Largest Extinct Animals In The World
Extinct Animals 1.
Largest extinct animals in the world. Elephants are megafauna as are giraffes whales cows deer tigers and even humans. In 2019 the bird known as the Little Blue Macaw because of its vibrant blue feathers was declared extinct in the wild. Granted extinction is a phenomenon that occurs naturally however it normally happens at a rate of 1 to 5 species every year.
The dodo was a flightless bird that was native to Mauritius in the Indian Ocean. The largest fish to ever live was the Leedsichthys. It is no wonder therefore that this.
Living in the Yangtze for 20 million years their numbers declined drastically from the 1950s onwards. Up to 96 of all marine species and 70 of terrestrial vertebrate species went extinct. One million animal and plant species are threatened with extinction worldwide.
The largest extinction setback was the Permian-Triassic extinction also called the Great Dying some 252 million years ago. Among those of the largest extinct animals are the great sauropod dinosaurs. Found during the last Ice age the extinct Irish Elk was the largest deer species ever.
They relied on echolocation to navigate and hunt for pray due to their tiny eyes and very poor eyesight. Sharing a planet has turned out to be more difficult than we as a species could have anticipated. The world has been blessed with some of the most beautiful unique and rare species of birds mammals and insects.
There are already four different tiger species that have gone extinct. It is our duty to provide the appropriate care for the welfare of these animals. The life for the dodo came to an abrupt end in the 1600s when European explorers landed on Mauritius and the Dutch sailors ate the beast to extinction.