Biggest Animals That Are Extinct
They relied on echolocation to navigate and hunt for pray due to their tiny eyes and very poor eyesight.
Biggest animals that are extinct. Extinct giants such as the American cheetah and ground sloth lived in North America until they mysteriously died out about 10000 years ago. They were extraordinary in every sense of the world and they amaze us even to this day. They weighed up to 700kg.
The good news is scientists are trying to bring some back. Standing 12-feet tall on its hind legs and weighing over a ton this bear probably couldve ripped the face off of every land animal currently in existence without too much trouble. The dodo was a flightless bird that was native to Mauritius in the Indian Ocean.
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. 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. Researchers estimate that the Titanoboa could have a total length of 12 meters 40 feet and weighed around 11 metric tons 2425 pounds.
The recently extinct animal was once widespread on central Africas savannahs and shrublands but the population began a steep decline due to poaching. The world has been blessed with some of the most beautiful unique and rare species of birds mammals and insects. Even larger than the biggest vultures we know today.
The dodo was a large and heavy bird that had wings but was unable to swim or fly. Unfortunately many animals no longer exist today. In our list of what is the most dangerous animal in.
These mammals could grow to eight feet long and weigh up to a quarter of a ton. It was 7 feet tall with antlers as long as 12 feet which is the largest in any deer-like animal. Megafauna are large animals such as elephant mammoth rhinocerous and Australias own diprotodon.