2016
What do you know about extinct animals? Take our quiz and find out.
True or False?
1. Moas were birds without wings.
True
False
2. The talons or bird claws of the Haast’s eagle were as large as those of a tiger.
True
False
3. Aurochs, the ancestor of domestic cows, only grew to 4 feet in height.
True
False
4. In 1914, the last passenger pigeon died in captivity at Cincinnati Zoo.
True
False
5. The Irish elk was the biggest deer in the world.
True
False
6. Dinosaurs never lived in Antarctica.
True
False
7. The smilodon’s teeth were long but not strong.
True
False
8. Both male and female thylacines had pouches.
True
False
9. Woolly mammoth’s tusks would stop growing at just 8 inches.
True
False
10. A dire wolf’s powerful bite-force could crush a skull.
True
False
Answers to the Extinct Animals quiz:
1. True. These giant flightless birds were truly wingless.
2. True.
3. False. Aurochs were huge animals that grew to a height of nearly 6 feet.
4. True.
5. True.
6. False. Paleontologists confirmed that dinosaurs lived on all of the continents, including Antarctica.
7. True.
8. True.
9. False. Their tusks could grow up to 15 feet long.
10. True.
