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Extinct Animals

All the information you need to know about animals that have already become extinct.

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Which bird is closest relative of the extinct bird dodo?

The Aphanapteryx is a highly close relative of the Dodo bird. Not only because it comes from the same family but it also; only existed on Mauritius Island, was a flightless bird, and is now extinct!

How big is a woolly mammoths brain?

In an adult T. rex, the brain was about 8 - 10 inches long and about 4 inches at its thickest (at the olfactory lobe).

What is a megalodons ecosystem?

The ecosystem that Megalodon lived in was the ocean. Their fossils show that they lived in all of the oceans of the world between 28 and 1.5 million years ago.

How many animals are extincted?

Quantifying (or apply a number) extinct species is a daunting task if you're looking for a "historical" figure. Secondly, we have to consider if "animals" are mammals, avian, reptilian, amphibian, aquatic, or a combination of all of the above. Then we need to look at the age, era, or epoch in question. For example, it's well known that all of the dinosaur species went extinct and, to date, we know that means around 700 species.

Doing a quick search on the IUCN database for extinct Animalia, the database reports 712 results. Granted, this is going to be current era species only and only those with the Animalia taxonomy.

What Percent of animals have gone extinct over the history of earths existence?

Countless thousands of species went extinct before man every showed up on earth. The difference is: Since we weren't here to screw anything up, it was a natural part of nature. Now even today, the great majority of species facing extinction are there due to no fault of man's - nature is continually extincting species and replacing them with new ones, man or not. But some species are definitely near the brink because of man, and those are the ones we are working hardest to save. For if they become extinct, it won't be natures doing - it will be our fault.

What are the haploid cells that form in female animals?

The haploid cells or sex cells are one of the foundations of life ,they have one part of each chromoson in your body,.But when two cells of opposite mating types meet they fuse to form a new live chromoson.In animals they are in the lower uterus ,as the aniamals stomache has no linning.When she becomes pregant ,the genes and amino acidsstart forming a sac in her stomach and haploid celss are drawn their ,by chromosons

What year the dinosaurs got exstinc?

Dinosaurs are believed to have gone extinct approx. 66 million years ago

How much does a saltopus dinosaur weigh?

The largest sauropod species was Argentinosaurus, which averaed about 90 to 100 tons

Why did the quaggas get extint?

Quaggas were hunted for their meat and skin. The meat was eaten and the skin was used as sacks for farmers.

The quagga was killed for flesh and blood. Dried meat from the quagga was found in the 1980s, but another theory is very possible. The quagga had very similar DNA to the African zebra. As evolution moved on and more and more zebras reproduced, the quagga was killed, chased out of its habitat and later died, or was hunted to extinction by people or other animals. But the most likely answer falls down to the human race and zebras today. We did not help them survive in theory, but the rest must have died over time naturally. As other animals moved into the area, the quaggas were hunted and chased from their home.

the dutch wanted to use the grasslands that the quaqqa lived on for their own cattle so they killed as many as possible.

The last wild quaggas was probably extinct in 1999 in a place called Haray in South Africa when there was a quagga fight show and 7 to 10 quaggas were killed when fighting against bulls and other wild animals. Only then did the scientists realise that quaggas were a separate species and not the same as the Plain South African zebras.

Do unicorns fart rainbows?

A unicorn is a mythical creature and has not ever been seen or proved to exist. There is no evidence to prove or disprove this question as no one has ever witnessed a unicorn in the wild. Technically butterflies have to start out as caterpillars and spend months in a cocoon stage of development before emerging as a butterfly, so a unicorn would have to be able to convert rainbows into caterpillars and then allow them to develop into butterflies before allowing them to exit via the anus. The chance of this happening is extremely low and therefore i doubt unicorns do eat rainbows and poo out butterflies.

Note: this was a joke, I believe that it came from the movie "Horton Hears a Who," where the character Katie states in her world "every one is a pony and they eat rainbows and poo butterflies."

So maybe in Katie's world, the unicorns eat and poo rainbows and butterflies respectively.

When did the last mammoth die?

The majority of mammoths went extinct by the end of the last ice, however a population of dwarf mammoth persisted on Wrangel Island in the Arctic ocean off the coast of northern Siberia until around 5,000 years ago.

What is vulnerable species?

A Vulnerable species is one which has been categorised by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as likely to become Endangered unless the circumstances threatening its survival and reproduction improve.

Vulnerability is mainly caused by habitat loss or destruction. Vulnerable species are monitored and are becoming threatened. However, some species listed as "vulnerable" may in fact be quite abundant in captivity, examples being the Venus Flytrap and blue poison dart frog.

How did Entelodonts became extinct?

Nobody knows how any dinosaurs became extinct but the most likely explanation is that a 10Mile big meteorite smacked into the Earth

What age did the mammoths roamed the earth?

Excluding a population of dwarf woolly mammoths on Wrangel Island (which lasted until 3,700 years ago), woolly mammoths became extinct 10,000 years ago.

The species of mammoth native to North America was the Columbian mammoth. One skeleton of a Columbian mammoth has been dated to being less than 8,000 years old.

Why save extinct animals?

Why should we save the extinct animals? Well first off, extinct animals are no longing alive. So there are none left so you can't save them.

You should save the endangered animals because when they are all gone the food chain is broken and all the animals that depend on the extinct animals must adapt or become extinct

too.

Are there many road runners birds still in existence?

Still a common species of the American Southwest. Listed as "Least Concern".

Are Trilobites extinct?

Trilobites first appeared in the Cambrian and were last seen in the Middle Permian.

How did the Barbados raccoon get extinct?

Raccoons have been hunted for their fur for a long time. They have not been in any danger of extinction before, but, if the want for raccoon fur increases and no protective measures are taken, I suppose they could go extinct.

What would happen if crabs were extinct?

Korea would actually nuke america with all the weapons they had.

aka - NOTHING WOULD HAPPEN!

Why do mammoths not decompose?

Woolly mammoths were adapted to living in freezing conditions towards the northern most area of earth, for example where Siberia now is. As the conditions have remained freezing since the ice age, mammoths that have been buried under snow since they were dead have not decomposed. This is because as the stable freezing cold for millions of years slows down the animation of bacteria. They too are frozen in the process, and decomposition occurs because bacteria in the internal organs of the animal, and in the atmosphere multiply without the control of an immune system and devour the body leaving a soup like waste product. And of course flies, and other such life form that feed on carcasses are unable to get to it because it is buried deep in ice. This, combined with having the effect of bacteria eliminated from the remains leaves an almost perfectly preserved mummified mammoth.