VIDEO: Scary and Deadly Animals You’ll Be Happy to Know Are Extinct

Any animal rights activists and those that want to save every single species from extinction will agree that we should love all animals and make sure they live and thrive.

But when you will see what creatures used to roam the world you will be almost happy that they are extinct because this means that they can no longer eat you for lunch.

According to buzzfeed.com, there are plenty of animals that existed and we’re glad that they don’t anymore.

Purassaurus lived in South America eight million years ago and would grow up to 13 meters long. That’s more than twice as long as the largest species of crocodile alive today.

Why you’re glad they’re extinct: Being twice as big as your regular giant croc means it is also twice as absolutely terrifying.

Pulmonoscorpius was very similar to modern scorpions, with front claws and a sting in its tail. The difference is that it was a meter long.

Why you’re glad they’re extinct: You couldn’t pick these bad boys up by their tails and throw them out the window. But they could probably do that to you.

Arthropleura was much like modern millipedes, except it was two meters long.

Why you’re glad they’re extinct: Because who would want that.
Attercopus was the earliest known true spider, as it could produce a web. But it still had a sting like a scorpion.

Why you’re glad they’re extinct: All the bad of a spider and all the bad of a scorpion, rolled into one horrible hybrid.

Megalodon a shark that grew up to 50 feet long.

Why you’re glad they’re extinct: Their teeth were the size of an average human hand. Despite that, many people seem to wish they were still around, and as with the Loch Ness monster, there have been many “reported sightings” in recent years.

Jaekelopterus was a hybrid between millipedes and a scorpion, 2.5 meters long, and lived in fresh water.

Why you’re glad they’re extinct: Because, as one researcher told Nature: “They would probably lie in wait. When another animal went in front of it, it would lurch forward and capture it. …
These things would tear their prey to shreds and then eat the little pieces.”

Megapiranha lived between eight and 10 million years ago, and grew to a meter long.

Why you’re glad they’re extinct: Because modern piranhas = the stuff of nightmares. Giant Piranhas = never going anywhere near water ever again.

Titanoboa a snake that grew up to 13 meters long and weighed over a ton. It lived in the warm climates of the tropics, 60 million years ago.

Why you’re glad they’re extinct: Because it killed its prey by squashing it like the modern boa constrictor, and there is pretty much nothing that thing couldn’t squeeze like a tube of toothpaste.

Anomalcaris, big scary mash-ups of prawns and squid with more teeth, had shells and tails like shrimps, but tentacles and eyes like squid, except those tentacles, had teeth on them.

It grew up to 60cm long – although some scientists think it could have been bigger – and lived 540 million years ago.

Why you’re glad they’re extinct: Because it was carnivorous, and might have mistaken your foot for a prehistoric woodlouse-like-thing and accidentally sucked it up with its big toothy tentacles.