Prehistoric Earth contained car-sized bugs, mega sharks, and giant snakes that fed on crocodiles.
T-rex may have been “king of the dinosaurs,” but it was nowhere near as large as the Mosasaur.
Modern-day saltwater crocodiles would have seemed like babies in front of the ‘supercrocs’ of the past.
“Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get,” this famous line from the 1994 movie Forrest Gump sums up life in prehistoric times, although instead of a box of chocolates, what you got was more like a mouth full of teeth always thirsty for blood.
This was because, in the past, our planet was inhabited by animals far larger and more ferocious than anything alive today. So, let’s take a look at some of the deadliest animals of the past.
1. Megalodon (Otodus megalodon)
A sculpture of the Megalodon. Sergiodlarosa/Wikimedia Commons
The largest-ever megalodon fossil measures 58.7 feet in length, making it the largest shark and sea predator that ever lived on Earth.
