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Extinct Animals
All the information you need to know about animals that have already become extinct.
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What are two relatives of the quagga?
The quagga was closely related to the horse and the zebra. It was a subspecies of the Plains Zebra, and striped only on the front part of its body, with its hindquarters a solid, darker brown.
How many species a year are going extinct due to human actions?
Nobody really knows how many species a year are going extinct from human actions. Recent estimates for the extinction rate of animals by human action vary from 10,000 to 100,000.
Yes, the dire wolf was one of the abundant Pleistocene megafauna, a wide variety of very large mammals that lived during the Pleistocene. About 10,000 years ago around the end of the last ice age the dire wolf became extinct along with most other North American megafauna.
How can you get extinct animals to come back?
You can't get extinct animals to "come back". Extinct means all members of the species are gone. Scientists have tried genetic engineering in some cases where there is a very close genetic link to the extinct animal, but it's still not the same thing. Perhaps in the future we may be able to do a "Jurassic Park" and insert complete DNA into a cell, but that's still in the future.
How fast could a Smilodon run?
Well a smilodon was a fast cat, but ran only for short distances like a cheetah. So it's top speed was up to 68kph. (43mph).
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Some chicks (young birds) have a tooth called an egg tooth which falls off when they crack the eggshell and hatch.
Birds do not have teeth, although some species of geese have tooth-like serrations called 'tomia' which run along the outside of the top and bottom of their bills, and look very much like teeth.
Examples of endangered and extinct species?
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Did the thrinaxodon go extinct during the End Triassic extinction?
Thrinaxodon lived during the Triassic Period. They died out about 245 million years ago, at the end of the Olenekian portion of the Triassic period.
What are the three possibilities for animals extinction?
1 starvation
2 humans killing
3 climate changes
Will every animal on earth become extinct?
yes in about 5000 million yrs time the earth will blow up and everything will die instantly
Why did the ichthyornis go extinct?
There are many theories to why the non avian dinosaurs including Tyrannosaurus rex, became extinct. So far, this is the most widely accepted one by paleontologists.
65.5 million years ago, an asteroid with a diameter of 6 miles crashed into what is now the Yucatan Peninsula, creating the Chixculub crater. It threw so much dust into the atmosphere, that sunlight was blocked for months. Plants died without sunlight, and the herbivorous dinosaurs died without plants to eat. The carnivores soon died out, too, because their prey was gone.
There is evidence that the Chixculub impact preceded the dinosaur extinction by hundreds of thousands of years, until another, possibly larger asteroid struck and eliminated the non avian dinosaurs once and for all.
On top of it all, even without the asteroids, dinosaurs were already dealing with the negative affects of climate change.
Do you have pictures of saber tooth?
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Wrong, wrong, wrong. Wiki Answers was created to answer peoples questions. It's quite easy to leave a related link to an image. I've left one for you, per the request for images of saber toothed cubs.
What does a smilodon look like?
Generally speaking, meat. More specifically, medium to large game, such as Mammoths. Similodon is thought to have hunted in prides, like modern day lions, when food was plentiful. Why would a Mammoth be in South America? Macrochenia would probably be the most common prey for a Smilodon.
How did megaladons go extinct?
Climate change made food supply get too low to support such a large animal.
Is there an animal that was stronger than the megalodon?
no megalodon were the only species of shark ever known to mankind they can eat human and a great white shark at the same time
What year did flying foxes become extinct?
Flying foxes as a whole are not extinct. There are more than 50 extant species of "flying foxes" still alive and flitting about all over the world - as well as several "fruit bat" varieties that belong to the same Genus Pteropus.
There are several flying fox species that are apparently now extinct:
The Percy Island Flying Fox (aka Dusky Flying Fox) is listed as Extinct because it has not been found in its only known range, or nearby, much after the original collection date despite extensive surveys. Note that The taxonomic status of this species is unclear. While some experts believe that the species is distinct from all other Australian Pteropus species, there has been speculation that the single specimen might in fact be a vagrant of another species.
The Large Palau Flying Fox (aka Palau Flying-fox, Palau Fruit Bat) is listed as Extinct because it has not been recorded since prior to 1874, and extensive surveys over the years have failed to locate this species.
The Lesser Mascarene Flying Fox (aka Small Mauritian Flying Fox, Dark Flying Fox) is believed Extinct. The last authentic record of this species on Mauritius was in 1859, but it is believed to have died out between 1864 and 1873. On Réunion, no new records appeared after 1862 and it seems probable that it became extinct in the 1860s.
The Guam Flying Fox (aka Guam Fruit Bat) is listed as Extinct because it has not been recorded with certainty since 1968, and intensive surveys of fruit bats on Guam in intervening years have failed to locate this species.
The Small Samoan Flying Fox (Pteropus allenorum) is a species of fruit eating megabat whose type specimen was originally collected in Samoa in 1856, but was not identified as a new species until 2009. As the type specimen is dead, and no other examples of the species are known, it is believed to be extinct.
The Large Samoan Flying Fox (Pteropus coxi) is a species of fruit eating megabat whose type specimen was originally collected in Samoa in 1856, but was not identified as a new species until 2009. The only known specimen was collected by an American expedition to Samoa in 1838-1842, It was rediscovered by Smithsonian mammalogist Kristofer Helgen preserved in alcohol. It was the largest known bat from Polynesia. As the type specimen is dead, and no other examples of the species are known, it is believed to be extinct
What kind of extinct animals are endangered?
There are far too many extinct animals to list. In fact, the vast majority of animal species that have ever existed are extinct now. Some of the most famous include the dinosaurs, mammoths, and saber toothed cats, but that is only a miniscule fraction of the total amount of extinct animal species.
What are 8 animals that people domesticated more than 6000 years ago?
wht early period r u talking about first of all? But there r lots of animals that were domesticated a very very long time ago.Such as goats, chickens and most live stock, horses, cats and dogs were a little later depending on where you lived.Such as if you lived in a cold climate huskys would already be domesticated from wolves their ancestors.Such in warm climate a dog would not be as useful as an animal but a horse, a bigger animal to carry heavy loads for long distances, as you could say,would thrive more.Anyway it all depends on where you live, to what people used to their advantages.So some were not used as others very much until later, but now an animals life usually is in a farm land,where it does not need to commit to any work as of a long time ago.Except maybe making milk,eggs,cheese,bacon etc.
What will be the effect if endangered animals become extinct?
If some endangered animals were to become extinct the effect would be devastating. Each animal or plant has its own part to play in the food chain of a certain ecosystem. If you take that animal or plant away the ecosystem will most likely crash and never recover. This could cause the numbers of other animals or plants that previously had good numbers in the ecosystem to plummet rapidly. This could cause evn more extinctions.
Overall, it would most certainly not be good.
It would not be good, but species go extinct every day. It would be devastating if an animal like the deer or rabbit went extinct. Like you said, "If you take that animal or plant away the ecosystem will most likely crash and never recover. This could cause the numbers of other animals or plants that previously had good numbers in the ecosystem to plummet rapidly. This could cause even more extinctions." like if the deer went away, the animals the would rely on the deer would go extinct and so on, but if it didn't just rely on the animal, then the other animals would suffer because they are all being eaten up. and they might go extinct. then fore the animals lower in the food chain, they would flourish because nothing is threating their lives, and so on.
You could think of a billion ways that could be "devastating" but it would take to long to say it all...
What is resistance to extinction?
In behavioral terms (which are the only terms in which I've ever heard this phrase used) resistance to extinction is to do with the speed at which a subject loses Pavlovian conditioning responses.
Using a well known example is to explain this using Pavlov's dogs. In this classical experiment dogs learned to associate a bell with food and would therefore salivate when a bell was rung, regardless if any food was present.
However, the dogs learned to associate these two as the food was also presented at the same time. If the conditioned stimulus (the bell) is presented without the food enough times this behaviour becomes 'extinct'.
The time that it takes to lose this response is the resistance to extinction.
Hope this helps!
What makes up different phyla?
The phyla are a rank lower than kingdom and a rank above class on the taxonomic ranking. The phyla are defined somewhat loosely, with either 'must be clearly more closely related to one another than any other group' or 'a set of characters shared by all the living representatives'.
How many species of animals are extinct today?
According to some estimates, at least several hundred million. Discovery Channel (How many species have actually gone extinct?) says the estimates are between 1 and 4 billion.
This would include the Ediacaran extinctions, which occurred during the Cambrian shift (500 million years ago) to lifeforms that live on the land rather than in the sea.
What are all the extinct animals names?
There is a HUGE number of extinct animals! We regret that it is way beyond the scope of WikiAnswers to list them all!
For very comprehensive lists, see links in 'Related links' & 'Also see' sections below this box.
