This document summarizes three animals that are now extinct - the dodo bird, saber-toothed tiger, and woolly mammoth. It provides key details about each animal's physical characteristics and behaviors. The dodo was a flightless bird that became extinct in the late 1600s. The saber-toothed tiger preyed on large mammals like bison and lived in forests and grasslands. The woolly mammoth was a huge mammal with long hair and tusks that lived in northern climates and ate grasses and plants.
2. If a species, or type, of plant or animal
dies out completely, it becomes extinct
3. Here are some examples of animals that have
become extinct:
Dodo
Sabre-Toothed Tiger
Woolly Mammoth
4. The dodo was a medium-large sized flightless bird
that was discovered on the Island of Mauritius in the
1590s and was declared extinct less than a century
later, in 1681
The dodo had a large body, stubby wings, a small,
curved tail, short legs, and a large beak. The feathers
of the dodo were grey, black and white in colour and
the large curved beak of the dodo is one of it's most
distinctive features.
5. The sabre-toothed tiger is one of the most
well-known prehistoric animals
It mostly ate deer, bison, woolly mammoth
It lived in the forests and grasslands
6. The woolly mammoth was an enormous
mammal that once roamed the vast frozen,
northern landscapes in large size
It had long, thick hair and enormous tusks
It ate grasses, twigs, rushes
7. The Steller's sea cow was a large marine
mammal that was found in abundance in the
North Pacific
It ate sea grasses, algae, flowers