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Predator X 3
Look out! With a bite 10 times stronger than any
animal alive today, this pliosaur (marine reptile)
will make mincemeat of your motorboat. The most
fearsome monster ever to swim the seas, it ruled
the Jurassic oceans about 147 million years ago.

2 Megalodon
More than twice as long as
the great white shark—its closest
living relative—Megalodon was
a massive 40 ft (12 m) long. It could
open its toothy jaws 7 ft (2 m) Diatryma 3
wide—enough to gobble up
a Jet Skier in a single gulp. A giant flightless bird that
lived 56–33 million years ago,
Diatryma used its clawed feet
to bring down small mammals.
It then finished them off with
a bone-crushing bite to
the back of the neck from its
large parrotlike beak.
Pretty Polly!

4 Godzilla
4 Giant rodent This terrifying monster from
Between four and two million years ago, the deep is an ancestor of
a rodent as large as a buffalo grazed the crocodile. It had a head like
the vegetation of South America. Its skull a dinosaur’s, and its body ended
alone was more then 20 in (50 cm) long. in a fishlike tail. No wonder they call
Known as Josephoartigasia monesi, this it Godzilla! Officially named Dakosaurus
giant guinea pig weighed a heavy, andiniensis, it thrived 135 million years ago.
person-squashing ton (tonne).
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