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Why are giant animals extinct.
Giant animals that are extinct. In fact though this was the largest ape of all time about twice the size of a modern gorilla and presumably much more aggressive. It was native to the Réunion Island in the Indian Ocean. It was HUGE and it was the largest snake that has ever been discovered.
Megalodon is an extinct species of giant shark that lived between 28 to 15 million years ago during the Early Miocene to the Pliocene. The Great Boa became extinct with the Dinosaurs. 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.
Megafauna can be found on every continent and in every country. Like a LOT larger. Extinct giants such as the American cheetah and ground sloth lived in North America until they mysteriously died out about 10000 years ago.
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. Megafauna are simply big animals. Unlike some of the other animals on this list whose closest living relatives are similar animals the closest living relative of the Procopodon goliah may not be a kangaroo but a wallaby that lives in Western Australia.
Megalodon went extinct due to diminishing food resources decrease in sea level and temperature. Thanks to its incredible size of up to 18 meters 59 feet it is considered one of the largest and most powerful predators that have ever existed on Earth. 5 Thankfully Extinct Giant Versions of Modern Animals.
Larger than modern saltwater crocodiles and even great white sharks Plesiosuchus had flippers and a fish-like tail for swimming in the open ocean. Its name means big tooth and we can imagine why. Some cryptozoologists believe that the creatures we variously call Bigfoot Sasquatch and Yeti are still-extant Gigantopithecus adults a theory for which they have adduced not a shred of credible evidence.
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