Prehistoric

What are prehistoric animals? For millions of years animals have walked the earth, long before humans ever existed. They are part of the history of the earth

Design and Illustration for Pleistocene (Ice Age) specimens and fossils, natural history museum signage.

View: ‘prehistoric’ historical pictures (exact matches) in the Look and Learn History Picture Archive of historical, cultural and art images

Inostrancevia lived during the Late Permian period and was the largest of the gorgonopsid species. Inostrancevia's most striking feature was its long, saber-tooth-like canines. It had a total body length of around 3.5 m, a weight of 300 kg and a huge skull, which measured up to 60 cm in length. Inastroncevia was likely at the top of the food chain in Late Permian Russia, preying on the large herbivorous creatures it shared the land with.

Deinotherium - The Terrible Beast - Facts and Information about the prehistoric giant elephant

For the deeper meaning of Mesolithic inventions (and the mythic/psychological meaning of the bow) see p.7 of James Harrod's essay at: originsnet.org/bow.pdf

Gigantopithecus was a genus of ape that existed from 1 to 5 million years ago in what is today the countries of China and India.

Prehistoric weapons. Vector clip art illustration with simple gradients. Each on a separate layer. EPS10 file included.

A collection of dinosaurs and other awesome creatures that are now extinct.

I made this [very] simplified cladogram illustrating how different dinosaur groups relate to each other, as well as how they are related to other extinct animals that more often than not get mislabelled as “dinosaurs”. My main motivation for creating this piece was not pedantic concern about everyone using the right scientific terminology. It was more about how this tendency of calling everything big, reptilian and dead “dinosaur” in everyday language, keeps most people from imagining how…