Admiring Ancient Wildlife With 50 Of Turning Back Time "Nature Was Metal" Photos Collection

As far as we are concerned, lives on earth have been evolving for around two billion years. We might never know how our ecosystem used to be at that point or how lives will transform in the future, but we still can take a grasp of some archaeological shreds of evidence of living existences in the dawning era, as well as the animal evolutional process.
Today we will bring you 50 pictures collected and posted on the refreshing subreddit r/Naturewasmetal, where many online paleontologists all over the world gather and discuss the natural progressing procedure. They usually share pics of archaeological samples such as fossils, pieces of skeletons, or ambers with insect corpses along with simulating 3D images. It has become super hot here with a massive amount of photos, video clips, hypotheses, and recently updated information.
Imagine we are now getting on an explorer that can go back in time when numerous primitive forests were endlessly spreading in front of our eyes! Don't be scared! Just hang on tight and start to travel back to the past!

#1 Prehistoric Spider-Like Arachnid Found Preserved In Amber

Source: Tangledtitty

#2 This Spinosaurus Skeleton

Source: mtlgrems

#3 This Was Toughie, The Last Known Living Rabbs' Fringe-Limbed Treefrog. He Was Captured As An Adult In Panama In 2005 And Died In Captivity On September 26, 2016

Source: Pardusco

#4 Livyatan Is An Extinct Genus Of Sperm Whale And Is Most Notable For Being A Member Of The Raptorial Sperm Whales (Hyper-Predatory Sperm Whales) And Having The Strongest Bite Of Any Tetrapod

Source: tgood139

#5 I See Your Various Well-Preserved animals And Raise To You A Smushed Baby Mammoth (Credit Ruth Hartnup)

Source: reddit.com

#6 The Evolution Of Our Face

Source: Ivan_Botsky_Trollov

#7 100,000 Years Ago, A Group Of Neanderthals In Spain Walked Down To The Beach

Source: sylvyrfyre

#8 A Preserved Foot Of The Giant Moa Bird. An Extinct Species Native To New Zealand. It Grew To Be 12 Feet Tall

Source: Sleeeepy_Hollow

#9 Cretan Dwarf Mammoth. It's Possible Its Skull Was The Origin Of The Myths About Cyclops In Ancient Times. (Not My Photo)

Source: ACJ96

#10 An Incredibly Intact Crinoid Specimen Fossil Dating Back To About 345 Million Years Ago!

Source: monomotive

#11 A Megalodon Tooth Compared To A Great White Shark!

Source: Rayan2550

#12 Had To Drive 14 Hours To Get Her, But I Finally Have My Little Own Coelophysis

Source: thebriss22

#13 Titanoboa Skeleton

Source: Ryunysus

#14 These 250-Million Year Old Detailed Crinoid Fossils

Source: Peachy-Persimmons

#15 Quetzalcoatlus, The Biggest Flying Animal Ever!

Source: Rabano11

#16 This Brachiosaurus Skeleton

Source: mtlgrems

#17 Around 26000 Years Ago This Lion Cub Was Abandoned In A Siberian Cave By Her Mother Who Either Went Hunting, Or Was Killed Never To Return

Source: xindigothoughtsx

#18 Megalodon & Human Size Comparison

Source: _KingScar

#19 The Last Photo Taken Of A Wild Barbary Lion. Taken In 1924

Source: 2005Cule

#20 Imagine Just How Huge And Metal This Mammoth Must Have Been... Tusk Of A Woolly Mammoth In Siberia

Source: mariospants

#21 Outdated Reconstruction Of A Neanderthal vs. Scientifically Accurate Reconstruction Of A Neanderthal

Source: AddisonDeWitt_

#22 A Neanderthal Father With His Child. Reconstruction Made By The Kennis Brothers

Source: AddisonDeWitt_

#23 This Isn’t A Dinosaur Fossil; It’s A Mummy

Source: m0rris0n_hotel

#24 “Dogor” An 18,000 Year-Old Puppy That Was Discovered In The Siberian Permafrost. He’s So Well Preserved That His Nose And Whiskers Are Still Mostly Intact

Source: TheEternels

#25 Crinoid Fossils Can Be Found In Some UK Rivers And Were Once Thought To Be Fairy Coins. Sometimes Called ‘Star Stones’

Source: j3ffr33d0m

#26 This Artist Tom Björklund Draws Neanderthals As People And Not As Biological Specimens. I Have To Say, Out Of All The Art I've Seen Of Neanderthals, This Is The One That Humanizes Them The Most

Source: Salt_x

#27 In 1982, The Comic Strip 'The Far Side' Jokingly Referred To The Set Of Spikes On A Stegosaurus's Tail As A "Thagomizer". A Paleontologist Who Read The Comic Realized There Wasn't Any Official Name For The Spikes And Began Using The New Word; "Thagomizer" Is Now The Generally Accepted Term

Source: mtlgrems

#28 Opalized Crab Claw

Source: KimCureAll

#29 It May Not Look Like Much, But This Tiny, Billion-Year-Old Green Algae Is The Ancestor Of All Land Plants On Earth

Source: Peachy-Persimmons

#30 10 Million Years Ago, Turtles Could Eat You With A Single Bite

Source: billenbijter

#31 A 120-145 Million Year Old Dinosaur With Two Heads Was Found In Yixian, China

Source: Narendra_17

#32 A Comparison Between The Skull Of A Sarcosuchus And A Nile Crocodile

Source: No-Promotion-2955

#33 The Giant Monster That Was Argentinosaurus

Source: Husdjur

#34 Indohyus - The Earliest Known Ancestor Of The Whale

Source: Animalnuttt

#35 Reconstruction Of Sue, The T. Rex, In The Field Museum In Chicago

Source: AlJRaba

#36 The Diversity Among Homo Erectus Around The World. Homo Erectus Existed For 1.9 Million Years And Was The Most Successful Human Species

Source: AddisonDeWitt_

#37 These Starfishes Embedded In Stone As A Fossil

Source: Peachy-Persimmons

#38 23 Million Year Old Lizard Found In Fossil

Source: Peachy-Persimmons

#39 Tail Of A 99m Yo Dinosaur, The First One Ever Discovered. Perfectly Preserved, Still Covered In Feathers

Source: Tangledtitty

#40 Sue Is The Largest T.Rex To Be Found So Far, At 90% Of The Body Complete

Source: Peachy-Persimmons

#41 A Raptor And Protoceratops’ Fight Preserved In The Sand

Source: Peachy-Persimmons

#42 The World’s Only Intact Fossil Of An Early Whale - The Basilosaurus Dating About 40 Million Years Ago - Has Been Uncovered During A Excavation At Wadi Al-Hitan In Egypt

Source: jaketocake

#43 The Licking Bison Of La Madeleine Was Carved On A Reindeer Antler Fragment In Upper Paleolithic France Sometime Between 20,000 And 12,000 Years Ago. It Depicts The Now Extinct Steppe Bison

Source: Pardusco

#44 When Breeding, Australian Gastric-Brooding Frogs (Rheobatrachus) Would Stop Producing Gastric Acid, Swallow Their Eggs, And Carry Them In Their Stomachs Past Metamorphosis. Extinct Since 1985

Source: masiakasaurus

#45 An Argentinian Farmer Recently Found 20,000 Years Old Fossilized Glyptodons

Source: Peachy-Persimmons

#46 A Rare Fossil: The Shell Of A Tortoise Stuck In The Jaw Of An Ancient Elephant

Source: Scientiaetnatura065

#47 Prehistoric 'Hell Ant' Stuck In Amber Biting It's Prey For 99 Million Years

Source: Jeski221

#48 Skeleton Of Archelon Ischyros

Source: Ryunysus

#49 Triceratops Femur (Left) vs. Elephant Femur

Source: TheGreatHsuster

#50 Giant Chinese Paddlefish Now Officially Extinct

Source: iam1whoknocks

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