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Extinct Animals

What are extinct animals?

If a species, or type, of plant or animal dies out completely, it becomes extinct

Here are some examples of animals that have become extinct:

Dodo

Sabre-Toothed Tiger

Woolly Mammoth

Extinct animals

The dodo was a medium-large sized flightless bird that was discovered on the Island of Mauritius in the 1590s and was declared extinct less than a century later, in 1681

The dodo had a large body, stubby wings, a small, curved tail, short legs, and a large beak. The feathers of the dodo were grey, black and white in colour and the large curved beak of the dodo is one of it's most distinctive features.

Dodo

The sabre-toothed tiger is one of the most well-known prehistoric animals

It mostly ate deer, bison, woolly mammoth

It lived in the forests and grasslands

Sabre-Toothed Tiger

The woolly mammoth was an enormous mammal that once roamed the vast frozen, northern landscapes in large size

It had long, thick hair and enormous tusks

It ate grasses, twigs, rushes

Woolly Mammoth

The Steller's sea cow was a large marine mammal that was found in abundance in the North Pacific

It ate sea grasses, algae, flowers

Stellers Sea Cow

tellers Sea Cow

Stertellers Sea Cow

Stellers Sea Cow

Quiz

Stellers Sea Cow

tellers Sea Cow

Stertellers Sea Cow

What colour was the Dodo?

Grey, black and white

Black, brown and orange

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Stellers Sea Cow

tellers Sea Cow

Stertellers Sea Cow

What is an extinct animal?

An animal that doesn’t exist

any more

An animal that is close to dying out

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Stellers Sea Cow

tellers Sea Cow

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