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Extinct Animals by Picture

Can you guess the common names of these extinct animals?
Date displayed is the approximate date of extinction
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Last updated: December 18, 2018
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First submittedMarch 16, 2018
Times taken12,747
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1650 BC
8500 BC
1600s
66 million BC
66 million BC
150 million BC
9000 BC
252 million BC
2.6 million BC
125 million BC
8500 BC
148.5 million BC
1936
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Dblingah
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Level 70
Mar 16, 2018
Maybe allow stegasaurus as a type-in?
TinklePork
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Level 64
Mar 16, 2018
I also spelled it stegasaurus. Took quite a few tries until I changed the a to an o
Quizmaster
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Level ∞
Mar 17, 2018
That will work now.
Quizmaster
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Level ∞
Mar 17, 2018
Note: I chose a skeleton as the picture for the T-Rex because the real T-Rex probably had feathers and people wouldn't have recognized it!
phalocrocorax
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Level 78
Mar 17, 2018
That's not a pterodactyl, it's a pteranodon. Also, please accept thylacine and Tasmanian wolf for the Tasmanian tiger.
Quizmaster
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Level ∞
Mar 17, 2018
Tasmanian wolf and thylacine will work now.
Quizmaster
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Level ∞
Mar 17, 2018
Pterodactyls are types of pteranodons. Pteranodon will be accepted now.
phalocrocorax
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Level 78
Mar 17, 2018
Thank you!
Arp2600
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Level 81
Mar 19, 2018
Pterodactyls are not types of pteranodons. They were distinct genera of pterosaurs. Pteranodons were very big, with a crest and no teeth (thus their name) ; pterodactyls were much smaller, usually with no crests.
Quizmaster
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Level ∞
Mar 19, 2018
I'm not a paleontologist, but:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pteranodon#List_of_species_and_synonyms

Arp2600
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Level 81
Mar 19, 2018
I think a few species of pterodactyls have been reclassified into the pteranodons (it's not so easy to classify fossils of species extinct for such a long time...). But as you can see here, there are other pterodactyls: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pterodactylus#List_of_species_and_synonyms.
Arp2600
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Level 81
Mar 19, 2018
This is interesting too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pterosaur#Classification
Ferbin
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Level 68
Dec 18, 2018
That list of species on the Pteranodon is odd, I have never seen pterodactyls included in the same group, and in fact the Pterosaur wiki page linked above shows a different picture. I do not for one second believe the confusion comes from taxonomy, since most people have no idea about this; rather, it comes from ignorance and physical similitude between both species (or genera, if you wanna be specific). Pterodactyl should not be accepted, that's perpetuating ignorance, regardless of it being accurate according to a source that goes against the predominant scientific view.
kinjapan
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Level 65
Dec 18, 2018
I know that some people, call pterosaurs pterodactyls in the same way that some people call tissue Kleenex, but I think it would solve a lot of problems if you allowed pterodactyl as the type-in and had the actual crested animal in the picture listed as a Pteranodon. Pteranodon is what that specific animal is.

https://www.quora.com/How-are-a-Pterodactyl-and-a-Pteranodon-different

musiclistsareus
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Level 60
Mar 17, 2018
The Tasmanian tiger is also known as the Tasmanian Wolf, which I tried to use.
Jealous1sEnvy
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Level 79
Mar 17, 2018
Please accept sabretooth
azportsider
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Level 75
Mar 17, 2018
Agree that the pterosaur is a Pteranodon.

Also, please accept Thylacine for the "Tasmanian Tiger."

drayen
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Level 82
Mar 19, 2018
As that's a giant ground sloth, you might make that an acceptable answer.
jayhiatt
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Level 67
Dec 18, 2018
Second on this. I tried "giant ground sloth" and "ground sloth," and then moved on assuming I must be wrong.
DrWatson
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Level 69
Mar 20, 2018
Agreed, re: sloth. It's listed as a Giant Ground Sloth on Wikipedia. I tried that and ground sloth.
redsplat
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Level 75
Mar 26, 2018
Anyone else try dinosloth out of desperation?
interopia
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Level 80
May 2, 2018
Good quiz. I might have added passenger pigeon.
kiwiquizzer
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Level 65
Dec 18, 2018
Yes, I was hoping for passenger pigeon. Such an incredible story of extinction.
ander217
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Level 79
Dec 18, 2018
I thought quagga and great auk might be on here, too.
Malbaby
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Level 70
May 14, 2018
Know your living animals? try Animal Pictures 1..........here it is
Carry
+4
Level 63
Aug 2, 2018
What a time to be alive.
cornflakesfu
+1
Level 81
Dec 18, 2018
You mean the sixth extinction?
kalbahamut
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Level 80
Dec 18, 2018
Please accept "Kevin" for Moa
xarnac
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Level 70
Dec 18, 2018
Ha! I tried "snipe".
Sifhraven
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Level 67
Dec 18, 2018
Maybe urus for aurochs? It is what I tried first. (And then variations, which obviously didnt work.Only after looking it up I saw aurochs is another name for it) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurochs
Sifhraven
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Level 67
Dec 18, 2018
I tried boa for moa..ugh. mastadon seemed to have nearly gone from my memory. I knew tge tasmanian tigers, I remember reading about them, very interesting but sad material but couldnt remember the exact name (in time) and recognize the iguanodon, but dont think even.with more time I would ve got it.
Fresco3
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Level 65
Dec 18, 2018
100%! However, I do think ‘Giant Ground Sloth’ should be accepted for giant sloth.
Quizmaster
+1
Level ∞
Dec 18, 2018
Okay
xplosiv9
+1
Level 57
Dec 18, 2018
thank for taking smilodon for sabre toothed tiger! a shame "the meg" wasn't accepted for megalodon though
sneakattack6254
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Level 55
Dec 18, 2018
I was no where near able to correctly spell Pterodactyl, haha
rutabaga
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Level 50
Dec 18, 2018
Iguanadons and maiasaurs look very similar, is there perhaps a picture that does a better job of emphasizing the thumb spike?
kinjapan
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Level 65
Dec 18, 2018
Second on that. I tried edmontosaurus and maiasaurus first because of that clearly duck-like bill. I'm not sure that is an iguanadon in the picture, but I figured that was probably the famous dino the quizmaster was going for on my third shot at it. A picture with a clear view of those famous thumbs would clear it all up.
mrnafe
+6
Level 78
Dec 18, 2018
Stegasaurus are without question the most painful toy dinosaur to tread on
WanHuangdi
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Level 72
May 2, 2019
The last photo is just epic! Couldn’t remember what kind of sloth had died out, so I was going off of how many toes the pictured one had. Also, I need to do a better job at remembering that old cow = aurochs. I’ve heard of aurochs, I just can never remember them.
WanHuangdi
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Level 72
May 2, 2019
How can you have pictures of extinct animals if they’re dead? Were you there? All of these photos must be fake! Therefore extinct animals don’t exist. Checkmate, evolutionists.
Zenelle
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Level 44
Apr 17, 2020
My eyes skipped over the T-Rex. I feel ashamed >.<

I was so close on Moa, too, but I've played too much Saint Seiya and kept calling it Mu xD

YesIAmAHuman
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Level 40
Jun 24, 2020
I saw the Trilobite and immediately typed Anorith
NishanthKumar123
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Level 20
Sep 21, 2020
I really loved this one💯💯
QuizCrafter
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Level 38
Nov 7, 2020
For the mammoth, you should allow Woolly Mammoth as an answer, as that is the full name of the animal.
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