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Hyracotherium is an early horse species that measured just 80cm long & weighed a mere 9kg!
(Credit: Heinrich Harder)
Sacabambaspis janvieri is an extinct armoured fish that swam the oceans during the Ordovician period. They had no jaws & reached 25cm in length.
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Lanthanosuchus is an extinct parareptile from the Late Permian that grew to 75cm.
(Credit: Nobu Tamura)
With recent finding suggesting that the T-rex was likely covered in feathers, lets take a moment to consider that this only makes them more terrifying.
(Credit: R.J. Palmer)
Ischigualastia jenseni was a type of dicynodont from the Jurassic. They were 3.5m long.
(Credit: Satoshi Kawasaki)
Odobenocetops was a bizarre toothed whale from Peru & Chile. It looked like a cross between a walrus & a narwhal, with a elongated tusk. Its right tusk could grow to 1.3 metres, but the left one was just 25 cm.
(Credit: P. Riha)
Since fossils don't preserve soft tissue, it's hard to tell what dinosaurs might have looked like. Many artists just leave off possible feathers, quills and skin flaps. If we drew modern animals this way, baboons might look like this. @qikipedia
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Gargantuavis was a large ostrich-like bird that lived in Europe in the Late Cretaceous.
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Stygimoloch was a herbivore from the late Cretaceous Period. It stood about a metre tall & was 3 metres long.
(Credit: Nobu Tamura)