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.
Giant animals that are extinct. Megalodon went extinct due to diminishing food resources decrease in sea level and temperature. 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 Great Boa became extinct with the Dinosaurs.
Most have gone extinct. 5 Thankfully Extinct Giant Versions of Modern Animals. Extinct giants such as the American cheetah and ground sloth lived in North America until they mysteriously died out about 10000 years ago.
Elephants are megafauna as are giraffes whales cows deer tigers and even humans. In our list of what is the most dangerous animal in. Like a LOT larger.
The largest-known open-ocean crocodile was more than 20 feet 6 m long and had a head the size of T. 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. As weve pointed out before a lot of the animals we see today used to be much larger in olden times.
The Würm glaciation when many giant ice age mammals such as woolly mammoths went extinct in the Americas and northern Eurasia. We can only guess about the appearance of the teeth and jaws of the. 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.
Just after the dinosaurs went extinct around 60 million years ago a massive snake called the Titanoboa took their place as the biggest. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy Safety How YouTube works Test new features Press Copyright Contact us Creators. Also a lot meaner hungrier and ripped-straight-from-our-nightmares-ier.