Extinct animals size

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(01-28-2019, 04:20 PM)Catherine Wrote: I would love to see the dinosaurs, but I would settle for the mammoths and mastodons. They are closer to our age and fit our current environment better.I saw Mastodon and Mammoth skeletons in the Page Museum at the Los Angeles tar pits. It was an amazing feeling to stand there right in front of a Mastodon looking up at its head and seeing just hard large its tusks were.

You may remember that i love proboscideans very much. Next time i will post the mastodon pic. That's awesome, some proboscideans are more robustly built than modern elephants. If you see those skeletons again, note that the mastodon will look somewhat less tall but it has a longer body and overall robustly built than the mammoth and modern elephants. Unfortunately i have never seen the skeletons of any extinct animal and most likely never will see. 




Liopleurodon is an apex predator which was about 6.4 m (21 ft) in length or more and weighed about 1 - 1.7 tonnes.

Fossils have been found in Europe (England and France).

Based on the reconstruction by Newman and Tarlo.




The giant thresher shark is one of the largest sharks to have existed. It reached lengths of about 7.3 m (24 ft) or more.

Fossils have been found in North America and Europe.