Giant Animals That Are Extinct
So in case youve been sleeping well these past few months heres a brand-new set of.
Giant animals that are extinct. It was as long as 40 feet 12 meters and would probably weigh up to 2500 pounds 1134 kilograms. 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. Elephants horses giant Sloths etc all went extinct at this time in the Americas Bison and moose were the largest animals to survive in the North the guanaco ancestor of the domesticated llama and alpaca was the largest survivor in the South.
The largest-known open-ocean crocodile was more than 20 feet 6 m long and had a head the size of T. Also a lot meaner hungrier and ripped-straight-from-our-nightmares-ier. In fact though this was the largest ape of all time about twice the size of a modern gorilla and presumably much more aggressive.
Megafauna can be found on every continent and in every country. 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. From the onset of human evolution we have shared the planet with megafauna.
Just after the dinosaurs went extinct around 60 million years ago a massive snake called the Titanoboa took their place as the biggest. 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. Another point of contention on the history of giant kangaroos is why they went extinct 40000 years ago.
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. It was HUGE and it was the largest snake that has ever been discovered. Most have gone extinct.
Its name means big tooth and we can imagine why. As weve pointed out before a lot of the animals we see today used to be much larger in olden times. Megalodon went extinct due to diminishing food resources decrease in sea level and temperature.