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Farewell Monsters

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Farewell Monsters in a non-fiction scientific inquiry of extinct creatures.

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The Dodo

November 30, 2017

Less than 100 years after their discovery, it was extinct in 1662. The extinction of the Dodo called attention to the previously unrecognized problem of human involvement in the disappearance of entire species. Fig. X—Plate 11.

The Tasmanian Wolf

November 30, 2017

By 1933, it’s believed that the species became extinct in the wild. In 1936, the last known Tasmanian Wolf died in captivity. Fig. IX—Plate 10.

The Giant Sloth

November 30, 2017

Evidence suggests that the appearance of an expanding population of human hunters was the cause of its extinction 10,000 years ago. Fig. VIII—Plate 9.

The Kronosaurus

November 30, 2017

The existence of the Kronosaurus was cut short when a massive asteroid or comet struck Earth near the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico around 66 million years ago. Fig. VII—Plate 8.

The Woolly Rhinoceros

November 29, 2017

This long-furred mammal was either hunted to extinction by early man—or its extinction was caused by climate change associated with the receding ice age around 10,000 years ago. Fig. VI—Plate 7.

The Stegosaurus

November 29, 2017

How exactly the Stegosaurus became extinct is unknown, but it’s thought it could just be the result of natural selection 155 million years ago. Fig. V—Plate 6.

The Woolly Mammoth

November 28, 2017

It’s uncertain why the Woolly Mammoths became extinct, but there’s evidence to suggest that they were hunted to extinction by humans 3,700 years ago. Fig. IV—Plate 5.

The Great Teratorn

November 28, 2017

It is uncertain why exactly the Great Teratorn became extinct, but it’s believed that it’s correlated with the disappearance of some of the mammals it fed on. It went extinct around 6 million years ago. Fig. III—Plate 4.