The top rare and strangest mysteries and interesting that human beings have gone to the trouble of inventing instead of making findings strange, insane, intense, unknown, and mythical beasts like the Minotaur, the Chimera and Sarah Jessica Parker, when in truth there were already some really weird creatures and species beneath our feet the whole time, in the form of fossils and skeletons. Narration provided by JaM Advertising New Mexico www.tasteofjam.comWhen a creature's nickname is the Terror Bird you know you're dealing with something nasty; and the Cenozoic Era Phorusrhacidae were precisely that and then some.This ancient shark-like fish burst into existence 290 million years ago, and I think it's a pretty miraculous animal for two main reasons; first, it managed to survive the Permian-Triassic extinction which killed off 96% of all marine life, and second…well it's that bad-ass under-bite isn't it. It's certainly not hard to imagine how this fella got its name, because it looks like someone tripped balls and drew a detailed depiction of Godzilla's junk. The Opabinia single-handedly proves that Mother Nature has been messing with us since long before she got drunk and made the Mongoose. These creatures, which lived on the sea-floor around 500 million years ago, were considered a joke when they were first presented to scientists in 1972. It is now widely believed that dinosaurs were once covered in a layer of delightful feathers, but they weren't the first reptiles to achieve this, with one of the earliest being the flamboyant Longisquama. I don't know how big you imagined ancient flying dinosaurs like the Pterodactyl would be, but I had no idea they could give giraffes a run for their money in the long neck stakes. I'm not entirely sure how a lobster and a whale would be able to get their freak on, but if they could, the result would surely be this demented prey bigfoot analysis

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