
ever recorded from one was more than 14 inches big.
That is the largest tooth ever recorded of any known animal.
Its teeth were very deeply embedded into its gums and they also interlocked which helped
them hold struggling prey.
Like they need any more advantages.
According to Discover magazine this creature lived during the same time as the Megalodon
and it actually ate other whales that were 20-30 ft big and competed with the meg for
similar prey.
If you cant find something scarier than the meg than find something just as scary.
And thats it for todays video guys!
I hope you enjoyed this list of terrifying creatures, let us know in the comments below
about which one youd avoid at all costs.
Id pick one but honestly i cant even decide.
(Jocelyn speaks) Thank you for coming on the channel Jocelyn it was so much fun having
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Ive been your host Ayman Hasan.