Giant Animals That Are Extinct
The Würm glaciation when many giant ice age mammals such as woolly mammoths went extinct in the Americas and northern Eurasia.
Giant animals that are extinct. In our list of what is the most dangerous animal in. Larger than modern saltwater crocodiles and even great white sharks Plesiosuchus had flippers and a fish-like tail for swimming in the open ocean. 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.
Also a lot meaner hungrier and ripped-straight-from-our-nightmares-ier. From the onset of human evolution we have shared the planet with megafauna. Unlike some of the other animals on this list whose closest living relatives are similar animals the closest living relative of the Procopodon goliah may not be a kangaroo but a wallaby that lives in Western Australia.
Though megafauna loosely defined as large animals weighing from around 40 kilograms nearly 90 pounds to tons began to decline about three million years ago there was a marked extinction event in the late Quaternary from about 132000 years ago to modern. Réunion giant tortoise is the extinct species of giant tortoise belongs to the family Testudinidae. Most have gone extinct.
Elephants are megafauna as are giraffes whales cows deer tigers and even humans. 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. 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.
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. It was as long as 40 feet 12 meters and would probably weigh up to 2500 pounds 1134 kilograms. Megalodon is an extinct species of giant shark that lived between 28 to 15 million years ago during the Early Miocene to the Pliocene.
5 Thankfully Extinct Giant Versions of Modern Animals. Why are giant animals extinct. Extinct giants such as the American cheetah and ground sloth lived in North America until they mysteriously died out about 10000 years ago.