Animal weight today compared to ancient relatives
Today's animals like boars, sharks, crocodiles, are much smaller in weight than their extinct ancient relatives.
Ancient animals are much larger in size than today.
Water guinea pig: 45.4kg
Tatu 9 belts: 20.4kg
Ordinary koalas: 27.22kg
Wild boar: 68kg
Indian rhinoceros: 2 tons
: 4.5kg
South American river turtle: 46kg
White sharks: 2.2 tons
Central American crocodile: 381kg
The largest mouse weighs 9.1 tons
Doedicurus: 18.2 tons
Diprotodon: 18.2 tons
Brutal boar: 907kg
Non-horned rhinoceros: 20 tons
Incayaku Paracasensis: 59kg
Giant freshwater turtle: 2 tons
: 79.5 tons
Crocodylomorpha: 9 tons
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