Extinct Animals

Want to learn more about the #animals that we will never see roaming the planet again? Follow us for daily tweets about #extinct animals!

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#Desmatosuchus
-Weird crocodile relative
-Herbivore
-Lived in herds
📷apsaravis
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Caelestiventus hanseni
Lived in Late Triasic period
They were 5great at flying, probably carnivores.
The pouch on the throat was probably used to store prey, or possibly for communication!
📷Scott Reid

[Wild About Portsmouth @wildaboutportsm]

Detail from 'D is for Dodo, E is for Extinct' @PortsCityMuseum which opened today. Huia birds from #NewZealand and a cast of what may be a #dodo egg @ExtAnimals @dodo @HeritageFundUK @PortsmouthNHM @visitportsmouth @Nat_SCA

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#GreatAuk
-was very important to Native Americans. They used their bones, beaks and feathers in various rituals and they hunted them for meat, not on a scale large enough to drive it to extinction.
📷David Harris
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Tylosaurus is an extinct mosasaur that reached lengths of 14 metres! They are related to snakes & monitor lizards.

(Credit: prehlife)

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Cryolophosaurus ellioti was a large theropod from the Jurassic period of Antarctica. They grew to 6.5 metres long.

(Credit: Rudolf Farkas)

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Pteroplax was an eel-like reptiliomorph from Carboniferous Europe. They had tiny limbs, & webbed feet on their hindlegs. However, they mostly used their tail for movement.

(Credit: Nobu Tamura)

[Wild About Portsmouth @wildaboutportsm]

We are very excited to be loaned a #DODO dodo skeleton for our 'D is for Dodo, E is for Extinct' display opening 15 February. We've been busy getting out #endangered & #extinct animals from our collections. @HeritageFundUK @visitportsmouth @PortsCityMuseum

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It’s funny that mosasaurs and pliosaurs frequently get over exaggerated in size when it was really the ichthyosaurs who were the largest of the #marine #reptiles!
Look just how impressive and varied these guys were!
📷just9art
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#Titanis
A large carnivorous bird, native to North America & lived ~ 5 - 2 million years ago.
Perhaps it wasn’t as scary as the Elephant Bird, but it is definitely a bird you wouldn’t want to run into!
📷Robinson Kunz
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#ElephantBirds were huge, flightless birds which lived up until the 18th century in #Madagascar.
📷Brian Choo
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Discosauriscus was a small reptiliomorph from the early Permian. They may have had electroreceptive organs.

(Credit: Dmitry Bogdanov)

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#Hybodus is a #prehistoric shark
These sharks resemble great white sharks but are shorter.
This species survived 200M years before going #extinct
📷 Alain Beneteau | Nobu Tamura
#animals #sharks #paleoart

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#Argentavis was 9ft long, weighed 200 pounds and had a wingspan of around 23ft!
Imagine we are talking about the Andean Condor - that size.
Scientists don’t currently know how this bird flew or if it was a scavenger / hunter.
📷HodariNundu
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The Terror Bird aka #Phorusrhacos was a large #carnivorous #bird
While it was incapable of flight, it could run at amazing speeds
📷Richard Egan
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#Corythosaurus
-Had an impressive bony crest on the top of its head in the shape of a helmet
-Could be used for defense, to cool this dinosaur down or to court females
📷Kohaku
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#Stethacanthus is a #prehistoric #shark
Lived:
Late Devonian - Early Carboniferous Period.
Had little spikes on its head, males also had a fin that jutted from their back & contained more little spikes on it for docking while mating.
📷Alain Beneteau
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#Argentavis was 9ft long, weighed 200 pounds and had a wingspan of around 23ft!
Imagine we are talking about the Andean Condor - that size.
Scientists don’t currently know how this bird flew or if it was a scavenger / hunter.
📷HodariNundu
#extinct #animals #birds #paleoart

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#Archaeropteryx
Some scientists referred to it as a bird-like #dinosaur and other scientists have referred to it as the first #bird
Most likely it's a “missing link” between dinosaurs and birds and was in a transitional form.
📷Daniel Eskridge | Emily Willoughby
#extinct #animals

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#Hybodus is a #prehistoric shark
These sharks resemble great white sharks but are shorter.
This species survived 200M years before going #extinct
📷 Alain Beneteau | Nobu Tamura
#animals #sharks #paleoart