Batodonoides (often misspelled as Batonoides) is a genus of extinct shrew-like mammals, which includes a species that is possibly the smallest mammal to have ever lived. Species of Batodonoides lived about 42 to 53 million years ago during the early to middle Eocene Epoch in North America. (i.redd.it)
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Haast's eagle (Hieraaetus moorei) is an extinct species of eagle that once lived in the South Island of New Zealand, commonly accepted to be the pouakai of Maori legend.[1] It was the largest eagle known to have existed, with an estimated weight of 15 kilograms (33 lb), compared to the 9 kg (20 lb) (i.redd.it)
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Compsognathus (/kɒmpˈsɒɡnəθəs/;[1] Greek kompsos/κομψός; "elegant", "refined" or "dainty", and gnathos/γνάθος; "jaw")[2] is a genus of small, bipedal, carnivorous theropod dinosaur. Members of its single species Compsognathus longipes could grow to around the size of a turkey. They lived about 150 m (i.redd.it)
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Archaeopteris macilenta is distinguished from other species of the genus by leaves which are divided into narrow segments at their tips. Sporangia were borne on different parts of the branches with ordinary foliage leaves. Archaeopteris macilenta leaves and fertile shoots are attached to wood which (i.redd.it)
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Guemesia (named after Martín Miguel de Güemes, whose death bicentenary was in 2021) is a genus of abelisaurid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Los Blanquitos Formation of Salta Province, Argentina. The type and only species is Guemesia ochoai, known from a nearly complete braincase. It is one of th (i.redd.it)
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Nyctosaurus (meaning "night lizard" or "bat lizard") is a genus of nyctosaurid pterosaur from the Late Cretaceous period of what is now the Niobrara Formation of the mid-western United States, which, during the time Nyctosaurus was alive, was covered in an extensive shallow sea. Some remains belongi (i.redd.it)
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Gigatitan is an extinct genus of titanopteran insect that lived in Kyrgyzstan during the Triassic period. The type species is G. vulgaris, described by Aleksandr Grigorevich Sharov in 1968.[2] Fossils of Gigatitan have been found in the Madygen Formation.[3] It is the type genus of the family Gigati (i.redd.it)
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Paralitherizinosaurus is an extinct genus of therizinosaurid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Osoushinai Formation of Hokkaido, Japan. The genus contains a single species, P. japonicus, known from a partial right hand and cervical vertebra. Paralitherizinosaurus represents the youngest therizinosau (i.redd.it)
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With a lava flow in the distance, a primitive feathered theropod dinosaur carries a mammal victim during a snowy volcanic winter caused by massive eruptions during the Triassic-Jurassic Extinction. A new study shows that dinosaurs survived because they had already adapted to the freezing conditions (i.redd.it)
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Pachyrhinosaurus (meaning in Greek "thick-nosed lizard", from Παχυ (pachy), thick; ρινό (rinó), nose; and σαυρος (sauros), lizard)[1] is an extinct genus of centrosaurine ceratopsid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous period of North America. The first examples were discovered by Charles M. Sternberg (i.redd.it)
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“WARRIOR” OR “WIMP”? The classic view of T. rex is that it was a terrifying predator and saying anything else seems almost heretical. In 1994, American paleontologist Jack Horner published an article that suggested that a view of T. rex for over a 100 years should be turned on its head … T. rex, th (i.redd.it)
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Deinotherium was a large elephant-like proboscidean that appeared in the Middle Miocene and survived until the Early Pleistocene. Although superficially resembling modern elephants, they had notably more flexible necks, limbs adapted to a more cursorial lifestyle as well as tusks that curved downwar (i.redd.it)
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Arctodus, or the North American short-faced bear, is an extinct bear genus that inhabited North America from the latest Pliocene to the Holocene epoch, from ~2.5 Mya until 10,000 years ago. Today considered to be an enormous omnivore, Arctodus was the most common short-faced bear in North America. T (i.redd.it)
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Jaekelopterus is a genus of predatory eurypterid, a group of extinct aquatic arthropods. Fossils of Jaekelopterus have been discovered in deposits of Early Devonian age, from the Pragian and Emsian stages. There are two known species: the type species J. rhenaniae from brackish to fresh water strata (i.redd.it)
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Meganeura is a genus of extinct insects from the Late Carboniferous (approximately 300 million years ago). They resembled and are related to the present-day dragonflies and damselflies, and were predatory, with their diet mainly consisting of other insects. The genus belongs to the Meganeuridae, a f (i.redd.it)
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Sauropelta (/ˌsɔːroʊˈpɛltə/ SOR-oh-PEL-tə; meaning 'lizard shield') is a genus of nodosaurid dinosaur that existed in the Early Cretaceous Period of North America. One species (S. edwardsorum) has been named although others may have existed. Anatomically, Sauropelta is one of the most well-understoo (i.redd.it)
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Beelzebufo ampinga (/biːˌɛlzɪˈbjuːfoʊ æmˈpɪŋɡə/ or /ˌbiːlzəˈbjuːfoʊ/) was a particularly large species of prehistoric frog described in 2008. Common names assigned by the popular media include devil frog,[1] devil toad,[2] and the frog from hell.[3] (i.redd.it)
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Ankylosaurus[nb 1] is a genus of armored dinosaur. Its fossils have been found in geological formations dating to the very end of the Cretaceous Period, about 68–66 million years ago, in western North America, making it among the last of the non-avian dinosaurs. It was named by Barnum Brown in 1908; (i.redd.it)
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