Subtitles section Play video Print subtitles The past is packed with monsters! Behemoths by the dozen! Let's meet these fossils (and their less colossal modern cousins) The capybara's now the largest rodent on the planet But Earth once housed a mighty mouse ten times more titanic With twelve inch long incisors - J. monesi wins the prize It truly was a rodent of a most unusual size You think this hog is homely? Well you better brace yourself! Cause here's a hippo relative they call the pig from hell As burly as a big bad wolf, with emphasis on big The Daeodon had all the strength of thirty little pigs The wombat is Australian. It has a rock-hard rear In combat with its ancient kin it wouldn't win, I fear Both wonders from down under raised their young inside of pouches But only one marsupial is bigger than most couches. Behold the crafty crocodile complete with toothy grin Now see a Sarcosuchus smile — five feet from cheek to chin And speaking of dentition this big shark's name means big teeth So it's "now extinct" condition should be a huge relief If sloth's a sin then someone hurry up and call a priest Cause here's a Megatherium - four tons of sloth, at least. With jumbo tongue, colossal claws, and tail braced on the ground It grazed for leaves high in the trees where modern sloths are found The rhino you and I know weighs at least a couple tons But if you dare — compare a Paraceratherium The largest vegetarian you'd ever care to see It was hornless and quite harmless ... unless you were a tree And that's just the beginning. There's more — I could go on! Stupendous Stupendemys! Don't forget Procoptodon! The armoured Doedicorus! Meganeura's foot long wings! The plus sized penguin from Peru they call the Water King! But there's one beast that bests them all, in fact it breaks the scale: Balaenoptera musculus. It's common name? Blue whale! Four hundred thousand pounds - the largest creature known to science And so today we still can say we share the earth with giants
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