Imagine walking through a dense forest over 300 million years ago… and hearing the buzzing wings of a dragonfly the size of a modern eagle.
That wasn’t a scene from a fantasy...
Long before dinosaurs roamed the Earth and sharks ruled the oceans, an enormous predator skittered across the ancient seabed — the Jaekelopterus. This prehistoric arthropod wasn’t a scorpion as we know...
Before dinosaurs, before trees, even before vertebrates crawled onto land — there were trilobites. These armored, multi-limbed creatures ruled Earth’s oceans for over 270 million years, leaving behind one of the...
Long before sharks became the ocean’s top predators, another jaw-dropping creature dominated the seas — Dunkleosteus. With armor-plated jaws and a bite strong enough to crush bone, it was one of the...
Placoderms: The Armored Pioneers of Prehistoric Seas
Before sharks ruled the oceans, before dinosaurs stomped the Earth, there was a group of strange, armored fish that dominated the underwater world: placoderms.
These early...
Before sharks grew rows of jagged teeth and reputations for hunting surfboards, there was Cladoselache — a sleek, fast-swimming predator that ruled Earth’s oceans over 370 million years ago.
Cladoselache wasn’t big or terrifying by...
