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The dodo and the solitaire: two extinct birds of the modern time.

Extinct Birds

The dodo and the solitaire: two extinct birds of the modern time.

The mammoth was a very large elephant-like animal now extinct.

Mammoth

The mammoth was a very large elephant-like animal now extinct.

Animals alive today are but a fraction of all that have been before our time. We are continually discovering species of animals long since vanished form the fact of the earth. The mammoth is notable the among fossilized remains that have been found frozen in the ice of northern Siberia. In France this drawing of a mammoth was found, evidently sketched by a man living in that time.

Mammoth

Animals alive today are but a fraction of all that have been before our time. We are continually discovering…

The passenger pigeon became extinct in 1914.

Passenger Pigeon

The passenger pigeon became extinct in 1914.

Quagga, a striped wild ass, related to the zebra, but now extinct.

Quagga

Quagga, a striped wild ass, related to the zebra, but now extinct.