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Extinct animals

Extinct animals. Extinct species is a term that is used to refer to species of organisms that are no longer present in their unique range or as a dissimilar species elsewhere. The term is used to mean those species that have totally disappeared from the planet. Meaning of extinct animals.

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Extinct animals

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  1. Extinct animals

  2. Extinct species is a term that is used to refer to species of organisms that are no longer present in their unique range or as a dissimilar species elsewhere. The term is used to mean those species that have totally disappeared from the planet. Meaning of extinct animals

  3. Aurochs Bali tigers Buhler`s Coryphomys Caspian tiger Caucasian mouse Asian Sivatherium Animals that are extinct?

  4. The aurochs, also urus, ure, the ancestor of domestic cattle, is an extinct type of large wild cattle that inhabited Europe, Asia and North Africa; they survived in Europe until the last recorded aurochs died in the Jaktorów Forest, Poland in 1627. Scientific name: Bosprimigenius Aurochs

  5. The Bali tiger, harimau Bali in Indonesian, or referred to as samong in archaic Balinese language, was a subspecies of tiger which was found solely on the small Indonesian island of Bali. Scientific name: Pantheratigrisbalica Bali tigers

  6. Buhler's Coryphomys is an extinct species of giant rat. It is known only from sub-fossil fragments that were found on Timor Island, Indonesia. It is related to the murines of New Guinea. Scientific name: Coryphomysbuehleri Buhler`s coryphomys

  7. The Caspian tiger also known as the Hyrcanian tiger, the Mazandaran tiger[2] is an extincttigersubspecies that had been recorded in the wild until the early 1970s, and used to inhabit the sparse forest habitats and riverine corridors west and south of the Caspian Sea, from Turkey, Iran and east through Central Asia into the TaklaMakan desert of Xinjiang, China. There are no individuals in captivity.[1] Caspian tiger

  8. Caspian tiger

  9. The Caucasian Birch Mouse (Sicistacaucasica) is a species of rodent in the Dipodidae family, that is endemic to Russia. Caucasian mouse

  10. Sivatherium ('Shiva's beast)' is an extinct genus of giraffid that ranged throughout Africa to the Indian Subcontinent. The African species, S. maurusium, was once placed within the genus "Libytherium." It may have become extinct as recently as 8,000 years ago, as depictions that greatly resemble it are known from ancient rock paintings in the Sahara desert.[2] Asian Sivatherium

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