Giant Animals That Are Extinct
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Giant animals that are extinct. 5 Thankfully Extinct Giant Versions of Modern Animals. Also a lot meaner hungrier and ripped-straight-from-our-nightmares-ier. Just after the dinosaurs went extinct around 60 million years ago a massive snake called the Titanoboa took their place as the biggest.
Megalodon is an extinct species of giant shark that lived between 28 to 15 million years ago during the Early Miocene to the Pliocene. In fact though this was the largest ape of all time about twice the size of a modern gorilla and presumably much more aggressive. The count of the species was good in the 17th and early 18th centuries however they were killed by the European sailors and finally became extinct in the 1840s.
Megafauna can be found on every continent and in every country. 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. Although we couldnt find any proof that the giant swans actually preyed on the elephants we love the mental image so much that we choose to believe that it really happened.
RĂ©union giant tortoise is the extinct species of giant tortoise belongs to the family Testudinidae. 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 as long as 40 feet 12 meters and would probably weigh up to 2500 pounds 1134 kilograms.
We can only guess about the appearance of the teeth and jaws of the. Elephants are megafauna as are giraffes whales cows deer tigers and even humans. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy Safety How YouTube works Test new features Press Copyright Contact us Creators.
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. In our list of what is the most dangerous animal in. 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.