Gone Forever: Extinct Animals

What this quiz asks

• The flightless dodo was a giant member of which bird family?
• The thylacine, nicknamed the 'Tasmanian tiger', was actually which kind of animal?
• This Ice Age giant's closest living relative is which animal?
• Woolly mammoths and Tyrannosaurus rex were alive at the same time.
• Which living animals are the direct descendants of the dinosaurs?
• Martha, the last known passenger pigeon, died in 1914 at which zoo?
• Select ALL of these animals that were dinosaurs.
• What kind of animal was the prehistoric giant megalodon?
• Was the quagga of southern Africa a kind of zebra?
• The Chicxulub crater, left by the asteroid impact that doomed the dinosaurs, lies on which peninsula?
• The great auk, a flightless North Atlantic seabird, was most closely related to which living bird?
• Order these dinosaurs from shortest to longest typical adult length.
• Giant flightless moas, wiped out within about two centuries of human arrival, lived in which country?
• Male thylacines, not just the females, had a pouch.
• The last known aurochs, the wild ancestor of domestic cattle, died in 1627 in a forest in which country?
• Select ALL of these animals that still have living members today.
• Georg Steller described the giant Steller's sea cow in 1741. In what year was the last one reportedly killed?
• In 2003, which extinct animal became the first ever to be cloned, although the newborn lived only minutes?
• Which dinosaur was the first to be given a scientific name, in 1824?
• In a 1796 lecture comparing mammoth bones with living elephants, who argued that whole species could go extinct?