Largest Extinct Animals In The World
How the worlds deadliest mass extinction.
Largest extinct animals in the world. Living in the Yangtze for 20 million years their numbers declined drastically from the 1950s onwards. The tiny vaquita porpoise which is less than 30 left in the world will likely go extinct in the next few years. One million animal and plant species are threatened with extinction worldwide.
The mammal with the worlds strongest jaws. 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. The blue whale can weigh 200 tons and measures almost 100 feet.
The dodo was a flightless bird that was native to Mauritius in the Indian Ocean. The Vaquita is currently the rarest animal in the world and quite possibly the most endangered with only about 10 individuals left in the wild. Top 10 biggest animals that are extinct.
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. The third major mass extinction was during the last period of the Paleozoic Era called the Permian Period. Carcharocles megalodon lived between 26m and 28m years ago and could grow to up to 18 metres in length.
Extinct Animals 1. Up to 96 of all marine species and 70 of terrestrial vertebrate species went extinct. They relied on echolocation to navigate and hunt for pray due to their tiny eyes and very poor eyesight.
But as scientists estimate we are currently losing species 1000-10000 times faster. The tiger is one of the most threatened animals in the world it is sadly hunted for its invaluable. The chelicerates which includes spiders mites and scorpions and other similar creatures.