Extinct animals and birds
A
presentation
was made
Chechikov
Daniel.
Steller cow
• Marine (Steller) cow named after
the Russian zoologist Steller, who
first discovered and described this
type of animal in 1741, The sea cow
was a little more than a manate,
swam at the surface of the water
and ate seaweed (hence the name
“sea”). The weight of cows was up
to 10 tons and a length of 25
metres. The species was
threatened with extinction from the
very beginning, as the meat was
very tasty and widely eaten by the
indigenous population.
Rahonavis
ostromi.
• Carnivorous, eats insects,
reptiles and other small
animals. Many
paleontologists believe
that this bird was able to
plan from branch to
branch, as did some
reptiles and mammals, but
it truly active to fly like
most birds, only worse.
Tarpan
• These squat wild horses
mouse-colored with a dark
stripe on the back, thick mane
and strong hooves, who did
not know the horseshoes,
completely disappeared from
the face of the earth for only
fifteen years — from 1875 to
1890. It was at the end of the
19th century, the attempt to
catch him was killed the last
living in the wild Tarpan.
According to other sources,
the last steppe Tarpan was
not in 1918 and it happened
Тилацин —
Tasmanian Wolf
• Was the largest
carnivorous marsupial
animal of our time (in
height he was about 60
cm and a length of about
180 cm including the
tail). Thylacine once lived
in mainland Australia and
New Guinea, but as a
result of human activity
they're already almost
extinct at the time of
colonization by
Europeans. However,
Passenger pigeon
• The famous genus of extinct birds. The
wandering dove was distributed in the
deciduous forests of North America to
the East of the Rocky mountains, from
southern and Central Canada to North
Carolina, wintered in the South of the
United States. Until the XIX century it
was one of the most common birds on
Earth, the total number of which was
estimated at 3-5 billion individuals. The
last mass nesting was observed in
1883, the last wandering dove in the
wild was discovered in 1900 in Ohio,
USA.
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