Megatherium. Also called a giant ground sloth, the megatherium (say “mega-thare-EE-um”) used to live in both North America and South America about 2.6 million to 11,700 years ago, and was one of the largest mammals to ever exist.

the Würm glaciation) when many giant ice age mammals, such as woolly mammoths, went extinct in the Americas and northern Eurasia. Various theories have attributed the wave of extinctions to human hunting, climate change, disease, a putative extraterrestrial impact, or other causes.

Top 10 Extinct Animals

1. Sabre-toothed Cat. Often called Sabre-toothed Tigers or Sabre-toothed Lions, they existed 55 million to 11,700 years ago.
2. Woolly Mammoth. An enormous mammal, believed to be closely related to the modern-day elephant.
3. Dodo.
4. Great Auk.
5. Stellers Sea Cow.
6. Tasmanian Tiger.
7. Passenger Pigeon.
8. Pyrenean Ibex.

Giants are a race of sentient humanoids which once lived in various regions of the known world but now live only in northern Westeros beyond the Wall. The people of the Seven Kingdoms believe them to be extinct.

Madison Wolfe plays Barbara, a lonely and troubled girl who regularly roams through the nearby forest hunting for “giants”, which we periodically get to see – sub-Iron-Giant/dementors.

Hermes, wearing Hades’ helmet, killed Hippolytus, Artemis killed Gration, and the Moirai (Fates) killed Agrius and Thoas with bronze clubs. The rest of the giants were “destroyed” by thunderbolts thrown by Zeus, with each Giant being shot with arrows by Heracles (as the prophecy seemingly required).

In most European tales giants appear as cruel and stupid, given to cannibalism, and often one-eyed. Heroes who killed them often did so more by wit than by strength.

It is derived from the Gigantes (Greek: Γίγαντες) of Greek mythology. Fairy tales such as Jack the Giant Killer have formed the modern perception of giants as stupid and violent monsters, sometimes said to eat humans, while other giants tend to eat the livestock.

Giants have been around since time began; they are first described in the Bible in the book of Genesis (6:1-4)1. Originally, giants appear to have been regarded positively, often considered as heroes, particularly by the non-Hebrew population.

In 1 Enoch, they were “great giants, whose height was three thousand ells”. An Ell being 18 inches (45 centimetres), this would make them 4500 feet (nearly a mile) tall (1350 metres).

In Norse mythology, Ymir (/ˈiːmɪər/), Aurgelmir, Brimir, or Bláinn is the ancestor of all jötnar. Ymir birthed a male and female from the pits of his arms, and his legs together begat a six-headed being.

In Greek mythology, Oceanus (/oʊˈsiː.ə.nəs/; Greek: Ὠκεανός, also Ὠγενός, Ὤγενος, or Ὠγήν) was a Titan son of Uranus and Gaia, the husband of his sister the Titan Tethys, and the father of the river gods and the Oceanids, as well as being the great river which encircled the entire world.

With the help of the Marleyan Titan shifters, the Survey Corps stop the Rumbling, which has already wiped out eighty percent of humanity. Mikasa kills Eren, ending the power of the Titans permanently.

Zeke, noting that the cause of this war was their defeat, transforms into the Beast Titan and annihilates the Mid-East Allied Fleet, thus ending the four-year war. After witnessing the developed anti-Titan weaponry, Marley realizes their need to retrieve the Founding Titan.

Titan, in Greek mythology, any of the children of Uranus (Heaven) and Gaea (Earth) and their descendants. According to Hesiod’s Theogony, there were 12 original Titans: the brothers Oceanus, Coeus, Crius, Hyperion, Iapetus, and Cronus and the sisters Thea, Rhea, Themis, Mnemosyne, Phoebe, and Tethys.

7 April 2013

Parents need to know that Attack on Titan is a violent and brutal entry in the anime genre not suited for children, tweens, or some younger teenagers. Ethically the story is challenging, and even the more redeeming characters engage in extreme violence and threats.

Eren Yeager