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00:18:45

The Worst Deaths Ever Discovered In Prehistoric Humans

ExtinctZoo ·

2025/04/19

If pain was a business, then humans have created a monopoly out of it, just ask our early ancestors, who sadly for them, have left us some pretty painful fossils showcasing just how brutal prehistoric times were.

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00:17:34

Our Ancestors Would've Destroyed Us

ExtinctZoo ·

2025/04/12

300,000 years isn't exactly a long time in the grand scheme of things. And yet it was long enough for us to go through some pretty peculiar "changes"...

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00:26:02

Before Godzilla, Japan Had Real Monsters

ExtinctZoo ·

2025/04/05

Today Japan is known for anime, good food, and everything kawaii, but once upon a time not only was it not kawaii, it was also one of the worst places you could find yourself on the entire planet, as it seemed to be collecting nightmarish animals like Pokémon.

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00:20:59

The Most Brutal Human Deaths Ever Preserved In Fossils

ExtinctZoo ·

2025/03/29

Life hurts, but seems like in the past it hurt so so much worse... and these real skeletons prove it.

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00:11:55

The Largest Dinosaur Ever That Wasn’t A Sauropod

ExtinctZoo ·

2025/03/22

Sauropods were the largest dinosaurs to ever live... but what was the second largest? Its an animal you have likely never heard of AND it also happens to be the biggest thing to have ever walked on two legs (if it wanted to)

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00:23:26

Antarctica Before It Froze

ExtinctZoo ·

2025/03/15

Antarctica today is ice on ice on ice, with a few penguins sprinkled in. But once upon a time, not only was there no ice or snow, yet palm trees, giant crocodiles, noodle mammals and... dinosaurs?

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00:22:15

When Evolution Made The Same Animal Twice

ExtinctZoo ·

2025/03/08

If you take a look through time you will come to the realization that we are all the same, but different... let me explain.

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00:19:17

The Extinct Animals The First Humans Saw

ExtinctZoo ·

2025/03/01

Ever imagined what the very first modern humans would have saw on their journeys in late Pleistocene Africa? Well imagine no further, here's the answer!Also stay tuned for a special guest on this episode...

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00:26:04

When Australia Had A Sea

ExtinctZoo ·

2025/02/22

To keep it short... Australia has no chill and had no chill...

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00:16:33

The Forgotten Prehistoric War That Killed 19 Out Of...

ExtinctZoo ·

2025/02/15

7,000 years ago something happened that was so severe that it permanently left a scar within our DNA...

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00:17:22

The T. Rex's Savage Older Brother

ExtinctZoo ·

2025/02/08

We all love and know the T. rex, but have you ever asked yourself, where did it come from, and what ruled before it? Well.. here's the answer.

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00:21:26

The Most Brutal Deaths Ever Preserved In Fossils

ExtinctZoo ·

2025/02/01

To scrape by back in the old days you had to be extremely tough, but as these 9 Fossils show, sometimes being among the toughest animals to ever exist, still gets you nothing but a painful ending.

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00:23:57

The Time When EVERYTHING Was Jaws

ExtinctZoo ·

2025/01/25

When you go swimming in the ocean or seas, the last thing you want to swim into is a shark... but what happens when everything is a shark?

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00:21:35

The Giant Humans That Hunted & Cannibalized Neanderthals

ExtinctZoo ·

2025/01/19

Ice age Europe wasn't exactly the most welcoming of places...

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00:19:03

The Only Predators To Dominate The Dinosaurs

ExtinctZoo ·

2025/01/11

When you think of the biggest and baddest group of animals to ever live, you likely imagine the dinosaurs. And why wouldn’t you? They were the largest land carnivores and herbivores to ever live. So, it may then surprise you that dinosaurs were actually at one point in their existence ruled by a much less famous group of animals…

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00:16:02

The Absolute Worst Dinosaur You Could Get Caught By

ExtinctZoo ·

2025/01/04

We usually think that dinosaurs, namely theropods, are scary based off of how big they were. And while this can be true to an extent, size can sometimes be deceitful, as there was a secretive family of theropods that once existed, which proved that sometimes its not really the big ones you need to fear.

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00:18:24

The Hidden Timer That Kills Every Species

ExtinctZoo ·

2024/12/29

The hardest game ever is the one we are forced to play & that's life, and within it their seems to be a number that only 1% make it past, which begs the question...why?

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00:24:08

Prehistoric Europe Was Absolutely Cooked

ExtinctZoo ·

2024/12/21

"Am I cooked?" - Cro-Magnon (c. 26,000 BCE)

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00:23:54

The Moment Thalassophobia Was Born

ExtinctZoo ·

2024/12/15

Water, especially deep water, a big no no for many. And this is for good reason, but once upon a time, the oceans and seas of Earth were actually pretty chill, so how did it go so wrong? When was Thalassophobia born?

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00:21:37

Earth Once Had Hobbits & It Absolutely Sucked To Be Them

ExtinctZoo ·

2024/12/08

Hobbits have cozy lives right? True, until you put them in the real world and on an island with giant reptiles, then you got yourself some brutally awful experiences.

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