Extinct Animals by Picture

Can you guess the common names of these extinct animals?

Date displayed is the approximate date of extinction

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Last updated: December 18, 2018

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1650 BC	8500 BC	1600s


66 million BC	66 million BC	150 million BC


9000 BC	252 million BC	2.6 million BC


125 million BC	8500 BC	148.5 million BC


1936	1627	1300-1440

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64 Comments

Level 78

Mar 16, 2018

Maybe allow stegasaurus as a type-in?

Level 61

Mar 16, 2018

I also spelled it stegasaurus. Took quite a few tries until I changed the a to an o

Level ∞

Mar 17, 2018

That will work now.

+16

Level ∞

Mar 17, 2018

Note: I chose a skeleton as the picture for the T-Rex because the real T-Rex probably had feathers and people wouldn't have recognized it!

Level 68

Aug 12, 2021

People would think that it is a turkey.

Level 60

Aug 22, 2021

Huh. I knew that about velociraptors, but not about t-rexs!

Level 73

Oct 2, 2023

It is now thought that adult T-rex's weren't feathered, and were mostly covered in scales.

Level 83

Mar 17, 2018

That's not a pterodactyl, it's a pteranodon. Also, please accept thylacine and Tasmanian wolf for the Tasmanian tiger.

Level ∞

Mar 17, 2018

Tasmanian wolf and thylacine will work now.

Level ∞

Mar 17, 2018

Pterodactyls are types of pteranodons. Pteranodon will be accepted now.

Level 83

Mar 17, 2018

Thank you!

Level 87

Mar 19, 2018

Pterodactyls are not types of pteranodons. They were distinct genera of pterosaurs. Pteranodons were very big, with a crest and no teeth (thus their name) ; pterodactyls were much smaller, usually with no crests.

Level ∞

Mar 19, 2018

I'm not a paleontologist, but:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pteranodon#List_of_species_and_synonyms

Level 87

Mar 19, 2018

I think a few species of pterodactyls have been reclassified into the pteranodons (it's not so easy to classify fossils of species extinct for such a long time...). But as you can see here, there are other pterodactyls: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pterodactylus#List_of_species_and_synonyms.

Level 87

Mar 19, 2018

This is interesting too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pterosaur#Classification

Level 77

Dec 18, 2018

That list of species on the Pteranodon is odd, I have never seen pterodactyls included in the same group, and in fact the Pterosaur wiki page linked above shows a different picture. I do not for one second believe the confusion comes from taxonomy, since most people have no idea about this; rather, it comes from ignorance and physical similitude between both species (or genera, if you wanna be specific). Pterodactyl should not be accepted, that's perpetuating ignorance, regardless of it being accurate according to a source that goes against the predominant scientific view.

Level 72

Dec 18, 2018

I know that some people, call pterosaurs pterodactyls in the same way that some people call tissue Kleenex, but I think it would solve a lot of problems if you allowed pterodactyl as the type-in and had the actual crested animal in the picture listed as a Pteranodon. Pteranodon is what that specific animal is.

https://www.quora.com/How-are-a-Pterodactyl-and-a-Pteranodon-different

Level 62

Mar 17, 2018

The Tasmanian tiger is also known as the Tasmanian Wolf, which I tried to use.

Level 89

Mar 17, 2018

Please accept sabretooth

Level 60

Jan 8, 2022

👨‍❤‍💋‍👨

Level 66

Jan 25, 2022

Level 69

Mar 17, 2018

Agree that the pterosaur is a Pteranodon.

Also, please accept Thylacine for the "Tasmanian Tiger."

Level 73

Mar 19, 2018

As that's a giant ground sloth, you might make that an acceptable answer.

Level 71

Dec 18, 2018

Second on this. I tried "giant ground sloth" and "ground sloth," and then moved on assuming I must be wrong.

Level 73

Mar 20, 2018

Agreed, re: sloth. It's listed as a Giant Ground Sloth on Wikipedia. I tried that and ground sloth.

Level 73

Mar 26, 2018

Anyone else try dinosloth out of desperation?

Level 85

May 2, 2018

Good quiz. I might have added passenger pigeon.

Level 68

Dec 18, 2018

Yes, I was hoping for passenger pigeon. Such an incredible story of extinction.

Level 74

Dec 18, 2018

I thought quagga and great auk might be on here, too.

Level 68

Aug 12, 2021

I would have added the glyptodon and the gigantopithecus.

Level 60

Aug 22, 2021

I would have added “playing outside”

Level 70

May 14, 2018

Know your living animals? try Animal Pictures 1..........here it is

Level 60

Aug 22, 2021

I am starting to wonder if you worked for Geico as a former job

Level 63

Aug 2, 2018

What a time to be alive.

Level 87

Dec 18, 2018

You mean the sixth extinction?

Level 81

Dec 18, 2018

Please accept "Kevin" for Moa

Level 72

Dec 18, 2018

Ha! I tried "snipe".

Level 72

Dec 18, 2018

Maybe urus for aurochs? It is what I tried first. (And then variations, which obviously didnt work.Only after looking it up I saw aurochs is another name for it) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurochs

Level 72

Dec 18, 2018

I tried boa for moa..ugh. mastadon seemed to have nearly gone from my memory. I knew tge tasmanian tigers, I remember reading about them, very interesting but sad material but couldnt remember the exact name (in time) and recognize the iguanodon, but dont think even.with more time I would ve got it.

Level 68

Dec 18, 2018

100%! However, I do think ‘Giant Ground Sloth’ should be accepted for giant sloth.

Level ∞

Dec 18, 2018

Okay

Level 56

Dec 18, 2018

thank for taking smilodon for sabre toothed tiger! a shame "the meg" wasn't accepted for megalodon though

Level 52

Dec 18, 2018

I was no where near able to correctly spell Pterodactyl, haha

Level 47

Dec 18, 2018

Iguanadons and maiasaurs look very similar, is there perhaps a picture that does a better job of emphasizing the thumb spike?

Level 72

Dec 18, 2018

Second on that. I tried edmontosaurus and maiasaurus first because of that clearly duck-like bill. I'm not sure that is an iguanadon in the picture, but I figured that was probably the famous dino the quizmaster was going for on my third shot at it. A picture with a clear view of those famous thumbs would clear it all up.

Level 83

Dec 18, 2018

Stegasaurus are without question the most painful toy dinosaur to tread on

Level 80

Feb 19, 2021

Stegosaurus

Level 48

Apr 17, 2020

My eyes skipped over the T-Rex. I feel ashamed >.<

I was so close on Moa, too, but I've played too much Saint Seiya and kept calling it Mu xD

Level 56

Jun 24, 2020

I saw the Trilobite and immediately typed Anorith

Level 19

Sep 21, 2020

I really loved this one💯💯

Level 36

Nov 7, 2020

For the mammoth, you should allow Woolly Mammoth as an answer, as that is the full name of the animal.

Level 71

Mar 4, 2021

There wasn't even any life 148 billion years ago, was there? cuz if not, this quiz is incorrect

Level 73

Sep 15, 2023

there's been life on earth for more than 3 billion years

Level 56

Mar 14, 2021

Is it possible to get a better picture for the moa, I have seen better ones.

Level 82

Jul 28, 2021

Agreed. That one looks like it's been on a serious diet.

Level 68

Aug 12, 2021

It is interesting how the Stegosaurus is more ancient to the Tyrannosaurus than the Tyrannosaurus is to us.

In movies you often see both of them in the same time period.

Level 60

Aug 22, 2021

I gosh! I am sooooo glad people aren’t giving me that foolish nonsense that Megaladon is still alive.

Level 32

Mar 5, 2022

My name is Stegosaurus; I'm a funny-looking dinosaur. On my back are many bony plates and on my tail are more. My front two legs are very, very short; my back two legs are long. My body's big, my head is very small; I'm put together wrong.

Level 67

Nov 9, 2022

Please accept Mega Sloth for Giant Sloth

Level 50

Jun 21, 2023

Wow I tried tasmanian devil like an idiot

Level 83

May 26, 2024

Suprised the aurochs was the least known

Level 61

Jun 23, 2024

I still can't get over Tasmanian Tigers extinction

Level 86

Sep 19, 2024

That giant Sloth is the definition of freaky.

Level 72

Oct 3, 2024

earth is less than 20000 years old

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