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As weve pointed out before a lot of the animals we see today used to be much larger in olden times.
Giant animals that are extinct. It was HUGE and it was the largest snake that has ever been discovered. Why are giant animals 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.
Larger than modern saltwater crocodiles and even great white sharks Plesiosuchus had flippers and a fish-like tail for swimming in the open ocean. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy Safety How YouTube works Test new features Press Copyright Contact us Creators. Some freshwater megafauna have already been declared extinct such as the Yangtze dolphin and many more are now on the brink from the Mekong giant catfish and stingray to Indias gharial.
Megafauna can be found on every continent and in every country. Elephants are megafauna as are giraffes whales cows deer tigers and even humans. It was native to the Réunion Island in the Indian Ocean.
Megalodon went extinct due to diminishing food resources decrease in sea level and temperature. 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. From the onset of human evolution we have shared the planet with megafauna.
Most have gone extinct. Like a LOT larger. 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.
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. Just after the dinosaurs went extinct around 60 million years ago a massive snake called the Titanoboa took their place as the biggest. 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.
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