Top 10 Terrifying Animals That Luckily Are Extinct

Top 10 Terrifying Animals That Luckily Are Extinct

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Top 10 Terrifying Animals That Luckily Are Extinct
There are a lot of fear inducing animals today, but be more than glad that none of these 10 are still alive
today. Especially number 1 so stay tuned to find out what it is. Here are the Top 10 Terrifying Animals
That Luckily Are Extinct

Number 10. The Tully Monster
Let’s start this list of with the least terrifying creature on this list, but at the same time, the only one on
this list to be called a true monster.
At first glance, the Tully Monster looks superficially slug-like. But where you would expect its mouth to
be, the creature has a long thin appendage ending in what looks like a pair of grasping claws. Then there
are its eyes, which protrude outward from its body on stalks.
It was first discovered at Mazon Creek in in Illinois in the 1950s. Ever since it was found, scientists have
been unable to agree on whether Tully was a vertebrate or an invertebrate. A previous report in 2016
did claim that Tully must be a vertebrate, but even that conclusion is being contested.
Vertebrate or not, it doesn’t take away from the sheer terrifying looks of this prehistoric monster.

Number 9. Andrewsarchus
Hippos are already quite terrifying animals. Even though they are vegetarians, they have incredibly
strong jaws couple with a short temper, and have been known to bite crocodiles in half. Now, imagine a
large hippo with the same or even greater bite force, a possibly shorter temper, but has the appetite for
meat.
Andrewasarchus is thought to be the largest meat eating land mammal known to have ever existed. This
is despite the fact that only its skull has ever been found, which was measured at 33 inches long. If their
impression is correct, Andrewsarchus was 6 feet high and 16 feet long. It had long, strong, jaws which it
used to eat a variety of foods. It would have weighed about 1800 pounds, with a guess to be able to
possibly exceed that range and perhaps over 2200 pounds.
Being so large, it was thought to have moved slowly and wasn’t really an excellent hunter, so scientists
thinks that it was a scavenger. It was also probably an omnivore and take advantage of eating plants
when meat becomes scarce.
Interesting enough, this animal is an ungulate, animals from which hippos and whales evolved.

Number 8. Anomalocaris
Before killer whales and polar bears, before sharks and tyrannosaurs, the world’s top predator was
probably a bizarre animal called Anomalocaris. It lived in the Cambrian period, over half a billion years

ago, when life was confined to the seas and animals took on bizarre shapes that haven’t been seen
since.
Many scientists believe that Anomalocaris ruled this primordial world as a top predator. At up to a 3 and
a half in length, it was the largest hunter of its time. It chased after prey with undulating flaps on its
sides and a large fan-shaped tail. It grabbed at them with large spiked arms. It bit into them with a
square, tooth-lined mouth. And it tracked them with large stalked eyes.
The surfaces of the eyes are covered in tiny lenses, packed in a hexagonal grid. Each eye has at least
16,700 individual lenses, making this animal the proud owners of the most sophisticated compound
eyes ever known. Only a few arthropods have similar or better resolution, such as modern predatory
dragonflies that can possess up to 28,000 lenses in each eye.

Number 7. Pelagornis Sandersi
With a wingspan of about 21 feet, Pelagornis sandersi was nearly twice the width of a wandering
albatross, the living bird with the greatest wingspan, at 12 feet. That ginormous wingspan makes it the
largest bird to have ever existed.
It lived about 25 million years ago. The first fossils – a skull plus some wing and leg bones – were found
in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1983. The specimen was so large that it had to be dug out with a
backhoe. Its beak possessed bizarre toothlike spikes that lined the upper and lower jaws, revealing the
bird was a previously unknown species of pelagornithid, an extinct group of giant seabirds known for
these "; They are very conical and pointed, which suggests they were used for piercing
prey. The most likely source of food for these birds were fish and squid near the surface of the water.
At 88 pounds, many would think that it was impossible for these birds to fly, which is partially true.
Although it probably couldn’t have just flapped it’s wings to generate lift, research has shown that the
bird was an incredibly efficient glider, whose long, slender wings helped it stay aloft despite its
enormous size.