‘Leviathan Whale’ bigger than megalodon and 122ft Patagotitan heavier than FIVE buses – Earth’s gigantic lost creatures

TODAY'S mega-fauna, Earth's largest animals, airy successful examination to the giants that utilized to roam the Earth.

Though that is apt invited quality to astir of america humans.

Leviathan Whale

The large Leviathan Whale has been likened to the 'Jaws' of the Miocene Epoch.

After uncovering fossil remains successful Peru, experts judge the Leviathan Whale inhabited the southeastern Pacific Ocean immoderate 13 cardinal years ago.

The Peruvian specimen is the lone known remains of the Leviathan, a gigantic beast with teeth astir the size of a 2-litre vessel of Coca Cola.

Based connected the size of the 3metre (10ft) agelong skull, experts reckon the Leviathan had a assemblage magnitude of betwixt 13 and 16 meters (45 and 60ft).

The rima unsocial was astir 6ft agelong and 4ft wide – 3 times the size of the rima of the slayer whale, and ample capable to acceptable an big human.

While it's caput and skeleton is akin to the modern sperm whale, it's teeth are overmuch larger and were recovered to beryllium up to 14inches agelong - much than treble the size of a T-Rex's gnashers.

The fare of this oversea beast is not clear.

Thought its robust snout and monolithic little and precocious teeth suggest it feasted connected prey larger and tougher than squid.

Patagotitan

The Patagotitan weighed successful astatine astir 70tons - that's the equivalent of astir 5 buses.

It ate its mode done towering forests successful today's Patagonia astir 100 to 95million years ago, during the Late Cretaceous period.

This 122ft herbivore belongs to a radical known arsenic titanosaurs, which are known for their colossal size.

It is 1 of the largest dinosaurs ever discovered.

Its thigh bone, oregon femur, unsocial was 2.38m agelong - acold taller than the mean human.

How oregon wherefore the Patagotitan vanished is unknown, with their extinction predating the infamous extinction-level meteor onslaught by astir 34million years.

Spinosaurus

The Spinosaurus is understood to beryllium the longest carnivorous dinosaur to person roamed the land, stretching an tremendous 14metres from caput to tail.

That's astir 3 times the magnitude of an African elephant, and much than 20 per cent heavier.

The 7.5ton carnal scampered astir Earth betwixt 95 and 70million years agone successful the Late Cretaceous period.

It is good characterised by the ample sail-like hump connected its back, which experts judge could person been utilized for mating displays, assemblage somesthesia regularisation oregon adjacent the intimidation of different animals.

While it was mostly a land-roamer, it's imaginable the Spinosaurus has a semi-aquatic life, hunting for food portion afloat submerged successful water.

Although this thought has been contested by immoderate scientists.

The Spinosaurus died retired 30million years earlier the T-Rex showed up.

It's unclear precisely however they perished, arsenic immoderate paleontologists judge a flood wiped them out, portion others accidental it was a drought.

Titanboa

If you're acrophobic of snakes, past avert your eyes - due to the fact that this is the biggest of the bunch.

Due to the fragility of snake bones, small is known astir the long-extinct Titanboa, oregon Titanoboa cerrejonensis.

What remains of the beast suggests it could person been a snake betwixt 45 and 50ft long, with the thickest portion of its assemblage coming up to a human's waist.

The Titanboa knew a mentation of the Earth, wherever the Amazon rainforest present resides, that was incredibly swampy.

During this play astir 58 to 60million years ago, known arsenic the Paleocene era, it rained much than 150 inches of rainfall per year, compared with 80 inches for the Amazon now. 

This elephantine snake reigned a fewer cardinal years aft the autumn of the dinosaurs, which were wiped retired by a cataclysmic asteroid strike.

It was this blast that birthed the tropical rainforests on the equator that beryllium today.

The Titanboa, revered arsenic the largest snake to person ever lived, thrived alongside different tremendous taxon similar 13-foot crocodiles and 8-foot turtles.