Extinct Animals

Can you name these animals based on a description, range, and date of extinction?

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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

Level 23

Mar 15, 2013

Please accept "neandathals"

Level 84

Mar 15, 2013

and neandertaal

Level 84

Mar 15, 2013

Humans 18 - Nature 0!!

+11

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.

Level 29

Jun 22, 2014

where does it say that? no one said who's accountable..

Level 61

Apr 15, 2016

It was possibly implied from the joke.

Level 68

Jun 17, 2022

Speak for yourself. I personally slaughtered the last baryonyx.

Level 78

Oct 31, 2014

Hey humans are part of nature too! We are biological creatures despite being "man made".

Level 83

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'."

Level 27

Mar 15, 2013

Interesting, though a bit depressing.

Level 25

Mar 18, 2013

Can't spell Neanderthal or whatever :)

Level 82

Sep 16, 2017

You just did.

Level 23

Sep 24, 2013

Well.. this quiz was interesting and just slightly depressing..

Level 84

May 11, 2019

it's part of evolution. species die out.

Level 29

Mar 22, 2014

Dang! I didn't type cat when I wrote sabertooth

Level 48

May 20, 2014

I have a trilobite.

Level 76

Jan 5, 2016

Put some antibiotic ointment on it and you should be fine. :)

Level 67

May 28, 2017

Yum, my favourite snack!

Level 36

Jun 21, 2014

My problem was that all these animals are extinct LOL.

Level 22

Jul 14, 2014

Would there be any chance of using Homo-Erectus for Neanderthal?

Level 37

Apr 20, 2018

Neanderthals are not homo erectus. They are homo neanderthalensis.

Level 84

Jul 1, 2018

Or, depending on who you ask, homo sapiens neanderthalensis.

Level 75

Jan 29, 2015

Please accept carrier pigeon.

Level 76

Feb 15, 2015

Carrier pigeons are homing (rock) pigeons and are not extinct.

Level 45

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

Level 52

Mar 31, 2015

How did you not accept "Megaloceros", but accepted Irish Elk?? I've never heard of that name for this species

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!

Level 64

Nov 2, 2015

Ground sloth for giant sloth? Glad to see it took Megatherium though.

Level 65

Jul 2, 2016

Got all of these - clearly my WWF sticker album from 1987 made a big impression on me!

Level 64

Sep 19, 2016

Having seen Ice Age will help with this quiz.

Level 24

Oct 10, 2016

caveman should go in as a type in for

neanderthal

Level 71

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.

Level 69

Nov 19, 2016

homo erectus is a closer relative to humans than neanderthals

Level 84

Jul 1, 2018

False.

Level 84

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.

Level 77

May 28, 2021

What have you against your mother-in-law?

Level 47

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.

Level 29

Nov 8, 2018

"Predatory dinosaur with tiny arms"

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

Level 64

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.

Level 77

May 28, 2021

Brilliant clue for T-Rex.

Level 58

Feb 11, 2019

can you accept giant ground/land sloth please

Level 60

Mar 8, 2019

Amazing how the Giza pyramids were built before the mammoth went extinct

Level 74

May 11, 2019

Steller's sea cow is not spelled correctly

Level ∞

May 11, 2019

Fixed

Level 82

Nov 23, 2019

One more bit of nitpicking, but the standard singular is aurochs.

Level 66

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)

Level 67

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.

Level 41

Apr 14, 2021

Why isn't "Megaloceros" accepted for "Irish elk"? Also, is "Heck Cattle" an acceptable answer for aurochs?

Level 74

Feb 23, 2023

Heck cattle are not extinct, and they are also not the ancestor of modern cattle.

Level 77

May 28, 2021

I tried 'troglodyte' for trilobite. So close!

Level 63

Aug 12, 2021

Can you add the 'Glyptodon'?

Level 68

Jan 10, 2022

Can you consider accepting ground sloth as well

Level 38

Mar 17, 2022

please accept megaloceros for the irish elk

Level 67

Mar 19, 2022

Lol I tried "Seller's sea cow." Oh well.

Level 67

Aug 10, 2022

For a wildlife enthusiast, this was a fun (and easy!) quiz.

Level 40

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.

Level 74

Feb 23, 2023

My favorite book as a kid was an encyclopedia of extinct animals... a lot of those made the cut here.

Level 71

Feb 25, 2023

Neanderthals are humans too! Any species of the genus homo is human. There were several.

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