Hallucigenia – the super-weird
- Hallucigenia was a tiny, spiky, armoured worm
- Hallucigenia was a shallow water filter feeder eating rotting and dead material
- Hallucigenia went extinct in the End Ordovician mass extinction 443 million years ago
- Hallucigenia was only 5-35mm in length
- Three different species of Hallucigenia have been identified from only 109 fossils found
Dunkleosteus – the super-snappy
- Dunkleosteus may have been cannibals
- Dunkelosteus had no teeth but hunted and killed prey with the bone of its jaw
- Dunkleosteus could snap its jaws five times faster than you can blink!
- The Devonian period was also known as the Age of Fishes
- Dunkleosteus was as long as two family cars back to back
Trilobite – the super-invader
- There were over 20,000 species of trilobite and they survived for 300 million years
- Their stomach was in their head
- Trilobites are the most diverse group of extinct animals identified so far
- Trilobites had compound eyes which could have as many as 15,000 lenses in each eye
- Trilobites flourished globally in all the oceans whether deep waters or shallow, polar or tropical
Lisowicia – the super-sized
- Lisowicia was only named and unveiled to the world in 2019,cutting edge science revealed after lying undiscovered for over 200 million years
- Lisowicia was a herbivore found in what is now Poland, from where it takes its name
- Lisowicia, as one of the first mammals, is a distant relative of ours!
- Lisowicia is twice the size of an African elephant
- The causes of the End Triassic mass extinction mirror what is happening in 2021 – a warning to us all!
Tyrannosaurus rex – the super-misunderstood
- T rex had the most powerful bite-force of any animal ever recorded
- T rex is well-known as a scaly, green killer, or was it a feathered predator that honked like a goose?
- T rex had a keen sense of smell, hearing and excellent binocular vision
- The longest T rex tooth found so far is 30.5cm
- T rex is among the 1,000 dinosaur species we know about, with more being discovered all the time
