Most Fascinating Extinct Animals

The Top Ten
1 Tasmanian Tiger Officially known as the Thylacine, this carnivorous marsupial was native to Tasmania, Australia, and New Guinea before it was declared extinct in the 20th century. Resembling a large dog with some feline traits, it was known for its distinctive stripes across its back and tail.
2 Dodo The dodo bird is an extinct flightless bird that was native to the island of Mauritius, which is east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean. The birds were first seen by Portuguese sailors about 1507 and were killed by humans and their introduced animals, leading to their exinction in 1681.
3 Haast's Eagle
4 Mammoth
5 Saber-Toothed Cat
6 Baiji
7 Great Auk
8 Aurochs
9 Golden Toad
10 Japanese River Otter
The Contenders
11 Bluebuck
12 Andrewsarchus

I like this weird guy

13 Caspian Tiger
14 Helicoprion
15 Dunkleosteus
16 Moa

Giant flightless birds.

17 Irish Elk
18 Giant Short Faced Bear
19 Dimetrodon
20 Dire Wolf
21 California Grizzly Bear
22 Megazostrodon
23 Megalodon The megalodon is an extinct species of shark which was about 59 feet (18 meters) long and hunted in the seas until about 1.5 million years ago. It was similar to today's great white shark-but three times longer and 20 times heavier. ...read more.
24 Titanoboa
25 Sarcosuchus
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