Megaloceros giganteus

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Dinictis, Barbourofelis fricki, Hoplophoneus mentalis, Dinocrocuta gigantea, Barbourofelis morrisi, Eusmilus bidentatus

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Ambulotsetus - genus of extinct cetaceans. One species is known - Ambulocetus natans. He lived in the Eocene, in present-day Pakistan.
Its length was about 3 m and weighed about 300 kg. Externally they resembled remotely a cross between a crocodile and a dolphin, with a powerful tail and webbed feet adapted for movement in the water. Probably, like modern crocodiles, they had waiting for a prey at the bottom of the lake, jumped on it and dragged into the water. In the water moved by means of movements back and tail in vertical direction. On the land Ambulotsetus lumbered and never left far from the water. At night this animal was on the shore, near the water.
Ambulocetus, with Pakicetus, belonged to Archaeocetes (the ancient whales) - a group of animals of the order of cetaceans, from which later have occurred modern whales. The original image size (300 dpi:)  A-4+ (A-3) - 300$    A-5 - 150$    A-6 -  100$

Dromornis stirtoni - an extinct family of Dromornithidae, one of the largest birds in the history of the Earth.
These birds belong to the order Anseriformes (Anseriformes) and were close relatives of modern ducks and geese. At the height of Dromornis stirtoni was about 3 feet and weighed about 500 kg. Lived in Australia, the Middle Miocene, about 15 million years ago. They were probably omnivorous.
Previously it was thought that Dromornis stirtoni and Epyornis maximus were the largest (heavy) birds in the history of the fauna. However, recently paleontologists have found a skull of a previously unknown species fororaka, who was given the name (Kelenken guillermoi). The original image size (300 dpi:)  A-4+ (A-3) - 350$    A-5 - 200$    A-6 -  130$

Moa – the giant birds that lived in New Zealand and became extinct at the end of the XVIII century.
There are 15 known species, among which Dinornis robustus and Dinornis novaezelandiae are the largest. These two species reached a height of 3,5 m and weighed about 250 kg. They did not have wings, and even the rudiments. Moa ate leaves, shoots and fruits. It is assumed that moa was destroyed by Maori aborigines, for whom these birds were easy prey. 

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The remains of Chapalmalania were found in South America, in areas Chapalmal. Chapalmalania – a relative of raccoons (Procyonidae), who is so larger than all other known members of this family, that he first took for a bear. Sediments and chapalmalaliyas fauna show that the Pliocene there was a plain or pampas with rich grasslands, some woody vegetation and numerous streams. Rainfall was probably significant, but the climate was at least as warm as present-day climate of this region; it probably hasn’t had an impact of an approaching ice age. The original image size (300 dpi:)  A-4+ (A-3) - 500$    A-5 - 250$    A-6 -  150$

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Desmostylus hesperus – extinct mammals that lived on the coast of the North Pacific in the mid-Miocene period (15,8-12 million years ago).
Their teeth look like a bunch of columns, which reflects the name of the animal. In Greek «desmosomes» - is a bunch, bundle, and «stilyus» - a pillar, column. Desmostyluses have well developed fore and hind limbs and adapted for rowing hands and feet (previously it was thought that these animals were flippers). In water they are mainly rowing front feet, as polar bears.
Long shovel-shapped jaw animals are likely to intensively used for plowing the sediment in search of benthic organisms – the shells of mollusks, crabs and echinoderms. Desmostyluses reached 3 m in length, weighed 1200 kg. They were coastal lifestyle, good swimming and diving, resting on the coastal rocks. During the breeding season they were on the beach, though moved by land rather clumsily. The
length of the skull of the largest species, for example, Desmostylus hesperus, reaches 90 cm.
Initially Desmostyluses considered forward-relatives, but later failed to prove their proximity to primitive Proboscidea and sirens.
For the first time the sirens and Desmostyluses combined into the one order. The similarity with the elephants is noticeable in the presence of increased upper and lower incisors, but also raised fangs (as opposed to Proboscidea).
Remains of Desmostyluses were found in California, Japan, Kamchatka and Sakhalin.

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