A look at some of the extinct animals. See how many you can identify.
1 . It is an extinct genus of very large snakes that lived in what is now La Guajira in Colombia. They could grow up to 12.8m long and reach a weight of 1135 kgs.
2 . It is one of the largest known carnivorous marsupials, evolving around 4 million years ago. The last known live animal was captured in 1933 in Tasmania.
3 . It is an extinct flightless bird that was endemic to the island of Mauritius, east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean. It inspires the idiom “Dumb as a _____”.
4 . It is an extinct species of shark that lived approximately 23 to 3.6 million years ago, and is regarded as one of the largest and most powerful predators to have ever lived. Subject of a movie starring Jason Statham.
5 . Popularly known as “supercroc”, it is considered widely as the biggest prehistoric crocodile that ever lived. It is an extinct genus of crocodyliform and distant relative of the crocodile that lived 112 million years ago.
6 . Although no complete skeletons have been found, estimates of the dinosaur’s length (based on projections using existing fossils) range from 37 to 40 meters, and it was thought to have weighed 99 to 110 tons. By these measures, it was the largest dinosaur, as well as the largest land animal, ever known.
7 . Native to North America, it has been extinct since the early 20th century. By the 19th century, its meat was commercialized as a cheap food for the poor, which resulted in hunting on a massive scale. The last known individual died in captivity in 1914.
8 . An enormous mammal, it is believed to be closely related to the modern-day elephant. Its ancestors migrated out of Africa about 3.5 million years ago, spreading across northern Eurasia and North America. The creature was over 4 metres tall and could weigh over 6 tons.
9 . They existed 55 million to 11,700 years ago. They were carnivores named for the elongated bladelike canine teeth, which in some species were up to 50cm long. Quite bear-like in build, they were believed to be excellent hunters and hunted animals such as sloths and mammoths.
10 . It was native to South Africa and went extinct in the late 19th century. For a long time, it was thought to be its own species before it was discovered that it was closely related to the Plains Zebra and was, in fact, a subspecies of the zebra.
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Answers :
- Titanoboa
- Tasmanian Tiger
- Dodo
- Megalodon
- Sarcosuchus imperator
- Argentinosaurus
- Passenger Pigeon
- Woolly Mammoth
- Sabre-toothed cat
- Quagga