Velociraptor

Velociraptor Name: Velociraptor Length: 2 m, (height of the body when standing 1 m) Mass: 50 kg Period: Late Cretaeceous Eating: The animals are smaller than his size Velociraptor means of high-speed thief (speedy thief). Has 30 sharp teeth and long,...

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Triceratops

Triceratops Name: Triceratops Length: 9 m, height 3 m Mass: 12 tons Period: Late Cretaeceous (68 million years ago) Eating: Nature Triceratops means three-horned face in Greek. This animal has horns over 1 m by 2 pieces on top of his eye, and another...

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Tyrannosaurus

Tyrannosaurus Name: Tyrannosaurus rex Length: 12 m, height 6 m Mass: 7.5 tons Period: Cretaeceous (68 million years ago) Eating: plant-eating animals Tyrannosaurus rex greek language support means in a ruthless king lizard. Just like the raptor,...

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Golden Toad

Latin Name Bufo periglenes Conservation Status Extinct (1989) Location Costa Rica Colour Golden/Orange Length 4 - 5.5 cms (1.6 - 2.2 inches) Habit Mostly Terrestrial Breeding Season Rainy Season Main Characteristics Golden Toads were small...

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Mammoth

Mammoth is a genus of extinct ancient elephant. Body sizes larger than normal elephants in the world today. tusks circular shape and curve inward, in northern species, with long hair. There is a misconception that mammoths bigger than an elephant....

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Tarpan

The Tarpan which is the name in Turkish language meaning “Wild Horse” is a now extinct subspecies of wild horse that was found throughout Poland and Russia. The photograph included in this article is the only known photo of a live Tarpan. The photo...

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quagga (Equus quagga quagga)

DNA analysis has shown that the Quagga was not a separate species of zebra but in fact a subspecies of the Plains Zebra (Equus Quagga) The Quagga, formerly inhabited the Karoo and southern Free State of South Africa. Like other grazing mammals,...

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Javan Tiger

The Javan Tiger is the middle sized tiger species that made its home in the Indonesian islands. Larger than the Bali Tiger yet smaller than the Sumatran Tiger the Javan Tiger as the name suggests lived on the island of Java up until its extinction...

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Caspian tiger

The Caspian tiger, Panthera tigris virgata, once ranged in Afghanistan, Iran, Turkey, Mongolia, and the Central Asiatic area of Russia and probably went extinct in the 1950s. Three tiger subspecies are considered to have become extinct in the past...

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Syrian Wild

Syrian Wild Ass likely extinct when the last animal died at the Schönbrunn Zoo in Vienna, Austria, in 1928. Widespread throughout Mesopotamia, clustered in large flocks in the mountains and the desert steppes of the Middle East. Although previously...

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Hartebeest

Hartebeest FACT FILE: Swahili Name: Kongoni Scientific Name: Alcelaphus buselaphus Size: 48 inches at the shoulder Weight: 165 to 350 pounds Lifespan: 12 to 15 years Habitat: Open plains Diet: Herbivorous/grazer Gestation: 8 months Predators: Cheetahs,...

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Sea horse

Sea horse is an animal that has undergone evolution since 40 million years ago (Fritzhe, 1997). Termed in the genus Hippocampus comes from the Greek word for horse head-shaped marine animals, (hippos = horse's head; campus = animals). Seahorses...

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thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus)

Welcome to The Thylacine Museum, an online educational guide to the thylacine, or Tasmanian tiger.  Here you will find information covering virtually all aspects of the natural history of this unique Australian marsupial.  The thylacine...

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Tilapia history Legend

Tilapia history Legend of tilapia has existed since 4000 years ago. Tilapia Tilapia nilotica in the Latin name. Aristotle and his colleagues gave the name 300 years BC, named after the largest river in Africa that empties into the northern coast...

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Bald eagles

The bald eagle is the largest raptor in Utah and second only to the Condor in North America. As with most raptors, the female is larger than the male. Males may weigh as little as 4.5 pounds and the largest females may weigh up to 14 pounds. The wingspan...

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Coelacanth

Coelacanth is an ancient order of fish believed to have been extinct in the late Cretaceous period 65juta years ago. That was until 1938, when one was miraculously found off the east coast of South Africa near the mouth of the River Chalumna. Closely...

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