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When the animal becomes extinct a new one always comes back. For example when the mosquito was extinct a long time ago it wasn't...
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Animals beginning with D: Dachshund (AKC Recognized Breed) Daddy Longlegs Dairy Cow Dalmatian (AKC Recognized Breed) Damselfly...
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Farmers got mad at them for eating their crops and considered them a nuisance so they killed them all.
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Saber toothed cats became extinct at the end of the Pleistocene, 10,000 years ago. They probably died out because important food...
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They were over hunted for feathers and as food
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There are only a few animals that survived including snakes, crocodiles, frogs, small mammals, and the Cocelacanth. The largest...
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Barbary Lion- Panthera Leo Leo - The Barbary lion was the largest lion of the subspecies. Barbary lions had a large black mane...
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The Tasmanian tiger also known as the The thylacine was known as one of the biggest carnivores animal on planet.It is a native of...
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Animal extinction can be caused by a variety of things such as, over hunting, loss of habitat, loss of food source, even disease....
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Sorry, but while sea scorpions used to exist, they are now extinct. They lived about 390 million years ago.
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Saber toothed cats have been extinct for about 10,000 years. Nobody is sure why they died out, but they probably died out because...
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The saber toothed cats were a subfamily of cats that scientists refer to as the Machairodontinae. The Machairodontinae flourished...
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That is a very good question. Unfortunately, it is hard for paleontologists to tell very much about an extinct animal's behavior,...
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People think they fly, and they do hover over ground. But... They don't truly fly! They use the same method as bees. Do some...
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Because 13,000 years ago the climate turned too warm so they could not adapt so they died.
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This is a tricky question for many scientists for two reasons. The first being that feathers cannot be fossilized with the bone....
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Born, grow, hunt for pack, mate and die.
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The extinction of the saber tooth tiger poses many questions and theories. The answer to why it became extinct could be due to...
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A trilobite is an extinct three lobed arthropod dating to the early Cambrian Period through to the late Permian period. These...
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Saber toothed cats became extinct at the end of the Pleistocene, 10,000 years ago. They probably died out because important food...
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This answer has been fully researched, and is as complete and detailed as is practical in this format. If you'd prefer a shorter,...
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The term 'passenger' was taken from the French word 'passager' which means 'to pass by'. Passenger pigeons took quite a while to...
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The most widely-held view is that the Cheetah evolved in North America. Only a mutual evolutionary race would be likely to create...
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Saber tooth tigers have been extinct for 10, 000 years. Characteristics in the saber tooth tiger are also much different than the...
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Because any kind of warm blooded animal can get rabies, saber toothed cats probably got rabies on occasion, just like modern warm...
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mostly fish, but also mollusks such as ammonites
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Incompatibility with environmental changes. The newest cause is pollution and toxins along with habitat invasion caused by humans.
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Of the same family. These even toed ( artiodactyls ) are of a ancient family of carnivorous mesonychids of the Eocene period. Of...
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"People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals", say they are trying to help animals and run animal shelters with this "aim."...
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The Steller's sea cow (Hydrodamalis gigas) was hunted to extinction within 27 years of it's discovery by Europeans, in 1741. So...
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Megalodon did exist. Their teeth were commonly found fossils for hundreds of years before it was discovered that they were...
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Well, my best guess it probably hunted sleeping animals to avoid needing to fight or chace it's prey, like modren day lions or...
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Smilodon (if that's the one) are carnivorous, meaning they eat meat. They are fast, deadly hunters with serrated fangs good for...
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Saber toothed cats would eat almost anything that they could bring down, which essentially meant anything in their environment,...
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No. It could not fly because it didn't need to in its habitat.
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Giant short faced bear
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The Sabre toothed cats were not tigers at all, only distant relatives..The large knife like canines were used to disable large...
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There are many species of saber tooth cats such as Smilodon, Megapotherous and Barberfelis.
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It actually doesn't matter the length of time. When the last animal of that specific species is dead, the the animal is proven to...
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AnswerWell it's not completely known why the American Cheetah went extinct. They likely died off with a large number of other...
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snog you in the future -_- rem
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The biggest reason was over hunting, but deforestation also contributed. The Passenger Pigeon was the largest species of birds,...
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just fossils No, they've been extinct for much longer than that.
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Some animals go extinct because they become extremely specialized for a particular environment or food item. When the environment...
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AnswerNo, they can't. None of the surviving dinosaur eggs (and there are a lot of them) have any DNA left inside. Too much time...
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As it evolved in isolation it had no fear of predators and humans. Being a flightless bird it was easy prey for non-native...
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MammalsAlthough the most popularized large mammal was the Woolly Mammoth, the largest extinct mammal is the indricothere, a giant...
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the whole way of life underwater would change because the lesser species would slowly become larger and larger in population and...
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It is a sort of cat-like mammal that lived a long time ago, and it was the very first carnivor. Sort of weasel-like. It's fur was...
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not much
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As far as the largest ones are concerned, their size implies need for great amounds of energy, which means they had to eat a lot....
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mites that they pick from there skin,dead dinos,and lizards
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No it was a small and aggressive meat eater and could have also been a cannibal.
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th difference between the two is tht background extiction is apparent over long periods of time, some exsiting species become...
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You can find saber tooth tiger fossils deep in sedimentary rock near grassy plains
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Both the International Union of Conservation for Nature, also known as the IUCN Red List, and the US Fish and Wildlife Services,...
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If sharks became extinct the fish population would go up to much and then waters will be filled with fish.Also animals that eat...
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Saber-toothed cats most likely raised their young the same way that modern lions do.
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Mastodons and most mammoths became extinct by 10,000 years ago. However, the remains of a Columbian mammoth have been found in...
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The best way for me to tell you is to give you a picture. Use the related link to see one.
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There great so much nature I love them!
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Causes of Extinction Some major causes of extinction are: Taking Animals for Profit; Hunting and Trapping; Overharvesting; ...
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there would be no mare gray whales and the eco system would be disrupted causing more animals to become extinct and eventually...
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Depends. They may well do if they carry on being hunted for ivory. One thing to stop them being hunted is to donate money or...
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Answermammoths are - any of various lagre,hairy,extinct elephant of the genus mammuthus,expecially the wooly mammoth.I believe...
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Icthyosaurus first evolved in the middle of the Jurassic period, not too long after the giant sauropods evolved. Icthyosaurus...
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A bird/pterosaur. Since birds/pterosaurs are members of the clade Dinosauria (specifically Aves, etc.), and most can fly, they...
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The definition of poaching is: -the act of hunting in areas or circumstances where hunting is illegal So by definition,...
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Its is sometimes called the Jesus Lizard or the Jesus Christ Lizard because of it's ability to walk on water
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The bones and fossils of saber-toothed cats have been found on all of the continents except Australia and Antarctica. Note that...
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They can eat Gold fish food and other fish when you get one you can keep the water you get them in just add some more clean water...
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A Megalodon can swallow a rhinoceros whole . And or could bite a school bus in TWO. The Megalodon's diet was thought to have...
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Scientists are not sure what caused the extinction of the woolly mammoths, but they have a few theories. Theories include climate...
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By 1768, 27 years after it had been discovered by Europeans, Steller's sea cow was extinct.
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An average adult male would have been about 8 ft long from nose to tail and weigh 115 to 160 pounds. A females would have been...
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Moas are said to have become extinct as late as the 19th century.
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All saber-tooth mammals lived between 33.7 million and 9,000 years ago. The Saber Tooth Tiger lived during the end of the...
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The quagga was closely related to the horse and the zebra. It was a subspecies of the Plains Zebra, and striped only on the front...
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Animal extinction is caused by humans, everybody knows that. The top reasons are habitat destruction, and hunting to sell body...
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Woolly mammoths
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The mastodon's predator was the sabre tooth tiger.
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Phylum arthropoda are also called jointed legged animals. They have exoskeleton and segmentations. Some good examples are...
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the metior, is the biggest 1. It threw up all kinds of stuff, in the air, blocking the sun for many years. Scientists believe...
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Entomology is the scientific study of insects and Myrmecology is the study of ants. The latter is derived from Latin word...
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Well, it tells us a lot about the relative size and weight of an animal, plus whether it was wounded at the feet, how many...
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This zone covers much of the western coast of North America, but not Alaska. It is UTC-7. When not observing daylight savings, it...
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Unlikely, due to it's stocky, heavy build.
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No, I'm afraid to say saber tooth cats (/'tigers') do not have babies every year as they are now extinct. It is difficult to say...
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An extinct species is a species of organisms which no longer exists on the planet or has ceased to exist. OR An extinct species...
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