Extinct Animals @ExtAnimals

Want to learn more about the #animals that we will never see roaming the planet again? Follow us for daily tweets about #extinct animals! Joined August 2018

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Extinct Animals @ExtAnimals

6 years ago

#Desmatosuchus -Weird crocodile relative -Herbivore -Lived in herds 📷apsaravis #extinct #animals #reptiles #Paleoart

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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

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Wild About Portsmouth @wildaboutportsm

6 years ago

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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Extinct Animals @ExtAnimals

6 years ago

#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 #extinct #animals #birds

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Extinct Animals 🦣🦤 @Extinct_AnimaIs

6 years ago

Tylosaurus is an extinct mosasaur that reached lengths of 14 metres! They are related to snakes & monitor lizards. (Credit: prehlife)

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Extinct Animals 🦣🦤 @Extinct_AnimaIs

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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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Extinct Animals 🦣🦤 @Extinct_AnimaIs

6 years ago

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)

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Wild About Portsmouth @wildaboutportsm

6 years ago

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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Extinct Animals @ExtAnimals

6 years ago

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 #extinct #animals #ichthyosaur

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Extinct Animals @ExtAnimals

6 years ago

#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 #extinct #animals #birds #paleoart

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Extinct Animals @ExtAnimals

6 years ago

#ElephantBirds were huge, flightless birds which lived up until the 18th century in #Madagascar. 📷Brian Choo #extinct #animals #birds #paleoart

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Extinct Animals 🦣🦤 @Extinct_AnimaIs

6 years ago

Discosauriscus was a small reptiliomorph from the early Permian. They may have had electroreceptive organs. (Credit: Dmitry Bogdanov)

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Extinct Animals @ExtAnimals

6 years ago

#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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Extinct Animals @ExtAnimals

6 years ago

#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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Extinct Animals @ExtAnimals

6 years ago

The Terror Bird aka #Phorusrhacos was a large #carnivorous #bird While it was incapable of flight, it could run at amazing speeds 📷Richard Egan #extinct #animals #birds #paleoart

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6 years ago

#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 #extinct #animals #dinosaurs #reptiles

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6 years ago

#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 #extinct #animals #marinelife

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6 years ago

#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