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

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?

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.

Some 150,000,000 Years Ago, before the Bull Shark, the Great White, or the Megalodon, there was... the Pliosaurus

We all go through ups and downs in life, but for this particular human species, it was only downs.

Santa Claus had some competition during the Late Cretaceous...

In Lion King, Scar used an army of Hyenas to try and uh..."remove"...Simba, but as we know, this didn't turn out so great for him, well I am here to tell you that things would have panned out quite different, if he had just hired this prehistoric Hyena instead.

Of the 31 extinctions (give or take) that life has faced, you may have only been taught in school about the kt event, aka the extinction that took out the dinosaurs. And you might've been led to believe that it was the worst day for life ever... you've been lied too.

Before the killer whale, or the barracuda, or even the great white, there was the king of lizards, or rather a whale, that looked more like a mosasaur or snake than any whale you or me is familiar with.

Hey you! Yeah you, wanna take a sweet vacation to an Island? I got the perfect place for you...

Harder, better, faster, stronger....Daft Punk really just made a song about neanderthals.

The Late Jurassic Morrison Formation was one of the most brutal places to ever exist. You had giant sauropods and cannibalistic theropods roaming about, and still somehow, things got even crazier when you looked at some of the 'smaller' dinosaurs, with one herbivore in particular actually being more grisly then some of the predators around...

Arrrr, here be krakens matey! Well, not really, but kind of... especially when you look at prehistoric waters.

You know how I've reiterated that you shouldn't get into the water, no matter how bad things get on land, well... there is ONE exception to this rule. 0:00Nature’s Unspoken Rule And The Period That Broke It 00:45Geography & Oceanography 02:15What Lived In The Oceans & Seas 03:56What Caused Life In The Water To Be So Unscary? 04:35The Opposite Story On Land & Earth’s Old Rulers 05:11Earth’s Original Sabre-Tooths (Gorgonopsids) 06:30The Largest Predator & Gorgon Around 08:45Permian Russia Was A Problem 09:18The Giant Gorgonopsids That Ruled Africa 10:47More More More Gorgons 11:27The Gorgonopsid’s Nemesis (Therocephalians) 12:18First Animals To Evolve Venom? 12:50Jaguar Sized Predator With A Lion Sized Head 13:35Largest Non-Gorgonopsid Land Carnivore 14:25Other Late Permian Carnivores 15:20Amphibians 16:30Herbivores & The Largest Animal On Earth 18:28Prehistoric Skies WITHOUT Pterosaurs 19:21Mother Nature Wanna Kill You Too (The Great Dying)

The ancient Greeks & Romans did a lot during their times, spreading far and wide, which also led them to seeing a lot too. These sights included landscapes, other civilizations, and even exotic animals too, some of which are sadly no longer around today….

People often ask about how bad the asteroid that struck the dinosaurs was, or what would happen if it hit earth today, but no one's really asked just how long the dinosaurs survived after d-day...

The Ice Age was no doubt one of earth’s most questionable phases, being a very brutal time that led to brutal animals, and sometimes these animals were so ferocious that they made other monsters seem a bit dull, one such animal that did this was the Smilodon.

Jaws, the most iconic shark film of all time, is likely the source of thalassophobia in millions of people worldwide. And it's not hard to see why, cause… well sharks just look really scary, far scarier than whales, but there was one whale, now far gone, that actually would’ve made for one terrifying jaws, the Livyatan.

Quick, someone tell Caesar

If you thought Jaws was scary, wait until you see what prehistoric sea monsters lurked in the depths of this ocean...