![]() Wooly Mammoth Woolly Mammoths were about 11 feet tall, lived in the Arctic Regions of the Pleistocene and became extinct 5000 or 10,000 years ago. |
![]() Pterodactyls lived on every continent during the Jurassic (205 million to 138 million years ago) and were extinct by the end of the Cretaceous (65 million years ago) |
![]() Horned Toxodont Horned Toxodont,
Trigodon Gaudryi, of the Pliocene near present
day Monte Hermoso, Argentina |
|
15 ft tall, 550 lb Wingless Bird of New Zealand, believed to have lived as recently as the middle ages.
|
![]() Thylacine Tasmanian Wolf The Tasmanian Wolf is a carnivorous marsupial and a relative of wombats and kangaroos. It even has a pouch. Believed to be extinct, sightings claims persist. |
![]() Extinct Turtle Archelon ischyros The Giant Turtle Archelon was a 15 feet long slow moving creature of the ancient seas of the Cretaceous
|
|
Portuguese explorers discovered the 50 lb
flightless Dodos in
1505. The last Dodo
was killed in 1681. |
From the Oceans of Kansas, an Extinct Five Foot Long Diving Bird of the Cretaceous.
|
![]() The Extinct Great Auk The Great Auk inhabited the coasts and islands of the North Atlantic to Iceland almost to the Arctic Circle. Extinct by mid Nineteenth Century. |
![]() Mosasaur Clidastes propython Ferocious marine reptile predators from the the Cretaceous Period |
Extinct Reptile from the Permian Period. Look at those teeth! Mesosaurus inhabited fresh waters of Africa and South America supporting the theory of continental drift. |
![]() Extinct, 9 ft Tall, 280 lb Flightless Bird Lived In Patagonia
|
|
One of the largest pterosaurs (Triassic Period) and descendant of the Pterodactyl had a wingspan as long as 23 ft. Pterosaurs were the first vertebrates to fly |
![]() Stegocephalian Branchiosaurus amblystomus an
extinct amphibian from the Permian Epoch
|
![]() Pterodactylus antiquus Pterodactylus
antiquus was a carnivorous flying reptile, now
extinct, lived in Africa and Europe during the
Jurassic Period. Image is from a fossil |






















