Information about extinct animals

The term extinct animals is applied to any animal species that has stopped reproducing and has all died, and none of them are any longer alive. The time of extinction of this species is the same time in which the last individual died.^[XNUMX]

The most famous extinct animals are: dinosaurs, the dodo, the West African black rhino, the Irish deer, and others. The reasons for the extinction of animals are as follows: loss of habitat, lack of food, excessive hunting, pollution, and climate change.^[XNUMX] Below is a collection of the most famous information about extinct animals:

Velociraptor dinosaur

Although Velociraptor has been portrayed as a terrifyingly large dinosaur in movies, it was actually about the size of a large turkey, and scientists thought it was covered in feathers, as they found a specimen with feathers visible on its arms.^[XNUMX]

Elephant birds

Elephant birds lived on the ground for more than 10000 years, and it is said that their height was up to 3 meters, but they had very small wings that did not enable them to fly, and their weight was very huge, as it was more than 450 kilograms, and therefore it is believed that the eggs These birds have the largest eggs any animal can lay on Earth.^[XNUMX]

Dreadnoughtus dinosaur

The Dreadnoughtus dinosaur, which lived 77 million years ago, is believed to be the largest type of dinosaur and the largest land animal to have lived on Earth. It weighed 65 tons, had a height of more than 25 meters, and a neck length exceeding 11 metres.^[XNUMX]

Disappearance of large mammals

Nearly 10000 years ago, mysteriously, many large mammals, such as woolly mammoths and toothed cats, became extinct. Scientists do not know the reason for this extinction, but some of them believe that humans were hunting and killing many of these animals or the prey they fed on, and this is what led to their extinction. Others believe that climate change affected the availability of food, and this is what caused the extinction.^[XNUMX]

Reproduction of the Pyrenean ibex after extinction

The last individual of the Pyrenees ibex became extinct after a tree fell on it, leading to its death in 2000 AD. Scientists recovered its cells for the purpose of cloning them. In 2003 AD, the Pyrenees ibex was considered the first animal to be brought back to life after extinction, but unfortunately the cloned animal died only a few minutes after birth. .^[XNUMX]

Feral cats caused the extinction of the wren

Stephen's Island wrens are flightless birds that lived on an island off the coast of New Zealand. They became extinct in 1895 AD, due to land development and the introduction of cats into this area. After killing large numbers of these birds, feral cats caused their extinction.^[XNUMX]