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Oncorhynchus rastrosus or the sabertooth salmon was named after its two fangs which protrude from the snout. This huge species of salmon could grow to 3 metres long!
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Diplomoceras are ancient cephalopods with extremely elongated shells that were 2 metres across (4 metres when accounting for shell winding). They lived during the Cretaceous & had a worldwide distribution.
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Kaiwhekea katiki feasting on krill. An extinct plesiosaur from the Late Cretaceous, it was discovered in New Zealand in 2002.
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Spinosaurus was one of the largest predatory dinosaurs ever. It lived during the Cretaceous period & measured 18 metres in length!
(Credit: Franco Tempesta)
Megalania was a giant monitor lizard related to Komodo dragons. It grew to 7 metres in length!
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Synthetoceras or the 'horned horse' from the Miocene epoch. Only males had the strange horn on their nose.
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Alanqa from the Late Cretaceous had a 6 metre wingspan.
(Credit: Joschua Knüppe)
Chaoyangopterus was a small pterosaur with a wingspan of 1.8 metres.
(Credit: Joschua Knüppe)
Arambourgiania was one of the largest pterosaurs, with a wingspan of up to 13 metres!
(Credit: Mark Witton)
Rapaxavis pani is an extinct flying dinosaur closely related to birds.