Big Animals Going Extinct
Megafauna are large animals such as elephant mammoth rhinocerous and Australias own diprotodon.
Big animals going extinct. The biggest animal on earth to have EVER lived is the amazing giant Blue Whale. Loss of habitat hunting and illegal trapping are causing these macaw varieties the Glaucous Little Blue and Idigo to disappear. The Spixs macaw is a recently extinct animal from near the Rio São Francisco in Bahia Brazil.
Peruvian Black Spider Monkey. Information adapted from. But the oryx was kept as livestock leaving some individuals there.
As big animals go extinct so do the benefits they offer humans Stanford scientists find. Many endangered species are Arctic animals. Along with mammals turtles and crocodiles which can lay hundreds of eggs at a time managed to survive the mass extinction.
The dodo was a large and heavy bird that had wings but was unable to swim or fly. The oryx is prized for its long antler. Here is the list of top 10 most amazing extinct animals.
The life for the dodo came to an abrupt end in the 1600s when European explorers landed on Mauritius and the Dutch sailors ate the beast to extinction. This article lists the top 50 critically endangered animals in the philippines. That means that we are increasingly destroying the places they live.
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. Humans have eliminated most large animals from the world over the last 125000 years according to a study by the University of New Mexico. Macaws can be big or small but they comprise the worlds largest parrots.