what are some extinct animals?

Question

i need to know at least 5 different extinct animals but i cant find it any where. i tried searching it up on google, and wiki but i still cant find it. and i dont want pics of extinct animals, i want info like approximatly what year they got extinct and why...also the effect on ecosystem..:) THX!

Answer 1

Tasmanian Wolf or Thylacine, Thylacinus cynocephalus

The Tasmanian Wolf is not a wolf, but a carnivorous marsupial and a relative of wombats and kangaroos. It even has a pouch. Tasmanian officials promoting ranching paid bounties to hunters. Believed to be extinct for well over half a century, unconfirmed reported sightings persist.



English Wolf

The wolf became extinct in England in 1486, Scotland in 1743, and Ireland in 1770.



Quagga

Quagga, Equus burchelli quagga, of the Karoo Plains and southern Free State of South Africa were a subspecies of the Burchell’s Zebra, although their unique appearance wouldn't necessarily make this apparent. Some thought incorrectly that the Quagga was the female of Burchell's Zebra, probably because the natives gave both zebras the same name.

In the wild, Quaggas, Ostriches and Wildebeests often grazed together in what was termed the "triple alliance". The Quagga's hearing, the Ostrich's eyesight and the Wildibeast's keen sense of smell comprised excellent defense from predators for the entire herd. However, its limited range made it all the more vulnerable and Quaggas were hunted to the brink of extinction in the mid 19th Century by settlers razing sheep, goats and other livestock. The last Quagga died in in 1883 in an Amsterdam Zoo.



Turanian Tiger, Caspian Tiger

Caspian Tigers lived in China, Tajikistan, Iran, Afghanistan and Turkey. They were hunted for their furs and to protect livestock. A ban on hunting the Caspian Tiger in the USSR in 1947 followed their greatest destruction in the 1930s. The last Caspian Tiger reported shot was in 1957.



Steller's Sea Cow

Steller's Sea Cow was discovered in the Aleutian Islands by George Steller while exploring with Vitus Bering in 1741. They grew as large as 35 feet long and weighed up to three-and-a-half tons. Sailors ate their meat and used their leather. They were easily killed and vanished from their only home within 30 years after Steller's discovery.



Spectacled Cormorant, Pallas' Cormorant

Also discovered in the Aleutian Islands by George Steller while exploring with Vitus Bering in 1741. The Spectacled Cormorant was extinct within about a century.



Dodo, Roland Savery

In 1505, Portuguese explorers discovered the island of Mauritius and the 50 lb flightless Dodos which supplemented their food stores. Imported pigs, monkeys and rats fed on the Dodo's eggs in their ground nests. The last Dodo was killed in 1681.



Go to this website for more...http://www.50birds.com/extan/gextanimals2.htm

Answer 2

1) Quagga is an extinct species of Plains zebra. The last one died on August 12, 1883 at the Artis Magistra zoo.

the quagga had been hunted to extinction for meat, hides, and to preserve feed for domesticated stock.



2) Thylacine, also known as the Tasmanian Tiger was a marsupial that lived in Australia, Tasmania and New Guinea.Although no one knows what date they became extinct, they believe it was during the 20th Century.



In Australia they were in competition with humans and dingoes.

This may be the case but we're still not certain.

In the Tasmanian islands the Thylacine targeted and hunted sheep. They were then each hunted down by bounty hunters. The main cause of extinction is hunters and farmers but could be other factors such as wild dogs



3) Javan Tiger, it was a subspecies of tiger limited to the Indonesian island of Java. They were particularly small species of tiger and was declared extinct in the 1980's.



4) Bali Tiger, also lived in the areas of Indonesia. These were the smallest species of tiger and was pronounced extinct in 1937.



5) The Caspian tiger, also known as the Persian tiger, Turanian tiger, Mazandaran tiger or Hyrcanian tiger was the westernmost population of Siberian tiger, found in Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Turkey, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Caucasus, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan until it apparently became extinct in the late 1950's





All three tigers were killed due to poaching.

Answer 3

Dodo (extinct) The flightless pigeon of the Mascarene Islands. Quagga (extinct) Wiped out by hunters -1878. Rhinoceros Any of the five species will make an interesting study. In evolutionary decline - being accelerated by poachers who sell horn (which is attributed with magic powers). Great whales Man's predation on the whales from the earliest times to the present day provides scope for a very detailed and well documented study. Hawaiian goose (Ne-ne) Success story. Down to last thirty survivors before Wildfowl Trust commenced rescue programme. Now increasing in numbers and released again in Hawaii. Wooly Mammoths Hairy elephants that lived during the ice age Megalodon A very large shark Dodo A flightless bird from islands in the Indian Ocean Sabre toothed Cat Large tiger-like cats that lived during the ice age. Megatherium A giant sloth that lived during the ice age.

Answer 4

i dont have info but it should be easy to find once i give you the names:



Dodo bird, easy one



Tasmanian Tiger



Mammoth



that's all i got off the top of my head, sorry.

Answer 5

The Dodo bird....Passenger pigeon...Just 2 that come to mind.

Answer 6

trilobites. dinosaurs. the dodo bird. tasmanian tiger. soon, the polar bear

Answer 7

um dinosaurs