Marsupials
Primates
Cats and Hyenas
Caniforms
Rhinoceroses
100

This extinct rhinoceros weighed 3 tons, lived until the ice age, and had a single horn. Some people think this animal is the origin of the myth of unicorns. A fossil of this animal is on display at the Natural History Museum in London.

Elasmotherium

200

Name the caniform that over 1,000 of its fossilized skulls have been found in the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles.

Dire Wolf

300

What was the largest primate to ever live?

Gigantopithecus

400

Why did the Thylacine go extinct?

Because humans fragmented their habitats and hunted them because the humans assumed they were killing livestock.

500

This species of extinct marsupial lived in South America, resembled a saber-toothed cat and is the species that Diego is in the Ice Age movies. Its teeth were protected by tooth guards made of bone when their mouth closed.

Thylacosmilus

500

Did the Cave Hyena live in Africa? If not, where did they live?

Europe and Asia.

500

What is the real name of the wooly rhino?

Coelodonta

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