Extinct species, Marine life
13-May-2024 Monday
Xiphactinus: Predator of the inland sea. Monstrous ancient fish hunted sharks and even sea lizards
08-February-2024 Thursday
Timoribestia: An ancient “monster” was found in the ice of Greenland. It ruled the ocean even before the first fish appeared!
22-August-2023 Tuesday
Kronosaurus: "Sea Tirex" with one of the most powerful bites among animals. But paleontologists have cooled expectations
25-February-2023 Saturday
Damocles: A shark with a doorknob on its head. Why does a predator need such a strange process?
13-January-2023 Friday
6 animals we ate before they became extinct
14-December-2022 Wednesday
Xenacant: Shark face, eel body and head horn. 168 million years of successful survival in ancient reservoirs. Phenomenal timing!
07-September-2022 Wednesday
Archelon: A monstrous ancient turtle about the size of a car. Some believe that the reptile weighing 2 tons is still alive!
01-September-2022 Thursday
Dugongs became extinct in China
26-April-2022 Tuesday
Kumimanu Bikeya: The largest penguin ever. He was the height of an average man. Why did the giant go extinct?
20-April-2022 Wednesday
Temnodontosaurus: Like a tyrannosaurus rex, only underwater. A 12-meter-high lizard that was feared by all the marine inhabitants of the Jurassic period
19-April-2022 Tuesday
Materpiskis: The first viviparous animal in history! They bore children even before the vertebrates came to land.
12-April-2022 Tuesday
Doriaspis: 2 layers of armor and a saw on the nose. A fish that looks more like a combat drone than an animal
11-April-2022 Monday
Cladoselach: So well preserved that we can see what it ate! Great-grandfather of sharks, who lived 400 million years ago
21-March-2022 Monday
Thunderstorm of the seas of the Eocene: in the middle of the desert in Peru found the skeleton of a giant predatory whale
09-March-2022 Wednesday
The largest megalodons liked cooler
09-March-2022 Wednesday
The ancestors of octopuses lived before the age of dinosaurs
07-February-2022 Monday
Turns out we don't know what megalodon looked like.
21-January-2022 Friday
Sea cow. What animal was exterminated 27 years after its discovery in 1741