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Extinct Animals
All the information you need to know about animals that have already become extinct.
1,977 Questions
What describes how temperature and pressure change with depth below Earth's surface?
Both temperature and pressure increase with depth.
What was the mass extinction that was most likely caused by the formation and retreat of glaciers?
"It was the Cretaceous-Tertiary or the K-T Extinction." - Wrong
The K-T Extinction was the mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs, which was more widely believed to be caused by a heavenly body colliding with the Earth.
The mass extinction that involved a large period of glaciation was in truth the Ordovician-Silurian Extinction, which was the earliest mass extinction.
The extinction is associated with a period of glaciation. First, sea levels dropped as glaciers formed. Later, as the glaciers melted, the sea level rose. The cause of this glaciation remains a mystery. One suggestion is land plants caused it by absorbing large amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. The drop in carbon dioxide could then have caused global cooling.
Is it true that extinctions only occur in the past?
Every single extinction has happened in the past. If an extinction is happening this instant we will not know about it until it is in the past.
As and when any future extinctions happen we will not know about it until it is in the past.
How many types of unicorns are there?
A pony is generally considered to be an equine that is 14.2 hands or smaller. Almost any breed can have members that are this size. Additionally, there are 32 pony breeds that are bred to be smaller than 14.2H. Most of those listed below are horse breeds and some large draft breeds.
Well theres Wild horses, Arab, Barb, Andalusian, Thoroughbred, Anglo-arab, Noriker, Belgian Draught, Frederiksborg, Jutland, Danish Warmblood, Ariegois, Selle Francais, French trotter, Percheron, Breton, Boulonnais, Trakehner, Hanoverian, Holstein, Oldenburg, Westphalian, Schleswig, South German, Cleveland Bay, Hackney, Shire, Suffolk, Clydesdale, Furioso, Nonius, Hungarian Half-bred, Shagya, Icelandic, Irish Draught, Maremmano, Murgese, Italian Heavy Draught, Friesian, Gelderland, Dutch Warmblood, Lusitano, Bashkir, Don, Budenny, Kabardin, Tersk, Orlov Trotter, Vladimir Heavy Draught, North Swedish, Swedish Warmblood, Akhal-Teke, Morgan, Quater Horse, Saddlebred, Standardbred, Missouri Fox Trotter, Tennessee Walking Horse, Mustang, Australian Stock Horse, Criollo, Peruvian Paso.
Extinction is caused by both.
If there is a natural disaster, it can wipe out whole species. For example, climate changes such as the end of the ice age. There were some mammals that evolved into animals we know today and there were some that could not evolve fast enough and did not survive.
Man can cause extinction by over-hunting animals or destroying their habitats.
For example, the Dodo was a flightless, defensive bird which stood no chance when man colonised their island.
What caused giant ground sloths to become extinct?
Some paleontologists say that climate changes altered sloths' favored plant communities. Other researchers credit human predation and habitat disruption for the extinction of the sloths. Even some "hyperdisease" has been suggested to explain their demise. Much more research is needed to find the answers.
There are several species of large cats that have gone extinct with in the last decade or so.
* The Caspian Tiger - last seen in the wild in 1961. * The Javan Tiger - last confirmed alive in the wild in 1972. * The Balinese Tiger - last noted alive in 1937. * The Cape Lion * The Barbary Lion - Last confimed in the wild in 1922 although still bread in captivity. There are also many species of large cat that became extinct many thousands of years ago. These include:
* The Saber Tooth Tiger * Panthera Atrox * Dinictis * The Cave Lion
Why mammals became more or less abundant after the extinction of the dinosaurs and why?
More abundant, due to the fact that previously-occupied environmental niches opened up.
What year did the quagga become extinct?
There were living quaggas as late as the end of the 19th century. It is speculated that they first appeared in the Pleistocene epoch.
What would happened if koala became extinct?
It's very difficult to answer such question because we cannot say anything. In coming generations, centuries, people would definitely forget about these animals. Teachers would struggle to tell people about these animals.
The koala is the sentinel animal for bushland-dwelling species in Australia: basically, if the koala becomes extinct, whatever is responsible for its extinction will cause the demise of many other fauna and flora as well.
it all has to do with food chains and it will interrupt the ecosystem that it lives in.
the world would be horrible
What is a species that is in danger of becoming extinct?
white tigers, gray wolves
Neither above. The white tiger is just a rare color phase of the Bengal tiger, and gray wolves are not an endangered species. Some that are close to extinction because of deforestation include ivory billed woodpecker, Bachman's warbler.
What is a reason that species becomes extinct?
Animal extinction is caused by humans, everybody knows that. The top reasons are habitat destruction, and hunting to sell body parts, like tigers for their fur and bone.
I think habitat destruction is the top main reasons because it has more consequences over time since most animals will be unable to recover that space. There are also people who capture animals, to sell them later on to wealthy people who have nothing else to do with their money, but to buy endangered animal species, to illegal shows or circus e.t.c; So you understand, the main reason for animal extinction, is human intervention on their natural life, and environment.
1. Human Hunting 2. Habitat loss
3. global warming
4.starvation
1. Increased Competition
2. Change in the Environment
3. New Predators
4. New Diseases
Mostly habitat loss and over hunting are the main reasons, poaching endangered animals such as tigers.
Survival of the fittest. They lack the ability to gather enough food to survive, or to live in the conditions they are in.
This can be from something such as their food source being taken away or their habitat changing very quickly due to a natural disaster. Also they can be hunted to extinction by people.
What are the reasons for the extinction of species
Is there a megalodon still out there?
From what i have just read yes meglodons are extinct. There is also alot of speculation about when they went extinct some think 10000 years ago others reckon alot longer. Either way how cool would it be to find a group of them they are awesome...............
How did the Honshu wolf become extinct?
The Hokkaido wolf became extinct because the Meiji government saw the wolf as a threat to ranching, which they strongly supported. So they put a bounty on wolves and started a Direct Chemical Campain to poison them. I just hope that we aren't stupid enough to do this again.
Why did stellers sea cow become extinct?
The Steller's Sea Cow became extinct because of humans hunting these sea cows. Sea Cows are extinct everywhere. Before they were extinct they inhabited the northern Pacific Ocean around Alaska.
How do the extinctions of other creatures affect humans directly and indirectly?
If the animal is a staple in the diet of humans, it may have a direct impact on the diet of humans such as if the tuna went extinct. If the animal is not a staple, it may still have an impact due to the fact that it may be a key food source for another animal which is a staple of the human diet. If plankton went extinct, everything that ate them, such as most fish, would then go extinct. Just as if honeybees became instinct, the pollination of our crops and produce would cease.
Beyond just eating animals, the extinction of creatures can affect our lives in other ways. A poll by the American Museum of Natural History finds that seven in 10 biologists believe that mass extinction poses a colossal threat to human existence, a more serious environmental problem than even its contributor, global warming; and that the dangers of mass extinction are woefully underestimated by almost everyone outside science.
All these disappearing species are part of a fragile membrane of organisms wrapped around the Earth so thinly, that it "cannot be seen edgewise from a space shuttle, yet so internally complex that most species composing it remain undiscovered". We owe everything to this membrane of life. Literally everything. The air we breathe. The food we eat. The materials of our homes, clothes, books, computers, medicines. Goods and services that we can't even imagine we'll someday need will come from species we have yet to identify. The proverbial cure for cancer. The genetic fountain of youth. Immortality. Mortality. The living membrane we so recklessly destroy is existence itself.
What animals lived during the carboniferous?
The plant life of the Carboniferous period was extensive and luxuriant, especially during the Pennsylvanian. It included ferns and fernlike trees; giant horsetails, called calamites; club mosses, or lycopods, such as Lepidodendron and Sigillaria; seed ferns; and cordaites, or primitive conifers. Land animals included primitive amphibians, reptiles (which first appeared in the Upper Carboniferous), spiders, millipedes, land snails, scorpions, enormous dragonflies, and more than 800 kinds of cockroaches. The inland waters were inhabited by fishes, clams, and various crustaceans; the oceans, by mollusks, crinoids, sea urchins, and one-celled foraminifera.
The quagga was a recently extinct subspecies of the Plains Zebra. Indigenous to South Africa, it once roamed Cape Province and parts of South Africa in great numbers. Unlike other zebras, with their full-body black and white stripes, the quagga was striped only on the front part of its body, with its hindquarters a solid, darker brown. The stripes on its head faded to a yellow-ish brown body and made for a creature with a very unique set of markings. This subspecies of the Zebra was hunted to extinction for its meat, hide and to protect feed for the domesticated animals of the time. The last wild Quagga is believed to have been shot in the 1870s, and the last known captive was a mare. She died at the Artis Magistra Zoo in Amsterdam, on 12 August 1883. The only Quagga ever photographed alive was a mare that was at the London Zoo in 1870. For more details, please visit sites listed below. Although the original quagga is now extinct, a breeding-back programme has commenced, through selective breeding of the southern Plains Zebras.
How was the Hawaiian Poi Dog extinct?
The Po'ouli bird became extinct for various reasons. It is believed that loss of its main food native tree snails, habitat loss, predation from other animals like mongooses and cats and dogs, and diseases passed by mosquitoes caused it to become extinct.
Eggs first develop in a woman?
A woman's eggs are developed before their birth. A woman is actually born with all of the eggs she will ever have.
The quagga was a subspecies of the plains zebra. The first part is the genus name, the second is the species name of the plains zebra, and the third is the subspecies name of the quagga. The scientific name is Equus quagga quagga.
