Whats the most BADASS extinct creature to have existed?

[fish262]

haha obviously by 'extinct' i meant creatures made up by scientists to con us into not believing in god



These things just get worse

Also, hell yes to the ankylosauras:

Do you know we are closer in time to t-rex then t-rex is too ankylosauras

[Sweet Pea 50]

I'd out Sarcosuchus imperator up for a vote as far as land based creatures. A 40 foot long, 8 ton croc would be pretty gawdamn lethal.

[ßringer]

Do you know we are closer in time to t-rex then t-rex is too ankylosauras

Did you know that we are closer in time to Lucas Matthysse than either t-rex or ankylosauras?

Scary thought, huh?

[fish262]

Did you know that we are closer in time to Lucas Matthysse than either t-rex or ankylosauras?

Scary thought, huh?

Do you know that I'm just as close to Lucas Matthysse father, Roberto Duran?

[fishscale]

Stegosaurus, obviously.

[Sweet Pea 50]

My favorite growing up was Triceratops.

Always thought of it as a gentle giant, until you pissed it off.

Remember reading books as a kid with big old illustrations of it and a T-Rex battling it out, with giant volcanic explosions in the background.

Memories....

[Jim Jeffries]

How about a Haast's Eagle?



or maybe a Smilodon (Sabertooth Tiger)



or Gigantopithecus blackii, a 10 ft tall, 1200 pound ape



All of which coexisted with modern day humans.

[Sweet Pea 50]

As far as land based predator mammals, I think Ursus maritimus tyrannus might be the be all, end all.

I don't know if they have ever recovered a full skeleton yet, but what I have read, it was much larger then todays polar, and the extinct short-faced bears, by some margin.