Statistics for Extinct Animals True or False

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Question	Answer	% Correct
There used to exist a bird that could hunt horses.	True	86%
Spinosaurus could swim.	True	84%
There was once a marine reptile longer than a sperm whale.	True	79%
The dodo was in the duck family.	False	75%
Due to their size and weight, you could easily outrun any species of short-faced bear.	False	74%
The thylacine was the last mammal to go extinct.	False	73%
No animal has ever had five eyes.	False	72%
50,000 years ago, the only hominids on Earth were humans and neanderthals.	False	66%
The dominant animals on Earth during the Permian period (just before the Triassic) were closely related to mammals.	True	63%
Animals known as terminator pigs once existed.	True	60%
Excluding tusks, the largest teeth to ever exist belonged to a whale.	True	59%
No dinosaurs gave birth to live young, they all laid eggs.	True	56%
The first permanently terrestrial animal was a scorpion.	False	51%
The oldest known primate predates the oldest known bat by five million years.	False	41%
The mammoth Mammuthus creticus was still about five times larger than the giant rodent Josephoartigasia monesi.	False	40%