Woolly mammoth
EXTINCT
MAMMOTH CAVE
Woolly mammoths most likely used their tusks to dig up plants and strip bark from trees.
Woolly mammoths most likely used their tusks to dig up plants and strip bark from trees.
Unlike their extinct relatives and African cousins, only the males have tusks.
Scientists think saber-toothed cats used their fangs to deliver fatal bites to prey.
The saber-toothed cats probably lived in social groups, much like today’s lions.
Once the largest apes in the world, giant apes foraged for fruits, leaves and tubers on the forest floor.
Orangutans are most comfortable in the tree canopy, unlike their giant relatives. They eat fruits and pass out seeds in their poop as they travel through the treetops. This helps seeds grow better.
The Shiva’s beast was the largest member of the giraffe family. It had a tongue that was probably long enough to lick its own ears clean!
Giraffes use their long, agile tongue to reach for leaves from the top of thorny acacia trees.
Also called the ‘Siberian unicorn’ for its extraordinary horn, thought to be 1m or longer.
The white rhino has two horns. The front horn is the longer one, averaging 60cm in length.
66 million years ago, mammals took over from the dinosaurs as the largest land animals.
Hornless rhinos weighing at least 10 times more than any living rhino once roamed the Earth. Giant wombats as tall as an adult human. Armadillos with clubs for tails.
But around 125,000 years ago, these megafauna started disappearing. Today, none of them are left.
Journey back to the past to meet some of these extinct behemoths and rediscover modern-day megafauna.
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