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Feb 25, 1000
Mammoth
Mammoths (Latin: Mammuthus.) - An extinct genus of mammal from the family of elephant, who lived in the Quaternary period. It reaches a height of 5.5 meters and a weight of 10-12 tons. Thus, mammoths were twice as heavy as the largest contemporary land mammals - African elephants -
Feb 25, 1500
Aurochs
It was a powerful animal with a muscular, well-proportioned body height at the withers of about 170-180 cm and weighing up to 800 kg. Highly planted head was crowned with long, sharp horns. Colouring adult male was black, with a narrow white "belt" along the back, while females and young animals - reddish brown -
DODO
Dodo [1], or a dodo (Latin Raphus cucullatus.) - Extinct species of flightless bird of the genus monotypic Raphus. It is endemic to the island of Mauritius. The first documented mention of the Dodo came through Dutch navigator, arrived on the island in 1598. With the advent of the human bird is often the victim of a hungry sailors and their pets, as well as other introduced species. The latter is widely recognized observation in nature is fixed by the scientific community in 1662. The disappeara -
Palaeopropithecus
Paleopropiteki were large primates, as indicated by the Latin name of the species is already the first open - Palaeopropithecus ingens (enormous paleopropitek). Members of the genus weighed clearly from 40 to 55 kilograms [2] (other sources to 60 kg [ -
Steller cow
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Pallar's cormorant
an extinct, large, small-winged cormorant (Phalacrocorax perspicillatus) formerly inhabiting Bering Island -
Newfoundland wolf
Newfoundland Wolf - extinct subspecies of the brown wolf. The area covered the island of Newfoundland and the east coast of Canada. According to the descriptions, it was a large white wolf with a black stripe along the spine -
Tasmanian tiger
Tasmanian or Tasmanian wolf, or tilatsin - extinct marsupial mammal, the only representative of the family of marsupial wolf. -
Chinese river dolphin
