/r/Naturewasmetal
A collection of dinosaurs and other awesome creatures that are now extinct.
Post cool pictures of extinct animals including artist impressions. Anything goes from plants to animals to bacteria and viruses.
Rules
1. Not extinct.
Content posted here should involve some form of life which no longer exists.
2. Not metal.
Flowery, fluffy and otherwise beautiful content will be removed.
3. Reposts.
Any content resubmitted within 60 days will be removed. This includes different pictures of the same content such as museum displays.
4. Politics.
No politics, race, nationality, religion, gender, or similar topics of human conceit. We are here for the awesomeness of nature. These topics will be removed.
5. Shitposts.
Shitposting gets you ripped in half by a pair of t-rexes.
Partner Subreddits
/r/NatureIsMetal: for brutal, savage and gorey nature.
/r/HumansAreMetal: for people doing badass things.
/r/NatureIsFuckingLit: for the stunning beauty of nature.
/r/taxidermyismetal: for animals being baddases beyond the grave.
/r/taxidermy: for the hobbyist.
/r/Naturewasmetal
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A Livyatan melvillei wearing megalodon head as as a hat. Art by Hodari Nundu
23:50 UTC
Ichthyotitan severnensis - the largest marine reptile ever discovered [OC]
19:22 UTC
Dinovember 2024 - Tyrannosaurus Rex
11:30 UTC
Panthera gombaszoegensis vs giant pangolin by hodarinundu
06:40 UTC
Extinct Marine Animals Size Comparison vol.2 (Dunkleosteus, Kronosaurus, Plesiosaurus, Liopleurodon)
22:58 UTC
A Stegosaurus gets a fright from the mesoeucrocodylian Amphicotylus (by Sean Closson)
17:26 UTC
After reaching the end of its life, a large male Tylosaurus begins his final plunge to the sea floor. Though his journey has come to an end, his remains will ensure sustenance and food for other organisms in the coming months.
//Purely speculative//
(Art by me.)
13:47 UTC
A Steppe Brown Bear (Ursus Arctos Priscus) Bullies A Pair Of Cave Hyenas Off A Megaloceros Kill by Hodari Nundu
12:28 UTC
The Unsettling Origins of Whales
Tell me what you guys think!!
15:34 UTC
A Smilodon Attempts To Catch Some Thanksgiving Dinner (Art Credit: Battlingbeasts - DeviantArt)
14:01 UTC
A Liopleurodon nerviously siwms by a concentration of Leedischthys, by me
16:52 UTC
Capuchin monkeys using a Glyptodon’s shell and stones to crack nuts but the giant mammal will make its lack of appreciation known (by XtinctDesign)
15:58 UTC
Some animals have received fanciful names from the scientists who described them. For example, this dinosaur, Dracorex hogwartsia, is named after a character and the school in the Harry Potter books.
13:27 UTC
Achillobator dispatches Gobihadros with a swift kick
11:08 UTC
If Theropod live during pleistocene: Yutyrannus hunting woolly mammoth (art by saedraverse on Deviantart)
04:10 UTC
Homotherium and two little guys by hodarinundu
14:55 UTC
A trio of Albertosaurus close in on a Pachyrhinosaurus that has collapsed from exhaustion after a prolonged chase.
11:22 UTC
Arthropleura, the largest known arthropod to ever exist at an estimated 2.5 metres long, walks slowly along an ancient Carboniferous coastline looking for food (Render by Prehistorica_CM)
06:44 UTC
Tyrannosaurus rex, largest ever (terrestrial) pursuit predator?
23:38 UTC
An Andrewsarchus Snatches An Unborn Embolotherium Calf by Hodari Nundu
14:37 UTC
Introducing Jaekelopterus, The largest discovered arthropod that lived roughly 400 MYA. Jaekelopterus Could reach up to ten feet tall (although the picture below is a smaller one), and preyed on fish, trilobites, ammonites, and smaller eurypterids.
09:09 UTC
5 Reasons why the Legendary T. rex is my favorite dinosaur.
02:40 UTC
A reconstruction of the heads of Argentavis, the teratorn that was the heaviest known flying bird, & Haast’s eagle, the largest known eagle, with the 3 biggest living eagles & some random dude’s skull (by BeyondOur_W0rld)
22:52 UTC
Purussaurus neivensis, the smallest of its genus but still at least 6.5 m (21 foot) long, ambushes a giant unnamed phorusrhacid from La Venta, Columbia (by Olmagon)
16:12 UTC
Megalodons broke a lot of their own teeth. May teeth have been broken by the natural environment over the last few million years, but many were broken by the sharks themselves making it difficult to find one that is complete.
14:07 UTC
Very early description of a Woolly Mammoth from 1805 based on a frozen carcass found in Siberian permafrost
00:16 UTC