11 Terrifying Prehistoric Creatures Scarier Than The Megalodon

The terrifying megalodon might have been huge, but from birds that can knock your head off to reptiles that terrorized the sea, here are 11 prehistoric creatures that might have been scarier than the megalodon! Follow us on instagram! https://www.instagram.com/katrinaexplained/ Subscribe For New Videos! http://goo.gl/UIzLeB Check out these videos you might like: Unbelievable Animals SAVING Other Animals! 🐯https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxehUWvMr38 LARGEST Animals Ever Discovered! 🐙https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Yj7F_tPYsU Wild Animals That SAVED Human Lives! 🐻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mllqeVSsIl0 11. GORGONOPSIA At just six to 10 feet (1.8-3 meters) long, members of the extinct Gorgonops genus were not exactly intimidating based on their size. Hailing from the Gorgonopsia suborder, these medium-sized therapsids ranked among the dominant predators of what is now South Africa during the Late Permian, around 260 million years ago. 10. THALATTOARCHON Thalattoarchon, a type of marine reptile called an ichthyosaur, lived around 244 million years ago, during Triassic. This creature ate prey its own size and was about the size of a bus! Thalattoarchon saurophagis, which was discovered in Nevada in 1997, existed near the beginning of a long-lasting timespan dominated by large apex marine predators. 9. LIOPLEURODON The Liopleurodon genus of extinct marine reptile encompassed two species that may very well qualify as some of the mightiest marine creatures of all time. These apex predators lived between 165 and 155 million years ago, during the Late Jurassic Period, in what’s now France, where there was once a shallow body of water perfect for the creature. 8. PHOBEROMYS PATTERSONI While prehistoric marine predators are terrifying for obvious reasons, it would be relatively easy to avoid one -- after all, all you’d have to do is stay out of the water. But there may be no escaping from Phoberomys pattersoni, one of the world’s largest extinct rodents, which measured up to 9.8 feet (3 meters) long and weighed between 550 and 1,540 pounds (250-700 kg), with a standing height of around 4.2 feet (1.3 meters). 7. PLIOSAURUS FUNKEI In 2012, scientists announced a newly-named Jurassic-era marine reptile species, Pliosaurus funkei, which swam throughout the world’s oceans around 150 million years ago. Fossils of two specimens discovered in Svalbard, Norway indicated that it was a massive apex predator during its time, possibly measuring around 40 feet (12 meters) long and equipped with a six-and-a-half foot (2 meters) long skull that had four times the bite force of a Tyrannosaurus Rex. 6. Livyatan Melvillei Livyatan Melvillei was a legendary whale of prehistoric times that was a ferocious predator of the oceans. Growing to between 45 and 60 feet in length, these terrifying whales ate other whales. And megalodons. 5. SARCOSUCHUS Even the most gargantuan modern crocodilians would look small next to Sarcosuchus, the largest crocodile that ever roamed the earth. It lived in northern Africa during the Early Cretaceous Period, between 133 and 112 million years ago, a time when the Sahara Desert was tropical and lush with vegetation and numerous rivers and water bodies. 4. MOSASAURUS Mosasaurs are an extinct group of aquatic reptiles that roamed the planet alongside the dinosaurs during the Late Cretaceous Period, between 82 and 66 million years ago. They are not actually dinosaurs and were extremely deadly. These unforgiving marine monsters drove at least one other reptile group, the ichthyosaurs, to extinction by outcompeting them for food, and they may have played a role in eradicating plesiosaurs and pliosaurs. 3. TERROR BIRDS Terror birds emerged into existence around 60 million years ago, before Central America formed and when South America was an island, and roughly five million years after the extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs. 2. BASILOSAURUS Between 41.3 and 33.9 million years ago, during the Late Eocene Epoch, a prehistoric whale genus called Basilosaurus lived throughout the Tethys Sea and other water bodies of the ancient world. These early marine mammals were members of a primitive group of cetaceans called Archaeoceti and were top predators in their environments. 1. KRONOSAURUS With specimens measuring 30 to 36 feet (9-10.9 meters) long and weighing between seven and 10 tons (6.4-9 metric tons), the extinct Kronosaurus genus encompassed some of the prehistoric world’s largest pliosaurs, a fearsome type of dinosaur with a short neck, large head, broad body, and massive toothed jaws. Members of this genus inhabited Early Cretaceous waters between 120 and 100 million years ago. #prehistoriccreatures #megalodonshark #seamonsters #originsexplained