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Wednesday, 24 July 2013

Top 10 Ancient Animals Of The World



10: Dinosaur

Dinosaur

230 Million Years Ago

The oldest creature on earth, dinosaurs are of many different types. The oldest dinosaur was about 230 million years ago which were called prosauropods. They were found in Madagascar. List of early dinosaurs include some others as well like Pisanosaurus from Argentina, Saturnalia from Brazil, Herrerasaurus from Argentina, Staurikosaurus from Brazil and Lesothosaurus from South Africa.




9: Baluchitherium

Baluchitherium

20 Million Years Ago

The Asian big beast also known as ‘Paraceratherium’ is one of the largest animals on earth. It’s an extinct genus of gigantic hornless rhinoceros that were as heavy as 20 tones. They were around 5 to 6 meter tall. Sir Clive Forster Cooper wasthe one who discovered huge bones in Balochistan which is the largest province of Pakistan, and came to a result after a long time about its height and age that is 20 million years approx. Blauchitherium was the largest mammals in the world.




8: Megatherium

Megaterium

5 Million Years Ago

It is another ancient mammal that is one of the biggest with the length of 6 meters and weight of around 4 tons. They came in to existence five millions years before now. They lived in Woodlands of South America and their diet is plants. These ground sloths are extinct of armadillos and anteaters.




7: Wooly Mammoth

Wooly Mammoth

2 Million Years ago

This species of mammoth is the last of its line. They are from the extinct of elephants with the average age of 60 years. Asian elephants are the closest relative to the wooly mammoth. Males could be as tall as 3.4 meters where females can be about 2.9 meters tall. They were last seen about two million years ago. They use to live across northern Eurasia and North America.




6: Smilodon Cat

Smilodon Cat

10,000 Years Ago

Smilodon which are also known as SaberToothed Cat were from the extinct of genus of machairodont felid. 10,000 years old residents of North and South America varies in many different sizes. It was as long as 6 feet with big teeth and ability to jump well. They used to live in closed places like forests and bushes while their food was camels and bison. Big animals may be the cause of their extinct.




5: Gomphothere

Gomphothere

5 Million Years Ago

About five million years ago they get into existence. It is also from the extinct of animals and the amazing thing about them is that they use to have four tasks. Except Australia and Antarctica, they were the Habitants of all the other parts of the world. They were smaller in size then the normal elephant and weight weren’t much as well. Gomphothere were good migrates too as the migrated from North America to Asia and then to other parts of the world.




4: Triceratops

Triceratops

65 Million Years Ago

One of the most recognized dinosaurs in Hollywood movies is 68 to 65.5 million years old and were the last dinosaurs standing. It use to have two normal sized and one small Horne on its nose. North American beasts with the length of 7.9 to 9.0 meters and height of 2.9 to 3.0 meter were from the family of herbivorous ceratopsid dinosaur. Its face was about 1/3rd of its full body and it used its horns defensively against predators.




3: Deinotherium

Deinotherium

20 Million Years Ago

These four meter high giants can be resembled easily to elephants. The only difference is that it has smaller trunk and the tasks are curved down words. With the height of 4 meters they were the largest species in the elephant family which were inhabitants of patchy savannah-land of Africa. They lived around 20-2 million years ago and they were also known as “terrible beast”.




2: Irish elk

Irish elk

8000 Years Ago

Neither Irish nor an Elk these2.1 meter tall mammals are the largest member of dears lived. 3.65 m weighing up to 40 kg are the largest antlers of any known cervid. The average weight of this creature is around 540 to 600 kg. Irish elk existed 7000 to 8000 years ago all across Europe and Asia, and in North Africa.




1: Giant Beaver

Giant Beaver

1.4 Million Years Ago

These 60 to 100 kg weighted beavers lived in North America. They were 2.4 meters long just like the modern black bears. Its fossils found in Florida are 1.4 million years old. They are named as giant beavers but its sister species Castoroides were the hugest of all beavers.

Sunday, 17 February 2013

10 Species of whales



10: Minke Whale


Minke whales are the second smallest baleen whale species and it pronounced Minky. It is measured an average 9.7-10.6 meters (32-35 feet) and its weigh estimated around 15 tones. These species have low range to live their life their age maximum is about 30-50 years. Minke whales are fast in swimming over 24 Mph.


Length:        35 Feet / 10.7 Meters

Weight:        15 Tones (Maximum)

Speed:          24 Mph (38 Km / h)

Population:   500 K (Approximate)




9: Gray Whale


Gray whale is a baleen whale and their name called by whalers a Devil fish. Its length reaches about 13.8-15.2 meters, and females are larger than males. They are grey in color with some small white spot on their skin. It can swim 10-11 mph (16-17.5 km/h). Gray whale calculated population between 20,000 to 22,000.


Length:         50 Feet / 15.2 Meters

Weight:         36 Tones (Maximum)

Speed:          11 Mph (17.5 Km / h)

Population:   20 to 22 K (Approximate)




8: Bryde’s Whale

  
Bryde’s whales are the 8th biggest animal exists in this world although bryde’s whale is a baleen whale. It is very similar in looks to sei whales and almost as big. Its body appearance dark gray with white. Bryde’s whale swimming speed as fast as 20 to 25 Km / h.


Length:         55 Feet / 16.5 Meters

Weight:         40.09 Tones (Maximum)

Speed:          15.53 Mph (25 Km / h)

Population:   90 to100 K (Approximate)




7: Humpback Whale

  
Humpback is a baleen whale and that whales sing the most complex song and are the noisiest whales. They have the longest flippers of any baleen whale. Humpback grow to be about 12-16 meters But in few cases it can be growth (18 meters / 59 feet) and their weigh around 25-35 tones and it max up to 48 tones.


Length:         59 Feet / 18 Meters

Weight:         48 Tones (Maximum)

Speed:          16.5 Mph (26.5 Km / h)

Population:   30 to 40 K (Approximate) 




6: Sperm Whale


Sperm whale is the largest toothed whales. It is also called Common cachalot. Sperm whale has a huge brain in among all of the animals that weigh about 20 pounds (9 kg). And it has much weigh up to 63 tones. It is estimated that there are about more than 200,000 lac sperm whales worldwide and maximum figure up to 2 million.     


Length:         60 Feet / 18.3 Meters

Weight:         63 Tones (Maximum)

Speed:          9 Mph (14.48 Km / h)

Population:   200,000 to 2 Million (Approximate)




5: Right Whale

  
Right whale is also including in baleen whales species. Right whale consists of three types, North Atlantic, North Pacific, Southern right whale they are similar with each other. Right whale can maximum grow up to (18.3 meters, 60feet) long and weigh up to 100 tones.


Length:         60 Feet / 18.3 Meters

Weight:         100 Tones (Maximum)

Speed:          10 Mph (16.09 Km / h)

Population:   350 to 400 (Approximate)




4: Sei Whale


Sei whale is a baleen whale and it is dark gray in color, it is also known as Japan finner. It is the fourth largest animal after the blue whale and the fin whale. It can be swim so fast when it needs at about 31 mph. The females are slightly larger than males this is same with all baleen whales and weighing up to 33 tones.


Length:         66 Feet / 20 Meters

Weight:         33 Tones (Maximum)

Speed:          31 Mph (50 Km / h)

Population:   57 to 80 K (Approximate)




3: Bowhead Whale


Bowhead whale is third largest animal in the world and it is also called Arctic whale and their looks different from others with its dark body color with white chin. Now it is third largest mammal in the list of largest animal in the world. Perhaps its average length between 50 – 66 feet. 


Length:         70 Feet / 21.2 Meters

Weight:         100 Tones (Maximum)

Speed:          12 Mph (19.5 Km / h)

Population:   8-9.2 K (Approximate)




2: Fin Whale


Fin whale is the second largest animal in the world. It is a sea mammal and belongs to the baleen whales suborder and it is also known as finback whale. After the blue whale fin whale is the 2nd largest living organism growing up to (89 feet / 27 meters).


Length:         89 Feet / 27 Meters

Weight:         130 Tones (Maximum)

Speed:          30 Mph (48 Km / h)  

Population:   80 to 100 K (Approximate)




1: Blue Whale


The Blue whale is the largest mammal it belongs to the family of baleen whales and it is also known as the pygmy blue whale. It is the largest animal in the world ever existed. Mostly large whales are found in the Antarctic. But similarly we found different sizes of blue whales alive in the sea, The most interesting part is that blue whale are the loudest animal on earth their level of sound reaches up to 188 decibels.


Length:         110 Feet / 33.5 Meters

Weight:         180 Tons (Maximum)

Speed:           31 Mph (50 Km / h)

Population:   10 to 25 K (Approximate)