Extinct animals size

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(09-26-2019, 03:43 PM)Catherine Wrote: I saw a mastodon skeleton at the Page Museum in Los Angeles. It was done so I could walk right up to the skeleton and stand face to face with it. It was huge. I had to look up at it and the tusks were impressive.  I wish we still had mastodons. Sadly North America lost most of its really large animals. 

I didn't realize there had been larger hippos that went extinct. It would have been impressive to see a group of the larger hippos together.

Mastodon is robustly built than modern elephants and it's tusks is quite thick. Indeed it would have been impressive to see larger hippos. Modern hippos destroy crocs !




Doedicurus was the largest glyptodont, about the size of a small car. It was 1.5 m (5 ft) tall, 4 m (13 ft) in length and weighed in the neighborhood of 1.9 - 2.3 tonnes. This slow moving heavily armored herbivore had a huge domed carapace that was made of many tightly fitted scutes. It's long tail of solid bone was a formidable weapon which had long spikes or knobs on the end.

Fossils of been found in South America (Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay).