Giant Animals That Are Extinct
If Megalodon would have existed the sea travel for humans would not have been possible.
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. 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. 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.
Larger than modern saltwater crocodiles and even great white sharks Plesiosuchus had flippers and a fish-like tail for swimming in the open ocean. Most have gone extinct. 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.
Megafauna are simply big animals. 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. Extinct giants such as the American cheetah and ground sloth lived in North America until they mysteriously died out about 10000 years ago.
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. Skip to main content Live Science.
Megafauna can be found on every continent and in every country. It was native to the Réunion Island in the Indian Ocean. It was HUGE and it was the largest snake that has ever been discovered.
Why are giant animals extinct. Its name means big tooth and we can imagine why. Also a lot meaner hungrier and ripped-straight-from-our-nightmares-ier.