What sea lion species endemic to Japan went extinct in the 1970s due to hunting?
Answer
Japanese Sea Lion
79 Extinct Animals Trivia Questions with Answers
79 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?
What rodent from a small Australian island was the first mammal extinct due to climate change?
Answer
Bramble Cay Melomys
What tiger subspecies, once found from Turkey to China, went extinct in the 1970s?
Answer
Caspian Tiger
What brightly colored amphibian from Costa Rica went extinct in 1989?
Answer
Golden Toad
What was the name of the last known Pinta Island tortoise, who died in 2012?
Answer
Lonesome George
What was the only native parrot in the eastern United States, extinct by 1918?
Answer
Carolina Parakeet
What large wild cattle ancestor went extinct in 1627?
Answer
Aurochs
What marine mammal from the Caribbean was hunted to extinction, with the last sighting in 1952?
Answer
Caribbean monk seal
What species of wolf from the Falkland Islands was the only native land mammal there when discovered?
Answer
Falkland Islands wolf
What elephant-like animal with long curved tusks went extinct around 10,000 years ago?
Answer
Woolly mammoth