Extinct Animals Facts

Extinct Animals Facts “Biological diversity is messy. It walks, it crawls, it swims, it swoops, it buzzes.

But extinction is silent, and it has no voice other than our own” - Paul Hawken |






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02/09/2026

375 million years later and we’re still dealing with the consequences of fish refusing to stay where they belonged.

A genuinely sad day for film.For so many of us, Sam Neill will always be Dr Alan Grant. His performance in Jurassic Park...
13/07/2026

A genuinely sad day for film.

For so many of us, Sam Neill will always be Dr Alan Grant. His performance in Jurassic Park sparked a lifelong fascination with dinosaurs and helped make it one of the most iconic films ever made.

Away from Jurassic Park, he built an incredible career that showed just how much range he had as an actor. On and off screen, he was known as a thoughtful, witty and genuinely kind person who was admired as much for his character as his performances.

Rest in peace, Sam Neill. Thanks for the memories.

Everywhere I go I see his face
02/07/2026

Everywhere I go I see his face

Fire may have become part of human life long before we learned to create it.New evidence from Wonderwerk Cave in South A...
30/06/2026

Fire may have become part of human life long before we learned to create it.

New evidence from Wonderwerk Cave in South Africa suggests Homo erectus was carrying burning branches and glowing embers from natural wildfires into caves between 1.07 and 1.79 million years ago. Rather than making fire, they may have kept it alive by feeding it fresh fuel.

Burnt bones found deep inside the cave, beyond the reach of natural wildfires, suggest these fires were brought in deliberately. If confirmed, this would push the earliest evidence for controlled fire use back by hundreds of thousands of years.

📖 Marín-Monfort MD et al. (2026). New evidence for Early Pleistocene use of fire at Wonderwerk Cave (South Africa). PLOS ONE. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0347480.

Megalonyx was a genus of large ground sloths that lived in North America from around 5 million to 13,000 years ago. It b...
27/06/2026

Megalonyx was a genus of large ground sloths that lived in North America from around 5 million to 13,000 years ago. It belonged to the family Megalonychidae and first appeared during the Pliocene Epoch, thriving until the end of the Late Pleistocene. The most well-known species, Megalonyx jeffersonii (or Jefferson’s ground sloth), was the largest and last surviving member of its genus, reaching up to 3 meters (9.8 feet) in length and weighing as much as 1,000 kg (2,200 lbs).

Megalonyx disappeared as part of the end-Pleistocene extinction event, which wiped out most large mammals in the Americas. This extinction coincided with the arrival of humans, and there is evidence that early people interacted with these giant sloths—butchering their remains shortly before they vanished. While the exact causes of their extinction are still debated, a combination of climate change and human hunting likely played a role in their decline.

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