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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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Prolibytherium is an extinct artiodactyl ungulate from Early Miocene North Africa & Pakistan. Males had huge, leaf-shaped ossicones (horn-like projections) & the females' were more horn-like.

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Collinsium ciliosum was a genus of lobopodian from the early Cambrian.

(Credit: Satoshi Kawasaki)

Tanystropheus was a 6-metre-long reptile from the Middle Triassic. Its neck was longer than its body & tail combined!

(Credit: Mark Witton)

Waimanu manneringi was a early species if penguin that live around 60 million years ago. Discovered in New Zealand, the name Waimanu means 'waterbird' in Maori.

(Credit: Chris Gaskin)

Hippidion is an extinct genus of horse that lived in South America during the Pleistocene epoch.

(Credit: Satoshi Kawasaki)

Janjucetus hunderi is an extinct whale from the Oligocene, 25 million years ago. It lacked a baleen system & instead had sharp teeth for ripping apart prey. At 3.5 metres long, it was about the same size a bottlenose dolphin.

(Credit: Gogosardina)

Meiolania was one of the largest tortoises ever, reaching 2.5 metres in length. They lived during the Miocene & Holocene & the last relict populations survived on New Caledonia until 3,000 years ago!

Eomanis is the earliest known pangolin, which lived in Europe during the Middle Eocene. It was 50 cm long.

(Credit: Nobu Tamura)

Pterygotus was a gigantic arthropod that could grow to 2.3 metres long! They lived during the early Silurian-Devonian period. They had a pair of large eyes & a smaller pair in the centre of their head.

(Credit: Olof Helje)