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Tapejara was a pterosaur from the Cretaceous Period. It had a huge crest on its head, which may have been used to attract mates.
(Credit: Peter Montgomery)
Palaeomastodon, which lived 36 million years ago, was a proboscid closely related to elephants.
(Credit: Heinrich Harder)
The huge shark Cretoxyrhina attacking a pteranodon!
(Credit: Mark Witton)
Guanlong was a genus of small tyrannosauroids from the Late Jurassic of China. They measured 3 metres in length.
(Credit: durbed)
Pachycephalosaurus wyomingensis getting eaten alive by a Acheroraptor temertyorum.
(Credit: deviantart/amorousdino)
Sycosaurus, a proto-mammal gorgonopsid that dominated Permian South Africa.
(Credit: Dmitry Bogdanov)
The gape width of Smilodon (A) compared to Thylacosmilus (B) showing the extent of the canines within the skull.
(Credit: Stephen Wroe et al.)
The huge extinct sperm whale Livyatan melvillei measured an incredible 18 metres long. It had huge curved teeth lining its jaws, unlike modern sperm whales which grow conical teeth only on their lower jaw.
(Credit: Mary Persis Williams)
Tsintaosaurus had a phallic-shaped horn on the top of its head!
(Credit: James Reece, deviantart/Qilong)
Meet Websteroprion armstrongi - an extinct, metre-long worm that hunted fish & lived 400 million years ago.
(Credit: James Ormiston)