Cenozoic Quiz - Statistics

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Hairy elephant	mammoth	90%
Space object that wiped them out	asteroid	88%
Feline relative with giant fangs	saber-toothed cat	84%
Reptile group that went extinct (except birds!) right before the Cenozoic	dinosaur	82%
Giant shark that had massive teeth	megalodon	82%
Titanoboa- largest of these reptiles ever found	snake	82%
Giant flightless bird of New Zealand	Moa	78%
Paraceratherium was a giant hornless relative of these modern mammals	rhinoceros	78%
A robust ancestor of ours often stereotyped as cave-dwellers	Neanderthal	73%
This "upright man" had a name that sounds dirty	Homo erectus	71%
Ambulocetus had this body part modern whales lack	legs	69%
Giant flightless birds of prey	terror bird	67%
These covered large portions of land during the ice ages	glaciers	65%
term for large animals, often associated with ice age mammals	megafauna	63%
Famous Australopithecus specimen named after a Beatles song	Lucy	55%
Oil pools that preserved thousands of ice age animals	tar pits	53%
landform that allowed animals & people to walk from Siberia to Alaska	land bridge	51%
The officially unrecognized "age of man" that comes after the Holocene	Anthropocene	49%
The "third" period that formerly made up most of this era	Tertiary	47%
The "fourth" and most recent geologic period	Quarternary	39%
Our "other", more mysterious ancestor found in a cave in Siberia	Denisovan	25%

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