A list of three of my favourite extinct animals
I rarely use my blog so I thought I would write a little about extinct animals, please note the following as just been collected from website sources. I will list three of my favourite extinct animals. The following interested me because of a number of things. Please also note this is not in any particle order i.e. top 3.1. Dodo (bird)
Well this is properly one of the most famous spoken extinct animals, “as dead a dodo”.
The Dodo is said to have been extinct since the late 17th century (1681), the dodo was discovered in the late 16th century (1598). The dodo was a bird from the pigeon family. The Dodo was a flightless bird much unlike that of the pigeon. The Dodo was also completely fearless of humans; this could in count for part of its extinction. It is also believed that Malay sailors killed the dodo for creation of head dressings for religious ceremonies. It is estimated to have weighed around 20 to 23 kilograms in weigh, making it a rather fat bird. The Dodo was grey in colour and had a large hooked beak, and white feathers around the rear of the dodo.
2. Quagga (mammal)
The Quagga was discovered in 1785 and was classified extinct in 1883. The Quagga is a mammal much like a zebra in that it has stripes, but only to half way where they fade. The rear of the Quagga is dark and the head and front body are striped. The DNA of the Quagga has been studied, the first time for an extinct creature. The Quagga is being reborn by the Quagga project, they plan on using selective breeding or breeding back to rebreed the extinct animal. This has been used before to breed aurochs although these are now called heck cattle. If a Quagga is to be reborn it is believed by some, that they would not be a real Quagga but rather a zebra that looks like a Quagga.
3. Woolly Mammoth (mammal)
The woolly mammoth is said to have been extinct for 11,000 years. They are related to African elephants we have today. They evolved from earlier mammoths to help live in the cold climate of northern Europe and North America. A male woolly mammoth is believed to be around 3 meters tall, females 2.75 meters tall. Scientists hope is to one day be able to clone a woolly mammoth from the genetics from a frozen woolly mammoth, how ever this is not yet possible because not enough genetic information is available to even attempt it. It is unknown if the woolly mammoth had blond hair or dark brown coats, but a gene from a woolly mammoth bone is said to cause it.
Websites I used.
http://en.wikipedia.org (all)
http://www.davidreilly.com (dodo)
http://www.quaggaproject.org (Quagga)
http://www.bbc.co.uk (woolly mammoth)
This again was from my old blog so I thought I would add it. I wrote it up just because I was bored enjoy.
