Errr... OK, I'm putting my hand up for the dodo, passenger pigeon, tassie tiger and possibly neaderthal... but I really honestly don't think humans can be help accountable for the demise of the T-Rex and Velociraptor. Well, ok... we did knock off a few of em in those Spielberg movies.
Could you please accept Megaceros for Irish elk? It´s the official scientific name used in most documentaries. Actually I never heart it called Irish elk, but maybe it´s called so in USA. Thanks
Of course it is outrageous that any quiz should have an answer that you have never heard of. However the unavoidable fact is that the animal in question is not called Megaloceros. That is the name of the genus to which it belongs.
The species is called Megaloceros giganteus in Latin or in English (which the careful reader will have noted is the language of the quiz) the Irish Elk.
Many people around the world live in caves today. And I would think that many species of primate lived in caves without being the closest relative of humans.
I missed Irish Elk, because I couldn't remember the common name. I was wondering why megaloceros wasn't being accepted. Might not be a bad idea to let it accept megaloceros.
Can you accept Megaloceros for Irish Elk? I remember watching a paleodocumentary (I think Walking with Prehistoric Beasts) and they used Megaloceros to refer to the giant deer
Agreed, tried megaloceros, Megaloceros, megaceros (in case I was spelling it wrong), googled megaloceros, tried capitalizing it again, and then gave up just for it to be Irish Elk.
Irish Elk became extinct a bit more recently than 8000 BC. There was a remnant population in western Siberia, European Russia and possibly Ukraine that survived up until ~5600 BC. Source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1040618219300333?via%3Dihub#sec3
Actually on second thought I would suggest accepting smilodon and maybe homotherium for sabretoothed cat. Smilodon fatalis is probably the most famous sabretooth, Homotherium serum and Smilodon populator are at least decently well known and were the other two species of saber toothed cat to make it to the end of the pleistocene. 95% of the time when people talk about sabretoothed tigers, they are talking about Smilodon fatalis. Homotherium has got into the news a bit more recently thanks to the discovery of a mummified cub in Siberia, but Smilodon and sabretooth are still basically interchangable in pop-science.
I also agree with the other users which suggest accepting megaloceros for irish elk, given that the scientific name is also used pretty frequently to describe it in english
The species is called Megaloceros giganteus in Latin or in English (which the careful reader will have noted is the language of the quiz) the Irish Elk.
neanderthal
Special thanks to Zoo Tycoon 2 Extinct Animals for most of these.
Also Smilodon should be accepted for Saber-toothed Cat.
terrible clue for t-rex. The archetypal carnivore with small arms was carnotaurus.....
I also agree with the other users which suggest accepting megaloceros for irish elk, given that the scientific name is also used pretty frequently to describe it in english