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Extinct Animals

Can you name these animals based on a description, range, and date of extinction?
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First submittedFebruary 7, 2013
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Description
Range
Extinction
Animal
Flightless bird
Mauritius
1662
Dodo
Predatory dinosaur with tiny arms
North America, Asia
65 million BC
Tyrannosaurus
Three-horned dinosaur
North America, Asia
65 million BC
Triceratops
"Jurassic Park" predator
Asia
71 million BC
Velociraptor
Human's closest relatives
Europe, Middle East
30,000 BC
Neanderthal
Carnivorous marsupial
Tasmania, Australia, New Guinea
1936
Tasmanian Tiger
Ancestor of modern cattle
Europe, Asia, North Africa
1627
Auroch
12 foot tall flightless bird
New Zealand
1400
Moa
Shaggy elephant
Siberia, Alaska
1700 BC
Woolly Mammoth
Bird that flocked in huge numbers
Eastern US and Canada
1914
Passenger Pigeon
Half-striped zebra
Southern Africa
1883
Quagga
Big cat with prominent canines
All continents
9,000 BC
Saber-toothed cat
Marine arthropod and common fossil
All oceans
250 million BC
Trilobite
50 foot long shark
All oceans
1.5 million BC
Megalodon
20 foot long mammal
South and Central America
8,000 BC
Giant Sloth
Huge manatee relative
North Pacific
1768
Steller's Sea Cow
Large puffin relative
North Atlantic
1852
Great Auk
Deer with 12 foot antlers
Northern Eurasia
9,000 BC
Irish Elk
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69 Comments
KatM
+2
Level 22
Mar 15, 2013
Please accept "neandathals"
kalbahamut
+2
Level 81
Mar 15, 2013
and neandertaal
kalbahamut
+5
Level 81
Mar 15, 2013
Humans 18 - Nature 0!!
Ozchris
+15
Level 33
Mar 16, 2013
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.
Darwin51
+3
Level 29
Jun 22, 2014
where does it say that? no one said who's accountable..
McLerristarr
+1
Level 62
Apr 15, 2016
It was possibly implied from the joke.
TheForsakenFurby
+3
Level 76
Jun 17, 2022
Speak for yourself. I personally slaughtered the last baryonyx.
sillie
+1
Level 76
Oct 31, 2014
Hey humans are part of nature too! We are biological creatures despite being "man made".
Findlay
+3
Level 81
Sep 7, 2016
"Hi, I'm Troy McClure. You may remember me from such nature films as: 'Earwigs, Ew' and 'Man vs Nature: The Road to Victory'."
What
+5
Level 27
Mar 15, 2013
Interesting, though a bit depressing.
LegendBlackKyurem
+1
Level 24
Mar 18, 2013
Can't spell Neanderthal or whatever :)
brandybuck96
+2
Level 83
Sep 16, 2017
You just did.
1029384756
+2
Level 22
Sep 24, 2013
Well.. this quiz was interesting and just slightly depressing..
kalbahamut
+1
Level 81
May 11, 2019
it's part of evolution. species die out.
Sinema
+1
Level 41
Mar 22, 2014
Dang! I didn't type cat when I wrote sabertooth
burntfrost
+2
Level 47
May 20, 2014
I have a trilobite.
ander217
+7
Level 75
Jan 5, 2016
Put some antibiotic ointment on it and you should be fine. :)
kiwiquizzer
+2
Level 68
May 28, 2017
Yum, my favourite snack!
MissTaylor133
+1
Level 35
Jun 21, 2014
My problem was that all these animals are extinct LOL.
DanGogh
+1
Level 25
Jul 14, 2014
Would there be any chance of using Homo-Erectus for Neanderthal?
Zalias
+5
Level 36
Apr 20, 2018
Neanderthals are not homo erectus. They are homo neanderthalensis.
cornflakesfu
+2
Level 88
Jul 1, 2018
Or, depending on who you ask, homo sapiens neanderthalensis.
redsplat
+1
Level 73
Jan 29, 2015
Please accept carrier pigeon.
ander217
+6
Level 75
Feb 15, 2015
Carrier pigeons are homing (rock) pigeons and are not extinct.
Kurupira
+4
Level 53
Mar 14, 2015
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
Cuervo
+6
Level 50
Mar 31, 2015
How did you not accept "Megaloceros", but accepted Irish Elk?? I've never heard of that name for this species
Arang
+2
Level 65
Jul 17, 2021
Also "Giant Deer" should be accepted. But "Megaloceros" is the most common term for this animals... and should be accepted!
MarcellDAvis
+1
Level 78
Oct 15, 2024
I agree, please accept Megaloceros. I only knew it under that name, never heard of Irish elk.
PitifulExcuse
+1
Level 66
Nov 5, 2024
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.

Yossarian
+5
Level 63
Nov 2, 2015
Ground sloth for giant sloth? Glad to see it took Megatherium though.
svitapeneela
+1
Level 65
Jul 2, 2016
Got all of these - clearly my WWF sticker album from 1987 made a big impression on me!
Elan
+2
Level 66
Sep 19, 2016
Having seen Ice Age will help with this quiz.
zach589
+1
Level 23
Oct 10, 2016
caveman should go in as a type in for

neanderthal

Malbaby
+3
Level 70
Oct 29, 2016
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.
fortoj
+2
Level 68
Nov 19, 2016
homo erectus is a closer relative to humans than neanderthals
cornflakesfu
+1
Level 88
Jul 1, 2018
False.
DonTheLamplighter
+2
Level 86
Aug 21, 2017
As long as my mother-in-law is still with us, I think we should hold off having velociraptor on this list.
JackintheBox
+1
Level 80
May 28, 2021
What have you against your mother-in-law?
Sibawayh
+2
Level 46
Apr 28, 2018
17/18. Missed Trilobite, know what they are and what they look like but never knew the name lol.

Special thanks to Zoo Tycoon 2 Extinct Animals for most of these.

Also Smilodon should be accepted for Saber-toothed Cat.

jblackburn2014
+1
Level 28
Nov 8, 2018
"Predatory dinosaur with tiny arms"

terrible clue for t-rex. The archetypal carnivore with small arms was carnotaurus.....

Carry
+1
Level 63
Dec 4, 2019
The T-Rex is probably the most famous dinosaur and it happened to have tiny arms. The clue doesn't say "tiniest arms". Totally fine.
JackintheBox
+1
Level 80
May 28, 2021
Brilliant clue for T-Rex.
joshuil
+1
Level 57
Feb 11, 2019
can you accept giant ground/land sloth please
ALA02
+2
Level 64
Mar 8, 2019
Amazing how the Giza pyramids were built before the mammoth went extinct
Nikhaz
+1
Level 75
May 11, 2019
Steller's sea cow is not spelled correctly
Quizmaster
+1
Level ∞
May 11, 2019
Fixed
Kayeejo
+3
Level 87
Nov 23, 2019
One more bit of nitpicking, but the standard singular is aurochs.
Sifhraven
+1
Level 73
Feb 17, 2020
Yea ochs=os=ox. (If you use aurochs, but basically the same thing goes for the alternative urus, in that case -us stands for ox)
FactoFanatic
+1
Level 68
Nov 7, 2020
It makes me sad that so few people have heard of the Steller's Sea Cow, hunted to extinction 27 years after it was discovered.
TheTestChest
+2
Level 39
Apr 14, 2021
Why isn't "Megaloceros" accepted for "Irish elk"? Also, is "Heck Cattle" an acceptable answer for aurochs?
elcampeador
+1
Level 79
Feb 23, 2023
Heck cattle are not extinct, and they are also not the ancestor of modern cattle.
JackintheBox
+1
Level 80
May 28, 2021
I tried 'troglodyte' for trilobite. So close!
QuizApe
+1
Level 69
Aug 12, 2021
Can you add the 'Glyptodon'?
tesgeorge
+1
Level 72
Jan 10, 2022
Can you consider accepting ground sloth as well
BBonkertje
+2
Level 62
Mar 17, 2022
please accept megaloceros for the irish elk
bestanford
+1
Level 72
Mar 19, 2022
Lol I tried "Seller's sea cow." Oh well.
FactoFanatic
+1
Level 68
Aug 10, 2022
For a wildlife enthusiast, this was a fun (and easy!) quiz.
ckewish
+3
Level 45
Dec 5, 2022
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.
elcampeador
+2
Level 79
Feb 23, 2023
My favorite book as a kid was an encyclopedia of extinct animals... a lot of those made the cut here.
InterAlia
+1
Level 78
Feb 25, 2023
Neanderthals are humans too! Any species of the genus homo is human. There were several.
RJG
+1
Level 63
May 19, 2023
I'm happy with 10/18 this was hard
Lukose
+1
Level 73
Aug 4, 2023
The singular of aurochs is aurochs…
Goggynoggler
+2
Level 56
Sep 28, 2023
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
CakeytheCakey
+2
Level 65
Nov 8, 2023
smilodon for saber toothed cat please? its the actual name
TuxKnight
+1
Level 48
Dec 5, 2024
Please accept “Megaloceros” for “Irish Elk”.
9876542
+1
Level 33
Mar 6, 2025
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.
Kearsarge
+1
Level 68
Feb 27, 2025
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
Kearsarge
+1
Level 68
Feb 28, 2025
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

Corvus
+1
Level 20
Mar 13, 2025
Would be cool if "homo neanderthalis", "megaloceros" or "smilodon" were accepted.
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