Some top Extinct animals.

While there are over a million animal-species in existence today, the fact is that hundreds have gone into extinction. We will only know them through creative creations, but would never be able to see them. In spite of their extinction one is always interested in learning about them. No wonder books and movies are made on dinosaurs, or then some extinct species become characters of comic books.

Here are some extinct animal facts, followed by an exhaustive list of animals that have gone into extinction over the eras of earth’s evolution…

The Tyrannosaurus Rex went extinct 65 million years ago. It was one of the largest animals. It measured up to 43.3 feet in length and 16.6 feet in height. It weighed approximately 7 tons.

The Quagga, which was half-zebra-half-horse animal species, went into extinction in the year 1883. This is was one of the most famous animals of Africa. This animal had the zebra stripes only on the front part of the body, which would fade and become wider in the middle of the body, and the hindquarter was brown (no stripes). It was the cruel animal activities that led this animal to extinction. It was on 12th August 12, 1883 that the last of the Quaggas died at the Artis Magistra Zoo (Amsterdam).

The Tasmanian tiger went into extinct in the year 1936. This animal is regarded to be the largest carnivorous marsupial in modern day and age. It was a native wildlife animal of Australia and New Guinea. Man and his evil ways led this animal to extinction.

Staller’s Sea Cow was also known as the defenseless beast. It went into extinction in 1768. This creature’s natural habitat was on the Asiatic coast of the Bering Sea. It got its name because it was discovered by a naturalist, Georg Stellar, in 1741. He was traveling with Vitus Bering, a renowned explorer. The animal was large weighing up to three tons. Though it looked almost like a seal, it had two forelimbs that were stout, as well as tail that was whale-like.

Irish Deer is the largest deer to have ever existed. It went into extinction approximately 7,700 years ago. It was a native animal of Eurasia, grazing the land stretching from Ireland to east of Lake Baikal. It was large sized, with extra-large antlers measuring up to 3.65 meters (12 feet from tip-to-tip). The antlers weighed about 90 pounds.

The Caspian Tiger was the third largest tiger species. The last of this tiger was seen in 1970, after which it has been declared amongst the extinct animal species. This tiger was found on the lands of Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Turkey, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Caucasus, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.

Aurochs was a large-sized cattle-species. It is recorded to have gone into extinction in 1627. It is said that this cattle evolved from India, migrating to the Middle-East, reaching Europe.

Here is an exhaustive list of other extinct animal species:

Ø Antillean cave rat

Ø Arabian gazelle

Ø Barbados raccoon

Ø Barbados rice rat

Ø Basalt plains mouse

Ø Bavarian pine vole

Ø Big-eared hopping mouse

Ø Blue buck

Ø Canary mouse

Ø Cayman Brace Hutia

Ø Cayman Brace nesophont

Ø Cayman hutia

Ø Central hare-wallaby

Ø Central rock rat

Ø Corsican shrew

Ø Cuban spider monkey

Ø Curio's giant rat

Ø Dark flying fox

Ø Desert rat-kangaroo

Ø Dusky flying fox

Ø Falkland Islands dog

Ø Giant deer mouse

Ø Goliath white-toothed shrew

Ø Atlantic gray whale

Ø Guam flying fox

Ø Gull Island vole

Ø Hairy-eared dwarf lemur

Ø Imposter hutia

Ø Jamaican monkey

Ø Jamaican pallid flower bat

Ø Large Corsican field vole

Ø Large funnel-eared bat

Ø Large ghost faced bat

Ø Large Palau flying fox

Ø Large sloth lemur

Ø Large-eared tenrec

Ø Long-tailed hopping mouse

Ø Madagascan pygmy hippopotamus; common Malagasy hippo

Ø Malagasy dwarf hippopotamus

Ø Marconi’s solenodon

Ø Marianas flying fox

Ø Negros naked-backed fruit bat

Ø New Guinea big-eared bat

Ø Omilteme cottontail

Ø Pemberton's deer mouse

Ø Przewalski's horse

Ø Queen of Sheba's gazelle

Ø Red gazelle

Ø Sardinian pika

Ø Saudi gazelle

Ø Schaumburg’s deer

Ø Sea mink

Ø Short-horned water buffalo

Ø Southeastern pocket gopher

Ø Standing's hippo

Ø Sturdee's Bonin pipistrelle

Ø Swan Island hutia

Ø Tanzania woolly bat

Ø Tasmanian bettong

Ø Tretretretre

Ø Vietnam warty pig

Ø West Indian porcupine

Ø Western palm squirrel

Ø White-footed rabbit-rat

Western palm squirrel

West Indian porcupine

Vietnam warty pig

Tretretretre