Prehistoric Marine Animals - Curiosities and Images

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• The Megalodon or Megalodon
• the liopleurodon
• Livyatan melvillei
• Dunkleosteus
• Sea Scorpion or Pterygotus
• Other animals

There are many people who are passionate about studying or looking for information about prehistoric animals, those who lived on Planet Earth long before human beings appeared.

We are effectively talking about all kinds of dinosaurs and beings that inhabited here millions of years ago and that today, thanks to fossils, we can discover and name. They were large animals, giant and menacing animals.

Continue this PeritoAnimal article to discover the prehistoric marine animals.

The Megalodon or Megalodon

Planet Earth is divided into land surface and water representing 30% and 70% respectively. What does that mean? That currently it is likely that there are more marine animals than terrestrial animals hidden in all the world's seas.

The difficulty of investigating the seabed makes the tasks of searching for fossils difficult and complicated. Due to these investigations new animals are discovered every year.

It is a large shark that inhabited the earth up to a million years ago. It is not known for sure whether it shared the habitat with the dinosaurs, but it is without doubt one of the most frightening animals in prehistory. It was about 16 meters long and its teeth were bigger than our hands. This undoubtedly makes him one of the most powerful animals that ever lived on Earth.

the liopleurodon

It is a large marine and carnivorous reptile that lived in the Jurassic and Cretaceous. It is considered that liopleurodon had no predators at that time.

Its size generates controversy on the part of researchers, although as a general rule, a reptile of about 7 meters or more is spoken. What is certain is that its huge fins made it a lethal and agile hunter.

Livyatan melvillei

While megalodon reminds us of a giant shark and liopleurodon a marine crocodile, livyatan is undoubtedly a distant relative of the sperm whale.

It lived about 12 million years ago in what is now the desert of Ica (Perú) and was discovered for the first time in 2008. It measured about 17.5 meters in length and observing its huge teeth, there is no doubt that it was a terrible predator.

Dunkleosteus

The size of the large predators was also marked by the size of the prey they had to hunt, such as the dunkleosteus, a fish that lived 380 million years ago. It measured about 10 meters in length and it was a carnivorous fish that ate even its own species.

Sea Scorpion or Pterygotus

It was nicknamed this way because of the physical resemblance it has to the scorpion we now know, although in reality they are not related at all. Descended from the family of xiphosuros and arachnids. Its order is Eurypteride.

With about 2.5 meters in length, the sea scorpion is devoid of venom to kill its victims, which would explain its later adaptation to fresh water. It died out 250 million years ago.

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