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**ExtinctZoo**

Your one stop shop for all things dinosaurs, paleontology and extinct animals.

Kickback, relax and learn all about the amazing creatures that once existed – welcome to the digsite!

Latest Episodes:

The North Pole Had Its Very Own ‘T. Rex’ Nov 17, 2024

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

If This Prehistoric Hyena Was In Lion King Scar Would've Won Nov 09, 2024

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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 different, if he had just hired this prehistoric Hyena instead.

The Closest Life Has Ever Come To Going Extinct Nov 03, 2024

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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 believe that it was the worst day for life ever... you've been lied too.

The First Super Predator To Emerge After The Dinosaurs Oct 26, 2024

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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 with.

The World's Most Terrifying Island... Oct 19, 2024

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

Neanderthals Were Absolute Freaks Of Nature Oct 13, 2024

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

The Scariest Animal During The Jurassic Wasn't A Carnivore... Oct 06, 2024

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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 when you looked at some of the 'smaller' dinosaurs, with one herbivore in particular actually being more grisly then some of the predators around...

When Krakens Were Real Sep 28, 2024

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

The Only Time In History That Water Was Safer Than Land Sep 21, 2024

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You know how I've reiterated that you shouldn't get into the water, no matter how bad things get on land, well... there is ONE exception to this rule.

0:00Nature’s Unspoken Rule And The Period That Broke It 00:45Geography & Oceanography 02:15What Lived In The Oceans & Seas 03:56What Caused Life In The Water To Be So Unscary? 04:35The Opposite Story On Land & Earth’s Old Rulers 05:11Earth’s Original Sabre-Tooths (Gorgonopsids) 06:30The Largest Predator & Gorgon Around 08:45Permian Russia Was A Problem 09:18The Giant Gorgonopsids That Ruled Africa 10:47More More More Gorgons 11:27The Gorgonopsid’s Nemesis (Therocephalians) 12:18First Animals To Evolve Venom? 12:50Jaguar Sized Predator With A Lion Sized Head 13:35Largest Non-Gorgonopsid Land Carnivore 14:25Other Late Permian Carnivores 15:20Amphibians 16:30Herbivores & The Largest Animal On Earth 18:28Prehistoric Skies WITHOUT Pterosaurs 19:21Mother Nature Wanna Kill You Too (The Great Dying)

Extinct Animals The Ancient Romans & Greeks Saw Sep 14, 2024

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The ancient Greeks & Romans did a lot during their times, spreading far and wide, which also led them to seeing a lot too. These sights included landscapes, other civilizations, and even exotic animals too, some of which are sadly no longer around today….

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