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The giant sloth had a pointed face and a prehensile tongue it could wrap around leaves.
It weighed a massive 4 tons and, from nose to tail, was 20 feet long.
The white-footed rabbit rat was endemic to Australia ’s woodlands from Sydney to Adelaide.
The weirdest extinct animals have the weirdest names.
Titanoboa cerrejonensis was a massive snake up to 42 feet long (that is not a typo!) with a 16-inch skull and weighed 2,500 pounds .
Josephoartigasia monesi was a huge rodent the size of a horse.
The smooth handfish was declared extinct in 2020 , but in 2021 was changed to “data deficient” meaning experts don’t have enough information to decide if it’s truly extinct.
There are only an estimated 30,000 to 50,000 left in the wild.
Tigers are the largest cat species on the planet, but all 6 species are either endangered or critically endangered.
Blue whales were hunted in the past for their meat and blubber, to the point that their numbers dropped from 200,000 in the 1800s to 20,000 today .
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