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6 Animals We Ate Into Extinction
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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 Aurochs Great auks 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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Aurochs skeleton
Skeleton of an aurochs (Bos primigenius), an extinct wild ox of Europe....
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Dodo
Illustration of an adult dodo (Raphus cucullatus).
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc./Christine McCabe
Steller's sea cow
The Steller's sea cow (Hydrodamalis gigas), extinct since the 18th century,...
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Passenger pigeon
An extinct passenger pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius), mounted.
Bill Reasons—The National Audubon Society Collection/Photo Researchers
Aurochs
A 1567 engraving of the Eurasian aurochs (Bos primigenius).
© Graffisimo—DigitalVision Vectors/Getty Images
Great auks
A pair of great auks (Pinguinus impennis), lithograph of an illustration...
From The Birds of America, from Drawings Made in the United States, Vol. VII, by John James Audubon, 1844
Woolly mammoth
Replica of a woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) in a museum exhibit...
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