PINNIPEDS: Size Comparison with IUCN Conservation Status (LIVING and EXTINCT)

The twentieth episode of the S1 Megafauna Series, because I added a more lot of living species and subspecies of seals, sea lions and walruses and extinct other pinnipeds with scientific names and statuses.
PINNIPEDS - commonly known as seals, are a widely distributed and diverse clade of carnivorous, fin-footed, semiaquatic, mostly marine mammals.
They comprise the extant families Odobenidae (whose only living member is the walrus), Otariidae (the eared seals: sea lions and fur seals), and Phocidae (the earless seals, or true seals), with 34 extant species and more than 50 extinct species described from fossils. While seals were historically thought to have descended from two ancestral lines, molecular evidence supports them as a monophyletic group (descended from one ancestor).
Pinnipeds belong to the suborder Caniformia of the order Carnivora; their closest living relatives are musteloids (weasels, raccoons, skunks and red panda), having diverged about 50 million years ago.
In 1989, Annalisa Berta and colleagues proposed the unranked clade Pinnipedimorpha to contain the fossil genus Enaliarctos and modern seals as a sister group. Pinnipeds belong to the order Carnivora and the suborder Caniformia (known as dog-like carnivorans). Of the three extant families, the Otariidae and Odobenidae are grouped in the superfamily Otarioidea, while the Phocidae belong to the superfamily Phocoidea.
There are 34 extant species of pinnipeds, and more than 50 fossil species of pinnipedimorphs.
-Southern Elephant Seal it is the largest member of the clade Pinnipedia and the order Carnivora.
-Pontolis Magnus are the largest extinct pinniped and member of the order Carnivora of all time.
Credits: Enbiya Zengin & RB Dahri