Top Ten Biggest Animals That Are Extinct

These are the top 10 extinct animals that have become extinct over the last century.

Top ten biggest animals that are extinct. It has a reported length of 36 feet and can weigh up to 41000 pounds but some can actually grow bigger than that. Smilodon 10000 BC The Smilodon saber-toothed cat lived in North and South America at the end of the last glacial period 115000 11700 years ago although it had existed as a distinct species for about 25 million years. Which means over 5 billion species are extinct now.

It evolved without any natural predators but the humans that arrived on their home island Mauritius took advantage of this and killed them all for food. 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. However there was not room enough in the New World for both species.

It looks like a half-deer half-zebra with a relatively long nick combined in a hybrid-like animal which called Okapi and was recorded in. It had two horns one measuring 05-13 metres and the other between 2-55cm. Top 10 extraordinary cases of exploding animals.

Megalodon went extinct due to diminishing food resources decrease in sea level and temperature. And like Helicoprion Edestus didnt shed teeth either. The West African Black Rhinoceros was found in several countries towards the southeast region of Africa.

The largest carnivores of all time this huge animal had staggering measurements of 433 feet in length a height of 166 feet and weighing heavily over several tons. The largest subspecies Smilodon populator could reach 400 kg in weight three meters in length and 14 meters tall at the shoulder. The Holocene Extinction also known as the Anthropocene Extinction is an ongoing extinction event and the worse one since the KT extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs.

We can only let our imagination run wild since all these amazing animals became extinct sometime back. As of today here are several species of unique animals that are nearing extinction. The cause of their disappearance is human hunting and Dingos.