Famous extinct animals

Tyrant T. Rex, Tasmanian tiger, Steller bulls extinct many years ago for natural or human encroachment.

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1. Tyrannosaurus Rex Dinosaur (extinct 65 million years ago)

Tyrannosaurus Rex is one of the largest predators of all time with a length of 12.8 m, hips 4 m wide and body weight up to 7 tons. T. Rex walks on two legs, with a large skull balanced by long and heavy tails. The forelimbs of the tyrant dinosaurs are small, weak and disproportionate with large, strong limbs. T. Rex's fossil was found in the North American continent dating from about 68.5 to 65.5 million years ago. T. Rex is one of the last dinosaurs to survive the Cretaceous extinction event.

2. Giant Deer Deer Deer (7,700 years ago)

Giant deer is the largest deer that ever existed on Earth. Estimated. of the scientists, the deer once existed around 5700 BC, about 7,700 years ago. Giant deer are about 2.1 m high and have horns up to 3.65 m long. The cause of the extinction of deer species is the hunting of horns, not meat.

3. Cave lion (Cave Lion)

The cave lion is an extinct subspecies of lions, often known through fossils and many prehistoric paintings. This is one of the largest lion species with a height of 1.2 m, about 2.1 m long, excluding the tail, is 5-10% larger than today's lion. This lion species became extinct about 10,000 years ago, during the Wurm era.

4. Steller sea cow (extinct since 1768)

The animal was found by the naturalist Georg Steller near the Asian coast in 1741. The dug is about 7.9 meters long and weighs 3 tons. Steller dugongs look like a large seal with two forelimbs and a whale-like tail.

Fossils show that Steller bulls used to live along the coast from the North Pacific to southern Japan and California. However, the emergence of humans in these areas has caused this animal to become extinct. Some cases are thought to see a Steller-like animal in the Bering and Greenland seas, but this has not been officially recognized.

5. Dodo birds (extinct from the late 17th century)

Dodo (Raphus cucullatus) is a non-flying bird that lives on the island of Mauritius, with relatives of doves. The bird is about 1 meter tall, eating fruit and nesting on the ground. Dodo is extinct since the mid to late 17th century.

The extinction cause of birds is directly related to human activities. Because of its inability to fly, the Dodo cannot protect their eggs from the destruction of strange creatures.

6. European wild boar Aurochs (extinct since 1627)

Aurochs are one of Europe's extinct animals. This large size animal grows in India about 2 million years ago, migrating into the Middle East and going deep into Asia and Europe about 250,000 years ago.
The last bison was a female, died in 1627 in the Jaktorów forest, Poland, due to a natural accident. The cause of extinction of this bison is due to hunting, narrow living environment due to agricultural development and diseases spread in cattle.

7. Caspian tiger (extinct since 1970)

The Caspian tiger, also known as the Persian tiger was found in Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Turkey, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Caucasus, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan until they became extinct in the 1970s. They are quite stocky with strong legs, large feet and unusually large claws. The Caspian tiger weighs between 169 and 240 kg, females are not large and weigh between 85 and 135 kg. This is the third largest species of tigers known in the world.

8. Great Auk bird (large anca) (extinct since 1844)

Great Auk birds belong to the genus Pinguinus, a group of birds that previously could fly in the Atlantic region.

Great Auk is about 75 cm tall and weighs about 5 kg, the largest of the Anca birds. Previously, the Great Auk bird once existed in large numbers on islands off the east of Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Ireland and the United Kingdom, but was eventually hunted to extinction.

9. Quagga Zebra (extinct since 1883)

One of Africa's extinct animals is the Quagga zebra, which once existed in large numbers in the Cape province and south of Orange Free State. Unlike many other zebras, Quagga has many stripes concentrated in the front part of the body and fades to the back of the body.

Quagga zebras are hunted to extinction for meat and skin. The wild Quagga was finally shot in the late 1870s. A last-raised Quagga zebra also died in August 1883 at the Artis Magistra zoo in Amsterdam.

10. Tasmanian tiger (extinct since 1936)

This last species in the genus Thylacinus, originated from Australia and New Guinea. They were extinct in the 20th century and are often called Tasmanian tigers due to the streaks on the body.

The main cause of the extinction of the Tasmanian tiger is hunting for bonuses and other factors such as disease, human and dog encroachment into their habitats. Although the Tasmanian Tiger has been officially confirmed to be extinct, some cases are thought to see this animal.