Giant Animals That Are Extinct
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. 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. Like a LOT larger. It was as long as 40 feet 12 meters and would probably weigh up to 2500 pounds 1134 kilograms.
Elephants are megafauna as are giraffes whales cows deer tigers and even humans. 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. Just after the dinosaurs went extinct around 60 million years ago a massive snake called the Titanoboa took their place as the biggest.
Also a lot meaner hungrier and ripped-straight-from-our-nightmares-ier. Most of the artwork depicting these giant swans shows them harassing and preying on the tiny elephants. From the onset of human evolution we have shared the planet with megafauna.
Various theories have attributed the wave of extinctions to human hunting climate change disease a putative extraterrestrial impact or other causes. Larger than modern saltwater crocodiles and even great white sharks Plesiosuchus had flippers and a fish-like tail for swimming in the open ocean. The Titanoboa lived about 60 million years ago and actually survived the extinction event that killed all the dinosaurs effectively curling up its tail and smacking natural selection directly in the testicles staving off death for several more millennia.
RĂ©union giant tortoise is the extinct species of giant tortoise belongs to the family Testudinidae. If Megalodon would have existed the sea travel for humans would not have been possible. Most have gone extinct.
Why are giant animals extinct. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy Safety How YouTube works Test new features Press Copyright Contact us Creators. Megafauna are simply big animals.