Prehistoric creatures

Prehistoric mammals By Nobu Tamura Prehistoric mammals are groups of mammals that became extinct before humans developed writing. 164…

Design and Illustration for extinct, prehistoric animal specimens and fossils, natural history museum signage.

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Poster Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous Unframed 12x18inch

1. Herbivore dinosaurs had to eat leaves instead of grass, because grass (a C4 plant) didn't evolve until 10 million years ago.

Elasmosaurus by Zdenek Burian From "Prehistoric Sea Monsters," published 1964.

Inostrancevia lived during the Late Permian period and was the largest of the gorgonopsid species. Inostrancevia's most striking feature was its long, saber-tooth-like canines. It had a total body length of around 3.5 m, a weight of 300 kg and a huge skull, which measured up to 60 cm in length. Inastroncevia was likely at the top of the food chain in Late Permian Russia, preying on the large herbivorous creatures it shared the land with.

New research on the most amazing of pterosaurs

There were several species of Moa, of various sizes, all of which had become extinct by the mid 1400s. Here are three of them, top to bottom: Dinornis robustus, Emeus crassus and Anomalopteryx didiformis