Largest Extinct Animals In The World
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Largest extinct animals in the world. The blue whale can weigh 200 tons and measures almost 100 feet. These mammals could grow to eight feet long and weigh up to a quarter of a ton. But as scientists estimate we are currently losing species 1000-10000 times faster.
The dodo was a large and heavy bird that had wings but was unable to swim or fly. Megafauna can be found. Strongest extinct animals in the world.
The tiny vaquita porpoise which is less than 30 left in the world will likely go extinct in the next few years. Sharing a planet has turned out to be more difficult than we as a species could have anticipated. Just after the dinosaurs went extinct around 60 million years ago a massive snake called the Titanoboa took their place as the biggest baddest predator on earth.
Granted extinction is a phenomenon that occurs naturally however it normally happens at a rate of 1 to 5 species every year. Living in the Yangtze for 20 million years their numbers declined drastically from the 1950s onwards. These animals were about half the size of African lions.
Especially in the last 100 years we can find lot of extinct animals. Like the Ordovician Extinction the Late Devonian Extinction seems to have consisted of a series of pulses which may have stretched out for as long as 25 million years. Skin eyes bones and even organs.
How the worlds deadliest mass extinction. Up to 96 of all marine species and 70 of terrestrial vertebrate species went extinct. 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.