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A close elephant relative, the Platybelodon had a strange 'trunk-mouth' & used its lower tusks to scrape bark off trees.

(Credit: Tomasz Jedrzejowski)

Achillobator was a carnivore. It lived in the Cretaceous period and inhabited Asia.

(Credit: tiffanyturrill)

Pterodaustro had thousands of modified teeth that looked like bristles & helped filter plankton from the ocean, just like a whale! Its diet likely gave it a pink colour.

(Credit: Rodrigo Vega)

Dadadon isaloi is an extinct cynodont which existed in Madagascar during the late Middle Triassic.

(Credit: Theropsida)

Reconstruction of Witwatia schlosseri, a new species of very large bat from the Fayum distric of Egypt.

(Credit: Bonnie Miljour)

The Rodrigues solitaire is an extinct, flightless bird that was endemic to Rodrigues Island, off the coast of Madagascar. They died out in 1778 & were closely related to dodos.

Lyrarapax unguispinus was a relative of velvet worms and basal arthropods that lived 520 million years ago.

Mawsonia is an extinct genus of prehistoric coelacanth fish that reached 6 metres in length & lived 100 million years ago.

(Credit: Hyrotrioskjan)

Orthacanthus was a three-metre-long freshwater shark from Europe & North America. It was an apex predator in swamps & rivers.

(Credit: Alain Beneteau)

Medusaceratops lokii.

(Credit: Sergey Krasovskiy)