Biggest Extinct Animals In The World
That number is now estimated to be less than 70.
Biggest extinct animals in the world. Top 10 Biggest Animals That Are Extinct. Top 10 biggest animals that are extinct. Megafauna can be found on every continent and in every country.
This video shows some of the animals that went extinct over the last 100 years with a timeline showing the decade of their untimely demise. Between 55 to 70 years. In order these extinctions are known as the Ordovician 443 million years ago the Late Devonian 372 million years ago the Permian 252 million years ago the Triassic 201 million years ago and the Cretaceous 66 million years ago.
In 2011 the International Union for Conservation of Nature IUCN the worlds largest conservation network officially declared the Western Black Rhino extinct but. Some of the most famous extinct animals of recent times have been birds--but for every Passenger Pigeon or Dodo theres a much bigger and much lesser-known casualties like the Elephant Bird or the Eastern Moa and many other species remain endangered to this day. Elephants are megafauna as are giraffes whales cows deer tigers and even humans.
Carcharocles megalodon lived between 26m and 28m years ago and could grow to up to 18 metres in length. They are as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species and between 2014 and 2015 there were only around 92 Amur leopards left within their natural range. The West African Black Rhinoceros was found in several countries towards the southeast region of Africa.
Panthera spelaea Cave Lion One of the extinct animals Cave lion also is known as Eurasian cave lion European cave lion or steppe lion is an extinct species of Panthera spelaea which was evolved in Europe approximately 600000 years ago. 10 Recently Extinct Birds. It had two horns one measuring 05-13 metres and the other between 2-55cm.
The largest fish to ever live was the Leedsichthys. Characterized by their grandeur physical appearance they evolved some 400000 years ago during the pleistocene epoch. The only mass extinction to have been caused at least partially by humans the Quaternary Extinction Event wiped out most of the worlds plus-sized mammals including the woolly mammoth the saber-toothed tiger and more comical genera like the Giant Wombat and the Giant Beaver.