Showing posts with label Extinct Animals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Extinct Animals. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

stellers sea cow


While George Steller is exploring in Aleutian island he discovered an sea cow with Vitus Bering in 1741.Steller’s sea cow grows as large as 35 foot long and weigh three and a half tons. Some sailors ate their meats and use their skin as leather. So they were easily killed and vanished from their only home for just 30 years after Steller discover them.

Saturday, August 29, 2009

Quagga

In Southern Free State of South Africa ,Quagga,Equss burcheli one of the Extinct Animals found in this place. This animals is a female of Burchell’s Zebra the last Qugga died in 1883 in an Amsterdam Zoo. In her time quagga eat goats, sheep and other livestock.

Tasmanian Wolf or Thylacine

According to the expert the Thylacine or Tasmanian wolf is not really a wolf , this extinct animals is carnivorous marsupial and relative of wombats and kangaroos.Like a kangaroos it even ha s a pounch.