Modern technology allows us to enjoy not only what is now, but also what was in the past. Available software, such as Photoshop, can help us understand what things look like. Although they are still digital, they are very close to reality.
It is for this reason that Roman Yuchtel used technology. He showed us something that had passed and would most likely never come back. More specifically, he used the information at his disposal to reproduce as many animal species as possible that were extinct in prehistory. To be fair, he's done a great job of that.
He compared the sizes of extinct species and their modern relatives and put them together. Looking at their modern close relatives, some species are much larger than you might think, which is really surprising.
Most of the animals shown here lived during the Pleistocene, the Ice Age, which lasted from about 2.58 million years ago to 11 million 7,000 years ago. As the Ice Age showed, it was an ice age in which much of the Northern Hemisphere was covered in ice. Ice ages occur intermittently in stable cycles, from 41,000 years to 100,000 years.
As you probably already know by now, all the ancestral species shown here are extinct. Almost all of these species became extinct in the so-called Quaternary period (2.58 million years ago) in the Late Pleistocene. This period was marked by the extinction of large numbers of megafauna and other species. This pulse extinction is characterized by a general lack of ecological successors, which has led to a major shift in animal habitats and relationships.
Life on Earth has experienced 5 mass extinction events, which refer to the widespread and rapid decline of biodiversity. The worst extinction events killed 90 to 96 percent of species. Scientists debate the exact number of extinction events, ranging from 5 to 20.
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