A few nice extinct animal images I found:
Bohol - The Philippine tarsier (Tarsius syrichta)
Image by Erick )
The Philippine tarsier, (Tarsius syrichta) is very peculiar small animal. In fact it is one of the smallest known primates, no larger than a adult men's hand. Mostly active at night, it lives on a diet of insects. Folk traditions sometimes has it that tarsiers eat charcoal, but actually they retrieve the insects from (sometimes burned) wood. It can be found in the islands of Samar, Leyte, Bohol, and Mindanao in the Philippines.
If no action is taken, the tarsier might not survive. Although it is a protected species, and the practice of catching them and then selling them as stuffed tarsiers to tourists has stopped, the species is still threatened by the destruction of his natural forest habitat. Many years of both legal and illegal logging and slash-and-burn agriculture have greatly reduced these forests, and reduced the tarsier population to a dangerously small size. If no action is taken now, the Philippine tarsier can soon be added to the list of extinct species.
The Deluge
Image by seriykotik1970
complete with newly discovered prehistoric animals (supposed to have been made extinct by the Flood)- a Mammoth and a plesiosaur. From a Victorian Bible-About 1860
Glyptodont Skull
Image by Travis S.
This is a skull of a Pleistocene megafauna creature called a Glyptodont. These mammals lived in South America and went extinct about 10,000 years ago. While in Mexico I was fortunate enough to see a nearly complete articulated skeleton of the animal.
The zygomatic arch of this creature is odd. It has that projection that runs vertically down to the mandible. The only other animal I've seen with this morphology is the Giant Ground Sloth, which also once hailed from South America. I have a feeling these animals did a lot of chewing.
