Largest Extinct Animals In The World
These animals were about half the size of African lions.
Largest extinct animals in the world. But as scientists estimate we are currently losing species 1000-10000 times faster. It would seem awful to bring back extinct animals back into todays world. Several times life had to drag itself back from near annihilation.
10 Endangered Animals That Could Become Extinct In A Top 10 Animals You Thought Were Extinct But Arent. The current wave is considered to be the worst series of species elimination since the dinosaurs disappeared 65 million years ago. It is our duty to provide the appropriate care for the welfare of these animals.
By the time the silt had settled about half of all the worlds marine genera had gone extinct including many of the ancient fish for which the Devonian period was. Elephants are megafauna as are giraffes whales cows deer tigers and even humans. 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.
This is the largest of all known mass extinctions with a massive 96 of all species on Earth completely lost. Up to 96 of all marine species and 70 of terrestrial vertebrate species went extinct. Living in the Yangtze for 20 million years their numbers declined drastically from the 1950s onwards.
Unfortunately Amur leopards are one of the worlds most endangered big cats. The largest fish to ever live was the Leedsichthys. These mammals could grow to eight feet long and weigh up to a quarter of a ton.
These are known as extinct animals. Among those of the largest extinct animals are the great sauropod dinosaurs. How the worlds deadliest mass extinction.