6 Animals We Ate Into Extinction: Quick Facts

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Aurochs skeleton

Illustration of a dodo bird, Raphus cucullatus, showing a large, flightless bird with a robust body, thick legs, and a hooked beak, with a size scale indicating a height of about 40 centimeters.

An illustration of Steller's sea cows (Hydrodamalis gigas) swimming and feeding on kelp near the shore, with two people in traditional clothing observing from a wooden boat above the water.

Passenger pigeon

Replica of a woolly mammoth with long curved tusks and shaggy fur on display in a museum exhibit, set against a dramatic painted landscape backdrop.

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