Top Ten Biggest Animals That Are Extinct

The Irish Elk lived in the north and its preserved remains have already been found in the melting permafrost.

Top ten biggest animals that are extinct. Top 10 extraordinary cases of exploding animals. It is believed that they are still alive but there is no proper confirmation about it. The tiny vaquita porpoise which is less than 30 left in the world will likely go extinct in the next few years.

It has a reported length of 36 feet and can weigh up to 41000 pounds but some can actually grow bigger than that. The Holocene Extinction also known as the Anthropocene Extinction is an ongoing extinction event and the worse one since the KT extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs. In 2007 scientists found the best-preserved dodo skeleton ever which may hold valuable DNA samples.

Originally scientists thought that okapi was only a myth until they found an animal with a shape related to a giraffe. This creature would be a great animal to see if brought back to life. Right from various species of dinosaurs which became extinct somewhere around 65 million years ago to species like the Passenger pigeon Golden toad Baiji river dolphin etc.

Most of them are caused directly or indirectly by man. It had two horns one measuring 05-13 metres and the other between 2-55cm. The fossils suggest that gigantopithecus were the biggest ape towering as high as 3m or ten feet.

The West African Black Rhinoceros was found in several countries towards the southeast region of Africa. This time the cause seems clear. There are numerous species currently in danger of extinction.

The extinction of the passenger pigeon is an example of nature coming into direct conflict with man. The Baiji River Dolphin. In our list of what is the most dangerous animal in.