extinct mammals
Gone prehistoric creatures
Extinct mammals are mammal species that no longer have living members—animals like woolly mammoths, saber-toothed cats, and giant ground sloths that once roamed the earth but died out.
The phrase typically evokes ice age megafauna, though mammal extinctions continue: The thylacine joined the ranks of extinct mammals in 1936.
- woolly mammothExtinct hairy elephant species
- mammothExtinct elephant with curved tusks
- mastodonExtinct elephantine Pleistocene mammal
- saber-toothedWith extended fang-like teeth
- saber-toothed catExtinct long-fanged felid
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- fossilsdinosaur bones, ammonite, amber, ammonites, fossils
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