Check out these Prehistoric Creatures That Lived With HUMANS! From terrifying extinct animals to moments where humans were prey, this top 10 list of animals that lived alongside prehistoric humans will amaze you!

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9. Dire Wolf
The dire wolf is known more formally as Canis dirus, which means “fearsome dog.” One of both North and South America’s most famous prehistoric carnivores, it inhabited these continents starting around 125,000 years ago. Remains of the dire wolf have been found in a variety of habitats, including grasslands, savannas, and mountainous, forested areas.

8. Megalania
Around 50,000 years ago, humans first migrated to Australia, and for a brief period, these aboriginal settlers shared the continent with the megalania, a nowextinct monitor lizard and the largest known terrestrial lizard to have ever existed.

7. The Giant Ground Sloth
You can’t help but love sloths. I mean, they are cute, cuddly, and move very slowly. But back in the time of early humans sloths looked extremely different. Giant Ground Sloths were huge herbivores that lived in the Americas during the ice age alongside rivers and lakes.

6. Columbian Mammoth
Meet the Columbian mammoth, a cousin of the betterknown woolly mammoth. Around one million years ago, Columbian mammoths appeared in North America. They evolved from an earlier, Pleistoceneera species of mammoth, although exactly what this ancestor was remains unclear. Fossils have even been found in Canada, Nicaragua, and Honduras.

5. Gigantopithecus
The Gigantopithecus was the largest primate to ever exist, standing up to ten feet tall (3 m) and weighing as much as 1,100 pounds (499 kg). For somewhere between six and nine million years, it lived in the tropical forests of what is now southern China.

4. ShortFaced Bear
After bears first came into existence some 40 million years ago, several subspecies evolved, including the shortfaced bear, which inhabited North America and was most abundant in modernday northwestern United States, especially California. The shortfaced bear first appeared around 800,000 years ago, during the middle Pleistocene era.

3. Quinkana
The quinkana was a huge crocodile that became one of Australia’s top terrestrial predators during the Pleistocene period. It comes from an extinct genus that roamed the continent from 24 million years ago until around 40,000 years ago. On average, the quinkana grew up to 23 feet long that’s three feet longer than 20foot Lolong, the longest crocodile ever recorded.

2. American Lion
The American lion, or Panthera atrox, wasn’t actually a lion at all. It was, however, one of the great North American mammalian predators of the Pleistocene Epoch. This enormous cat roamed the U.S. and Canada from 1.8 million to roughly 11,000 years ago, when the species died out at the end of the last ice age.

1. Cave Hyena
Surely you’ve heard of the laughing hyena. This was its prehistoric cousin. The cave hyena, also known as the spotted coyote, occupied territory from the Iberian Peninsula to eastern Siberia and was roughly double the size of its relative, the laughing hyena, standing up to three feet tall, measuring up to five feet long, and with a maximum weight of 285 pounds.


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