Extinct Animals 🦣🦤 @Extinct_AnimaIs

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Aegirocassis, a 2-metre giant, filter feeding radiodont from 480 million years ago. (Credit Christopher Chavez)

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Moeritherium was a hippo-like animal that ate soft water vegetation. They are closely related to elephants. (Credit Mehdi Nikbakhsh)

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The snake ancestor that had four tiny legs that gripped prey! (Credit Julius Csotonyi)

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The Salish Wool Dog is an extinct breed of dog whose fur was used like a sheep to make clothes. It is the only prehistoric North American animal to be selectively bred.

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Pristerognathus was a dog-sized predator that lived during the late Middle Permian in what is now South Africa. (Credit dmitrchel)

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Nesodon was a Miocene mammal from South America that measured 1.5 metres at the shoulder.

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Dinocephalosaurus was a long necked, aquatic protorosaur from the Triassic Period. They were ambush predators & hunted fish, violently thrashing their neck at prey when they got into the 'strike zone'. (Credit: Prehistoric Wildlife)

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Eogyrinus attheyi was one of the largest tetrapods of the Carboniferous, at 4.6 metres in length. Like the modern crocodile, it was an ambush predator. (Credit dinoraul 2011)

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Rubeosaurus lived in North America 74.6 million years ago. (Credit Mohamed Haghani)

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Hurdia was a primitive cousin of insects and other arthropods. (Credit Quade Paul)

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The gape width of Smilodon (A) compared to Thylacosmilus (B) showing the extent of the canines within the skull. (Credit Stephen Wroe et al.)

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Echovenator sandersi lived during the Oligocene epoch, around 27 million years ago. It had superb high-frequency hearing to locate prey. (Credit A. Gennari)