Giant Animals That Are Extinct
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.
Giant animals that are extinct. Skip to main content Live Science. Thanks to its incredible size of up to 18 meters 59 feet it is considered one of the largest and most powerful predators that have ever existed on Earth. Another point of contention on the history of giant kangaroos is why they went extinct 40000 years ago.
From the onset of human evolution we have shared the planet with megafauna. Elephants are megafauna as are giraffes whales cows deer tigers and even humans. In our list of what is the most dangerous animal in.
Some cryptozoologists believe that the creatures we variously call Bigfoot Sasquatch and Yeti are still-extant Gigantopithecus adults a theory for which they have adduced not a shred of credible evidence. Megalodon is an extinct species of giant shark that lived between 28 to 15 million years ago during the Early Miocene to the Pliocene. The Würm glaciation when many giant ice age mammals such as woolly mammoths went extinct in the Americas and northern Eurasia.
Why are giant animals extinct. Various theories have attributed the wave of extinctions to human hunting climate change disease a putative extraterrestrial impact or other causes. 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.
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. Like a LOT larger. Just after the dinosaurs went extinct around 60 million years ago a massive snake called the Titanoboa took their place as the biggest.
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. If Megalodon would have existed the sea travel for humans would not have been possible. Most have gone extinct.