5 Indian Animals That Are Extinct Now
By: Priyanka Maheshwari Tue, 18 July 2017 5:59:44
Indian subcontinent has a rich and varied biodiversity and home to some of the most rare as well as magnificent wild animals. There are 133 species of wild animals, birds and reptiles as either rare or highly endangered, over 10 per cent of India’s flora have extinct such as Sumatran rhinoceros and pink-headed duck.
1. Indian Aurochs
Indian Aurochs are extinct aurochs and ancestor of the zebu cattle,disappeared in the Holocene probably around 2000 BC. The Indian aurochs is known from fossil and subfossil, used to roam in the Indus valley and the Ganges valley to south India.
2. Indian Cheetah
Cheetah have been extinct from India 60 years back,Currently the Indian government is taking efforts to reintroduce the cheetah in India. Currently Asiatic cheetah critically endangered cheetah subspecies surviving today only in Iran.
3. Gigantopithecus
Gigantopithecus is an extinct genus of ape existed is now India, It was the largest known apes that ever lived in the world.
4. Bharattherium
Bharattherium mammal was used to live in Indian Subcontinent also found in Madagascar and known from a total of eight isolated fossil teeth.
5. Kurmademys
Kurmademys is a new side-necked turtle existed in Indian Subcontinent and name is derived from the Kallamedu Formation of southern India.
