Biggest Animals That Are Extinct
The only mass extinction to have been caused at least partially by humans the Quaternary Extinction Event wiped out most of the worlds plus-sized mammals including the woolly mammoth the saber-toothed tiger and more comical genera like the Giant Wombat and the Giant Beaver.
Biggest animals that are extinct. Megalodon went extinct due to diminishing food resources decrease in sea level and temperature. The good news is scientists are trying to bring some back. Extinction is a word scientists use to describe a species dying out.
In our list of what is the most dangerous animal in. Some of the most famous extinct animals of recent times have been birds--but for every Passenger Pigeon or Dodo theres a much bigger and much lesser-known casualties like the Elephant Bird or the Eastern Moa and many other species remain endangered to this day. The world has been blessed with some of the most beautiful unique and rare species of birds mammals and insects.
The scarcest of the three black rhino subspecies the western black rhino was recognized by the IUCN as extinct in 2011. All animals are so nice and i hope that no more animals get extinct. It was 7 feet tall with antlers as long as 12 feet which is the largest in any deer-like animal.
However 58 million years ago during the Paleocene the extinct Titanoboa snakes roamed the Earth being the largest and heaviest snake ever discovered. Just after the dinosaurs went extinct around 60 million years ago a massive snake called the titanoboa took their place as the biggest baddest predator on earth. They relied on echolocation to navigate and hunt for pray due to their tiny eyes and very poor eyesight.
We all know that some of the biggest animals that have ever roamed the planet were dinosaurs. From building homes to devastating rainforests and other ecosystems with climate. Researchers estimate that the Titanoboa could have a total length of 12 meters 40 feet and weighed around 11 metric tons 2425 pounds.
This video shows some of the animals that went extinct over the last 100 years with a timeline showing the decade of their untimely demise. Living in the Yangtze for 20 million years their numbers declined drastically from the 1950s onwards. It is our duty to provide the appropriate care for the welfare of these animals.