Largest Extinct Animals In The World
Top 10 biggest animals that are extinct.
Largest extinct animals in the world. Granted extinction is a phenomenon that occurs naturally however it normally happens at a rate of 1 to 5 species every year. The current wave is considered to be the worst series of species elimination since the dinosaurs disappeared 65 million years ago. It would seem awful to bring back extinct animals back into todays world.
Up to 96 of all marine species and 70 of terrestrial vertebrate species went extinct. The world has been blessed with some of the most beautiful unique and rare species of birds mammals and insects. Carcharocles megalodon lived between 26m and 28m years ago and could grow to up to 18 metres in length.
Especially in the last 100 years we can find lot of extinct animals. Unfortunately many animals no longer exist today. Spixs macaw in green tree.
Found during the last Ice age the extinct Irish Elk was the largest deer species ever. Several times life had to drag itself back from near annihilation. The Spixs macaw is a recently extinct animal from near the Rio São Francisco in Bahia Brazil.
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. Extinct Animals 1. Characterized by their grandeur physical appearance they evolved some 400000 years ago during the pleistocene epoch.
That number is now estimated to be less than 70. These mammals could grow to eight feet long and weigh up to a quarter of a ton. The blue whale can weigh 200 tons and measures almost 100 feet.