When you think of apex predators from the age of dinosaurs, Tyrannosaurus rex likely dominates your imagination. Yet this iconic beast ruled for only the final chapter of a much longer story. For over 160 million years, Earth witnessed a fascinating succession of fearsome hunters, each perfectly adapted to their era’s unique challenges and ecosystems. ...
Picture a world where colossal marine reptiles the size of modern whales cruised through warm, shallow seas that split entire continents in half. This wasn’t science fiction – this was reality roughly eighty million years ago, during the Late Cretaceous period, when Earth’s oceans belonged to the mosasaurs. With double-hinged jaws, sharp conical teeth, and ...
Long before dinosaurs stomped across ancient landscapes and massive reptiles dominated prehistoric seas, Earth belonged to creatures far different from today’s slimy frogs and salamanders. Picture massive amphibians the size of crocodiles lurking in steamy swamps, their jaws bristling with razor-sharp teeth, ruling over a world where oxygen levels were so high that insects grew ...
