25 Ancient CREATURES That Might Not Have Been THAT Scary

Ancient creatures are usually depicted as being gigantic and terrifying beasts that nightmares are made of. However, not all prehistoric creatures were that scary. Some dinosaurs and other creatures looked quite harmless. To debunk the common misconception that all prehistoric creatures were frightening killing machines, we created this post with 25 Ancient Creatures That Might Not Have Been That Scary.

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Archaeopteryx - One of the most famous dinosaurs ever

Mimni - It's like a mini-ankylosaurus.

Platybelodon - This ancienct creature's nickname is "shovel tusker" (you'll see why)

Compsognathus - About the size of a chicken

Pterodaustro - It had an adult wingspan of approximately 250 cm

Chaoyangsaurus - A small, marginocephalian dinosaur from the Late Jurassic in China

Microraptor - Among the smallest known non-avian dinosaurs

Glyptodon - More related to modern-day turtles than armadillos

Wannanosaurus - It's only known from a single partial skeleton

Epidexipteryx - A genus of small paravian dinosaur that lived in the Middle or Upper Jurassic

Diprotodon - This ancient creature was the largest marsupial that has ever lived on Earth

Tethyshadros - A relatively small species of hadrosauroid dinosaur that once lived in modern Italy

Eunotosaurus - Possibly a close relative of turtles

Triadobatrachus - Translated as "the triple-frog"

Longisquama - It's got hockey sticks on it's bad. That's not scary.

Megatherium - A genus of elephant-sized ground sloths

Sharovipteryx - The only glider with a membrane surrounding the pelvis

Europasaurus - A quadrupedal herbivore that lived during the Late Jurassic in modern Germany

Aquilops - This ancient creature was an ancestor of the Triceratops

Kulindadromeus - a herbivorous bipedal dinosaur that lived in the Jurassic in what is now Russia

Ceratogaulus - AKA the horned gopher.

Procoptodon - A genus of giant short-faced kangaroo living in Australia

Hesperonychus - Translated as "Western Claw"

Lesothosaurus - Bipedal dinosaur that lived in what is now Lesotho and South Africa

Shuvuuia - Bird-like theropod dinosaur that lived in the late Cretaceous period of Mongolia

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