There are many reasons for animal extinction, but generally they can be attributed to two kinds: one is that the survival ability of the species does not exist, and the other is that human activities threaten the living environment of the species. Of course, there are also people like dinosaurs who died of natural disasters, but these are only a few. They are difficult to meet in a thousand years, and the probability is very small. Today, I checked the top ten extinct animals in the world. What are the extinct animals so far? Let's have a look with Xiaobian!
The world's top ten extinct animals: dinosaurs, mammoths, dodos, Java tigers, giant lemurs, Barbary lions, donkeys, kangaroos, Irish deer, great puffins, dinosaurs
If you ask anyone to name an extinct animal, I'm afraid they will answer dinosaurs at the first time. There are too many unsolved mysteries about dinosaurs. So far, people can't explain how this huge thing, ranging from one or two meters to tens of meters and weighing tons, disappeared from the earth. Dinosaurs lived 144 million years ago - 65 million years ago and ruled the earth for about 80 million years. At that time, no species could pose a threat to dinosaurs, and the only thing that could destroy them was nature, but many small creatures of the same era survived, which is really puzzling.
The discovery of dinosaur fossils can not provide us with more information. We can only restore their appearance through some scientific means. Moreover, some people have proposed to revive dinosaurs based on, so there is also a series of films of Jurassic Park. Although it sounds a little impractical, there are successful examples... For details, please see [] 2. Mammoths
Mammoths should be the first of the world's top ten extinct animals to become extinct because of humans. Mammoths are one of the largest mammals that have ever lived on land. Grassland mammoths weigh up to 12 tons. In the history of human evolution, humans used mammoths as food and made their fur into clothes to resist the cold. At that time, humans had learned to use fire attack and collective cooperative warfare to kill groups of animals or large animals, and mammoths became the main hunting objects. The global warming has made glaciers melt and exacerbated the extinction of mammoths, which is also regarded as a sign of the end of the ice age. III
It was only 70 years since the Dodo was discovered by human beings to become extinct. This speed is the fastest among the top ten extinct animals in the world. The Dodo is a bird living on the island of Mauritius. They lived carefree for 1500 years again. Until the 17th century, European colonists began to settle on the island of Mauritius, and the Dodo with delicate and delicious meat became their main food, In addition to the deforestation and destruction of forests by European colonists, the Dodo was finally extinct in 1681. At present, people have plans to revive it