The modern red panda is adorable. The extinct version is scary panda. A big nope.

Oh deer!

The giant deer was a bad candidate for long term survival in part because of its antler size. If a predator approached from behind, the deer was unable to quickly turn its head to see it. If it did, the torque of its antlers would have snapped its neck. In short the giant deer was a sitting duck.

There’s a skull and antlers of one of these at a museum near me, it was ridiculously huge, it’s a wonder that they could lift their heads at all.

Modern deer are impressive and much larger than you think. They can easily kill a person. I'd run screaming if I saw one of those giant extinct deer even from afar.

Saw the skeleton of an ancient Irish elk, it was gigantic!

Odd that the comparison isn't made with a modern elk. Fallow deer aren't a particularly big species of deer. ...Okay, after checking apparently fallow deer are the closest living relative of the Irish elk, so I guess that makes sense.

These guys are so fun to use on Ark. And when you level them up in their attack, they're actually pretty heavy hitters. There are much better things around for everything it can do (hell, even the therazine is better run all respects and then some), but it's just SO FUN

imagine how strong the big deer's neck is

Sad

Imagine those antlers on the wall of your living room

Nice rack!

Yeaaah I think Canada can relate

I'd like to saddle up that big guy, and ride through a forest acting all imperious and mystical. 😂

How could the giant deer/elk have functioned with those massive horns?

too much woods :D

A lot of stuffing needed for that turkey.

The "hobbit" species

I would never have guessed, that these were related

A genetic test was done on a supposed piece of yeti fur found in the Himalayas. It turned out to be polar bear fur. From a species that had been supposedly extinct for thousands of years. There maybe an isolated colony of Polar Bears left in the Himalayas.

You'd have trouble p-p-picking up that penguin!

Wolves are much bigger than you realize until you are next to one.

looks like it will take the whole trash can

I wonder if the temperaments were the same. Wolverines are supposed to be fierce and bad tempered enough.

Galapagos turtles are the biggest turtle in the world, and their huge. So this extinct one is actually giant.

On the left, that panda looks bored.

The country cousin needs a dentist stat.

Wonder why they developed stripes?

What even happened here

Extinct? I am sure I have seen a big beaver in the wild.

Aww. I love cougars. Of course, I would never want to meet that extinct one😬

They went extinct because they could not get through any doors.

i like that

It's so sad that they fight bulls. It's really stupid. I mean, they just kill the bull for the sake of entertainment. A life is more important than our entertainment, especially when a billion other things tat can entertain us.Edit: I think eating meat is fine, but I think that the animals should be treated fairly, and they shouldn't have such a gruesome death.

I DO NOT want to meet that.

Well atheist there giant Polar bears around to eat these

I'm sorry tapir's are how big-

Hyenas can actually break bone with there jaw, and have a huge amount of bite force. So I don't wanna imagine what the extinct one's bite would be like

How did we go from giant deadly predator to. OMG MUM CAN I HAVE ONE

I don't Wana get spat on by that thing 😬