Over the years we hear that more and more animal species have ben listed as endangered
and there extinction is just a mater of time.
Like the poor little green hair punk turtle that I just talked about over on landon productions.
Editors if you can put a pic of the turtle.
Now unlike that adorable little fellow there are also some scary animals that we are all
probably glad are extinct and that’s what were going to be talking about today.
Hey youtube im court mcginley and welcome back to the most amazing top 5.
Before we get started I want to know which animal do you find the scariest?
Mine is any huge gangly toothed deep sea creature- yep not about those-oh and Kowalas- yeah and
im not talking about Buster moon..
im talking about these guys.
Editors can you insert a picture of the buster moon kowala and then the scary wet kowala
side by side.
did you know they can give you Chlamidia by peeing on you- yeah their rude.
let me know your answers down in the comments.
Alright lets get started on our list of the top 5 scariest animals that used to exist.
Starting off at our number 5 spot--Pela-gornis Sand-eris- So basically this thing looks like
a demonic segel with extremely sharp teeth.
Yeah who wouldn’t want to cross paths with one of those?
Its fossil remains date from 25 million years ago.
And the only known fossil of this creature was uncovered in 1983 at Charleston International
Airport in South Carolina.
Turns out this guys wing span was estimated to be up to 24 feet.
So yeah that just adds to the fear i now have of this creature.
Its also apparently the largest flying bird to ever be discovered.
So that’s fun.
Its expected this bird was able to fly simply by jumping off cliff edges and just spread
its wings.
Spending a lot of its time over the ocean as the rising wind currents from the ocean
kept it in flight.
So at least it didn’t spend much time on land so that’s good I guess.
Oh yeah and the fact that it doesn’t exist anymore..yeah that’s nice.
In at number 4--Giganto-pithecus- This was the largest ape on earth and lived between
9 million to 100 thousand years ago in Asia.
It stood at 10 feet tall and weighed in at 1 thousand 200 pounds.
Ok forget that Puney little seagull this ape is legit scary.
10 feet and over 1 thousand pounds oh my god.
He was believed to walk LIKE MODERN GORILLAS AND CHIMPS ON ALL FOURS.
And due to how the teeth looked upon discovery its assumed these animals would chew on tough-
fibrous food by cutting- crushing and grinding their food.
The fossils also suggested that this species were the largest known primates that ever
lived.
At number 3--Camero-ceras- This creature lived 470 to 460 million years ago during the Ordo-vician
period.
It was a giant ancient ancestor of the modern squids and octopi.
Its most distinctive feature was its enormous cone like shell and tentacles that it used
for catching its prey which included fish and other sea creatures.
The estimates regarding the size of the shell vary between 20 to 40 feet long.
Regardless that’s huge.
Now as we know 80 percent of the ocean hasn’t been explored yet and at points the depths
are really deep and dark.
So who knows what lives down there.
Whenever I hear about a creature from the ocean that’s extinct I don’t always believe
it.
Sea creatures are usually quite intelligent and able to adapt really well to their surroundings.
So a little part of me thinks that this guy could still be down there.
Its kind of like that movie that’s coming out soon called the Meg.
Its about this shark like creature that was previously thought to be extinct but it actually
lives at the bottom of the deepest trench in the Pacific.
Yeah it’s a pretty creepy concept.
But you never know.
In at our number 2 spot--Heli-coprion- yeah ive heard of this guy before and I am not
a fan.
I actually learned about him in a museum in Chicago last weekend.
This is one of the longest-lived pre-historical creatures having lived 310-250 million years
ago.
These guys would grow up to over 13 feet in length.
This is a type of extinct shark-like holo-cep-halid fish- that’s most memorable for its spirally
arranged clusters of teeth- which were called tooth whorls.
Its expected these tooth whorls would be used to trap fish on its row of pointy teeth as
the shark swam by them.
Yeah that’s charming Coming in at our number 1 spot--Quet-zal-coat-lus-
yeah these guys had a wingspan of up to an insane 40 feet.
Their wings were 40 feet long- so you can only imagine how huge they must have been.
They were the largest creature ever to fly and are estimated to live 72.1 million years
ago to 66 million years ago.
However the size estimates for these huge creatures are pretty problematic as there
is no other existing species that we know of that share the same body size.
It’s acgv member of advanced toothless pterosaurs with unusually long stiffened necks.
And there you have it that’s our list of the Top 5 Scariest Animals That Used To Exist.
Let me know in the comments which creature on the list you found the scariest.
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