The last picture here was supposedly taken from an archaeological dig in India.  Look at the relationship in size between the fossil bones and the men working the site.  If this is not a hoax I wouldn't have wanted to meet up with this fellow!

This hub is about monsters. Real monsters not imaginary or mythical ones. First we'll see some modern day monsters and then see their prehistoric counterparts.

People have been fascinated by giant creatures for thousands of years. Our ancestors feared and hunted giants such as mastodons, sloths and cave bears. Scientist have pointed to the arrival of humans in North America as the leading cause of extinction of the megafauna living here at the end of the last glacial period about 13,000 years ago.

At this time the continent teemed with giant creatures from 12 foot tall ground sloths to the wooly mammoth. Giant bears that would dwarf the largest polar bear haunted the forests here in America while tortoises bigger than Volkswagon autos and 30 foot long goannas lumbered across ancient Australia.

Giant Extinct Crocodile

Sarcosuchus was a true monster crocodile. Imagine a crocodile averaging 40 feet long and weighing in at 16,000 pounds. This crocodile lived by eating dinosaurs.

An African man eater

In the African country of Burundi there lives a monster. Famous as a man eater, Gustav is a nile crocodile over 20 feet long and weighing in at nearly 3000 pounds. 65 year old Gustav reportedly has eaten over 300 people in the area surrounding lake Tanganyika.

THIS giant feral pig has been shot dead after it was spotted eating a dead cow on an Australian property.  At first considered a hoax,  the Sunday Times newspaper has since established the giant pig was established as being killed on the Pilbara cattle station near Perth, Australia.  The stationer kept quiet for fear of having his station over run by hunters looking for more giant boars.
Another giant boar was killed by an 1 year old boy in Alabama. This one was 9 feet long and weighed over 1000 pounds.

The Entelodont

North America 25 million years ago was home to something truly dire.  Imagine a giant boar seven feet high at the shoulder and weighing over a ton with truly nasty eating habits.  That's entelodont.  While a scavenger this monster would eat anything smaller than itself and would defecate on it's prey to keep scavengers away while it ate.