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Chloridops or the King Kong grosbeak was the largest songbird ever discovered. It lived on Hawaii & was 28 cm long.

(Credit: J.G. Keulemans)

For the first 40 million years that woody trees were around, wood was not biodegradable...until a fungus evolved the means to rot it!

Cryolophosaurus ellioti was a large theropod from the Jurassic period of Antarctica. They grew to 6.5 metres long.

(Credit: Rudolf Farkas)

Scleromochlus taylori from the Late Triassic period was just 18 cm long and could walk using its hindlegs.

(Credit: deviantart/T-PEKC)

The herbivore apinocephalus was the largest of all non-mammal synapsids, at 4 metres in length & 2,000 kg.

(Credit: WillemSvdMerwe)

Adult pygmy humans (Homo floresiensis) stood at just one metre tall (3ft 7in). They lived on the island of Flores up until 12,000 years ago. They hunted pygmy elephants & were possibly preyed upon by giant storks!

The bathornids were lesser-known relatives of the famous South American terror birds that inhabited North America from the Eocene to the Miocene. Here's the largest species, Paracrax gigantea.

Zhuchengtyrannus magnus is the second largest tyrannosaur ever found, after the T. rex.

(Credit: Fine Art America)

Phorusrhacos was a giant flightless terror bird that lived in Miocene Patagonia. It grew to 2.5 metres tall & preyed on horses.

(Credit: Hydrotrioskjan)

Homo erectus (a primitive human) & Gigantopithecus, a 3 metre tall, 500kg giant ape.