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Extinct Animals
All the information you need to know about animals that have already become extinct.
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'Diprotodon optatum' is the scientific name for the Diprotodon, or giant wombat. The Diprotodon was the largest of the marsupials and probably the best known of Australia's megafauna, living many millennia ago. It stood 1.8 to 2 m high at the shoulder and was 3 to 3.8m long from head to tail.
A palaeotheriid is a member of the Palaeotheriidae, an extinct family of herbivorous mammals related to the tapir and the rhinoceros.
What is the life cycle of a diprotodon?
The Diprotodon's life cycle can only be guessed at, as it disappeared long before humans made any studies or observations of ancient fauna.
The male was believed to be larger than the female, and also believed to mate with any number of females. The Diprotodon reared its young in a pouch, where the young fed from a teat in much e same way as today's wombats do. There are several cases where the skeleton of a female Diprotodon has been found with a baby still in its mother's pouch.
Why doesn't predation cause extinction?
It has, in the past. The prey animals that survived are those who have a lot of babies perhaps every several months, who are very alert to the sound, sight, and smell of predators, and who are good at finding and staying somewhere that predators have difficulty getting to. Examples include burrows and thorn bushes.
Prey animals tend to live in large groups so that there are many animals alert to the sound and smell or sight of predators.
On the other hand, predators typically have only 1 or 2 babies only once a year or once every two years. Predators very often lie around a lot, so they need to eat fewer prey animals.
What is one limitation of the morphological species concept?
There is no known mechanism for the introduction of new genetic material.
Can megalania swallow a man whole?
Megalania (Megalania prisca) is a recently extinct animal, very similar to the Komodo Dragon, although much larger.
About 40,000 years ago, australian aboriginal people may have hunted Megalania.
It is possible that larger specimen could have killed and eat an human beeing.
The unfortunate human prey could have been swallowed whole, which is not impossible for a 7 meter Megalania specimen.
No, because its one of the characteristics of life so YOU need the sun to live
How did pteranodon become extinct?
A pteranodon is a pterosaur, or a flying dinosaur. During the fall of the dinosaurs, all dinosaurs became extinct, including the pterosaurs.
Yes. The last mammoths died off about 4000 years ago. Several specimens have been found almost intact, frozen in the permafrost of the Siberian tundra, having died there between 10,000 and 200,000 years ago.
Who were the short faced bear's enemies?
Any other predator that competed with it for the same prey and food source: other short-faced bears, saber-toothed tigers, ancestor to the modern day's wolves that escapes my mind, and others.
Where did the last quagga die?
The quagga is an extinct form of zebra. It lived on the open plains in South Africa. In 1883, the last of the quaggas died out at the Amsterdam Zoo.
