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Can You Pass This Extinct Animals Quiz? Mammoths, Megalodon and More!

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Can You Pass This Extinct Animals Quiz? Mammoths, Megalodon and More!

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Extinct animals quiz: 25 questions about woolly mammoths, megalodon, the dodo and giants that once ruled the Earth. 🦣

Discover beavers as big as bears, eagles that hunted giant birds, and a fish that came back from the dead, then find out what really happened to them. Perfect for curious kids, classrooms and family quiz time.

❓ IN THIS QUIZ

  • Which animal was still alive when the Egyptian pyramids were built?
  • Which extinct bird was the first to be called a penguin?
  • Which ice age deer had the widest antlers ever?
  • Which fish was known only from fossils, then found alive?

💬 How many did you get right? Tell us your score in the comments. Which extinct animal would you bring back if you could?

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  1. Read the question and look at the pictures.
  2. Pick your answer before the timer runs out (or switch the timer off).
  3. See if you were right and read the fun fact.
Answers and fun facts (spoilers!)
  1. Let's travel back in time! Which animal was still alive when the Egyptian pyramids were built?
    Woolly Mammoth
    The last woolly mammoths lived on Wrangel Island about 4,000 years ago, after the Great Pyramid was built!
  2. Which giant shark had teeth as long as a grown-up's hand?
    Megalodon
    Megalodon teeth could be over 18 cm (7 in) long, about the length of a grown-up's hand!
  3. Which bird lived only on the island of Mauritius?
    Dodo
    Dodos lived only on the island of Mauritius and were gone by about 1700!
  4. Which cat had giant saber-like fangs?
    Saber-toothed Cat
    Smilodon's fangs were about 28 cm (11 in) long, the longest of any saber-toothed cat!
  5. Which striped animal carried its babies in a pouch?
    Tasmanian Tiger
    The Tasmanian tiger was a marsupial with a pouch. The last known one died in 1936.
  6. The quagga was a half-striped kind of what?
    Zebra
    Quaggas were zebras with stripes only on the front half. The last one died in 1883.
  7. Which extinct animal was a sloth as big as an elephant?
    Giant Ground Sloth
    Megatherium was an elephant-sized ground sloth that weighed around 4 tonnes!
  8. Which ice age animal was a giant relative of the armadillo?
    Glyptodon
    Glyptodon was a giant armadillo relative with a hard shell up to 1.7 m (5.6 ft) long!
  9. Which ice age animal had a woolly coat and a huge horn?
    Woolly Rhino
    Woolly rhinos had a shaggy coat and a front horn about 1 to 1.35 m (3 to 4 ft) long!
  10. Which living animal is the woolly mammoth's closest relative?
    Asian Elephant
    The Asian elephant is the woolly mammoth's closest living relative!
  11. What caused the dodo to disappear?
    People & Their Animals
    Sailors hunted dodos, and the pigs, rats and monkeys they brought raided dodo nests!
  12. Which bird once flew in flocks of billions?
    Passenger Pigeon
    There were about 3 billion passenger pigeons. The last one, Martha, died in 1914.
  13. Which extinct bird was the first to be called a penguin?
    Great Auk
    The word 'penguin' first meant the great auk, a flightless bird of the North Atlantic!
  14. Which giant sea animal disappeared just 27 years after people found it?
    Steller's Sea Cow
    Steller's sea cow was found in 1741 and gone by 1768. It could weigh 8 to 10 tonnes!
  15. Which extinct bird from New Zealand stood taller than a grown-up?
    Moa
    The biggest moa reached about 3.6 m (12 ft) tall with its neck stretched up!
  16. Which giant eagle hunted moa?
    Haast's Eagle
    Haast's eagle was the biggest eagle ever, and it hunted moa that weighed up to 200 kg!
  17. Which ice age deer had the widest antlers ever?
    Irish Elk
    Irish elk antlers could reach 4.26 m (14 ft) from tip to tip!
  18. Which extinct bird laid the biggest eggs?
    Elephant Bird
    Elephant bird eggs from Madagascar could weigh about 10 kg, the biggest eggs known!
  19. Which giant flightless bird was a fierce hunter?
    Terror Bird
    Terror birds were meat-eating birds, and the biggest may have stood 3 m (10 ft) tall!
  20. Which ice age animal was a beaver as big as a bear?
    Giant Beaver
    Giant beavers grew up to 2.2 m (7 ft) long and weighed around 100 kg!
  21. Which giant snake was one of the biggest ever found?
    Titanoboa
    Titanoboa may have reached about 13 m (42 ft) long and weighed around a tonne!
  22. Which giant insect flew 300 million years ago?
    Giant Dragonfly
    Meganeura was a dragonfly relative with wings about 70 cm (2 ft) across!
  23. Which creepy-crawly grew longer than a grown-up is tall?
    Giant Millipede
    Arthropleura was a millipede relative over 2 m (7 ft) long, the biggest land arthropod ever!
  24. Which armored fish had sharp bony blades instead of teeth?
    Dunkleosteus
    Dunkleosteus had bony blades instead of teeth and lived about 380 million years ago!
  25. Last one! Which fish was known only from fossils, then found alive?
    Coelacanth
    Coelacanths were known only from fossils until fishermen caught a living one in 1938!