2. Natural habitat/world location: Found in the forests of Mauritius (small island off the coast of Madagascar)

3. Diet and role in the ecosystem:  Herbivores consuming fallen fruits, nuts, seeds, bulbs, and roots.

4. Features/adaptations:  Dodo was a flightless bird who was related to a pigeon.  Gray and white in color with a yellowish beak.  With no predators they grew to be 20 kg!  Hooked beak allowed the bird to easily break up food. 

5. Cause of extinction:  Humans:(  When sailors reached the island they were easily able to catch the dodo.  Having no predators on the island they had no fear of the sailors (big mistake).  The dodo became dinner.  
6.  Time of extinction:  Last sighting of the bird was in 1652
7. Interesting facts:  After the extinction of the bird a tree called the tambalacoque or dodo tree.  The bird would eat the seeds which allowed the seeds to germinate.  Without the bird the trees also went extinct.  

 potorous platyops

Baiji white dolphin (Lipotes vexillifer)

2. Natural habitat/world location:

Yangtze river.In China

3. Diet and role in the ecosystem:

Carnivores.Mainly ate fish

4. Features/adaptations:

Had round flippers and a stocky body. Had a long mouth line

5. Cause of extinction:

Fishing nets

6. Time of extinction:

2007

7.  Interesting facts:

They had unique features that was not shared with any other whale or dolphin species

8. Your name:  Lauryn.

2. Natural habitat/world location:
 eastern deciduous forests

3. Diet and role in the ecosystem: ecosystem engineer of eastern North American forests

4. Features/adaptations: 
Adapted for speed and maneuverability in flight

5. Cause of extinction: 
commercial exploitation of pigeon meat, and loss of habitat. 

6. Time of extinction: 
september 1st 1914

7.  Interesting facts: 
they could digest 100g of acorns per day. The name comes from a French term. At the time that Europeans discovered America, there were 3 to 5 billion passenger pigeons. 

Tasmanian Tiger (Thylacine)

2. Natural habitat/world location:

They like to live in dry forests, wetlands, and grasslands. All in Austria, Tasmania, and New Guinea.

3. Diet and role in the ecosystem:

Tasmanian Tigers were carnivores, and their main job was to get rid of predators and hunt animals.

4. Features/adaptations:

Tasmanian Tigers have pouches like kangaroos for their young child(ren).They are known for having distinctive stripes on their back and tail. 

5. Cause of extinction:

Excessive hunting and habitat destruction which also caused diseases then they went extinct.

6. Time of extinction:

1936

7.  Interesting facts:

They were the largest carnivore at the time. It’s called the Tasmanian tiger because of their stripes. The tigers weren’t harmful to humans because they were shy. 

8. Your name:

Lilyn

Dire Wolf (Aenocyon Dirus) 

2. Natural habitat/world location:

North America and eastern Asia. Their habitats included forests, grasslands, plains, and mountain areas. 

3. Diet and role in the ecosystem:

Dire Wolves were carnivores who hunted and ate large mammals such as wild horses, bison, giant ground sloths, and mastodons (similar to mammoths except they were a bit smaller). 

4. Features/adaptations:

Dire Wolves were large and muscular, but surprisingly had shorter legs than the modern wolves of today. Their jaws and teeth were also much more powerful. Similar to today's wolves, the Dire Wolf had coat colors such as black and white and mixtures of gray and brown. 

5. Cause of extinction:

While scientists are not completely sure what caused the extinction of these powerful predators, they think that it might have had something to do with the Dire Wolf’s diet. These wolves only fed on large mammals, not smaller ones, so they had a bit of a smaller variety of food to eat. Also, their prey began to go extinct, which can definitely cause these wolves problems. 

6. Time of extinction:

The Dire Wolf went extinct about 10,000 years ago

7.  Interesting facts:

Much like wolves today, Dire Wolves hunted in large packs, sometimes made up of 30 or more! The Dire Wolf and Saber Toothed Tiger lived in the same habitat and hunted a lot of the same prey, which caused competition between them. 

2. Natural habitat/world location:
nearshore areas of the Komandor Islands in the Bering Sea

3. Diet and role in the ecosystem: 
feeding on parts of algae and sea grass growing near the surface or on rocks in the shallows.

4. Features/adaptations: 
a smaller ratio of surface area to volume than tropical sirenians, and the thick hide probably provided better insulation.

5. Cause of extinction: 
sailors and fur traders hunting it for the meat and fat.

6. Time of extinction:
By 1768, 
7.  Interesting facts:
-They were the largest of the sea cow family
-Adults were up to 9 metres long (about 30 feet)! 
- a huge, aquatic animal that closely resembled a manatee or dugong.”

8. Your name: 
Arya Chikmath

The woolly mammoth (mammuthus primigenius)

Its habitat was the mammoth steppe, which stretched across northern Eurasia and North America

A dietary niche which shows that woolly mammoths selected herbs/plants or consumed large quantities of decayed plants in winter.

 

Woolly mammoths were basically elephants with cold-weather adaptations. They had a thick woolly coat and sturdy skin.

Climate change caused icebergs to melt, making mammoths' food sources too wet and wiping out many giant creatures. 

For millions of years, woolly mammoths roamed across the globe until they disappeared around 4,000 years ago.

Early society basically modern day humans used their bones or tusks to build homes. Scientists can resurrect the woolly mammoth and make it a new species today.

 Smilodon or saber-toothed tigers

2. Natural habitat/world location:

saber-toothed tigers lived in many habitats such as forests,shrubby regions and grasslands because vegetation provided food and shelter.

3. Diet and role in the ecosystem:

Saber tooth tigers were carnivorous. They hunted large herbivores including bison, horses, young mammoths, mastodons and ground sloths. They also scavenged on caribou, peccaries, elks, tapirs, prong oxen, and capybaras killed by other predators

4. Features/adaptations:

The saber-toothed tiger had a bulky body, short legs, and bobbed tail which suited for ambush attacks. It also  used  its powerful, front legs to grab and hold prey so that it could use its teeth, which were serrated along the front and back edges like a steak knife.

5. Cause of extinction:

Humans killed them for protection or sport but climate change was another factor in their extinction

6. Time of extinction:

 the saber-tooth tiger went extinct around 10,000 years ago

7.  Interesting facts:

Their canines could grow over 7 inches in length and Saber tooth tigers can weigh between 160 – 300 kg 
by: Adalyn Ashley

2. Natural habitat/world location:

3. Diet and role in the ecosystem:

4. Features/adaptations:

5. Cause of extinction:

6. Time of extinction:

7.  Interesting facts:

8. Your name: Leo 

Features/adaptations:
Lesothosaurus has a small head with large eyes, short front legs, a long body, and a tail. Their jaws were lined with small serrated teeth making it easy for them to consume plants.

Cause of extinction:
Habitat loss and Pterosaurs and Crocodilians were some of its predators that caused the Lesothosaurus extinction.

Time of extinction:
Lesothosaurus extinction occurred in the mid-Jurassic 
Also, they lived 201.3 million years ago - 190.8 million years ago.

2. Natural habitat/world location: They were once found in the cold North Atlantic coastal waters along the coasts of Canada.They mostly spent their life at sea.

3. Diet and role in the ecosystem: They were highly specialized piscivores, usually eating fish that are 140/90 mm long, and the young ones ate small fish or zooplankton.

4. Features/adaptations: They were perfectly adapted to “fly” underwater, with their small wings and streamlined bodies.

5. Cause of extinction: It was by overhunting and changes to the species’ environment.

6. Time of extinction: They went extinct about in the year of 1850.

7.  Interesting facts: 

They were Revered by Native Americans, They mated for life, The great auk was a powerful swimmer, They went extinct in the mid-19th century, They also looked like penguins.

 

8. Your name: Fawzia

2. Natural habitat/world location:
The megalodon lived in most regions of the ocean expect where the poles are located.

3. Diet and role in the ecosystem:
Whales and large fish.

4. Features/adaptations:
It was a bulky torpedo-shaped fish with a conical snout, large pectoral and dorsal fins, and a strong crescent-shaped tail.

5. Cause of extinction:
Places of the ocean causing to freeze and lack of prey and more competition with other predators.

6. Time of extinction:
3.6 million years ago.

7.  Interesting facts:
The largest fish that ever lived.

8. name
Carlos tapia

2. Natural habitat/world location:it lived in the liaoning provenance in china 

3. Diet and role in the ecosystem:they mainly ate psittacosaurus and were carnivores

4. Features/adaptations:had feathers for temperature regulation

5. Cause of extinction: its prey went extinct

6. Time of extinction:end of the jurassic era

7.  Interesting facts: its the biggest species to have known evidence of feathers 

8. Your name: aidan