20 Scariest And Bizarre Prehistoric Bugs

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From enormous scorpion-spiders … to creepy blood-suckers that annoyed dinosaurs, here are 20 scary and bizarre prehistoric bugs and critters!

20. Myanmar Mash-Up
A truly bizarre discovery was made at one of the richest deposits of Cretaceous amber in Myanmar. It’s considered to be an extinct wingless wasp found inside amber that dates 100 million years old. The characteristics of several different insects are exhibited by this animal.

19. Giant Snails
In terms of giant-sized gastropods, the largest species today is the African Land Snail. They can grow more than 7 inches long (18 cm) with a shell diameter of about 3.5 inches (9 cm). If that’s not big enough for you, consider this prehistoric specimen.

18. Ticks
Ticks are another species that we're all too familiar with today, but also bugged the dinosaurs tens of millions of years ago. A collector in Burma found a lump of amber in 2017 that contained one that appears to be entangled with a feather, and it's teaching scientists about how they lived.

17. Euphoberia
If you’re squeamish about millipedes or centipedes, you can give thanks this creature is extinct. It was similar to today’s arthropods, with a big difference -- certain members of its genus could measure over 3 feet long (1 m)! Modern day centipedes are known to prey on animals as large as bats.

16. Platyceramus
While this list has a lot of insects and other creepy-crawlies. This creature is a bit different. And if you like seafood, it might make you more hungry than scared. Yet, this humongous prehistoric bivalve was too big to ignore. Platyceramus was one of the largest clams ever discovered.

15. Cameroceras
Its upper body size can only be estimated. Yet this is still regarded as one of the largest cephalopods that ever existed some 470 million years ago.

14. Meganeura
They’re related to present-day dragonflies, and would have resembled them as well. But these insects would have been much larger.

13. Pulmonoscorpius
Many scorpions are considered to be small, deadly, and carry a fearsome reputation. But this prehistoric monster measured about 30 inches long (76 cm) and would have looked like a real nightmare.

12. Fleas
If you've ever been around fleas, you'll know how annoying they can be… but imagine them being ten times the size, with an equally as big bite and thirst for blood, and that's what the dinosaurs had to face on a daily basis.

11. The Trouble With Trilobites
These are marine arthropods that scavenged in the oceans for hundreds of millions of years. By most accounts, they were among the most successful forms of early animal life.

10. Pambdelurion
Some of the scariest animal jaws in history may have belonged to this prehistoric creature. Paleontologists say its fossils have been found in China, and date back some 520 million years.

9. The Platypus of Crabs
Scientists discovered a new species of crab in 2019 that was unlike anything they’d ever seen. Dating back some 95 million years, the prehistoric animal had a shrimp-like mouth, the eyes of a larva, claws like a crab, and a lobster’s carapace.

8. Scorpion-Spiders
Around 100 million years ago, an arachnid existed that could nearly pass as a spider and scorpion hybrid. Paleobiologists found the creature’s remains preserved in Burmese amber in Myanmar.

7. Giant Shrimp
Its official name is Anomalocaris. ut it’s likely better known as the giant abnormal shrimp. It lived more than 500 million years ago and was first described in 1892.

6. Hallucigenia
This animal is known from fossils found in China and Canada. Its odd name is a reference to its hallucinatory appearance. They were tubular creatures about 3.5 cm long (1.4 inches), with up to 8 pairs of legs that each had a pair of claws.

5. Meganeuropsis
These enormous specimens existed more than 315 million years ago. And while they resembled dragonflies, they’re only distant relatives.

4. Manipulator
While we might assume a prehistoric cockroach was a huge version of today’s insect, such is not the case here. But even though Manipulator M. was a mere 4.5 millimeters long (0.18 inches), it would still give you a scare.

3. Arthropleura
Today’s largest species of millipede grows more than 15 inches long (38 cm). The largest centipede grows to about 12 inches long (30 cm). No doubt many of us think they’re scary enough to begin with.

2. Monster Sea Scorpions
One might quibble that Jaekelopterus wasn’t really a sea scorpion because it probably lived in freshwater environments. But there’s no arguing about how frightening this beast would have been.

1. Mosquitoes
Mosquitoes are one of the largest causes of human fatalities throughout the world because of the diseases that they carry, with some estimates suggesting as many as 400,000 people die each year because of malaria alone.

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Me: How many words can you mispronounce in one video?
Narrator: Yes.

JayExcess
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Who else is sad? That even if the bugs incased in amber got Dino DNA, that DNA would be too corrupted

PoipoleEntertainment
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I’m pretty sure cephalopods aren’t bugs. Or clams. Or crustaceans

schuszter
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When I was 13 the highway near my house was being widened, and blasting was used. A centipede that far exceeds the described modern size was found near my home by my brother. living under our feet deep in the earth are things that we have yet to discover. The centipede was the length of a large belt, with segments like flattened golf balls.

ryalenoch
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Meganeura - sounds like a new monster to challenge Gojira! 😯 One of the creepiest videos you've made. Thanks...I think.

Cissycute
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can you imagine a tick the size of a Softball 🥎 or a basketball 🏀? Like I'm getting the NOPE NOPE NOPES RIGHT NOW JUST THINKING ABOUT IT! LOL

kayvaanmcsharrowkyn
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How incredible and fascinating! Thank you! 👍🏻👍🏻

spacepiratejacen
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A Great *CREEP* show ! Thank you for *Bugging the H'* out of us here on yt. ~ Don't forget the Bug spray !
Cheers to you and ALL ! Suse & Crew Vancouver Island BC CANADA ~*~

SuseV
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Trilobites have always weirded me out, but when you showed the sea spider I about threw my phone. I made the mistake of googling “sea spiders” once. YEP. They’re still terrifying. And to know that they’re likely related to the extinct trilobite doesn’t help any.

Miss.Elaineous
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Nice video. Most of these I've heard of before.

MrFossilabgfyth
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You're video's never gets old

kingsims
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A wasp with a stinger its face? No wonder it's hard to place taxonomically!

amniote
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When you said "modern day centipedes" you showed a clip of a millipede

DanielGMedley
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We must have different definitions of what a bug is.

dg
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Video: Manipulator
Me: it like bug/gun because I'm already running

just_no...
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I'm sorry but a 750 pound 10 foot clam is insane 😳

robotaholic
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Anthro means human-like. Arthropod means jointed body. Does your use of Anthropods mean that it is a human-insect hybrid? Cephalopods, Gastropods, including Mollusca, are not bugs, unless you consider all invertebrates to be bugs. Crustaceans are technically arthropods, but nobody walks around calling them bugs when on the beach, in the ocean or at a seafood restuarant. The same is true for trilobites and sea scorpions. The word "bugs" is used to describe an arthropods which spends part (one cycle) or all of it's life on land or in the air. Yes. Myriapoda are a good fit, but the newly discovered fossils of invertebrates, that scientists cannot describe and resemble Annelids (like bristle worms) more than arthropods, should not be included because we don't know what they are. If you simply titled this as a video about invertebrates, then it would have been much more accurate. Except for the continuous misuse of the prefix anthro instead of arthro.

frankmadl
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Euphoberia was at most a foot long, and more commonly half a foot long. And it was not a predator.

insectilluminatigetshrekt
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>>> At least three times your voiceover (corroborated by the captions) refers to anthropods (sic). Care to define? Human-like feet?

GarethJefferson
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The guy is showing a millipede while talking about centipedes eating even small birds. Arent millipedes vegan or are there carnivore millipedes?

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