Favorite extinct animals and why they died out.

[Moontanman]

Please list your favorite extinct animals and why they are no longer with us :hyper:

 

The Terrible-dactyl, It's stream lined form allowed it to jump off tall cliffs and attain a top speed of 200 mph.... once....:doh:

[Thunderbird]

Oh Boy ! I have to give this some serious thought. :hyper:

[Thunderbird]

Gigantopithecus is an extinct genus of ape that existed from roughly one million years to as recently as three-hundred thousand years ago,[1] in what is now China, India, and Vietnam, placing Gigantopithecus in the same time frame and geographical location as several hominid species.[2] The fossil record suggests that the Gigantopithecus blacki species were the largest apes that ever lived, standing up to 10 feet (3.0 m) and weighing up to 1,200 pounds (540 kg

I do not know why they died out. :hyper:

 

Argentavis magnificens (literally "Magnificent Argentine Bird") is the largest flying bird ever discovered. This bird, sometimes called the Giant Teratorn, is an extinct species known from (as of 2006) three sites from the late Miocene (6 million years before present) of central and northwestern Argentina, where a good sample of fossils has been obtained.[1]

 

The humerus (upper arm bone) of Argentavis is somewhat damaged. It allows a fairly accurate estimate of its length in life, which was a bit shorter than an entire human arm.[2] The species apparently had stout, strong legs and large feet which enabled it to walk with ease. The bill was large, rather slender, had a hooked tip with a wide gape

More that likely died out follow the demise of the mega fauna.:doh:

[Galapagos]

The Thyacline and marsupial lion are cool because they have pockets and are neat examples of convergent evolution.

The thyacline went extinct in the 1930s due to bounty hunting, and the lion 40-50k ago due to humans over-hunting its primary food sources.

 

 

The megatherium is a beast that has always fascinated me since childhood. Wiki says they went extinct either from human hunting or climate changes.

[Moontanman]

Some how I was expecting a little bit of humor :doh:

 

 

What we have heauh is a failauh to communicate! :hyper:

[Galapagos]

Some how I was expecting a little bit of humor :pirate:

 

 

What we have heauh is a failauh to communicate! :hyper:

 

oh lol i get it now. i assumed this was in biology, didnt see watercooler

 

how about this:

 

all extinct animals got that way either from a flood ten thousand years ago because they were dirty and god hated them, or people hunted them to extinction because they are dirty(because god hates them) and god gave us dominion over them

 

 

:doh: i got nothin

[Moontanman]

oh lol i get it now. i assumed this was in biology, didnt see watercooler

 

how about this:

 

all extinct animals got that way either from a flood ten thousand years ago because they were dirty and god hated them, or people hunted them to extinction because they are dirty(because god hates them) and god gave us dominion over them

 

 

:hyper: i got nothin

 

 

That should be hilarious unfortunately far too many people believe that BS for it to be funny:(

[Thunderbird]

Moa's because they tast like chicken.

[Moontanman]

Ok if not funny animals lets be serious, Dimetridon, dinosaurs drove it to extinction. Dimetridon was one of the lines ancestral to mammals. Dimetridon was not a dinosaur.

[Pyrotex]

I really like the semimegatherium. It was huge, but only in front. It's back legs were only half the size of the front ones, a feature probably due to the fact that semimegatherium lived only on chili peppers and had to take a poop really often.

 

It died out because they kept falling over backwards and couldn't get up.

[Thunderbird]

The dodo bird, because they where big fat retarded flightless pigeons, that tasted like chicken.

[Moontanman]

Moa's because they tast like chicken.

 

Now that is funny, just think about how popular bird meat is, like chicken, turkey, even ostrich. Now think about a dinosaur, birds are dinosaurs, so if we found an island with dinos on it we would probably eat them all :hyper:

[Thunderbird]

The Great Auk because they where like penquins only slower and tasted like c...well you know.

[Moontanman]

I really like the semimegatherium. It was huge, but only in front. It's back legs were only half the size of the front ones, a feature probably due to the fact that semimegatherium lived only on chili peppers and had to take a poop really often.

 

It died out because they kept falling over backwards and couldn't get up.

 

Now we're into the spirit of things, I thought my terrible dactyl was a "dead" give away :hyper:

[Moontanman]

Giant tortoises, they used to roam over every continent until humans showed up and then.... well they probably tasted like chicken......

[Thunderbird]

Giant tortoises, they used to roam over every continent until humans showed up and then.... well they probably tasted like chicken......

When the Spaniards discovered the Galápagos Islands, they found crowds of turtles and iguanas on them—hence the name “Turtle” or “Galápagos Islands.” The iguanas—that grow so big and fat—have almost disappeared from Floreana but there are still many on Isabela. Land [sea?] turtles also come in constantly—increasing numbers here. They too are fat and taste so good—no chicken ever tasted better. Some of these creatures weigh as much as 150 (sic) pounds. They have long necks and smaller heads than turtles found elsewhere.

I've also heard between chicken and salmon. YUMMMY

[Pyrotex]

One of my favorite dinosaurs was the morphochromosaurus. It was about the size of a cow and a herbivore. Unfortunately, it tasted even better than chicken!! And, sadly, its spindly legs were evolved for wading through swamps, not running. Even though the swamps had since dried up, and the morphochromosauruses had learned to live on savannah-like grasslands.

 

On the lucky side, the MCsauruses had evolved an amazing ability to change the color of their skins. If they saw a predator on their left, then their left side took on the colors and shapes that they saw on their right side. In other words, what the predator saw was a perfect duplicate of the trees and bushes and sky on the other side of the MCsaurus. The predator couldn't see the MCsaurus AT ALL!!!

 

The geological record shows that soon after the MCsaurus evolved this capability, their numbers soared, as they had become effectively invisible to their predators. And to other herbivores. And even to each other! If it hadn't been for their exceptional sense of smell, they would have "bought the farm" immediately. But they didn't. Even then, their invisibility kept improving at such a rate, that their noses had to get bigger and bigger to enable them to find mates and... you know,... mate. This arms race -- well, it should be called a nose race, I guess -- continued until the MCsaurus had to be given a new name: schnozolasaurus.

 

The schnozolasaurus went extinct in one generation because their heads were so heavy, they couldn't lift them off the ground.