ExtinctZoo

When an animal is declared extinct, we generally think that's the last we'll ever see of them. And most of the times this is true, but there are a handful of animals out there who have been declared extinct, but in reality might actually be roaming the earth as we speak...

Humans are a wild wild bunch, I am sure you know that, and even so I guarantee that these archeology discoveries will have you scratching your head on why on earth any would would do such things.

There's just something about islands, that goes hand in hand with spookiness, especially when it comes to animals. And of all the islands to have existed, its this one that might just take the cake of being the strangest.

To figure out what animals millions and millions of years old were like through some bones, is breathtakingly difficult, which is why it may not be surprising, that a few times, paleontologist have gotten things really wrong.

Hey everyone! Made a poll a few weeks back about uploading bonus episodes about animals that still exist, and over 90% of you said you wanted it - so here's the first test episode. Let me know what you think!

Turns out that Florida man wasn't always Florida man

Would you believe me that during the crusades, their still existed on earth not one but multiple giant animals that were the stuff of legends, and they could all be found in one place? Well, this is the truth...

Extinct animals are weird, but only handful are weird enough that we have no clue what in the world they are, despite our current technology and knowledge.

If you've watched some of my recent videos, then you'll know that the neolithic kind of sucked, it just wasn't fun, well turns out that somehow it was even worse than we once thought, like way way worse.

Check out the website: extinctzoo.org

We’ve all heard of the Dinosaurs extinction, and if you're a slight nerd like me, then maybe the Permian’s great dying too, however do you know about the first mass extinction, which was a super mega ice age on steroids? Didn’t think so!

Imagine a place where the deadliest waters laid, and then imagine that in the exact same spot the deadliest land also rested, well turns out that really happened, let me explain...

If pain was a business, then humans have created a monopoly out of it, just ask our early ancestors, who sadly for them, have left us some pretty painful fossils showcasing just how brutal prehistoric times were.

300,000 years isn't exactly a long time in the grand scheme of things. And yet it was long enough for us to go through some pretty peculiar "changes"...

Today Japan is known for anime, good food, and everything kawaii, but once upon a time not only was it not kawaii, it was also one of the worst places you could find yourself on the entire planet, as it seemed to be collecting nightmarish animals like Pokémon.

Life hurts, but seems like in the past it hurt so so much worse... and these real skeletons prove it.

Sauropods were the largest dinosaurs to ever live... but what was the second largest? Its an animal you have likely never heard of AND it also happens to be the biggest thing to have ever walked on two legs (if it wanted to)

Antarctica today is ice on ice on ice, with a few penguins sprinkled in. But once upon a time, not only was there no ice or snow, yet palm trees, giant crocodiles, noodle mammals and... dinosaurs?

If you take a look through time you will come to the realization that we are all the same, but different... let me explain.

Ever imagined what the very first modern humans would have saw on their journeys in late Pleistocene Africa? Well imagine no further, here's the answer!

Also stay tuned for a special guest on this episode...

To keep it short... Australia has no chill and had no chill...

7,000 years ago something happened that was so severe that it permanently left a scar within our DNA...

We all love and know the T. rex, but have you ever asked yourself, where did it come from, and what ruled before it? Well.. here's the answer.

To scrape by back in the old days you had to be extremely tough, but as these 9 Fossils show, sometimes being among the toughest animals to ever exist, still gets you nothing but a painful ending.

When you go swimming in the ocean or seas, the last thing you want to swim into is a shark... but what happens when everything is a shark?

Ice age Europe wasn't exactly the most welcoming of places...

When you think of the biggest and baddest group of animals to ever live, you likely imagine the dinosaurs. And why wouldn’t you? They were the largest land carnivores and herbivores to ever live. So, it may then surprise you that dinosaurs were actually at one point in their existence ruled by a much less famous group of animals…

We usually think that dinosaurs, namely theropods, are scary based off of how big they were. And while this can be true to an extent, size can sometimes be deceitful, as there was a secretive family of theropods that once existed, which proved that sometimes its not really the big ones you need to fear.

The hardest game ever is the one we are forced to play & that's life, and within it their seems to be a number that only 1% make it past, which begs the question...why?

"Am I cooked?" - Cro-Magnon (c. 26,000 BCE)

Water, especially deep water, a big no no for many. And this is for good reason, but once upon a time, the oceans and seas of Earth were actually pretty chill, so how did it go so wrong? When was Thalassophobia born?

Hobbits have cozy lives right? True, until you put them in the real world and on an island with giant reptiles, then you got yourself some brutally awful experiences.

Some 150,000,000 Years Ago, before the Bull Shark, the Great White, or the Megalodon, there was... the Pliosaurus

We all go through ups and downs in life, but for this particular human species, it was only downs.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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...