Giant Animals That Are Extinct
Megalodon went extinct due to diminishing food resources decrease in sea level and temperature.
Giant animals that are extinct. In fact though this was the largest ape of all time about twice the size of a modern gorilla and presumably much more aggressive. Most of the artwork depicting these giant swans shows them harassing and preying on the tiny elephants. Megafauna are simply big animals.
Some freshwater megafauna have already been declared extinct such as the Yangtze dolphin and many more are now on the brink from the Mekong giant catfish and stingray to Indias gharial. It was HUGE and it was the largest snake that has ever been discovered. Elephants are megafauna as are giraffes whales cows deer tigers and even humans.
Megalodon is an extinct species of giant shark that lived between 28 to 15 million years ago during the Early Miocene to the Pliocene. Larger than modern saltwater crocodiles and even great white sharks Plesiosuchus had flippers and a fish-like tail for swimming in the open ocean. Though megafauna loosely defined as large animals weighing from around 40 kilograms nearly 90 pounds to tons began to decline about three million years ago there was a marked extinction event in the late Quaternary from about 132000 years ago to modern.
Its name means big tooth and we can imagine why. Megafauna can be found on every continent and in every country. So in case youve been sleeping well these past few months heres a brand-new set of.
About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy Safety How YouTube works Test new features Press Copyright Contact us Creators. Réunion giant tortoise is the extinct species of giant tortoise belongs to the family Testudinidae. Unlike some of the other animals on this list whose closest living relatives are similar animals the closest living relative of the Procopodon goliah may not be a kangaroo but a wallaby that lives in Western Australia.
5 Thankfully Extinct Giant Versions of Modern Animals. As weve pointed out before a lot of the animals we see today used to be much larger in olden times. The Titanoboa lived about 60 million years ago and actually survived the extinction event that killed all the dinosaurs effectively curling up its tail and smacking natural selection directly in the testicles staving off death for several more millennia.