ExtinctZoo

To scrape by back in the old days you had to be extremely tough, but as these 9 Fossils show, sometimes being among the toughest animals to ever exist, still gets you nothing but a painful ending.

When you go swimming in the ocean or seas, the last thing you want to swim into is a shark... but what happens when everything is a shark?

Ice age Europe wasn't exactly the most welcoming of places...

We usually think that dinosaurs, namely theropods, are scary based off of how big they were. And while this can be true to an extent, size can sometimes be deceitful, as there was a secretive family …

The hardest game ever is the one we are forced to play & that's life, and within it their seems to be a number that only 1% make it past, which begs the question...why?

"Am I cooked?" - Cro-Magnon (c. 26,000 BCE)

Water, especially deep water, a big no no for many. And this is for good reason, but once upon a time, the oceans and seas of Earth were actually pretty chill, so how did it go so wrong? When was Tha…

Hobbits have cozy lives right? True, until you put them in the real world and on an island with giant reptiles, then you got yourself some brutally awful experiences.

Some 150,000,000 Years Ago, before the Bull Shark, the Great White, or the Megalodon, there was... the Pliosaurus

We all go through ups and downs in life, but for this particular human species, it was only downs.

Santa Claus had some competition during the Late Cretaceous...

In Lion King, Scar used an army of Hyenas to try and uh..."remove"...Simba, but as we know, this didn't turn out so great for him, well I am here to tell you that things would have panned out quite d…

Of the 31 extinctions (give or take) that life has faced, you may have only been taught in school about the kt event, aka the extinction that took out the dinosaurs. And you might've been led to beli…

Before the killer whale, or the barracuda, or even the great white, there was the king of lizards, or rather a whale, that looked more like a mosasaur or snake than any whale you or me is familiar wi…

Hey you! Yeah you, wanna take a sweet vacation to an Island? I got the perfect place for you...

Harder, better, faster, stronger....Daft Punk really just made a song about neanderthals.

The Late Jurassic Morrison Formation was one of the most brutal places to ever exist. You had giant sauropods and cannibalistic theropods roaming about, and still somehow, things got even crazier whe…

Arrrr, here be krakens matey! Well, not really, but kind of... especially when you look at prehistoric waters.