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walking with prehistoric beasts
Beast Gallery

Meet the Beasts

They're almost too strange to be true. But these bizarre-looking beasts walked our Earth millions — and in some cases only thousands — of years ago.

No, we're not talking about dinosaurs — we're talking about mammals like you and me.

Meet nine of them below, and for nine more beasts, click here.

andrewsarchus
Andrewsarchus
 
basilosaurus
Basilosaurus
 
gastornis
Gastornis
leptictidium
Leptictidium
 
megaloceras
Megaloceros
 
propalaeotherium
Propalaeotherium
megatherium
Megatherium
 
doedicurus
Doedicurus
 
hyaenodon
Hyaenodon

Pictures: © BBC 2001, distributed under license from BBC Worldwide Limited |

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