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.  

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. Your name: Sophia Trabulsi

2. Natural habitat/world location:Saber-tooth tigers lived in a variety of habitats such as forests, shrubby regions and grasslands because the vegetation provided the food and shelter for the herbivorous pre

3. Diet and role in the ecosystem:They would eat what it could kill through hunting, such as bison, camels, horses, wooly mammoths, mastodons,, and giant sloths, plus what it could scavenge from other predators' kills such as antelope, capybara, caribou, elk, oxen, ect.

4. Features/adaptations: its skull was modified to accommodate the attachment of strong neck muscles for bringing the head down; the lower canines were reduced; and the molars formed shearing blades with no trace of grinding surfaces.

5. Cause of extinction: They were pushed into extinction within 100 years by a double whammy of warming and hunting by man.

6. Time of extinction: About 10,000 years ago

7.  Interesting facts:The Smilodon started to roam the lands around 37 million years ago. Their lifespan was 20-40 years. They also could run up to 30 mph.

8. Your name: Connor Peden

2. Natural habitat/world location: Was native to the Australian mainland as well as the island Tasmania and New Guinea

3. Diet and role in the ecosystem: Carnivores who ate small animals like birds and small mammals, occasionally eating larger mammals such as wombats and kangaroos

4. Features/adaptations: A keen sense of smell, dark fur that helps to hide them when hunting at night, produce an odor when they feel threatened.

5. Cause of extinction: Excessive hunting and destruction of habitat.

6. Time of extinction: Last known Tasmanian wolf captured in 1930.

7.  Interesting facts: Close relative to the tasmanian devil. Had a pouch like a kangaroo because it was a marsupial

 
Khani Lyan

2. Natural habitat/world location: Europe

3. Diet and role in the ecosystem:  pointed front teeth suggest that Dimorphodon was an insectivore, though it may have occasionally eaten small vertebrates and carrion as well. It was a predator for fish but mostly insects

4. Features/adaptations: vertebrate skull as a combination of four vertebrae modified from the ideal type of the vertebra, lots of big and small teeth and an onix claw

5. Cause of extinction: There is no specific event that caused extinction but it was alive at the same tme as the dinosaurs

6. Time of extinction: It became extinct 200-1776 million years ago

7.  Interesting facts: It was a poor flier compared to later pterosaurs like Pteranodon and tended to clamber about on four legs. It had a long, stiff tail and a large head. Dimorphodon means “two-form tooth” because it had teeth of two different lengths.

8. Your name: Glenn

2. Natural habitat/world location: North America (Most fossils found in California)

3. Diet and role in the ecosystem: Carnivore Predator in the tertiary forest

4. Features/adaptations: Heavy wolf (125-175) with massive jaws and teeth (to crush the bones of their prey), short legs but large shoulder blades and pelvic bones (for strength and not speed to hunt sedentary herbivores)

5. Cause of extinction: Sedentary Herbivores go extinct and the Dire wolf is not able to hunt faster prey

6. Time of extinction: 10,000 - 16,000 years ago 

7.  Interesting facts: Dire wolf lifespan: 6-8 years 

8. Your name: Clariza Richert 

2. Natural habitat/world location: Inhabited much of the northern Iberian Peninsula and were most commonly found in the Pyrenees of Andorra, Spain, and France.

3. Diet and role in the ecosystem: Ibex are Herbivores. They only eat vegetation, such as shrubs, bushes, and grasses.

4. Features/adaptations: The Pyrenean ibex had short hair which varied according to seasons. Male and female ibex could be distinguished due to color, fur, and horn differences. 

5. Cause of extinction: Long and wooly hair in the winter helps them withstand cold temperature, large lung capacity helps them in high altitudes, strong hooves prevents them from falling down on the mountainous slopes, long and muscular legs help in jumping and climbing.

6. Time of extinction: January 2000

7.  Interesting facts: They were very abundant with a population of 50,000 but this dropped to about 100 in the 1990s. Scientists cloned a Pyrenean Ibex, making it the first species to become no longer extinct. The Pyrenean Ibex went extinct twice.

8. Your name: Rebecca Lindsay

2: Fossils have been found in the americas. They lived in subtropical forests and savannas. 

3: Saber tooth tigers lived in shrubby areas where they would find herbivores to prey on. There were different variations of the smilodon but they were all carnivorous predators.

4: The saber tooth tiger was one of the more recent examples of saber toothed cats. The smilodon had adaptations in the skull shape to make room for neck muscles used during hunting. The cat’s teeth were designed to slash tissue. Despite the name, these animals were not closely related to the tiger.

5: The saber tooth tiger died off in the quaternary extinction event. Other sources say it was caused by a combination of climate change and competition with homo sapiens.

6: Went extinct about 10,000 years ago

7: Their canines could grow over 7 inches.

8: Lila 

2. Natural habitat/world location: From a small area in Panama that has a humid lowland and montane forests.

3. Diet and role in the ecosystem: They eat small insects like ants and termites. Their role is to help regulate algal blooms because their tadpoles eat the algae.

4. Features/adaptations: Have bright skin to warn predators of their toxins. Another one is their poison that can paralyze the and/or kill predators.

5. Cause of extinction: Deforestation and habitat degradation such as logging and expansion of civilization. 

6. Time of extinction: 2020

7.  Interesting facts: Brightest colored frogs in the world, they use their toxins for self defense and not hunting, and they do not have teeth.

8. Your name: Samuel Perdue

2. Natural habitat/world location: North America in Eastern deciduous forest

3. Diet and role in the ecosystem: Diet was acorns, beechnuts, chestnuts, and soft fruits. Their role is to clean up waste in the world,

4. Features/adaptations: Small head and neck, long tail,and  broad wings. Passenger pigeons are built for maneuverability and speed and to fly long distances. 

5. Cause of extinction: Destruction to habitat and hunting

6. Time of extinction: September 1, 1914

7.  Interesting facts: They could consume 100g of acorns per day. Once there were one billion passenger pigeons in North America. Passenger pigeon are built for speed 

8. Your name: Angel Cooper 

2. Natural habitat/world location: It rises at Jari Hill in the Tanggula Mountains and flows 6,300 km in a generally easterly direction to the East China Sea

3. Diet and role in the ecosystem: “the diet of baiji consists mainly, if not entirely, of fish. They use their long beaks to probe muddy bottoms for food. Their dives are short, lasting only 10-20 seconds. Baiji have poor eyesight, but use a highly developed echolocation faculty to find food.”

4. Features/adaptations: Baijis have a fusiform body with a small head, tiny eyes, prominent melon and a long narrow beak that is slightly up-curved at the tip. The dorsal fin of the baiji is low and triangular and the flippers are broad and rounded.

5. Cause of extinction: The likely cause of the baiji’s decline is from the use of fishing nets with hooks that snag and drown the dolphins as bycatch. Other causes may include habitat degradation.

6. Time of extinction: They were pronounced extinct in 2007

7.  Interesting facts: 

8. Your name: Hannah Groff

Giant Deer and Megaloceros giganteus 

2. Natural habitat/world location:

The Giant deer lived in Eurasia spreading from Ireland to Siberia. The natural habitat for the giant deer was mostly colder areas, and grassland and woodland. Also shrubs and other plants like that.

3. Diet and role in the ecosystem:

Giant deer mostly ate nuts, berries, grass, twigs, fruit, fungi and other things like that. That means most likely their role in the ecosystem was prey even though they were huge.

4. Features/adaptations:

Their antlers were almost twice as long as its height. They also grew to be around 7 feet tall which could help scare away and intimidate predators.

5. Cause of extinction:

They were unable to adapt to the subarctic conditions after the final ice sheet was gone. 

6. Time of extinction:

About 11,700 years ago

7.  Interesting facts:

Very very big antlers around 3.6 meters long. They are the largest deer ever. Also referred to as the irish deer.

8. Your name: Tk Hendricks.