Big Animals Going Extinct
Megafauna are large animals such as elephant mammoth rhinocerous and Australias own diprotodon.
Big animals going extinct. Information adapted from. Peruvian Black Spider Monkey. The biggest animal on earth to have EVER lived is the amazing giant Blue Whale.
10 extinct animals of the last 100 years. In 2019 the bird known as the Little Blue Macaw because of its vibrant blue feathers was declared extinct in the wild. 10 Recently Extinct Birds.
One out of four of the worlds mammals and over 40 percent of amphibians are threatened with extinction due to human activity including habitat destruction overexploitation climate change and. Spixs macaw in green tree. The dodo was a flightless bird that was native to Mauritius in the Indian Ocean.
Along with mammals turtles and crocodiles which can lay hundreds of eggs at a time managed to survive the mass extinction. That means that we are increasingly destroying the places they live. The WWF says global animal populations have reduced by almost two-thirds since 1970.
Unfortunately three macaw subspecies are in danger of extinction. Captive breeding programs have rebounded their. Extinct Animals 1.
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. The dodo was a large and heavy bird that had wings but was unable to swim or fly. Humans have eliminated most large animals from the world over the last 125000 years according to a study by the University of New Mexico.