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Giant animals that are extinct. Skip to main content Live Science. Also a lot meaner hungrier and ripped-straight-from-our-nightmares-ier. It was HUGE and it was the largest snake that has ever been discovered.
Larger than modern saltwater crocodiles and even great white sharks Plesiosuchus had flippers and a fish-like tail for swimming in the open ocean. Megafauna can be found on every continent and in every country. It was as long as 40 feet 12 meters and would probably weigh up to 2500 pounds 1134 kilograms.
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. Extinct giants such as the American cheetah and ground sloth lived in North America until they mysteriously died out about 10000 years ago. Most of the artwork depicting these giant swans shows them harassing and preying on the tiny elephants.
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. 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. The largest-known open-ocean crocodile was more than 20 feet 6 m long and had a head the size of T.
Megalodon went extinct due to diminishing food resources decrease in sea level and temperature. Another point of contention on the history of giant kangaroos is why they went extinct 40000 years ago. Various theories have attributed the wave of extinctions to human hunting climate change disease a putative extraterrestrial impact or other causes.
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. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy Safety How YouTube works Test new features Press Copyright Contact us Creators. Like a LOT larger.
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