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Famous Extinct Animals: Multiple Choice
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- 01The Dodo, a flightless bird that went extinct in the 17th century, was native to which island?
- 02The Megalodon, one of the largest predators in Earth's history, was an extinct species of what?
- 03What is the most distinctive feature of the Smilodon, often called the Saber-toothed Tiger?
- 04What was the primary cause of the extinction of the Passenger Pigeon, which once numbered in the billions in North America?
- 05The Thylacine, also known as the Tasmanian Tiger, was a carnivorous marsupial native to which continent?
- 06The Great Auk was a large, flightless seabird from the North Atlantic, ecologically similar to what bird from the Southern Hemisphere?
- 07The Moa were nine species of large, flightless birds that were the dominant herbivores in their native ecosystem before being hunted to extinction. Where did they live?
- 08The Woolly Mammoth, a relative of modern elephants, lived during which geological epoch?
- 09The Quagga, which went extinct in the 19th century, was a subspecies of which modern animal?
- 10Discovered in 1741 and hunted to extinction within 27 years, Steller's Sea Cow was a large marine mammal related to what modern animal?