ExtinctZoo

Feb 01 2025 52 ep. 16 mins 27
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Your one stop shop for all things dinosaurs, paleontology and extinct animals. Kickback, relax and learn all about the amazing creatures that once existed - welcome to the digsite!

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The Most Brutal Deaths Ever Preserved In Fossils

Feb 01 2025 21 mins  
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 Thalassophobia Kept You Alive

Jan 25 2025 23 mins  
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?

The Giant Humans That Hunted & Cannibalized Neanderthals

Jan 19 2025 21 mins  
Ice age Europe wasn't exactly the most welcoming of places...

The Only Predators To Dominate The Dinosaurs

Jan 11 2025 19 mins  
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…

The Absolute Worst Dinosaur You Could Get Caught By

Jan 04 2025 16 mins  
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 Hidden Timer That Kills Every Species

Dec 28 2024 18 mins  
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?

26,000 Years Ago Europe Was Hell

Dec 21 2024 24 mins  
"Am I cooked?" - Cro-Magnon (c. 26,000 BCE)

The Moment Thalassophobia Was Born

Dec 14 2024 23 mins  
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?

Earth Once Had Hobbits & It Absolutely Sucked To Be Them

Dec 07 2024 21 mins  
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.

The Time When Sharks Were The Least Of Your Worries

Nov 30 2024 15 mins  
Some 150,000,000 Years Ago, before the Bull Shark, the Great White, or the Megalodon, there was... the Pliosaurus