Horrifying Extinct Animals Thread. - Post your favorite now-dead nightmare creature.

[Y2K Baby]

Creatures like this used to walk the face of the Earth.

Now, creatures like Bob Chipman do instead.

Never has suicide seemed more inviting. That is, for Bob Chipman. And I'd happily assist him if he chose that path.

Bob Chipman is scarier than that thing though.

 

[Cthulu]

Their main weapon was their head, which could be up to one meter long, allowing them to swallow prey as large as a dog in one single gulp! However, thanks to the hooked tip of the bill, similar to that of eagles and hawks, the terrors birds could kill and devour prey much larger than a dog, including horses, camels, etc.

 

[Dysnomia]

Oooh, finally, a thread for me!

Titanaboa - aka Big Fucking Snake & vore fetishist's dream animal. About 40-50 ft long and 2500 lbs.

Giant ground sloth - Basically a huge sloth. I think if this thing lumbered towards me, no matter how slowly, I'd shit my pants.

Megalania - Take a komodo dragon - an already intimidating animal - and make it twice as large. That's basically it.

BONUS: The Kurī, a breed of Polynesian dog bred for food. Only putting it here because one of the few taxidermied specimens is ugly as fuck and makes me giggle when I look at it.

It's believed that the giant ground sloth's diet relied a lot on osage oranges.

These weird things:

They're related to breadfruit and aren't really oranges. Although they are related to oranges as well. The seeds are edible but the flesh is astringent, bitter and can make your stomach hurt. Animals eat the seeds but there aren't any animals around today that consume the fruit regularly. Sometimes livestock will eat it. Yet the trees never died out and they still produce what is basically a prehistoric fruit. It's just interesting that they are still around yet don't serve their original purpose. The wood is very useful. And small animals benefit from the seeds. But the fruit's flesh itself is worthless to modern fauna. Yet it still persists without it's original seed dispersal method. Giant groud sloth poop. Most animals today just eat the seeds themselves.

Indricotherium (also known as paraceratherium) is the largest known land mammal. It was around 18+ feet tall and 26 feet long. It's actually a type of hornless rhino.

 

[Anonymus Fluhre]

Does it ever bug you to live in the current period of hobbling primate monkey cunts instead of the amazing period when awesome shit like this was flying around?

There's a reason why Dinoriders was an awesome cartoon and toyline.

 

[Anonymus Fluhre]

Look at this fucking tank. Gorgonopsia is a badass motherfucker that's somewhere between a reptile and a dog-thing. I'd shit my pants if this thing was running after me.

The American Museum of Natural History has a skeleton if you ever want to see one in person. The Gorgonopsia wouldn't be too bad to see in person, only the size of a medium size dog. Some Gorgonopsidae like the Aloposaurus were smaller than a cat and then you have the terrifying Inostrancevia which is almost as tall as you and 350cm (3.5 metres)


Sorry for the double post

 

[Lensherr]

Leviyatan melvilli

 

[Anonymus Fluhre]

Leviyatan melvilli

Really hope that's just a baby whale because it was only the size of a sperm whale. It also has the name Livyatan due to the old name being taken already and I guess the people who named it never really bothered to see which names were taken.

Edit: Ah! Apparently the smaller whale is a cetotherium.