Archaeologists Find Roman Shipwrecks off Egypt's North Coast

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt says archaeologists have discovered three sunken shipwrecks dating back more than 2,000 years to Roman times off the coast of the city of Alexandria.

Tuesday's statement from Mostafa Waziri, the head of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, says the discovery was made in collaboration with the European Institute of Underwater Archaeology.

Waziri says the archeologists also uncovered a head sculpture carved in crystal and three gold coins dating back to Rome's first emperor, Augustus. Parts of large wooden planks and archaeological remains of pottery vessels were also found, which could have been part of the ships' cargo.

The discoveries were made in Alexandria's Abu Qir Bay. Separately from the Roman-era finds, a votive bark of the pharaonic god Osiris was found in the nearby sunken city of Heraklion.

Russia Confirms Spike in Radioactivity in the Urals

By NATALIYA VASILYEVA, Associated Press

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian authorities on Tuesday confirmed reports of a spike in radioactivity in the air over the Ural Mountains while the suspected culprit, a nuclear fuel processing plant, denied it was the source of contamination.

The Russian Meteorological Service said in a statement Tuesday that it recorded the release of Ruthenium-106 in the southern Urals in late September and classified it as "extremely high contamination." Russian authorities insisted, however, that the amount of Ruthenium posed no health risks.

France's nuclear safety agency earlier this month said that it recorded radioactivity in the area between the Volga River and the Ural Mountains from a suspected accident involving nuclear fuel or the production of radioactive material. It said the release of the isotope Ruthenium-106 posed no health or environmental risks to European countries.

Last month, when reports of a trace of Ruthenium over Europe first appeared, Russia's state-controlled Rosatom corporation denied any leak. Rosatom reaffirmed Tuesday that the Ruthenium emission registered by the state meteorological service hadn't come from any of its facilities.

Rosatom said it's committed to the highest standards of transparency and is working closely with international organizations to identify the potential source of the emission.

The Russian meteorological office's report, however, noted high levels of radiation in residential areas adjacent to Rosatom's Mayak plant for spent nuclear fuel. Air samples in the town of Argayash in late September-early October, for example, showed levels nearly 1,000 times higher than those recorded in the previous months.

The Russian Natural Resources Ministry which oversees the meteorological office in a statement later on Tuesday sought to reassure the public, claiming that the radiation levels there still were lower than those deemed to be dangerous.

Mayak in a statement on Tuesday denied being the source of contamination. The plant said it has not conducted any work on extracting Ruthenium-106 from spent nuclear fuel "for many years."

Mayak, in the Chelyabinsk region, saw one of the world's worst nuclear accidents on Sept. 29, 1957, when a waste tank exploded, contaminating 23,000 square kilometers (9,200 square miles) and prompting authorities to evacuate 10,000 residents from neighboring regions.

Some details of the disaster were first released to the public in 1989 as part of former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's openness campaign, but the exact scope of its impact on the local population has remained unclear. Environmental activists said the damage has been compounded by other accidents, leaks and the discharge of liquid waste.

In 2004 it was confirmed that waste was being dumped in the local Techa River. Nuclear regulators say that no longer happens, but anti-nuclear activists say it's impossible to tell given the level of state secrecy.

In 2016, Associated Press reporters visited a village downstream from Mayak where doctors have for years recorded rates of chromosomal abnormalities, birth defects and cancers vastly higher than the Russian average. A Geiger counter at the riverbank in the village of Muslyumovo showed measurements 80 to 100 times the level of naturally occurring background radiation.

A decades-long Radiation Research Society study of people living near the Techa River, conducted jointly by Russian and American scientists, has linked radiation particularly to higher rates of cancer of the uterus and esophagus.

The Nuclear Safety Institute at the Russian Academy of Sciences, which oversees safety standards for the country's nuclear industry, has insisted that Mayak's nuclear waste processing system presents no danger to the surrounding population.

Environmental pressure group Greenpeace said in a statement on Tuesday that it would petition the Russian Prosecutor General's office to investigate "a possible concealment of a radiation accident" and check whether public health was sufficiently protected.

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Vladimir Isachenkov contributed to this report.

Oldest Australian Human Returned to 42,000-Year-Old Grave

LAKE MUNGO, Australia (AP) — The oldest human remains found in Australian were on Friday returned to the Outback desert that he roamed some 42,000 years ago in a ceremony celebrated by traditional owners.

The ice age Aborigine was dubbed Mungo Man after the dry salt Lake Mungo where he was found in 1974 in remote New South Wales state 750 kilometers (470 miles) west of Sydney.

He was studied in the national capital Canberra at the Australian National University, which handed him back to traditional owners two years ago and formally apologized for the pain caused by his removal.

Local Aborigines burnt eucalypt leaves is a traditional smoking ceremony to welcome the black hearse that carried his remains in a coffin.

A Ngiyampaa tribal elder, who identified herself as Aunty Joan, told reporters:

"I'm so glad he is back, to put him in his resting place."

"His spirit will be relieved and then he will be released when we put him back in the ground to his place where he came from," said Aunty Patsy, an elder of the Mutthi Mutthi tribe.

State Heritage Minister Gabrielle Upton said indigenous people had been instrumental in bringing Mungo Man back to where he was laid to rest around 42,000 years ago with his hands crossed over his groin and his body sprinkled with ochre.

Interstellar visitor shaped like giant fire extinguisher

By MARCIA DUNN, AP Aerospace Writer

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A newly discovered object from another star system that's passing through ours is shaped like a giant pink fire extinguisher.

That's the word this week from astronomers who have been observing this first-ever confirmed interstellar visitor.

"I'm surprised by the elongated shape — nobody expected that," said astronomer David Jewitt of the University of California, Los Angeles, who led the observation team that reported on the characteristics.

Scientists are certain this asteroid or comet originated outside our solar system. First spotted last month by the Pan-STARRS telescope in Hawaii, it will stick around for another few years before departing our sun's neighborhood.

Jewitt and his international team observed the object for five nights in late October using the Nordic Optical Telescope in the Canary Islands and the Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson, Arizona.

At approximately 100 feet by 100 feet by 600 feet (30 meters by 30 meters by 180 meters), the object has proportions roughly similar to a fire extinguisher — though not nearly as red, Jewitt said Thursday. The slightly red hue — specifically pale pink — and varying brightness are remarkably similar to asteroids in our own solar system, he noted.

Astronomer Jayadev Rajagopal said in an email that it was exciting to point the Arizona telescope at such a tiny object "which, for all we know, has been traveling through the vast emptiness of space for millions of years."

"And then by luck passes close enough for me to be able to see it that night!"

The object is so faint and so fast — it's zooming through the solar system at 40,000 mph (64,000 kph) — it's unlikely amateur astronomers will see it.

In a paper to the Astrophysical Journal Letters, the scientists report that our solar system could be packed with 10,000 such interstellar travelers at any given time. It takes 10 years to cross our solar system, providing plenty of future viewing opportunities, the scientists said.

Trillions of objects from other star systems could have passed our way over the eons, according to Jewitt.

It suggests our solar system ejected its own share of asteroids and comets as the large outer planets — Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune — formed.

Why did it take so long to nail the first interstellar wanderer?

"Space is big and our eyes are weak," Jewitt explained via email.

Anticipating more such discoveries, the International Astronomical Union already has approved a new designation for cosmic interlopers. They get an "I'' for interstellar in their string of letters and numbers. The group also has approved a name for this object: Oumuamua (OH'-moo-ah-moo-ah) which in Hawaiian means a messenger from afar arriving first.

Astronomers Discover New Earth-Size World Where 1 Year = 10 days!

By MARCIA DUNN, AP Aerospace Writer

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronomers have discovered a close new world about the size of Earth, where a year lasts just under 10 days.

At a distance of 11 light-years, Ross 128 b is the second-closest planet to be detected yet outside our solar system with surface temperatures potentially similar to ours.

Ross 128 b is very near its star, thus the short orbit. But it doesn't get broiled because the red dwarf star is cool. The star is also quiet, meaning no radiation flare-ups. That's encouraging news for seekers of extraterrestrial life. The planet is believed to border the so-called habitable zone.

A team led by the University of Grenoble Alps' Xavier Bonfils made the discovery using La Silla Observatory in Chile. The findings were reported Wednesday.

NASA's exoplanet count stands at 3,550.
 

20 years of changing seasons on Earth packed into 2½ minutes

By MARCIA DUNN, AP Aerospace Writer

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA captured 20 years of changing seasons in a striking new global map of the home planet.

The data visualization, released this week, shows Earth's fluctuations as seen from space.

The polar ice caps and snow cover are shown ebbing and flowing with the seasons. The varying ocean shades of blue, green, red and purple depict the abundance — or lack — of undersea life.

"It's like watching the Earth breathe. It's really remarkable," said NASA oceanographer Jeremy Werdell, who took part in the project.

Two decades — from September 1997 to this past September — are crunched into 2 ½ minutes of viewing.

Werdell finds the imagery mesmerizing.

"It's like all of my senses are being transported into space, and then you can compress time and rewind it, and just continually watch this kind of visualization," he said Friday.

Werdell said the visualization shows spring coming earlier and autumn lasting longer in the Northern Hemisphere. Also noticeable to him is the Arctic ice caps receding over time — and, though less obvious, the Antarctic, too.

On the sea side, Werdell was struck by "this hugely productive bloom of biology" that exploded in the Pacific along the equator from 1997 to 1998 — when a water-warming El Nino merged into cooling La Nina. This algae bloom is evident by a line of bright green.

In considerably smaller Lake Erie, more and more contaminating algae blooms are apparent — appearing red and yellow.

All this data can provide resources for policymakers as well as commercial fishermen and many others, according to Werdell.

Programmer Alex Kekesi of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland said it took three months to complete the visualization, using satellite imagery.

Just like our Earth, the visualization will continually change, officials said, as computer systems improve, new remote-sensing satellites are launched and more observations are made.

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100 full moons: Blazing fireball lights up Arctic sky

By JAN M. OLSEN, Associated Press

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A blazing fireball lit up the dark skies of Arctic Finland for five seconds, giving off what scientists said was "the glow of 100 full moons" and igniting hurried attempts to find the reported meteorite.

Finnish experts were scrambling to calculate its trajectory and find where it landed, according to Tomas Kohout of the University of Helsinki's physics department, who said Thursday night's fireball "seems to have been one of the brightest ones."

It produced a blast wave that felt like an explosion about 6:40 p.m. and could also be seen in northern Norway and in Russia's Kola peninsula, he told The Associated Press on Saturday.

It might have weighed about 100 kilograms (220 pounds), according to Nikolai Kruglikov of Yekaterinburg's Urals Federal University.

"We believe it didn't disintegrate but reached a remote corner of Finland," Kohout said, adding that any search plans for the meteorite must face the fact that "right now we don't have much daylight" — four hours, to be precise.

The Norwegian meteorite network said the fireball "had the glow of 100 full moons" and likely was going northeast, perhaps "to the Norwegian peninsula of Varanger," north of where the borders of Russia, Finland and Norway meet.

Kohout said scientists looked forward to any space debris they can get their hands on.

"We are happy to recover (it) since this is a unique opportunity to get otherwise inaccessible space material," said Kohout. "This is why it's worth it to search for them."

Viktor Troshenkov of the Russian Academy of Sciences told the Tass news agency that the fireball could be part of a prolific meteor shower known as the Leonids, which peaks at this time of year. He said he felt Thursday's fireball likely wasn't the sole meteorite but others maybe were not seen due to thick clouds elsewhere.

Troshenkov told Tass that meteor showers can be even stronger. The Leonids reach their maximum once every 33 years — and the last time that happened was in 1998, he said. Amateur astronomers in the Arctic then saw about 1,000 meteors, 40 meteorites and one fireball in just one night.

In 2013, a meteorite streaked across the Russian sky and exploded over the Ural Mountains with the power of an atomic bomb, its sonic blasts shattering countless windows and injuring about 1,100 people. Many were cut by flying glass as they flocked to windows, curious about what had produced such a blinding flash of light.

The 2013 Chelyabinsk meteorite was estimated to be about 10 tons when it entered the Earth's atmosphere at a hypersonic speed of at least 54,000 kph (33,000 mph). It shattered into pieces about 30-50 kilometers (18-32 miles) above the ground but some meteorite chunks were found in a Russian lake.

A meteoroid is smaller than a kilometer (0.62 mile), and often so small that when it enters the Earth's atmosphere it vaporizes and never reaches the ground. A meteor is a flash of light caused by a meteoroid that fails to get through the Earth's atmosphere.  If part of it does survive, that's called a meteorite.

Asteroids are generally larger chunks of rock that come from the asteroid belt located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.

Natasha Demkina: The Girl with X-RAY EYES

X-ray vision is perhaps the one superman power I really had the least interest in. I mean to be able to fly would be awesome, invincibility and super speed would be superb, and X-ray vision... yea I guess that would be super awesome if I gambled or wanted to be a doctor or desired to beat the 3 card game but since I have no interest in any of those things, I think it would just be wasted on me. Look I'm not saying I’d turn it down if I could have that ability, just saying it wouldn't be my preferred mutant power. 

And although X-ray vision seems like something straight out of a movie, there is a girl who supposedly has this ability in real life.

Born in 1987 in the Russian city of Saransk, Natasha Demnika discovered her unique ability when she was just about 10 years old. During that time, between 2003 and 2004, Natasha “scanned” her friends and relatives and presented them her observations.

“I have two sights. I can switch any minute without reason, should I want to see the state of health of a person,” Natasha reveals during one interview. “This switching makes no difficulty to me; I just need to think about it. I can see the full structure of the human body – how internal organs are positioned and how they function… afflicted organs produce a kind of radiation.”

Moreover, Natasha says that her x-ray sight only works in the daytime and, like some kind of plot twist, she cannot use her special ability to scan her own internal organs.

According to the media and to the people she scanned, her diagnoses appear to be sometimes more accurate than those made by medical professionals and doctors with the most advanced of equipment. Some people who have come to her even claim that Natasha was able to find illnesses and problems that they did not know they have in the first place.

Because of the local media covering this phenomenon for almost a year, Natasha has gotten the attention of various other media agencies around the world, most notably the Discovery Channel who sponsored a study that was conducted on Natasha to get to the bottom of how her ability to “scan” people really works.

The Study

Natasha and her mother claim that she can detect abnormalities in the body with 100 percent accuracy. All she needs is a few minutes to scan a person from head to toe.

In March 2004, the Discovery Channel, together with the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP) and the Commission for Scientific Medicine and Mental Health (CSMMH) prepared a simple test to unlock the mystery of Natasha’s x-ray vision.

To make the test as simple as possible and non-invasive, Natasha only needed to scan seven volunteers; six of them with abnormalities or medical conditions while one was completely well and normal. During the test, Natasha was provided with a set of cards with instructions in both English and Russian where she should indicate the abnormalities she has spotted on which participant.

In order for the researchers to arrive at a conclusive result, Natasha had to identify at least four of the seven conditions. The following conditions each participant has been a removed appendix, metal staples in the chest left after a surgery, a removed lower section of the esophagus, a removed upper-left section of the lung, a metal plate covering a removed section of the skull, and an artificial hip joint.

While Natasha was able to identify some of the conditions correctly, her biggest blow was not being to identify the patient with a metal plate in his head and instead said the patient with the appendix removed had a piece of his skull missing.

The study yielded to unsatisfactory results because of several other variables. For one, Natasha claimed that she could detect each anomaly in just a few minutes, but the entire test took her four hours to make her diagnoses. Also, several protocol violations were discovered as Natasha arrived earlier than expected and she was able to interact with two of the volunteers at the facility. Natasha’s mother was also present in the testing room and Natasha’s friend, who was acting as interpreter, was found to have constantly been sending and receiving text messages during the course of the test.

However, Britain’s The Sun was also able to conduct their own study with one of their journalists volunteering. The journalist, Briony Warden, suffered fractures and injuries to her leg after a car accident that required reconstructive procedures and the use of metal plates.

Unlike the study conducted by Discovery, the results from The Sun came out conclusive that Natasha indeed had special abilities. Said Warden after the study, “She described my pelvis as asymmetrical and pointed to the right side with several fractures… then she said she saw traces of several metal pins and screws that dinted in the bone. Without seeing the scars, she could not know that a fortnight ago my leg was fastened with several pins and screws.”

Where is Natasha Now?

At the onset of discovering her daughter’s abilities, Tatyana Demkina, Natasha’s mother, tried to conceal it from the public but when word began to travel fast and far, their tiny apartment in Russia flooded with curious onlookers and “patients.”

Her father, Nikolai Demkin, narrates, “we’ve been hiding our daughter’s gift for a long time. But her uniqueness became public property, and after that our family was haunted by reporters. Local newspapers also wrote about her, and some articles brought us much sorrow.”

Allegedly, people or patients who wish to have their bodies scanned for any sickness or problems should be ready to shell out $13 to see Natasha. It may not be much, but in this part of Russia, it’s a lot of money to shell out by families whose income is extremely low.

Despite this, Natasha dreams of working in the medical field where she and her family believes that her abilities will be of much benefit and in 2004, she finished school and, in 2008 worked at the Moscow Center for Special Human Diagnostics.

Whether or not her x-ray eyes are real is still a matter of debate, at least in the scientific community – and whatever ability she has, it looks as if it will remain a mystery to us all, at least in this lifetime.

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Sources:
http://www.pravdareport.com/science/mysteries/29-05-2008/105380-natasha_demkina-0/
http://sapienplus.com/natasha-demkina-superhuman-number-26/
https://www.livescience.com/109-natasha-demkina-girl-normal-eyes.html

Global Warming Hoax? Scientists Claim "Mini Ice Age" to Occur in 2030

Hey Everyone! It’s Mikey Chen

So here’s an excuse for you to finally pull the trigger on that Canada Goose jacket or move to Florida because according to scientists, Earth will be heading for a mini ice age in about 15 years.

A team of European researchers unveiled a scientific model at the 2015 National Astronomy Meeting showing that the Earth is likely to experience a “Mini Ice Age” from 2030 to 2040 as a result of decreased solar activity. Something that hasn't happened for three centuries.

Northumbria University, Professor Valentina Zharkova, presented the Double Dynamo Model which is suppose to be able to accurately explain discrepancies in the sun’s 11-year cycle.

And if you don’t know, the sun’s cycle is the amount of magnetic flux that rises to the Sun's surface, and that varies with time in a cycle. This cycle lasts 11 years on average. Basically, during the minimum of the solar cycle, sunspots are rare and small, and during the maximum, sunspots are visible on the Sun almost all the time

Zharkova. said that 'Over the cycle, the waves fluctuate between the northern and southern hemispheres of the Sun. Combining both waves together and comparing to real data for the current solar cycle, we found that our predictions showed an accuracy of 97%,'

And Based on the Double Dynamo model, the two magnetic waves will cancel each other out in about 2030, leading to a drop in sunspots and solar flares of about 60 percent. Which would match conditions experienced during the so-called “Little Ice Age” during the Maunder Minimum period also known as the prolonged sunspot minimum, which lasted from 1645-1715?

During this time, rivers that are normally ice-free froze like London's River Thames, and snow fields remained year-round at lower altitudes.

The “Double Dynamo” theory lends credence to the work of researchers who argue that the Earth will soon experience a period of global cooling as a result of reductions in solar activity even as climate-change advocates argue that the planet is warming as a result of increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

The theory of a Mini Ice Age has been brought up before. For example Former White House national space policy adviser John L. Casey in his book “Dark Winter: How the Sun is Causing a 30-Year Cold Spell” forecasts a “solar hibernation” and warns that the worst of the cooling cycle will hit in the late 2020s and early 2030's.

First of all, not to make light of this situation, but 97% accuracy on predictions of solar cycle fluctuations, how come you can’t tell me if its really going to rain or not next week?? I swear the weather forecast changes day to day, and according to back to the future arent, we suppose to have super accurate weather forecasting by now?

Also just in case this mini ice age turns into the day after tomorrow, here’s what you do, don’t try to walk anywhere and just stay home and burn books.

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Sources:

https://usawatchdog.com/climate-change-is-global-communist-tyranny-lord-christopher-monckton/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3156594/Is-mini-ICE-AGE-way-Scientists-warn-sun-sleep-2020-cause-temperatures-plummet.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/07/14/no-earth-is-not-heading-toward-a-mini-ice-age/?utm_term=.6b0bc3a61d97
https://www.livescience.com/51597-maunder-minimum-mini-ice-age.html

TERRIFYING Creatures You Better HOPE Are EXTINCT!

When we think of prehistoric monsters, we probably think of dinosaurs, and when we think of dinosaurs we most likely think of the Trex, or maybe the velociraptor, honestly I watched the original Jurrasic park at least eight times, seen all the sequels and those are only dinosaurs I can name. Oh, wait, pterodactyl, Triceratops... the Abominable Rex. Anyway were way more crazy monsters that would have eaten us in one bite and we really don’t know as much about these prehistoric creatures as we should, so in case they all get cloned again in the near future, or you happen to wander into the middle of the earth here’s what you should know about some of the most terrifying creatures to have ever existed.

1. Gigantopithecus (GIGANT-Opithecus)

The Gigantopithecus is basically King Kong, I mean if you have the word Giganto in your name you better be huge.  it was a giant ape, closely related to the orangutan that existed from perhaps nine million years to as recently as one hundred thousand years ago. It roamed the bamboo forests, jungles, and mountains of China, India, and Vietnam during the Pleistocene Ply Sto Scene period. The Gigantopithecus was supposed to be a vegetarian and could grow up to 10 feet tall and weigh up to 1,190 pounds. It finally went extinct possibly due to climate change or because the last one of them decided to take his date and climb the empire state building.
But there are those who believe the Gigantopithecus is alive and well, hiding out in the forests of the Pacific Northwest and are known today as Bigfoot.

2. Phorusrhacids (Pho-Rus-ACIDS)

These have another name...Terror birds. Ok, you are officially terrifying if people give you your name and it includes the word terror in it and it doesn't matter what it is, as long as it has the word terror in it, it becomes automatically scary. Like dog, terror dog, even something like bunny, terror bunny. Haha, terror bunny. All I can picture is an insane looking Buggs Bunny jumping at me trying to stab me with a carrot. Anyway, terror birds were the top predators in South America and parts of North America during the Miocene, Pliocene, and Early Pleistocene Ply Sta Scene periods. They were unable to fly but could run as fast as a cheetah, and they were massive; the largest species could grow up to 10 feet tall and weigh up to half a ton. Their main weapon was their crazy mutant parrot, eagle looking head, which on its own could be over 3 feet long. It’s so big they can swallow something as large as a dog in one single gulp! However, thanks to its crazy shaped beak, the terror birds could kill and devour prey much larger than a dog you know just a little bigger like a horse or you know, camels. And these Birds would have been terrorizing us if it wasn't for our hero, Colonel Sanders and his secret recipe. One of the secret ingredients is terror.

3. Pulmonoscorpius

If you don’t like scorpions then you prob won’t like these guys very much, they were very similar to modern scorpions, they have front claws and a sting in its tail. But the only thing is these things were around 3 feet in length. So yea, probably can’t just step on them.  Besides the obvious huge claws, like today’s scorpions, these things also pack a powerful venom oh and it’s carnivorous. If those things were still alive today, all our houses would need to be equipt with giant can of bug spray or just flamethrowers. Or we need to all keep giant ants as pets.

4. Helicoprion (HELL-i-Cop-Rion)

Ok yea, this sea monster swam around a circular saw as it’s teeth and supposedly it didn't have any upper teeth. So basically this thing is already so scary, I mean it’s got a buzzsaw for teeth that whoever created this thing decided giving it upper teeth just wouldn't be fair. I mean how do you match up with buzzsaw teeth? With power drills? Also, can you imagine if this thing bites its own lip...we all bite our own lips now and then and it hurts if these things bite its own lip it runs the risk of sawing its own head in half.

Anyway, this creature could actually rotate its teeth backward, much like a circular saw blade. And their teeth will continuously grow outwards, creating a spiral as it ages. So kinda like a shark, you should see swimming around if we lived in a resident evil movie

5. Azhdarchidae (Ash-DARKY-DIE)

Imagin being attacked by a pack of Pterodactyl, that would be bad, but imagine getting attacked by a pack of pterodactyl the size of giraffes...that’s like 1000 times worse. The Azhdarchidae were a group of gigantic pterosaurs Taro Saurs that included some of the largest known flying animals of all time with a wingspan stretching 39 feet across. Despite their formidable size, the pterosaurs in the Azhdarchidae family had no teeth.
But come one, it really doesn't matter that they had no teeth, I mean a sparrow has no teeth but if I see a sparrow the size of a giraffe flying towards me I’m still crapping my pants.

6. Spinosaurus (SPINE-Osaurus)

The Spinosaurus is Believed to be the largest predator ever to walk the Earth and lived during part of the Cretaceous period, about 112 million to 97 million years ago, roaming the swamps of North Africa. Spinosaurus means "spine lizard," an appropriate descriptor, as the dinosaur had very long spines growing on its back to form what is referred to as a "sail." To this day scientist are not sure what exactly the function of the sail was, some say it was used to ward off enemies, although I don’t know what other dinosaurs would be crazy enough to battle this thing, well except that T-Rx in Jurassic Park 3 and yea this happened. Others researchers think the sail was used to regulate its body temperature, personally, I think it was a style thing, I think the Spinosaurus was the Mr. T of dinosaurs.

7. Gorgonopsid (GORE-Gonopsid)

The gorgonopsid looks like the hellhound from the original Ghost Busters, and it probably was. These things were the dominant predators during the late Permian period before dinosaurs. Gorgonopsids had a set of deadly saber-teeth and are often the size of rhinos or bigger. They were quite agile and could run really fast, so these things were basically saber-toothed, lizard dogs that were the size of a rhino.

8. Megalodon (MEGA-Lodon)

The Megalodon is probably one of the most insane things that has ever lived. The Megalodon is so terrifying, it makes great white sharks seem like puppies and the movie Jaws an underwater version of Bambie. The megalodon was over 60 ft in length, not only was it  4 times the size of a great white.  it was the largest predatory marine creature in the history of the planet. whereas a modern Great White Shark clamps its jaws shut with about 1.8 tons of force Megalodon chomped down on its prey with a force of between 10.8 and 18.2 tons

This beast ruled the seas for more than 16 million years and was the perfect killing machine. It was built for speed and armed with teeth the size of a car tire. So you must be glad that this thing went extinct right? A common belief among the scientific community is that Megalodon went extinct around 1,5 million years ago. But there is a group of scientists who believe Megalodon could actually be alive today. Lurking in the depths of our ocean 95% of which remain unexplored. Could happen, I mean we didn’t even know The Megamouth Shark until 1976 and even that was an accidental discovery. So maybe this crazy beast could still be out there somewhere.

Can you imagine living in a place and time where all these creatures plus 1,000 others that existed? And our goal every day would just to stay alive. I mean even if we had guns, I've watched all the Jurassic Park movies, and if I learned anything it’s that bullets apparently don’t work on dinosaurs. I think if we ever do clone all these things, or somehow that Journey to the Center of the Earth thing is real, I would try to find baby T-Rex dinosaur eggs and then somehow hatch them and convince them that I’m their father, so they’ll fight on my side. And I’ll name all of them Luke… Let me know how you will survive.

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Sources:

https://www.thoughtco.com/deadliest-dinosaurs-1091958

http://all-that-is-interesting.com/terrifying-prehistoric-creatures

https://www.cnet.com/pictures/terrifying-extinct-animals/