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    The document discusses several extinct animals including the Quagga, Dodo bird, mammoths, and dinosaurs. The Quagga was a subspecies of plains zebra native to South Africa that went extinct in the late 19th century due to overhunting. The Dodo bird was a flightless bird endemic to Mauritius that was driven to extinction by the late 17th century after sailors introduced pigs, rats, and hunting. Mammoths were wooly proboscideans that lived in northern regions. Dinosaurs first appeared during the Triassic period and were the dominant land vertebrates for over 150 million years until going extinct approximately 65 million years ago.

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    The document discusses several extinct animals including the Quagga, Dodo bird, mammoths, and dinosaurs. The Quagga was a subspecies of plains zebra native to South Africa that went extinct in the late 19th century due to overhunting. The Dodo bird was a flightless bird endemic to Mauritius that was driven to extinction by the late 17th century after sailors introduced pigs, rats, and hunting. Mammoths were wooly proboscideans that lived in northern regions. Dinosaurs first appeared during the Triassic period and were the dominant land vertebrates for over 150 million years until going extinct approximately 65 million years ago.

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    The document discusses several extinct animals including the Quagga, Dodo bird, mammoths, and dinosaurs. The Quagga was a subspecies of plains zebra native to South Africa that went extinct in the late 19th century due to overhunting. The Dodo bird was a flightless bird endemic to Mauritius that was driven to extinction by the late 17th century after sailors introduced pigs, rats, and hunting. Mammoths were wooly proboscideans that lived in northern regions. Dinosaurs first appeared during the Triassic period and were the dominant land vertebrates for over 150 million years until going extinct approximately 65 million years ago.

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    Extinct Animals

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    The document discusses several extinct animals including the Quagga, Dodo bird, mammoths, and dinosaurs. The Quagga was a subspecies of plains zebra native to South Africa that went extinct in the late 19th century due to overhunting. The Dodo bird was a flightless bird endemic to Mauritius that was driven to extinction by the late 17th century after sailors introduced pigs, rats, and hunting. Mammoths were wooly proboscideans that lived in northern regions. Dinosaurs first appeared during the Triassic period and were the dominant land vertebrates for over 150 million years until going extinct approximately 65 million years ago.

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    EXTINCT ANIMALS

    Aquagga

    Quaggas were once native to what is now South Africa, and are called by their name after the sound that they, and other zebra species, are said to make. Only one Quagga was ever photographed alive, and that was this lady here. Due to over-hunting and planned extermination, (don't want them competing with the livestock!) Quaggas went extinct near the end of the 19th century. Only one hundred years earlier they filled the South African plains. "They keep in vast herds like the zebra, but usually in different tracts of the country, and never mix together... It is said to be fearless of the Hyena, and even to attack and pursue the fierce animal... They are used to the food which harsh dry pastures of Africa produce and are in no terror of wild beats, nor are subject to the epidemic distemper which destroys so many horses of the European offspring." That was published in 1793. By 1900, those vast herds were no more. Interestingly, of all extinct animals, the DNA of the Quagga was the first to ever be analyzed. And it brought up some rather interesting results. In the past, scientists had believed them to be a separate species of zebra, due to their coat coloring and their skull size. The skull argument can be blown apart when one takes into consideration that many times taxidermists used skulls from horses and donkeys for the mounting, as it was cheaper to ship a hide than an entire Quagga skeleton. Anyway, genetic testing of samples from the world's mounted Quaggas broke the separate species theory all together, as the results proved that they are simply a subspecies of the plains zebra which posesses a different type of coloration.

    EXTINCT ANIMALS
    Dodo

    The Dodo is an extinct flightless bird that was endemic to the island of Mauritius, east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean. Scientific name: Raphus cucullatus Rank: Species Higher classification: Raphus

    Why did the Dodo bird become extinct?


    They will killed by sailors and animals
    The dodo, a flightless forest-dwelling bird of Mauritius, has been extinct since the late 17th cent. The dodo was closely related to the two species of solitaire bird, extinct flightless giants found on the other islands in the Mascarene Islands. Although related to the pigeon, the dodo was larger than the wild turkey. The plumage was dark gray with a whitish breast, tail, and wings, and the large black bill had a horny terminal cap. The dodo laid only one egg at a time, on the ground. Although the bird's flesh was tough and unpalatable, European sailors and the pigs and rats they brought to Mauritius slaughtered the birds and destroyed its eggs, and it became extinct in roughly 50 years.

    EXTINCT ANIMALS

    A mammoth is any species of the extinct genus Mammuthus, proboscideans commonly equipped with long, curved tusks and, in northern species, a covering of long hair. Wikipedia Scientific name: Mammuthus Rank: Genus Higher classification: Elephantidae Lower classifications: Woolly Mammoth, Mammuthus africanavu

    EXTINCT ANIMALS
    Dinosaur

    Dinosaurs are a diverse group of animals of the clade Dinosauria. They first appeared during the Triassic period, approximately 230 million years ago, and were the dominant terrestrial vertebrates for. Scientific name: Dinosauria Higher classification: Archosauromorpha Rank: Superorder Lower classifications: Ornithischia, Saurischia

    Asteroid Impact
    A massive asteroid hit the earth at Chicxulub on the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico about 65 million years. The meteor crater is 180 km from rim to rim and scientists have worked out that the asteroid must have been 10 km across. It is thought that the impact would have caused massive damage, including a giant dust cloud which lead to massive changes in the climate.

    Ice Age Theory


    Now and again, the earth cools into periods we call ice ages. As dinosaurs were thought to be cold blooded, it would have been hard for them to cope with such cold conditions. For example, if large parts of the planet were covered in ice, then there would have been little or no plants for herbivorous dinos to eat. However, there is no real evidence of an ice age at this time.

    Volcano Theory
    There was massive volcanic activity between 63 and 67 million years ago, particularly on the Deccan Plateau in western India. This, again, would have caused a massive change in climate, which dinosaurs would have found hard to adapt to.

    Disease It is possible that a disease spread through the dinosaur population causing their extinction. Competition from Other Animals Fossils of small mammals have been found from 65 million years ago. It is possible that these small cretaceous animals started to compete with dinosaurs, for example stealing and eating dinosaur eggs. However, no-one is sure whether mammals caused dinosaur extinction, or they thrived because dinosaurs were no longer around.

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