Mother nature never ceases to amaze us. It’s a source of life for awe-inspiring creatures, from delicate to humongous, and everything in between. However, some of the latter might seem delicate, too, compared to the living things that have gone extinct.

Bugs the size of a human, reptiles of ginormous proportions, and rodents with horns—these are just a few examples proving that “Nature Was Metal” back in the day. That’s why there’s an entire subreddit, under this exact name, dedicated to some of nature’s most extraordinary creations that have vanished from the face of the earth.

Today we’ve listed a bunch of them for you to get acquainted with. Whether you find them atrocious or absolutely fascinating, they show the name of the subreddit is definitely not baseless. Scroll down to marvel at the beauties and the beasts and click here for our previous post about them.

#1 Tail Of A 99 Myo Dinosaur, The First One Ever Discovered. Perfectly Preserved, Still Covered In Feathers

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#2 This Is The Best-Preserved Dinosaur Specimen Ever Unearthed. This Mummified Nodosaur’s Bones Remain Covered By Intact Skin And Armor — 110 Million Years After The Creature’s Death

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#3 Real Footage Of 4 Extinct Animals: Thylacine, Ivory-Billed Woodpecker, Baiji River Dolphin, And The Heath Hen

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#4 The Only Preserved Head And Skin Of The Extinct Dodo Bird, Kept At The Oxford University Museum Of Natural History

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#5 This Is Quetzalcoatlus Northropi. It Is The Largest Pterosaur Ever Discovered And Possibly The Largest Flying Animal Ever! It Had A Wingspan Of Around 15.9 Metres (59 Feet)

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#6 The Numerous Hand Stencils Of Cueva De Las Manos, Argentina. The Hand Prints Of Many Different People Separated By Hundreds Or Thousands Of Years, Their Stories Lost To Time But Their Art Still Lingers For Us To See

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#7 A Barbary Lion, An Extinct Race, As Photographed In Algeria

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#8 Most Animals Used To Be A Lot Bigger

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#9 The Giant Monster That Was Argentinosaurus

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#10 In 1663, The Partial Fossilised Skeleton Of A Woolly Rhinoceros Was Discovered In Germany. This Is The “Magdeburg Unicorn”, One Of The Worst Fossil Reconstructions In Human History

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#11 Mammoth Hut

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#12 This Giant Crinoid Colony Is 195 Million Years Old From The Lower Jurassic Is 4 X 5 Meter And Is Now On Display At A Museum In Houston!

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#13 The Origin Of Teeth And Jaws Has Been Pushed Back To 436 Million Years Ago

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#14 Utahraptor Claws

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#15 22 Million Year Old Enhydro Methane Termite With Its Last Meal Preserved In Amber

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#16 The Horned Gopher – The Only Known Rodent To Have Developed Horns

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#17 Triceratops Femur (Left) vs. Elephant Femur

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#18 Barosaurus Had Quite A Long Neck. Art By John Conway

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#19 A Man Holding A Nile Crocodile Skull Next To The Skull Of The Fearsome Crocodylus Thorbjarnarsoni. A Giant Crocodile Species From The Early Pleistocene In The Turkana Basin, Kenya

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#20 Nizar Ibrahim Between The Jaws Of Spinosaurus

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#21 Dromornis Leg Fossils Upon Excavation

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#22 Arthropleura Millipede Is The Biggest Bug Known To Ever Live

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#23 10,000 Year Old Skull And Antlers Of An Extinct Elk Found By Fishermen In Ireland

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#24 Gorgosaurus Taken At The Royal Tyrrell Museum

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#25 An Incredibly Intact Crinoid Specimen Fossil Dating Back To About 345 Million Years Ago!

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#26 Thalassocnus Natans, An Aquatic Sloth From The Late Miocene Of Peru And Chile. Art By Mark Witton

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#27 Prehistoric Spider-Like Arachnid Found Preserved In Amber

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#28 The Giant Ground Sloth Eremotherium

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#29 Steller’s Sea Cow, An Enormous Creature Brought To Extinction By Humans, Compared To The Extant Dugong (Which Is About The Weight Of A Bison)

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#30 A Smilodon Fatalis Captured By A Camera Trap

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#31 Dinosaur Claws Were Actually Much Bigger When They Were Alive

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#32 The Massive Size Of A Utahraptor Skull, With A Velociraptor Skull And Human Head For Scale

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#33 Jimbacrinus Crinoid Fossils, 280 Million Years Old, Found In Western Australia, Gascoyne Region

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#34 Seeing As Even Crocodilians Enjoy Butt-Scratches, Does That Mean All Archosaurs Like Dinosaurs And Pterosaurs Enjoyed It Aswell? (Mostly A Joke)

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#35 Enormous Paraceratherium Skull

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#36 Parapuzosia Seppenradensis, The Largest Known Ammonite, Photographed In The Late 1800s With The Paleontologist Who Described It

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#37 The Natural History Museum In London Outfitted Its Animatronic Tyrannosaurus Rex In A Colorful Christmas Sweater

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#38 Dunkleosteus

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#39 Fossil Of Giant 40+ Million Year Old Fish Found In Argentina

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#40 The Levyatan Was A Whale, An Apex Predator, And A Competitor Of The Megalodon. The Skull Is 3 Meters, The Largest Teeth Are 36 Cm Each – These Are The Largest Among Animals

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#41 Diploceraspis.a Prehistoric Amphibian With A Boomerang Shaped Head

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#42 “Many People Believe The Velociraptors In The Jurassic Franchise Were Utahraptors, They’re Not. They’re Actually Deinonychus, They Were Huge And You Could Not Beat It In A Fist Fight” By Coolio_art

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#43 Basilosaurus, A Large, Toothed Whale Whose Serpentine Appearance Caused Scientists To Initially Believe It Was A Marine Reptile

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#44 Cartilaginous Fish Of The Late Paleozoic

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#45 The Tooth Of A Liopleurodon. Discovered In England’s Peterborough Area

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#46 It’s Been Suggested That Spitting Cobras Evolved As A Response To Bipedal Hominins, As Their Ability To Spray Venom Up To 3 M Allowed Them To Neutralize A New Enemy That Could Attack At The Distance With Stick And Stones. Spitting Cobras Appear In The Fossil Record At About The Same Time As Hominins

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#47 The Last Known Tasmanian Tiger Photographed In 1933. They Are Now Extinct

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#48 The Largest Terrestrial Predator Since The K-T Extinction Event, Barinosuchus From Miocene South America

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#49 Til That Las Vegas, Nv Airport Has A Megalodon Fossil With All Original Teeth Found By One Person Who Dives For Them. I Was Walking Through The Airport And Saw The Massive Jaws

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#50 One Of The Largest Predators Of Late Miocene North America, Barbourofelis Fricki, Bow To The Superior Life Form. Art By Joschua Knüppe

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#51 Sinemys Gamera: An Extinct Turtle From Late Jurassic China

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#52 What Being Attacked By A T-Rex Would Look Like

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#53 The Legendary “Fighting Dinosaurs” Fossil, Of Which A Velociraptor And Protoceratops Were Both Preserved In Mortal Combat

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#54 Our Face From Our Recent Ancestors To Us

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#55 The Pelvis Of The 440-Pound/200-Kg Giant Moa Showing Puncture Wounds From The Talons The Haast’s Eagle

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#56 Artist Working On A Life-Sized Bust Of Kaprosuchus, Sometimes Nicknamed The “Boar-Croc”

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#57 Triceratops Horridus Skull At The Morrison Natural History Museum, Co

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#58 Spinosaurus Throughout The Decades

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#59 Drepanosaurus Unguicaudatus, An Unusual Reptile Known For Its Prehensile Tail From The Late Norian Of Northern Italy. Art By Mark Witton

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#60 A Smilodon Populator With A Pierced Skull Likely Due To A Innerspecific Killing (With The Skull Of Another Used To Match The Bite Marks)

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#61 The Henodus Was A Placodont That Lived In The Late Triassic Period.the Name “Henodus” Translates To “One Thoot” In Greek

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#62 The Last Moment For A Moa As It Is Attacked By A Haast’s Eagle

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#63 Carcharodontosaurus vs. Spinosaurus By Luis V Rey

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#64 Livyatan Melvillei “Playing” With Its Prey

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#65 Neanderthal Hunters Discover A Peculiar Rock, A Fossilised Ammonite, Amongst The Vast Glaciers 125,000 Years Ago. Fantastic Art Piece By Mikhail Shekhanov

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#66 In The Break Of Dawn, A Group Of Neanderthal Standing Upon Their Cave Bear (Ursus Spelaeus) Kill Find Themselves The Target Of A Pride Of American Cave Lions (Panthera Leo Spelaea) !

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#67 For Those Who Don’t Know, Earlier This Year, Scientists Found A New, So Far Undescribed Species Of Filter Feeding Shark From Deposits Of The Western Interior Seaway In 1975 From Morden, Manitoba. It Has Been Nicknames “Dave”

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#68 Gigantoraptor, The Largest Of The Oviraptorosaurs

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#69 The Fossil Species Of Incredible Crocodile Subfamily Osteolaeminae, Today Only Represented By Dwarf Crocodiles

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#70 This Is Cryolophosaurus, Early Jurassic Antarctica’s “Cold-Crested Lizard.” Take A Look At That Bizarre Crest On Its Head!

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#71 Deinosuchus, Arguably The Fiercest Predator North America Has Ever Known, Is Seen Here Lunging At An Albertosaurus In This Depiction. Deinosuchus Lived Between 75 Million And 82 Million Years Ago And Had Bodies At Least 33 Feet (10 Meters) Long, Easily Taking Down Any Animal Within Reach

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#72 Kelenken, The Ruler Of The Collón Curá Formation

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#73 Giant Insular Species In The Barn Owl Family Compared In Size To A House Cat

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#74 A Clash Of Allosaurus

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#75 Sauroposeidon Proteles Is One Of The Tallest Sauropods To Ever Live. A Mount Of The Holotype Of This Early Cretaceous Titan Was Made For The Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum Of Natural History And Was Installed In 2010

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#76 Spinosaurus

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#77 Mandible Of The Giant Crocodilian ???????????

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#78 The Dragon From Down Under: A Massive Megalania Finds A Meal In The Form Of An Unlucky Genyornis

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#79 Megantereon-The Ancestor Of Smilodon

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#80 Triceratops Horridus Skull At The Morrison Natural History Museum, Co

#81 This Image Of A Human Next To A Carcharodontosaurus Skull Never Ceases To Amaze Me

#82 A Stegosaurus Squares Up To A Hungry Torvosaurus – By Brian J Murphy

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