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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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