Giant Animals That Are Extinct
Megafauna can be found on every continent and in every country.
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. The Great Boa became extinct with the Dinosaurs. Although we couldnt find any proof that the giant swans actually preyed on the elephants we love the mental image so much that we choose to believe that it really happened.
Most of the artwork depicting these giant swans shows them harassing and preying on the tiny elephants. 5 Thankfully Extinct Giant Versions of Modern Animals. The Würm glaciation when many giant ice age mammals such as woolly mammoths went extinct in the Americas and northern Eurasia.
In fact though this was the largest ape of all time about twice the size of a modern gorilla and presumably much more aggressive. 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. From the onset of human evolution we have shared the planet with megafauna.
So in case youve been sleeping well these past few months heres a brand-new set of. It was HUGE and it was the largest snake that has ever been discovered. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy Safety How YouTube works Test new features Press Copyright Contact us Creators.
Elephants are megafauna as are giraffes whales cows deer tigers and even humans. It was native to the Réunion Island in the Indian Ocean. Extinct giants such as the American cheetah and ground sloth lived in North America until they mysteriously died out about 10000 years ago.
Megalodon is an extinct species of giant shark that lived between 28 to 15 million years ago during the Early Miocene to the Pliocene. Just after the dinosaurs went extinct around 60 million years ago a massive snake called the Titanoboa took their place as the biggest. Megafauna are simply big animals.