Mother nature never ceases to amaze us. It’s a source of life for awe-inspiring creatures, from delicate to humongous, and everything in between. However, some of the latter might seem delicate, too, compared to the living things that have gone extinct.
Bugs the size of a human, reptiles of ginormous proportions, and rodents with horns—these are just a few examples proving that “Nature Was Metal” back in the day. That’s why there’s an entire subreddit, under this exact name, dedicated to some of nature’s most extraordinary creations that have vanished from the face of the earth.
Today we’ve listed a bunch of them for you to get acquainted with. Whether you find them atrocious or absolutely fascinating, they show the name of the subreddit is definitely not baseless. Scroll down to marvel at the beauties and the beasts and click here for our previous post about them.
#1 This Is The Best-Preserved Dinosaur Specimen Ever Unearthed. This Mummified Nodosaur’s Bones Remain Covered By Intact Skin And Armor — 110 Million Years After The Creature’s Death
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#2 Tail Of A 99 Myo Dinosaur, The First One Ever Discovered. Perfectly Preserved, Still Covered In Feathers
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#3 The Only Preserved Head And Skin Of The Extinct Dodo Bird, Kept At The Oxford University Museum Of Natural History
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#4 Most Animals Used To Be A Lot Bigger
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#5 A Barbary Lion, An Extinct Race, As Photographed In Algeria
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#6 This Is Quetzalcoatlus Northropi. It Is The Largest Pterosaur Ever Discovered And Possibly The Largest Flying Animal Ever! It Had A Wingspan Of Around 15.9 Metres (59 Feet)
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#7 A Man Holding A Nile Crocodile Skull Next To The Skull Of The Fearsome Crocodylus Thorbjarnarsoni. A Giant Crocodile Species From The Early Pleistocene In The Turkana Basin, Kenya
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#8 The Natural History Museum In London Outfitted Its Animatronic Tyrannosaurus Rex In A Colorful Christmas Sweater
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#9 The Giant Monster That Was Argentinosaurus
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#10 Real Footage Of 4 Extinct Animals: Thylacine, Ivory-Billed Woodpecker, Baiji River Dolphin, And The Heath Hen
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#11 This Giant Crinoid Colony Is 195 Million Years Old From The Lower Jurassic Is 4 X 5 Meter And Is Now On Display At A Museum In Houston!
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#12 10,000 Year Old Skull And Antlers Of An Extinct Elk Found By Fishermen In Ireland
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#13 Utahraptor Claws
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#14 Arthropleura Millipede Is The Biggest Bug Known To Ever Live
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#15 Mammoth Hut
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#16 An Incredibly Intact Crinoid Specimen Fossil Dating Back To About 345 Million Years Ago!
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#17 The Giant Ground Sloth Eremotherium
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#18 The Horned Gopher - The Only Known Rodent To Have Developed Horns
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#19 The Massive Size Of A Utahraptor Skull, With A Velociraptor Skull And Human Head For Scale
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#20 Barosaurus Had Quite A Long Neck. Art By John Conway
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#21 22 Million Year Old Enhydro Methane Termite With Its Last Meal Preserved In Amber
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#22 Triceratops Femur (Left) vs. Elephant Femur
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#23 Parapuzosia Seppenradensis, The Largest Known Ammonite, Photographed In The Late 1800s With The Paleontologist Who Described It
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#24 Prehistoric Spider-Like Arachnid Found Preserved In Amber
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#25 Fossil Of Giant 40+ Million Year Old Fish Found In Argentina
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#26 The Origin Of Teeth And Jaws Has Been Pushed Back To 436 Million Years Ago
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#27 Nizar Ibrahim Between The Jaws Of Spinosaurus
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#28 In 1663, The Partial Fossilised Skeleton Of A Woolly Rhinoceros Was Discovered In Germany. This Is The “Magdeburg Unicorn”, One Of The Worst Fossil Reconstructions In Human History
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