Not Even in Your Dreams: Animals You Wish You’ll Never Encounter.

Lions and tigers are ferocious and dangerous animals when you encounter them in the wild. Sharks and snakes are scary too but not as creepy on the list of animals below. Check this out!

1.) Andrewsarchus mongoliensis

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Andrewsarchus mongoliensis was a ferocious-looking mammal that lived during the Eocene epoch about 45 million years ago. This creature had a long snout with large, sharp teeth and flat cheek teeth that may have been used to crush bones. An enormous skull of an Andrewsarchus measuring83 cm in length and 56 cm in width is on display at the American Museum

of natural History. It was discovered in 1923 in the Gobi Desert in Mongolia.
This animal is estimated to be 3.4 meter long from the snout to the back of the pelvis with a height of 1.8 meters and possibly the largest land-dwelling carnivorous mammal known. An Andrewsarchus is estimated to have weighed 1,000 kg.

2.) Megistotherium osteothlastes

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Megistotherium osteothlastes was a ferocious and enormous hyaenodontid creodont that lived some 23 million years ago in Africa. This creature is the largest known terrestrial carnivorous mammal with a height of up to 2,0 meter at the shoulder, up to 5,5 meter in length and weighed about 1.5 tons. These bone crushing animals might have hunted mastodons for food.

3.) Arsinoitherium giganteum

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Arsinoitherium giganteum was a rhinoceros-like herbibore that lives in Ethiopia, Africa from 36 to 30 million years ago. It was 1.8 meters tall at the shoulder and 3 meters in length. It had a pair of enormous knife-like horns with cores of solid bone that projected from above the nose.

4.) Giant Wombat or Diprotodon

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Giant Wombat or Diprotodon was an unusual-looking animal and was the largest known marsupial that ever lived. This already extinct marsupial existed from 1.6 million years ago until about 40,000 years ago. Fossils of this gigantic mammal have been found in various areas of Australia. Giant Wombat grew up to 3 meters or 10 feet in length from nose to tail and stands at 2 meters or 6 to 7 ft tall at the shoulder and weighed up to 2,786 kg. It is also known as Rhinoceros Wombat.

5.) Elasmotherium sibiricum

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Elasmotherium sibiricum or the Thin Plate Beas is an odd-looking extinct genus of giant rhinoceros that lived in Asia from 3.6 million years ago to 126,000 years ago. It weighed up to 7 tonnes, stands at 2.7 meters and 6 meters in length with a single two-meter-long horn in the forehead.

6.) Marsupial Lion

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The Marsupial Lion was a ferocious and extremely robust mammal that lived in Australia about 1.6 million to 46,000 years ago. Its scientific name Thylacoleo carnifex means the “murderous or ‘meat-cutting’ marsupial lion”. Despite the name of this extinct species of carnivorous marsupial it is not closely related to the lion. It is one of the largest marsupial carnivores from anywhere in the world. A Marsupial Lion weighed up to 130 kg and stands at 75 cm at the shoulder and about 150 cm in length from head to tail.

7.) Uintatherium

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Uintatherium is a large and strongly built extinct genus of mammals that lived in the United States. This herbivore was about the size of a rhinoceros. This animal has unusually large skull and at the same time, flat and concave skull which cannot be found in any other mammal. It became extinct due to climatic changes.

8.) Smilodon populator

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Smilodon populator or the devastating Smilodon was a saber-toothed cat that first appeared in South America about 1 million years ago. This ferocious animal became extinct about 10,000 years ago. It is the largest known variety of saber-toothed cat with a height of 5 feet at the shoulder and a weight of up to 500 kg or more. It had sabers which could be 30 centimeters long.

9.) Desmostylus

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Is it a pig? Is it a Tapir? No, it’s a Desmostylus, a monotypic extinct genus of herbivorous mammal that existed from 2.8 million years ago up to 7.2 million years ago. It existed for 21.2 million years. This hippopotamus-like animal was 1.8 meters in length and weighed about 200 kilograms.

10.) Promegatherium

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Promegatherium is an odd-looking and scary animal that lived in Argentina and other parts of South America during the Miocene period.