#first of all armadillos are one of my most favorite modern mammals

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Fella the Armadillo Archaeologist!

Searching for the “Lost City of Atlantis”, Fella got lost in his little boat and ended up getting trapped on a peculiar set of Isles. He is super enthusiastic about discovering ancient secrets even though his theories are often wildly wrong. He’s been trying to excavate the mysterious ancient temples and ruins littered around the Isles but something terribly unfortunate happens before he can ever get too far. But he’s not one to give up! He’s convinced there’s a secret city underground and he wants his name on that discovery.

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MY PERSONAL TOP 10 PREHISTORIC CREATURES

Dinosaurs have always inspired me, they were among my first love and hobby and as a 5 year old child I discovered many of them in one of my father’s old Dinosaurs books.

While most of the children of my age only talked about the same boring dinosaurs (looking at you Tyrannosaurus Rex and Stegosaurus) over and over again, I always tried to sneak in more obscure dinosaurs during the conversation, and every time they mentioned Triceratops I would drop in Pachyrhinosaurus or Styracosaurus, and every time they mentioned Rex I threw in some Dilophosaurus, Daspletosaurus and Carnotaurus, Stegosaurus would be countered with Kentrosaurus and Wuerhosaurus.

While my love for Prehistoric creatures has faded over time, I still take much inspiration from them in my more recent and newer hobbies such as Mythology creatures and many cryptids are taken straight from my dinosaurs books.

But now for my 10 favorite Prehistoric Creatures of all time:

10) Phororhacos = Probably my favorite birds of all times, so nasty  and dangerous looking, must have been a hell back then for the horses that weren’t bigger than dogs back in the days!

09) Helicoprion = While most people get a boner when they hear the name Megalodon, I find that oversized shark to be somewhat dull, as it just looks like a big White Shark, Helicoprion was a bizarre, almost alien shark that live many million years before the biggest shark of all time, Megalodon, and it looks a million times as cool with the strange saw-like lower jaw.

08) Pachycephalosaurus / Stygimoloch = Head-Charging dinosaurs (the entire family-line) have always inspired me since I was a child, they look very fierce and nasty for a herbivore dinosaur, pretty much like Therizinosaurus. Stygimoloch looks even cooler with those sharp horns around it’s skull.  

07) Andrewsarchus = The biggest predatory land mammal of all time is the awesome looking Andrewsarchus, related to modern whales these bizarre carnivores have the most fearsome maws of the entire animal kindom!

06) Tanystropheus = Since the moment I saw a picture of a group of Tanystropheus fishing from the cliffs in some old Dinosaur-based book I was hooked on them! These bizarre creatures have such insane long necks that the creature may break records with it.

05) Gorgonopsid = Like I said in my earlier post today, Gorgonopsid are cool Mammalian-reptilians from the Permian age. I also love other Mammalian-reptilians such as Dimetrodon. While Smilodon and other Sabretooth Cats also share those fangs, I’m still more a fan of the Gorgonopsid.

04) Baryonyx = My all time favorite carnivorous dinosaur, that look has always intrigued me, having the crocodilian maw and the big claws with which it probably fished for prey. I also LOVE that name for some reason. ARK: Survival Evolved made me fall in love with these dinosaurs even more. I’d also like to give a shoutout to Spinosaurus and Suchomimus, which are related to the Baryonyx, and also very awesome.

03) Thylacoleo = My favorite Mammal of all time, while they look like strange big prehistoric cats they are actually carnivorous marsupials. They lived in trees and could probably climb like champions, dropping on giant kangaroo’s and wombats that also lived in that same age in Australia. There is a chance that these bizarre creatures have the most powerful bite of all creatures ever existed, especially for their size.  

02) Dunkleosteus = How can you not like this prehistoric monster fish? Their armored maws and heads, their sheer size, their awesome appearance coming straight out of some demonic nightmare. Everything about these Carbonian Fish I love! While I’m kinda glad these nightmarish fish are extinct, it would have been cool to see what they would have looked like in the wild.

01) Therizinosaurus = My all time favorite Dinosaur is a bizarre herbivore with claws which put Freddy Kruger to shame. One of the last dinosaurs left alive, they would probably have little to fear from predators of that time such as Tyrannosaurus and Tarbosaurus. I wished they would use them in Jurassic Park already!

HONORABLE MENTIONS

Dilophosaurus – Loved it FAR before Jurassic Park turned it into a small spitting creature.

Carnotaurus – That name, that look, so much scarier than Overusedosaurus Rex.

Shantungosaurus – Far bigger than Tyrannosaurus Rex, this duckbilled dinosaur must have been a force to be reckoned with.

Dimorphodon – Small but probably deadly! I could see these small pterosaurs work like some small flying piranha’s.

Quetzalcoatlus – The world’s biggest flying creature ever to roam the skies, and a cool name taken from an Aztec God.

Titanoboa – Worlds biggest found snake, and I used to like snakes!

Xiphactinus – That is one ugly motherf*cker fish! But very cool and big!

Rhizodus – An ancient monstrous fish that could also walk/crawl on land, the most terrifying fresh-water fish ever to have lived probably.

Arthropleura – Giant centipedes? Yes please!

Eurypterid – These giant Sea Scorpions from ancient times have always impressed me with their looks and sizes!

Megatherium – Hard to realize that modern Sloths are descendants of these awesome titans! No offense modern sloths, I love you too!

Doedicurus – Armadillo’s the size of small cars.

Megaloceros – The coolest and largest of stags, with magnificent, mystifying, titanic antlers.

Indricotherium – Earth biggest land-mammal ever! Named after a Mythological creature, the giant Russian Unicorn Indrik. When young I always thought these were giant relatives of horses, but they are actually giant Rhinocerosses. 

Daeodon – Called the pigs from hell for good reason, these ugly, evil-looking horrors probably have haunted many other prehistoric beasts nightmares.

Basilosaurus – The most badass of whales, and also the most evil looking one!

Procoptodon – Kangaroo’s more than 3 meters high, I kinda wished they would still have been alive today!

Kaprosuchus - Awesome high-legged land-based crocodilians! 

And I also really love the entire Ankylosaurus-Family-Line, from Nodosaurus, to polacanthus and from Saichania to Ankylosaurus itself. 

P.S: The pictures of both Basilosaurus and Phororhacos are from the first Dinosaurs book I’ve ever read.