7 biggest monsters of all time

We all know about the size of dinosaurs, but how do you feel when you see a large cow-sized rat, or sea scorpion bigger than a human, a toad is as big as a big ball to playing on the sea, penguins are as big as a medium-sized adult, or marsupial like a sloth weighing 1,000 pounds, and a shark up to 50 fit, 30 times heavier than a giant white shark nowadays?

Amaze the biggest monsters of all time

Those monsters actually existed even if they didn't live together at the same place or at the same time.

1. The largest solid fossil found in a Colombian coal mine

(Illustrated by Titanoboa cerejonensis monster by Jason Bourque / Nature)

According to the article on the Nation Geographic, the largest snake ever existed is a giant python-like python crawling in the humid tropical forests 60 million years ago. Their food is an ancient crocodile.

John Roach said: 'Fossils discovered in northeastern Colombia's Cerrejon coal mine show that this reptile is at least 42 feet long and weighs 2,500 pounds (1,135 kg).

The image above is a comparison of a Titanoboa vertebra with the body size of a modern Python regius python.In the image below, the vertebrae of mature green South American pythons are just like 'dwarfs' compared to the vertebrae of the ancient cerobian cerrejonensis python (pictured above: Jason Head; Kenneth Krysko below).

The python probably killed its prey by suffocating the victim, wrapping it around the victim and tightening it like a modern South American python killer.Only this ancient monster is twice as big as the biggest modern assassin now.

People will not have a chance to survive in the face of this huge python, according to Hans-Dieter Sues - paleontologist and director of research and collection of the National Museum of Natural History belonging to Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC He said: 'With such a size, it is like a device used to compress old cars at the dumpsite'.

2. The mouse is about the size of a bull

(Photo: Image courtesy Royal Society)

On the picture is the great skull of a prehistoric mouse weighing up to 1 ton which is compared to modern rats today. Photo published on January 16, 2008.

National Geographic News wrote: 'Up to 53 cm (21 inches) the skull was discovered in Uruguay under the soil layers of San José by an amateur fossil hunter. This bizarre fossil analysis showed that it belonged to a bull-sized species, so it was named Josephoartigasia monesi '.

The researchers say that this 'super rat' lives in low rain forests about 2 to 4 million years ago, perhaps using great sharp teeth to fight back and curry fangs. Flying birds do not fly.

This newly discovered species was published in a study by Andrés Rinderknecht of the National Museum of Natural History of Anthropology in Montevideo, Uruquay. The title of the world's largest rodent previously belonged to a creature with only fossils of the same size as a buffalo discovered in Venezuela in 2003.

3. The giant "toad" fossil discovered in Madagascar

(Artwork: Luci Betti-Nash, Stony Brook University)

Scientists working in Madagascar have discovered that the creature may be the largest toad that ever existed on earth.

The hot Beelzebufo , also known as the " devil toad", is a rather scary animal that is about the size of a ball used to play at sea. It is 16 inches (14 cm) tall and weighs about 10 pounds (4.5 kg).

Paleontologist David of Stony Brook University in New York and his colleagues embarked on the excavation of small portions of this 70-million-year-old toad for more than a decade ago. 'Over the years, a 75-piece puzzle has been combined thanks to the hands of frog frog fossil expert Susan Evans of University of London'.

Evans, the lead author of the article, said it was like its closest modern relative - the group of large mouth frogs in South America named ceratophyrines - the demon toad is probably also very aggressive.'Ceratophyrines are really aggressive carnivores who like to be ambushed. They have a round body with a big mouth, they sit still and grab everything that goes through. '

She added: 'Sometimes they are called Pac-Man frogs. They are twice as big, three times the largest ceratophyrines now. And Beelzebufo probably has even more features. '

According to National Geographic News, it has a protective layer along with strong jaws that help it catch newly hatched dinosaurs.

4. Giant penguin once ruled the Peruvian desert

(Artwork: Kristin Lamm / courtesy PNAS)

Human-sized penguins have appeared in South America about 35 million years ago, they don't even need ice to survive.

Research by paleontologist Julia Clarke and colleagues at the University of North Carolina discovered two giant penguins based on fossils excavated in the Atacama desert in Peru, pushing back the time of penguins migrate down the equator for another 30 million years - one of the warmest periods during the past 65 million years.

The figure above shows the relative size of two newly discovered giant Peruvian penguins.

'The dreadful Icadyptes salasi is 5 feet (1.5 m) tall - right - lived 36 million years ago, while Perudyptes devriesi - on the left - lived about 42 million years ago. These two extinct species were modeled to compare with the only penguin living in Peru, the Spheniscus humbolti - in the middle '.

5. Giant sea scorpions are bigger than humans

(Artwork: Biology Letters)

According to scientists, the 18-inch (46-cm) fossil-claw - the bottom - belongs to the world's largest animal. It was a 8.2 million year old marine scorpion, 8.2 feet long (2.5 m), called Jaekelopterus rhenaniae.

'It is about the size of a large crocodile, a 390 million year old marine scorpion is the leading predator in its time. It eats fish and even its species in wetlands, ' said fossil experts.
Jaekelopterus rhenaniae is 8.2 feet long (2.5 m) with claws 18 inches (46 cm) long.

Paleontologist Simon Braddy of the University of Bristol said: 'The discovery shows that arthropods - such as insects, spiders, and crabs have a hard outer shell, limbs and burning bodies. - has been much larger than what we still think. We already know that fossils reveal to us the existence of giant polyps, oversized scorpions, great spas or great dragonflies. But we never realized that, no matter how far, ancient antiquated insects could be. '

The fossil claw of the sea scorpion was discovered at a mining mine near Prüm, Germany.

6. Ancient giant shark has the strongest bite in history

Megalodon's fossil teeth (left) are placed next to the teeth of modern white sharks.(Photo: Flip Nicklin / Minden Pictures / National Geographic)

Prehistoric megalodon sharks (literally 'big fangs' ) have a bite that no other creature can match.

'Its biting is strong enough to crush a car, far beyond the bite of a giant white shark or even Tyrannosaurus rex'.

We know it mainly because of the big teeth it left, the Carcharodon megalodon shark first appeared on Earth's oceans 16 million years ago . Its main food is turtles or giant prehistoric whales.

Researcher Stephen Wroe of the University of New South Wales in Australia said: 'Megalodon's hunting strategy is to bite off the tail and fins of large whales, effectively neutralizing the whale's propulsion system. '.

This prehistoric shark probably reached 50 feet (16 m) long and was 30 times heavier than the largest white shark now.

Peter Klimley, a shark expert at the University of California, Davis, said: 'A great white shark is just a piece of the Megalodon male'.

7. Giant prehistoric kangaroo

Giant kangaroo.(Artwork: Peter Schouten; copyright Peter Schouten)

Hunting on Tasmania in Australia has extinguished several prehistoric animals, including kangaroo, bagged hippopotamus and jaguar-like cats. The marsupial resembles prehistoric terrestrial sloths weighing up to 1,000 pounds (500 kg) as depicted in the picture named Palorchestes azael. It is one of the many species of Tasmania's rich fauna that are extinct by humans 40.00 years ago.

New research on this ancient kangaroo challenged an earlier study that suggested that the ice age killed these giant creatures before humans appeared on the island.

Other species present in the study are 'three kangaroos that weigh about 220 pounds (100 kg),' said Tim Flannery of Macquarie University, Australia.

He said: 'There used to be a bagged leopard that weighed only about 100 to 220 pounds (50 soles of 100 kg).'