10 Terrifying Prehistoric Creatures That Are Still Around

You know that meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs? It had nothing on these guys. They survived all the catastrophes and extinction events through history and still roam the Earth today, hiding into deep forests, lost caves or in the oceans depths... and some of them are pretty strange, and even quite scary! FOLLOW THE HYBRID LIBRARIAN: Subscribe ▶ http://bit.ly/daretoknow Facebook ▶ http://on.fb.me/170IAJK X ▶ http://bit.ly/14vhMgZ CONTACT: [email protected] MUSIC CREDITS: "Action Packed And Ready" by Victor Ohlsson IMAGE CREDITS: Kelvin Aitken/V and W/Image Quest Marine, Fir0002, NHPA, James Joel, Dorothy Lyczek SOURCES: #10 https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24835-elephant-shark-takes-record-for-slowest-evolution/ https://www.ourbreathingplanet.com/australian-ghost-shark/ #9 https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/03/080320120708.htm https://theconversation.com/not-a-lizard-nor-a-dinosaur-tuatara-is-the-sole-survivor-of-a-once-widespread-reptile-group-75921 https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/03/080331-tuatara-evolution.html #8 https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/02/080207135801.htm http://mentalfloss.com/article/68286/10-hard-shelled-facts-about-horseshoe-crabs https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnists/2017/05/23/horseshoe-crab-facts-coast/101892416/ #7 https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/10/061025-lampreys.html http://www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/06/061025.lampreyfossil.shtml http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3222023/Water-comeback-Prehistoric-fish-described-living-fossil-returns-English-rivers-not-having-seen-1800s.html #6 http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150316-amazing-giant-chinese-salamanders http://time.com/4152884/giant-salamander-found-in-cave-china/ https://www.forbes.com/forbes/welcome/?toURL=https://www.forbes.com/sites/shaenamontanari/2015/12/16/monstrous-100-pound-200-year-old-giant-salamander-found-alive-in-china/&refURL=https://www.google.com/&referrer=https://www.google.com/ #5 http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/5292/20131213/comb-jellies-kick-sponges-out-evolutionary-tree.htm https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/05/140521-comb-jelly-ctenophores-oldest-animal-family-tree-science/   https://aeon.co/essays/what-the-ctenophore-says-about-the-evolution-of-intelligence #4 http://vertebrates.si.edu/fishes/coelacanth/coelacanth_wider.html https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/fish/group/coelacanths/ https://www.wired.com/2015/03/creature-feature-10-fun-facts-coelacanth/ #3 https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/01/150122-frilled-shark-australia-deep-sea-creatures/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mneDhOtVEQw http://mentalfloss.com/article/60129/11-fascinating-facts-about-frilled-shark #2 https://www.tonmo.com/pages/vampyroteuthis-infernalis/ http://www.thecephalopodpage.org/vampy.php http://www.sci-news.com/biology/article00623.html https://www.nbcnews.com/science/kraken-rises-new-fossil-evidence-revives-sea-monster-debate-8C11507013 #1 http://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/could-megalodon-still-live-deep-ocean/ https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/3892792/megalodon-extinct-sightings-size-great-white-shark/ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2805633/The-megalodon-extinct-New-study-rubbishes-claim-giant-shark-roams-ocean.html http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/ten-year-mystery-solved-great-3783970