Giuliana Bernini

Extinct and Endangered Species

Common name: Tooth TigerScientific name: Smilodon Fatalis Habitat: Deep in the forest and the woods

during the cold temperatures of the ice age. Reason of Extinction: Died about 10,000

years ago. They died because large prey amount of mammals that they depended on like mammoths and ground sloths became extinct. Some of the reasons they believe that this animals became extinct were climate change and disease spread by humans

Tooth Tiger

Scientific name: Hippocampus IngensHabitat: Pacific Ocean, offshore waters from

2m to 30m of depth. Camouflaged in algae. Threats: Overfishing, pollution and loss of

habitat. Twenty Million Seahorses are taken from the water each year to take to China for Medical Uses.

Measures to protect it? Seek alternative ingredients for medicines, develop sustainable fisheries, resist temptation to have seahorses as pets.

Approximate population??????

Pacific Seahorse- Costa Rica

Common Name: Blue WhaleScientific Name: Baeolonptera MusculusHabitat: Cold and temperate waters. Deep

Ocean Waters, Icelandic and Celtic marine ecosystems, approximately 2,000 whales live off The Coast Of California and migrate to Mexico and Costa Rica.

Threats: No specific predators, hunting of Blue Whales, Orcas attacking Blue Whale even though they don’t die immediately they suffer because of the attack and die.

Blue Whale, The largest animal on Earth

Approximately population: Around 6,000 whales.

Measures to protect it: Not lead boats against whales, stencil storm drains, monitor the water quality, cut up plastic six pack rings before recycling them or displacing them in the water.

Blue Whale