Giant Animals That Are Extinct
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.
Giant animals that are extinct. It was HUGE and it was the largest snake that has ever been discovered. If Megalodon would have existed the sea travel for humans would not have been possible. Megalodon is an extinct species of giant shark that lived between 28 to 15 million years ago during the Early Miocene to the Pliocene.
It was native to the RĂ©union Island in the Indian Ocean. Also a lot meaner hungrier and ripped-straight-from-our-nightmares-ier. 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.
The Great Boa became extinct with the Dinosaurs. 7 Platybelodon The Elephant With Scythe-Like Teeth. In fact though this was the largest ape of all time about twice the size of a modern gorilla and presumably much more aggressive.
Another point of contention on the history of giant kangaroos is why they went extinct 40000 years ago. From the onset of human evolution we have shared the planet with megafauna. Like a LOT larger.
Skip to main content Live Science. Elephants are megafauna as are giraffes whales cows deer tigers and even humans. Various theories have attributed the wave of extinctions to human hunting climate change disease a putative extraterrestrial impact or other causes.
Extinct giants such as the American cheetah and ground sloth lived in North America until they mysteriously died out about 10000 years ago. The largest-known open-ocean crocodile was more than 20 feet 6 m long and had a head the size of T. It was as long as 40 feet 12 meters and would probably weigh up to 2500 pounds 1134 kilograms.