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Extinct Animals Tell Their Tales The Elephant Bird
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The Woolly Mammoth
I’m the heaviest bird that ever existed. I was very tall and too heavy to fly. You could make 30 omelettes from one of my eggs. I’ve been extinct for over a thousand years.
The Dodo
The Quagga
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I lived thousands of years ago during the last Ice Age. Scientists think the weather became warmer, changing our habitat.
I existed over four hundred years ago. Sailors arrived. They cut down the forests. They brought cats which killed us. We couldn’t fly and didn’t survive. We are still remembered – people often say “as dead as a dodo”.
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I existed 150 years ago. We were a species of zebra. Hunters killed us and made our skins into bags. Farmers ate us.
