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Extinct animals: interesting facts - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 35 times
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| Hint | Extra Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| A giant millipede 2.5 metres long. | It is the largest invertebrate ever known to have lived on land. | Arthropleura armata | 81%
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| Maori legends say that this bird sometimes preyed on humans. | It had twice the weight of the largest living raptor, and its usual prey was the huge moa. | Haast's eagle | 81%
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| The biggest flying animal ever. | This pterosaur had a wingspan of 11 metres, similar to a small plane. Its maximum weight may have been 250 kg, whereas our heaviest flying bird weighs up to 19 kg. | Quetzalcoatlus | 81%
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| Its correct name is the thylacine. | This mammal is also the subject of an attempted de-extinction, using as a host its closest relative, the mouse-like dunnart - which weighs 1,000 times less. | Tasmanian tiger | 81%
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| There is a project aiming to bring this bird back from the dead. | The group are looking to combine its DNA with living pigeons. | Dodo | 78%
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| This South African mammal looked like the head and neck of a zebra stuck onto a horse's body. | Quagga | 78%
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| This subspecies did not go extinct until the 1990s. | It inhabited Turkey, Iraq, Georgia and central Asia. | Caspian tiger | 67%
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| This theropod lived closer to the era of humans than to the era of the stegosaurus. | Tyrannosaurus | 67%
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| Usually known as the sabre-toothed tiger. | Weighing 220-436 kg, it was the biggest cat ever. Male lions, by comparison, average 190 kg. | Smilodon populator | 63%
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| The biggest land mammal ever. | It was 12m long and stood 8m high. | Asian straight-tusked elephant | 59%
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| An early whale which lived on land. | This amphibious, croc-like carnivore was up to 17m long. Unlike modern whales, it had feet. | Basilosaurus | 59%
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| Prehistoric man used this animal's bones to make weapons. | There are also cave paintings depicting this creature. | Woolly rhinoceros | 56%
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| One of the biggest land animals ever, at 26 metres long and 9m tall. | As with other extinct animals, these figures are estimates. | Dreadnoughtus | 52%
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| The largest known marine predator ever. | The longest ones measured 21m. There may have been species which were larger than blue whales. | Ichthyosaur | 44%
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| This feathered creature was 2 metres tall. | Colossus penguin | 30%
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