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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 could lead to a species going extinct?

Animals need enough room to survive, reproduce and room for their offspring to migrate to. With habitat loss, this is often not possible.

Why did the Mastodon become extinct?

There is growing evidence that a comet strike is responsible for the extinction of most of the large mammals including mastodons and humans (the Clovis culture) in NA about 13,000 years ago. Discover magazine has an article in the April 2009 issue. Their extinction has also been linked with their yearning to go down for so long that they simply stop breathing. National Geographic has an article in the June 2008 issue.

Why did cave bears become extinct?

a lion dies because maybe that when they make their boundries (territory) and an animal comes to it they will fight and sometimes they die.

That could be your answer i think


The Cave Lion probably became extinct because of the usual answer: the climate (temerature), the terrain (gruond) <(ground), and the plants. The plants keep the herbivores (plant eaters) alive, and they feed the carnivores. If an animal cant get the food it needs, it will die. The temp. could get too warm or cold for the animal, so it'll die. The ground will change, and so will the plantlife thet is growing on it. Also, if they egt
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What year did the blue pike became extinct?

It is not known when the blue pike became extinct. Species are only declared extinct when there has been no confirmed sighting of a live specimen for fifty years.

The blue pike was declared extinct in September 1983.

Who are the smilodons enemy?

megatheriam the giant ground sloth was sometimes an enemy and the terror birds were enemys too

What does baryonyx name mean?

Baryonyx was a fish-eating dinosaur that lived some 125 million years ago. It had long curved claws that it used to help it capture fish. It's name comes from the Greek meaning "heavy claw" and it is the only species in its genus. It's long jaw is low and narrow, and lined with finely serrated teeth - an adaption to aid it in hunting, killing and eating the fish it is though to have preyed on. The 30-foot, 2 ton beast has been found only in England and a couple of areas in Europe. As there are only a limited number of specimens, their size isn't fixed. A link is provided to the Wikipedia article on this sauropod.

How did the Cuban Ground Sloth become extinct?

The Cuban crocodile is critically endangered, not extinct. They are threatened as a result of hunting in their very small range (they only lived on a few Caribbean islands; now they only live in Cuba).

Why some wild animals disappear?

When animals become extinct, it is because there is a change in their environment, and they are unable to survive. That also holds true for plants.

Today, major situations that are threatening organisms include habitat loss, poaching, and pollution.

Plant eating animals include?

Rabbits and other rodents, cloven animals such as horses, cows, sheep and others, and vegetarian human beings!

Did the megalodon have enemys?

not likely, it was one of the apec predators in the ocean, but there were a few things that could have chalenged and killed it, but i don't think it would have been actively hunted, just like great whites today

Are stingrays becoming extinct?

There are five species of stingray that are currently listed with the status of "endangered" , according to the IUCN Red List. There are many other species listed from "data deficient" to "vulnerable". The "endangered" species are the * Ganges Stingray * Marbled Whipray * Mekong Freshwater Stingray * White-Edge Freshwater Stingray * Thorny Freshwater Stingray For more details, please see sites listed below.

How were animals hunted?

Birds are hunted in many different ways:

Birds such as pidgeons are not hunted as such but they are killed by disguising poisen as food. This was the method used in Trafalger Square. Gamekeepers either set poisen down or traps. The old method was to shoot them but you would of had to be quite a sharp shot to hit a bird with a shotgun.

How a quaggas can be bred from zebras?

People will recreate the quagga by taking zebras that naturally look like quaggas and breeding them with other zebras that look like quaggas and eventually they should have a whole herd that looks like the quagga. for more information on the quagga project visit this website --- http://www.quaggaproject.org

How long did saber-toothed tigers live on earth?

The subfamily Machairodontinae (saber toothed cats) evolved about 23 million years ago, during the Oligocene series, which is part of the Paleogene system. They became extinct about 10,000 years ago. So they existed for nearly 23 million years.

What of these is not a reason that species become extinct?

Which of these is not a reason that species become extinct

Will humans become extinct?

It's complicated, but to be honest, it's likely to happen.

Humans are a very advanced species, and have a basic method of survival. They can survive in tough environments all over the world. So for the entire human race to be wiped out there is one man-made theory, in which the whole world would get into a nuclear conflict and everyone successfully blow each other up.

There are two other theories, in which 1) A bolide-fireball-missile meteoroid (a very large impactor) can hit the Earth and extreme volcanism can happen, and 2) a very catastrophic climate change.

just hope this doesn't scare you too much

How big are mammoths?

There were several species of mammoths, some of them big and others not so big. The largest one was the Sungar mammoth, which was 5 meters tall and was heavier than a Tyrannosaurus rex! But the most famous mammoth, the woolly mammoth, was around the size of a modern day Asian elephant (around 3 meters tall).

Why did mammoths have tusks?

There are a few reasons why dinosaurs have horns.

Defense. They have to be able to defend themselves in case of an attack.

To look fierce and vicious to scare off predators.

To make other dinosaurs be scared to keep them away from themselves.

Helpful tools when roaming or moving something.

There are other things, but those are the things I know.

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Current theories are that dinosaurs used them for aggressive displays to ward off competitors or to attract mates, much as animals with horns do in modern times. This is a convergent evolutionary theory.

However, in days past, it was believed that the horns were probably used for defense or attacking. This is considered highly unlikely because of the lack of serious damage to fossil remains that would be caused by this behavior.