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Tyrannosaurus Rex (extinct 65 million years ago)

That was one of the largest land carnivores of all time.

Height:-Up to 43.3 feet long, and 16.6 ft tall,

Weight:- 7 tons. It was a bipedal carnivore with a

massive skull balanced by a long, heavy tail.

Relative to the large and powerful hindlimbs.

There forelimbs were small and they retained only two digits.

Fossils of T. rex have been found in North American rock formations dating to the last three million years of the Cretaceous Period.

It was among the last dinosaurs to exist prior to the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event.

Some of which are nearly complete skeletons.

Some researchers have discovered soft tissue as well.

Quagga:-half zebra, half horse (extinct

since 1883)

Native:- Africa. That was a subspecies of the plains zebra.The name comes from a Khoi- khoi word for zebra and is onomatopoeic, being said to resemble the Quagga's call. The quagga was originally classified as an individual species, Equus quagga, in 1788. It was distinguished from other zebras by having the usual vivid marks on the front part of the body only. In the mid-section, the stripes faded and the dark, inter-stripe spaces became wider, and the hindquarters were a plain brown. Cause of Extinct:- for meat, hides, and to preserve feed for domesticated stock. The last wild quagga was probably shot in the late 1870s, and the last specimen in captivity died on August 12, 1883 at the Artis Megistra zoo in Amsterdam. The quagga was the first extinct creature to have its DNA studied.

Thylacine:TheTasmanianTiger(extinct since

1936)

That was the largest known carnivorous marsupial of modern times. Native:-Australia and New Guinea.Extinction:-20th century. It is commonly known as the Tasmanian Tiger (due to its striped back), and also known as the Tasmanian Wolf. It was the last extant member of its genus, Thylacine although a number of related species have been found in the fossil record dating back to the early Miocene. The Thylacine became extinct on the Australian mainland thousands of years before European settlement of the continent.Intensive hunting encouraged by bounties is generally blamed for its extinction.

Stiller's Sea Cow: (extinct since 1768)

Native:-near the Asiatic coast of the Bering Sea.

Discovered in 1741 by “George Steller .” Grow Up to 7.9 meters (25.9 ft) long. Weight:-3 tons. It looked somewhat like a large seal, but

had two stout forelimbs and a whale-like tail.Its skin is black and thick, like the bark of an old oak...,

Its head in proportion to the body is small...

It has no teeth, but only two flat white bones-one above, the other below".

It was completely tame. Extinction:-The arrival of humans.

Irish Deer: The largest deer that ever lived (extinct about 7,700 years ago)

That was the largest deer that ever lived. Native:- Eurasia, from Ireland to east of Lake

Baikal, during the Late Pleistocene and early Holocene.

The latest known remains of the species have been carbon dated to about 5,700 BC, or about 7,700 years ago.

Size:- About 2.1 meters or 7 feet tall at the shoulders, and in particular for having the largest antlers (a maximum of 3.65 meters/12 feet from tip to tip and weighing up to 90 pounds).

Extinction Cause :- Hunting by man. It would have co-evolved with humans

throughout its existence and presumably have adapted to their presence.

Caspian Tiger: The third largest (extinct since 1970)

That was the westernmost subspecies of tiger.

Places, They were found:- Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Turkey, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Caucasus, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.

Extinct:- Since 1970s.

Quite stocky and elongated with strong legs, big wide paws and unusually large claws.

The ears were short and small, and gave the appearance of being without hair on the tips.

Around the cheeks the Caspian tiger was generously furred and the rest of its fur was long and thick.

Weight:- Male Caspian tigers were very large and weighed 169-240 kg.

Females were not as large, weighing 85-135.

The colouration resembled that of the Bengal tigerr

Aurochs: a very large type of cattle (extinct since 1627)

The aurochs, the ancestor of domestic cattle, is an extinct type of large wild cattle that inhabited Europe, Asia and North Africa; they survived in Europe until the last recorded aurochs, a female, died in the Jaktarow Forest, Poland in 1627.

Scientific name: Bosprimigenius. Native:- Europe. Reached Europe about 250,000 years ago. Aurochs evolved in India some two million years

ago. migrated into the Middle East and further into

Asia. As the population of aurochs declined, hunting

ceased but the royal court still required gamekeepers to provide open fields for the aurochs to graze in.

The last recorded live aurochs, a female, died in 1627 in the Jaktorow Forest, Poland.

CaveLion:(extinct 2,000 years ago)

Cave Lion commonly known as the European or Eurasian cave lion, is an extinct subspecies of lion known from fossils and many examples of prehistoric art.

Scientific name: Pantheraleospelaea. .The cave lion, also known as the European

or Eurasian cave lion. This subspecies was one of the largest lions. Cause of extinction:- fossils and a wide

variety of prehistoric art during the Worm glaciations.

found in 1985 near Germany. height :- around 1.2 m length:- 2.1 m without a tail.

Golden Toad(Extinct since 1989)

The golden toad was a small, shiny, bright true toad that was once abundant in a small region of high-altitude cloud-covered tropical forests, about 10 square kilometres in area, above the city of Montverde, Costa Rica.

Scientific name: Bufo periglenes.

The toad recognized by its brilliant golden orange colour.

Native:- Tropical cloud forests which surround Montverde, Costa Rica.

It last bred in normal numbers in 1987, and its breeding sites were well known.

Cause of extinction:-In 1987, due to erratic weather, the pools dried up before the larva had matured, and they were going extinct.

Out of potential 30,000 toads, only 29 had survived.

In 1988, only eight males and two females could be located.

In 1989, a single male was found this was the last record of the species.

Caribbean Monk Seal (Extinct since June 6th2008)

Scientific name: Monachustropicalis. The Caribbean monk seal, west Indian

seal, or sea wolf, as early explorers referred to it, was a species of seal native to the Caribbean and now believed to be extinct. The Caribbean monk seals' main predators were sharks and humans.

The Caribbean monk seal was the first New World mammal to be discovered by Columbus and his company on the coast of Santo Domingo in 1494.

Columbus promptly ordered his crew to kill eight of the animals.

The Caribbean Monk Seal was sluggish on land.

It was officially declared extinct just last year, on June 6th, 2008.

It is also the only species of seal to go extinct directly due to human causes.

Woolly Mammoth (Extinct since 10000 year old)

They are found in:- Asia, Europe, North America.

These animals have long since gone extinct and are known mostly from fossils, from frozen, mummified carcasses, and even from ancient cave drawings.

Live in North Africa until about three million years ago.

Mammoths lived from about 2 million years ago to 9,000 years ago, during the last ice age (the Pleistocene Epoch).

The various mammoths ranged in size from about 9 ft (2.7 m) tall to over 15 ft (4.5 m) tall. 

The tusks were used in mating rituals, for protection, and for digging in the snow for food.

The longest tusks were over 17 feet (5.2 m) long.

Bali Tiger

Tar

pan

Plesiosaur

Some other extinct animals

Java Tiger

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