Biggest Extinct Animals In The World
Top 10 Biggest Animals That Are Extinct.
Biggest extinct animals in the world. The Vaquita is currently the rarest animal in the world and quite possibly the most endangered with only about 10 individuals left in the wild. Measuring 3-38 metres long and 14-17 metres in height this rhino would have weighed 800-1300 kg. 10 Endangered Animals That Could Become Extinct In A.
Especially in the last 100 years we can find lot of extinct animals. Elephants are megafauna as are giraffes whales cows deer tigers and even humans. They weighed up to 700kg.
That number is now estimated to be less than 70. Spixs macaw in green tree. 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.
Panthera spelaea Cave Lion One of the extinct animals Cave lion also is known as Eurasian cave lion European cave lion or steppe lion is an extinct species of Panthera spelaea which was evolved in Europe approximately 600000 years ago. 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. They are as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species and between 2014 and 2015 there were only around 92 Amur leopards left within their natural range.
Native to the mountain forests of southwest china the giant panda is one of the most beloved animals in the world. 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. Sharing a planet has turned out to be more difficult than we as a species could have anticipated.
These are extinct and endangered animals which are gone extinct from North Atlantic oceans and endangered in Western North Pacific oceans. The Spixs macaw is a recently extinct animal from near the Rio São Francisco in Bahia Brazil. In order these extinctions are known as the Ordovician 443 million years ago the Late Devonian 372 million years ago the Permian 252 million years ago the Triassic 201 million years ago and the Cretaceous 66 million years ago.