The
squid's known range extends thousands of miles northward from Antarctica to
southern South America, southern South Africa, and the southern tip of New
Zealand, making it primarily an inhabitant of the entire circumantarctic
Southern Ocean.
Baluchitherium
is an extinct rhinoceros of the order Perissodactyla, class Mammalia, that
lived during the late Oligocene and early Miocene epochs of the TERTIARY
PERIOD (about 20-30 million years ago). It is believed to be the largest
land mammal that ever lived. The first baluchitheres were found in central
Mongolia.
Unlike
its modern descendants, Baluchitherium was hornless, but other features
clearly indicate that this huge beast was a rhinoceros. Its skull was
about 1.2 m (4 ft) long, and it stood about 5.5 m (18 feet) high at the
shoulder. A long neck and huge, pillarlike legs enabled the animal to
browse among the higher branches of trees. Baluchitheres were probably
limited to Asia, for their remains have not been found elsewhere.
The
flightless, carnivorous terror birds — that's what scientists call them — likely
hopped to North America via islands that came to form what is today the Isthmus
of Panama, said Bruce MacFadden, a paleontologist at the Florida Museum of
Natural History and lead author of the research.
DAMASCUS, Syria — Hunters stalked
giant camels as tall as some modern-day elephants in the Syrian
desert tens of thousands of years ago, and archaeologists behind
the find are wondering where the camels came from and what
caused them to die off.
The enormous beasts existed about 100,000 years ago and more of
the bones, first discovered last year, have been found this year
in the sands about 150 miles north of the capital, Damascus.
The animal, branded the "Syrian Camel" by its Swiss and Syrian discoverers, stood between three and four yards high — about twice the size of latter-day camels and the height at the shoulder of many African elephants.
"The camel is a dromedary but extremely big and extremely tall — about double the size of a modern day camel," said Jean-Marie Le Tensorer, who led the Swiss side of the team.
The camels
did not appear to have been bred by humans as
beasts of burden, the scientists said, raising
questions about its provenance — and
disappearance.
"What we want to know now is: where did it come from, and why did it disappear never to be seen again? Was it migrating from Asia to Africa?" said the team's Syrian leader, Heba al-Sakhel.
Le Tensorer said humanoid bones were discovered at a nearby site and stone tools used by early humans were found with the camel's bones, which are thought to be up to 100,000 years old.
"The bones — a fragment of an arm and a tooth — are, of course, of the hunter of the giant camel. He probably stalked his prey to a water spring where he came to drink," said Le Tensorer.
"Ordinary camels appeared in the [Middle East] region some 6,000-7,000 years ago and, for the first time, we have a wild form and very, very old," he said.
This
is a newly discovered killer dinosaur BIGGER THAN T-REX! It lived 90 million
years ago. Giganotosaurus is 45 feet long and weighed 8 tons or more than T-Rex.
It was bigger but it was probably not so powerful. Its skull is much larger but
it had a smaller brain, less powerful jaws and narrower teeth than T-Rex had. It
is now the largest carnivorous dinosaur known! 
Arthropleura was a 2-3 metre
(6-10 feet)
long relative of
centipedes and
millipedes, native to the Upper
Carboniferous of
Nova Scotia,
Illinois,
Ohio, and
Pennsylvania (USA),
and in
Scotland. It was the largest known land
invertebrate of all time, and would have had few
predators.