Prehistoric Marine Animals List

Marine biologists didnt know that fishermen off the coast of Africa had been occasionally catching them for years.

Prehistoric marine animals list. Top 10 Prehistoric Sea Creatures Tylosaurus. Hyaenodon is a genus of large carnivorous mammals that lived from the Eocene to the mid Miocene epochs. But at 60 or so tons the middle Eocene Basilosaurus was certainly the biggest prehistoric whale that ever lived outweighing even the much later Leviathan which itself may have tangled with the biggest prehistoric shark of all time Megalodon by 10 or 20 tons.

Or Top 10 Sea Monsters if you prefer 10- Dunkleosteus. List of fossil primates. Some other interesting - and terrifying.

From what paleontologists can decipher of this reptiles remains the Tanystropheus appears to have been a prehistoric reptile version of a giraffe with shorter legs a long neck that juts out rather than up and a massive tail. Its hard to keep the idea of a shark the size of a school bus out of pop culture. One thing that separates Plesiosaur from the other prehistoric marine reptiles is how it reproduced.

Some of the earliest land animals happened to be spiders and insects. With a long skull and powerful doglike body it would have had little to fear from most other animals. The remains of other animals missing limbs or bitten in half are a macabre proof of this giant caimans appetite.

In contrast modern African elephants are between 82 and 13 feet tall. The furry prehistoric animal known as the steppe mammoth was the largest elephant that ever lived. 10 Strange Animals You Didnt Know Existed.

This was because it used to lay its jelly covered eggs in water. Top Ten Marine Predators. It lived back in Cambrian times first appearing over 500 million years ago and when fossils of it were first found the various disassociated parts of it were described as jellyfish the mouth shrimp tails large grasping appendages and a sponge the body.